[ecrea] 17th DiscourseNet conference on Reflexivity and Critique in Discourse

INTRODUCTORY NOTE

The 17th DN conference on reflexivity and critique offers a venue for 
exploring the different ways in which reflexivity and critique can be 
deployed in order to shape (our understandings of) selves, discourses 
and societies in meaningful ways. To this end, this conference hopes to 
bring together researchers interested in (a) the role of reflexivity and 
critique in the study of discourse and/or in (b) the role of reflexivity 
and critique play in the social realities we investigate. Prof. Jan 
Blommaert, Prof. Johannes Angermuller, Prof. Marianne Winther-Jörgensen 
and Prof. Ramon Reichert will act as keynote speakers. More information 
can be found at: http://dn17.discourseanalysis.net .

CFP

The use of language and other multimodal and symbolic systems of 
discourse requires some degree of reflexive awareness. This reflexive 
awareness allows us to criticize our own discourses as well as the 
discourses of others. Without it, scientific, cultural and political 
debate could not take place. In some ways, all language users perform 
critical and less critical modes of discourse analysis on a daily basis. 
We would not be able to imagine alternative worlds if we were unable to 
make use of the reflexive potential of our systems of communication.

Reflexivity and critique take many forms and perform many functions. It 
is this multiplicity that we seek to address during this conference. 
Below you may find a non-exclusive list of potential topics for papers. 
We welcome both theoretical and empirical contributions.

Theorizing reflexivity and critique (Discussions of semiotic, 
linguistic, pragmatist, hermeneutic, and/or poststructuralist approaches 
to reflexivity and critique. Linguistic, ethnographic, historical, 
sociological, psychological and philosophical insights into discourse, 
critique, and reflexivity may all be relevant)
Investigating reflexivity and critique in discourse studies 
(Methodological issues in analyzing reflexivity and critique in 
discourse studies. Issues related to the scope and the limitations of 
quantitative, qualitative, mixed, and alternative methods for 
investigating reflexivity and critique in discourse studies may be 
addressed)
Epistemological issues in reflexivity and critique in discourse studies 
(Researchers may address epistemological issues about internal 
conversations, narrative thinking, social realism, radical 
constructivism etc.)
Cognitive and affective markers of reflexivity and critique (E.g.: the 
role of mental models, beliefs, and expectations in the discursive 
analysis of reflexivity and critique; the role of affectómoods, 
emotions, and sentimentsóin the discursive constitution of reflexivity 
and critique)
Reflexivity and critique in identity discourse (papers may address: 
personal narratives and reflexive deliberations; reflexivity and 
critique in the discursive reproduction of self, habitus or 
subjectivity; reflexivity and critique in multimodal constructions of 
identity)
Reflexivity and critique in literary and artistic discourse (Critique 
can take many forms. It may function as irony, satire, and humor in a 
variety of artistic genres such as literature, graphic, performative 
and/or audio-visual art-forms and media.
Reflexivity and critique in academic discourse (e.g.: how do reflexivity 
and critique as articulated in the academic domain relate to other 
spaces and practices of the public realm; to what extent do reflexivity 
and critique play a role in academic professional identities)
Reflexivity and critique in journalistic discourse (e.g.: personal and 
institutional constructions of reflexivity and critique in journalistic 
practices;)
Reflexivity and critique in political discourse (e.g.: discursive 
framing of reflexivity and critique in political identity; reflexivity 
and critique in political activism and social movements;)
Reflexivity, critique, and discourse in a technological age (e.g. how 
are critique and reflexivity articulated in (mobile) social media)
Hegemony, reflexivity and critique (How can we think reflexivity in 
relation to hegemony and critique; Are there forms of power conducive to 
the articulation of (self-)critique and what do these look like?)

Discourse plays a powerful role in shaping who and what we are. It 
modulates and constitutes the subjective ways in which we imagine and 
act upon the world, each other and ourselves. Discourse ñ in its 
linguistic, textual and multimodal manifestations, as well as in the 
more abstract sense of the word ñ shapes our subjectively experienced 
reality. At the same time, discourse is no monolith that determines 
every aspect of agency in a predictable and/or law-like fashion. Human 
beings have a capacity to become aware of at least some of the 
dimensions of the discursive practices and processes they are involved in.

The human capacity for textual, artistic, literary, social and political 
(self-) critique would be unimaginable without our capacity to use 
discourse reflexively. We can use linguistic and non-linguistic symbolic 
resources in order to bend discourse back onto itself and in order to 
imagine alternative stories, explanations and futures for the realities 
we live in.  This is not to say that we exert conscious control over all 
of the discursive processes that allow for a meaningful experience of 
reality at all times. Much of these processes remain part of the 
ideological and/or hegemonic backgrounds of everyday life.

The 17th DiscourseNet conference on Critique and reflexivity in 
discourse will be organised at the University of Navarra in Pamplona 
(UNAV), Spain between March 16th 2016 to March 18th, 2016. Please 
register and send in your abstracts before October 31st 2015. Acceptance 
of your paper will be communicated around November 30th. We welcome both 
English and Spanish contributions to this event, but it is very likely 
that the lingua franca will be English rather than Spanish. Also, the 
keynote lectures will be presented in English.

Upon acceptance, a fee will have to be payed in order to complete the 
registration process. The fee will be 75 euros for people with an 
institutional affiliation and 50 euros for people without it. If you 
have any questions, you may reach the organization at (dn17 /at/ unav.es) . 
Registration happens through the DiscourseNet website via: 
http://dn17.discourseanalysis.net .

Note that after the 17th DiscourseNet conference, the 2nd DiscourseNet 
Spring School on the Critical usage of quantitative, qualititative and 
mixed methods software for discourse studies will also take place at 
UNAV. This Spring school takes place from March 21st to March 24th in 
the year 2016.


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