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Call for Papers Theme: Knowledge and Power in a Polycentric World Subtitle: Discourses across Languages, Cultures and Space Type: 3rd DisourseNet Congress in collaboration with ALED Institution: DiscourseNet Associación LatinoAmericana de Estudios del Discurso (ALED) Université de Cergy-Pontoise Location: Cergy-Pontoise (France) Date: 11.–14.9.2019 Deadline: 30.9.2018 __________________________________________________ The legitimacy of "Europe" and "the West" as identifiable territorial and imagined entities is in crisis. The awareness has grown of a world becoming more polycentric. At the same time, the field of Discourse Studies is growing at a dazzling rate across the globe. Discourse Studies is known for theoretical orientations and methodological tools that account for meaning production as a social practice mobilizing languages, media and technologies. It is thus uniquely placed to observe and analyse the shifting conceptions of a post-colonial, post-Eurocentric, post-west-and-the-rest world. The different understandings of the intersection of language and society, in the range of specific schools, theories and approaches within Discourse Studies promise to inspire conflicting analyses of the world today. The focus of Discourse Studies also varies according to the specific national or regional contexts in which issues of power and language, subjectivity and inequality, language and context are being problematized. For instance, Anglophone, French-, German-, Spanish-, Portuguese-, and Russian speaking communities of discourse analysts and theorists are marked by dynamic debates, terminologies and approaches that are not always well known outside each language community. The third DiscourseNet Congress, which is co-organized with ALED, aims to be a site of dialogue and reflection across and about different linguistic and national traditions in Discourse Studies. Within the overarching frame of our contemporary entangled world, we invite discourse analysts from around the world to take stock of contemporary developments in Discourse Studies. Submissions We welcome papers which re-examine existing discourse theoretical frameworks, articulate new approaches from different fields and schools, study social phenomena empirically and reflect on the critical potential of Discourse Studies. We also invite contributions that deal with theoretical and/or methodological challenges in Discourse Studies, preferably with a focus on the nexus of knowledge and power. Researchers may focus on a wide variety of topics. We encourage contributions that seek to develop novel approaches to, for instance: - subjectivity in contemporary society, - discursive epistemology, - indexicality, - ideology, - knowledge and hegemony, - governmentality in the knowledge economy, - protest and activism, - materiality of/and discourse, - critique and reflexivity, - bi-, multi- and translingual communication, - language policy, - discourse and gender, - class, - migration, - racism, - populism, - (neo-)fascism, - discrimination, - argumentation and rhetorics, - social cognition, - institutional discourse, - workplace communication, - practices and identities in the workplace, - multimodal interaction and discourse analysis, - online media formats and digital culture, - materialism and discourse, - digital humanities, - cross-cultural interaction, - multimodality, - corpus and computer-aided analysis, - conversation and interaction... The congress includes three formats: - Individual paper presentations (20 minutes presentation plus 10 minutes discussion) - Panel sessions (usually 60 - 90 minutes on one theme). We also welcome suggestions for roundtables, workshops or more unconventional panel presentations. Please specify the form in your abstract. - An ad-hoc “unconference” will be organized on one afternoon. The sessions are not planned in advance. Instead, all participants will have the opportunity to put sessions on the agenda during the congress itself. Participants may suggest topics, methods, theories, questions, problems, etc. No preparation necessary. For more information about the unconference format, see here. Keynote speakers - Caterina Carta, Canada (in English) - Patrick Charaudeau, France (in French) - Laura Pardo, Argentina (in Spanish) - Viviane Resende de Melo, Brazil (in Portuguese) Deadlines - Submission of panel proposals (with all participants, titles and abstracts) as soon as possible but no later than September 30, 2018 (20:00 CET) - Submission of individual abstracts for individual papers and joint session papers: September 30, 2018 (20:00 CET) via the registration page: https://dnc3.sciencesconf.org/ - Notifications of acceptance for individual papers will be sent on December 15, 2018 - Preliminary version of conference contribution will be expected on July 31, 2019. These versions will be posted on the webpage. For more information, please contact us via: [email protected] Conference website: http://www.dnc3aled.discourseanalysis.net __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ __________________________________________________
