[ecrea] Conference on Communication, Cognition and Media: Political and Economic Discourse - Call for Papers

Call for Papers
II International Conference on
COMMUNICATION, COGNITION AND MEDIA:
POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC DISCOURSE
September 19-21, 2012
Catholic University of Portugal
Braga, Portugal
http://www.cicom2012.org
Call deadline: March 31, 2012
Contact: (cicom2012 /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(cicom2012 /at/ gmail.com)>

Plenary speakers
Mats Alvesson (Lund University, Sweden)
Patrick Charaudeau (Universite Paris 13, CNRS, France)
Jonathan Charteris-Black (University of the West of England, UK)
Veronika Koller (Lancaster University, UK)
Joao Cesar das Neves (Catholic University of Portugal)
Ruth Wodak (Lancaster University, UK)

The Conference aims to promote interdisciplinary research into the 
cognitive, socio-cultural, functional-pragmatic, linguistic and semiotic 
dimensions of political and economic discourse, organizational and 
businesses discourse, including their various, new and traditional 
genres and underlining empirical methodologies. It brings together 
Critical Discourse Analysis and Communication Studies traditions, the 
Cognitive Linguistics paradigm and other cognitively and socially 
oriented approaches to political and economic discourse.
Within this sociocognitive and interdisciplinary context of research 
into political and economic discourse, papers are invited on the 
following (non exclusive) themes and topics:
- conceptual metaphor and metonymy, image schemas and conceptual 
blending in political and economic discourse
- cognitive frames and cultural cognitive models in political and 
economic communication
- construal and perspectivization operations (profiling, salience, 
distribution of attention, force dynamics, intersubjectivity) and their 
semantic, grammatical and pragmatic expressions within political and 
economic discourse
- overt and covert, conscious and unconscious ideologies in political 
and economic discourse, sociopolitical and socio-economic ideologies, 
ideologies of crosscultural otherness
- discursive representations of national, ethnic, collective and 
corporate identities
psychological, linguistic and semiotic strategies for manipulation in 
political and economic discourse
- political and economic rhetoric; corporate promotional communication; 
structures and strategies of argumentation, persuasion and propaganda
- traditional and new genres in political, economic, business and 
organizational communication; political speeches, campaigns, debates, 
interviews, elections, talk shows, blogs, parliamentary discourses; 
public relations, advertising, marketing, management, customer chat 
forums; new hybrid genres in the Internet
- multimodality in political and economic/business communication
- interplay between political and economic communication, 
interdiscursivity and intertextuality, political economy and economic 
politics
- the media agents in political and economic discourse; political and 
economic journalism, advertising and marketing
- language variation and change and crosscultural variation in political 
and economic discourse
- globalization and localization of political and economic discourse; 
supra-national, corporate and sub-national political and economic 
organizations
- discursive legitimization of political and economic power; political 
polarization, socio-economic Darwinism, and economic imperialism
- perception of political and economic actors; social attitudes to 
political and economic discourse
- political and economic systems, political and economic behavior, 
public policies, political and economic audiences
- immigration, multiculturalism, racism and ethnic or nationalist conflicts
- corpus analysis of political and economic discourse and the 
implementation of advanced quantitative and multivariate techniques
- language training of politicians, economists and business people.
For further information, please visit the conference website
http://www.cicom2012.org