LINGUIST List 29.784
Fri Feb 16 2018
Calls: Disc Analysis, Ling & Lit, Pragmatics, Socioling, Text/Corpus Ling/Ireland
Editor for this issue: Kenneth Steimel <kenlinguistlist.org>
Date: 14-Feb-2018
From: Anne Marie Devlin <amdevlin
ucc.ie>
Subject: (dis)Covering Discourses
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Date: 18-May-2018 - 19-May-2018
Location: University College Cork, Ireland
Contact Person: Anne Marie Devlin
Meeting Email:
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Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Ling & Literature; Pragmatics;
Sociolinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics
Call Deadline: 28-Feb-2018
Meeting Description:
Transdisciplinary Conference in University
College Cork, Ireland
School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies / MA
Applied Linguistics
18/19 May 2018
Mikhail M. Bakhtin argued that
“verbal discourse is a social phenomenon” constituted by speakers within a concrete
situation with a very specific purpose. Since then, concepts surrounding the
formation, structures and functions of discourses have held a central position in
academic research. Following Foucault discourses are part of a “heterogeneous
ensemble” consisting of “institutions, architectural forms, regulatory decisions,
laws, administrative measures, scientific statements, philosophical, moral and
philanthropic propositions – in short, the said as much as the unsaid.”
Given
the symbiotic relationship we have with discourses whereby we are unremittingly
surrounded by, embedded in and informed by discursive ensembles, whilst
simultaneously actively shaping them, the aim of this transdisciplinary conference
is to offer researchers a space to explore and challenge current discourses. We wish
to think not only about current hierarchies and the power they affirm, but also
about what is absent in the current discursive regimes. Since discourse is perceived
as having formative, regulatory and authoritative characteristics, in this
conference we aim to cover ongoing discourses and to peel back layers and thus
dis-cover discourses hidden in society.
Plenary Speakers:
Prof.
David Machin, University of Orebro, Sweden.
Prof. Nicole Müller, University
College Cork
2nd Call for Papers:
Deadline for submissions
extended to 28 February 2018
Membership fee: €85/€55 (students)
We
would like to invite researchers from various disciplines to submit abstracts to
this transdisciplinary conference (dis)Covering Discourses in University College
Cork.
Potential themes on Discourse that we would like to address:
Architecture/Arts, Borders, Body, Class, Gender, Health, Identity, Institutions,
Integration, Knowledge, Literature/Literary Critique Economy, Migration,
Multilingualism, Nature/Animals, Precarity, Religion, Silence, Social Media, Space,
Violence.
The conference may be of interest to scholars from various
disciplines, including: Linguistics, Literature, Cultural Studies, Social Studies,
Migration Studies, Religious Studies, Gender Studies, Philosophy, Sociology,
Government and Politics, Economy, Anthropology, Human-Animal Studies, Medicine,
Clinical Therapies, Media Studies, Digital Humanities.
Please submit your
abstract (max. 300 words) and a brief biography (max. 70 words) to discoursescfp
gmail.com by 28
February 2018.
Organizers:
Anne Marie Devlin
Michael Hofer
Dragan Miladinovic
Barbara Siller
Sara Lis Ventura
Hanna
Völker
Page Updated: 16-Feb-2018