LINGUIST List 33.2630
Sun Aug 28 2022
Calls: Pragmatics/Belgium
Editor for this issue: Everett Green <everettlinguistlist.org>
Date: 28-Aug-2022
From: Zhuo Jing-Schmidt <zjingsch
uoregon.edu>
Subject: The Pragmatics of Digital Disinformation
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Date: 09-Jul-2023 - 14-Jul-2023
Location: Brussels, Belgium
Contact Person: Zhuo Jing-Schmidt
Meeting Email:
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https://pragmatics.international/page/Brussels2023
Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics
Call Deadline: 01-Nov-2022
Meeting Description:
Digital media has transformed the way information is produced, communicated, transmitted, and consumed (Castells 2009). A byproduct of these transformations is the rampant spread of disinformation in the digital media space where the boundaries between user-generated content and traditional mass media have become ever more blurred (Terzis et al. 2020). This panel takes the lens of linguistic pragmatics on digital disinformation where disinformation is defined as information intended for deception.
Call for Papers:
The panel encourages contributors to ask research questions that pertain to:
1) The relationship between disinformation, misinformation, fake news, and propaganda from a theoretical perspective in terms of the pragmatics of communication
2) The pragmalinguistic features and devices including but not limited to the use of tropes (hyperbole, metaphor, vagueness, etc.) and digital memes, neologisms, and hashtags in constructing propositions and discourses that convey disinformation, especially as it relates to consequential public events
3) The ways in which context and motivation shape the representation of disinformation in social media
4) The ways in which user interactions in social media such as echo chambers influence the spread of disinformation.
5) The ways in which disinformation is perceived by users of social media.
6) The communication and propagation of disinformation in digital institutional media platforms
7) Practices and efforts to control the spread of disinformation and the implications for freedom of speech
This panel is intended to draw scholars working on discourse in social media, digital language, media communication, and anyone interested in the role of language use in social media where disinformation looms large and poses threats to truth that is central to democracy and a civic society. The complex nature of the phenomena calls for interdisciplinary approaches in addressing the relevant research questions. Therefore the panel is open to presentations that employ quantitative or qualitative data or a combination of both and the data can be from any social media platform in any language. Similarly, in terms of methodology, observational, descriptive, experimental, corpus-based, and corpus-driven and/or mixed methods are all welcome.
Keywords: digital language, pragmatics, disinformation, media
To contribute to the panel on the Pragmatics of Digital Disinformation, submit your abstract of 300-500 words outlining your research questions, data sources, and research methods as well as preliminary results by November 1, 2022.
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