LINGUIST List 26.2566
Thu May 21 2015
Calls: Disc Analysis, Pragmatics, Psycholing, Semantics, Text/Corpus Ling, Socioling/Norway
Editor for this issue: Erin Arnold <earnoldlinguistlist.org>
Date: 20-May-2015
From: Oleksandr Kapranov <oleksandr.kapranov
uib.no>
Subject: The Human Side of Climate Change
E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: The Human Side of Climate Change
Date: 16-Oct-2015 - 17-Oct-2015
Location: Bergen, Norway
Contact Person: Kjersti Fløttum
Meeting Email:
< click here to access email > Web Site:
http://www.uib.no/en/project/lingclim
Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Pragmatics; Psycholinguistics; Semantics; Sociolinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics
Call Deadline: 01-Jun-2015
Meeting Description:
We invite you to submit your abstracts for the conference 'The Human Side of Climate Change' to be held on 16-17 October 2015 in Bergen (Norway), organised by the LINGCLIM project at University of Bergen.
A number of leading scholars from various disciplines will present their recent research, and professor Mike Hulme will give the closing keynote lecture.
Conference participation is free.
We welcome paper proposals from all disciplines relevant for the human and societal side of climate change.
For submitting your proposals (deadline June 1) and register (deadline September 15), please go to our web site:
http://www.uib.no/en/project/lingclim, where you also find all relevant information.
Call for Papers:
The conference “The Human Side of Climate Change” draws on previous linguistic research focusing on a variety of aspects of climate change discourse, in various genres (scientific, political, media) viewed from perspectives of both micro- (Dahl & Fløttum, 2014) and macro-levels of analysis (Nerlich, 2010), narratology (Fløttum, 2013) as well cognitive linguistics (Koteyko et al., 2010). As indicated by Hulme (2009), the study of climate change from the vantage point of linguistics has accumulated a growing body of literature investigating climate change discourse, especially discourse by the media. In this regard, our conference embraces representations of climate change discourse and their interpretations in various contexts, including scientific, political, media actors as well as the public’s opinions and attitudes. Hence, we invite submissions related to the role of language in climate change text and talk elucidated from both micro- and macro-linguistic and discursive perspectives.
All interested in research on ''the human side'' of climate change are invited to participate and to submit a paper proposal, which will be assessed by the conference organisers. Paper proposal including name, affiliation, department and an abstract of 200-300 words should be emailed to oleksandr.kapranov
uib.no and vegard.rivenes
if.uib.no by 1 June 2015.
Please use the template at LINGCLIM's website: uib.no/en/project/lingclim
Information on whether your proposed paper has been accepted will be given by July 1.
The deadline for registering for the conference is September 15.
Please register here: uib.no/en/project/lingclim
Conference participation is free, but participants must arrange and pay for their own travel and accommodation. There will be a fee for meals.
References:
Dahl, T., & Fløttum, K. (2014). A linguistic framework for studying voices and positions in the climate debate. Text & Talk 34 (4), 401-420.
Fløttum, K. (2013).Narratives in Reports about Climate Change. In: Gotti, Maurizio; Guinda, Carmen Sancho (eds.), Narratives in Academic and Professional Genres. Bern: Peter Lang Publishing Group, pp. 277-292
Hulme, M. (2009). Why we disagree about climate change: Understanding controversy, inaction and opportunity. Cambridge University Press.
Koteyko, N., Thelwall, M., & Nerlich, B. (2010). From carbon markets to carbon morality: creative compounds as framing devices in online discourses on climate change mitigation. Science Communication, 32(1), 25-54.
Nerlich, B. (2010). 'Climategate': paradoxical metaphors and political paralysis. Environmental Values, 19(4), 419-442.
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