[ecrea] CfP: POLITICAL LINGUISTICS (Re)construing nationhood in ‘(un)doing Europe’ today?

CfP: POLITICAL LINGUISTICS (Re)construing nationhood in ‘(un)doing 
Europe’ today?

University of Warsaw
University of ?ódz'
in cooperation with University of Nottingham

POLITICAL LINGUISTICS
(Re)construing nationhood in ‘(un)doing Europe’ today?
Warsaw, 8-10 May 2014

Conference theme and foci

The conference will examine the current nexus between national and 
European thinking (in talk and text). Our focus is on the various 
discursive (re)constructions of national identification vis-à-vis Europe 
(and the contemporary world in the background): whether, and if so, then 
how, where and why, the ongoing discourses of European integration (and 
disintegration) invigorate, mute, or simply redefine national talk in 
(semi)public practices and domains, whether domestically or 
internationally. Relational, dynamic and integrative perspectives on 
nationhood are welcome in particular: how does the national element 
interact with other social dimensions and categories, especially those 
based in regional, global, political, professional or gender and 
age-related variation? What is the role of ideologies and policies of 
multiculturalism, employment, race and immigration? Do national (and 
nationalistic) arguments correlate with parameters of social 
diversification (economic, educational; elitist and egalitarian attitudes)?

The conference will address discursive (texts, genres, metaphors, etc.), 
and more broadly, semiotic (artifacts, images, icons, etc.) 
manifestations of nationhood in how Europe is being ‘done’, but 
also‘undone’ today This, we hope, will reveal various aspects, sites and 
styles of interdiscursivity and dialogization of difference (in the 
sense of Bakhtin) over issues involving national, European and 
international concerns. We welcome contributions examining interactions 
marked by power differential (esp. among citizens, politicians, experts 
and authorities).

We invite papers exploring various contexts, domains and practices 
(politics, media, business, research and education, religion, sports and 
entertainment, tourism, health and environment protection), as well as 
different media and technologies (old and new media; translation and 
interpretation; sign language; school and academic teaching).

We envision the conference as an international and interdisciplinary 
forum of discussion, gathering scholars working within or (preferably) 
at the intersection of different methodologies: discourse analysis, 
critical discourse studies, pragmatics, (new) rhetoric, 
Systemic-Functional Linguistics, Register & Genre Theory, narrative 
theory, ethnography, social semiotics, multimodal analysis, and related 
approaches with communication at the forefront.

The conference languages are English, German and Polish. Papers will be 
allocated 20 minutes plus 10 minutes for questions.

Abstracts of no more than 300 words including references should be sent 
as MS Word attachment to (pl.ils /at/ uw.edu.pl) by 15 December 2013.

Please include in the body of the email but not in the abstract itself 
your name, affiliation and email address. Notifications of acceptance 
will be communicated by 15 January 2014

Organizers
University of ?odz'
Institute of English
Dept. of Linguistic Pragmatics
Prof Piotr Cap
Dr Monika Kopytowska

University of Warsaw
Institute of Applied Linguistics
Dept. of Discourse Studies
Prof Anna Duszak
Dr ?ukasz Kumie;ga

In cooperation with University of Nottingham
School of Sociology and Social Policy
Dr Christian Karner



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