[ecrea] Panel on political humor as social action -- International Pragmatics Conference, Belfast

We are planning to submit a panel on “political humor as social action” 
to the 15th International Pragmatics Conference, Belfast, Ireland, 16-21 
July 2017. Should you be interested in participating, please get in 
touch (<mailto:(politicalhumorpanel /at/ gmail.com)>(politicalhumorpanel /at/ gmail.com))
Should the panel be accepted, abstracts would be due 15 Oct. 2016.
Best,
Tom Van Hout

Political humor as social action: verbal-visual attitudes towards 
politicians in late modernity


Convenors:
Tom Van Hout (University of Antwerp)

Peter Burger (Leiden University)

Otto Santa Ana (University of California Los Angeles)


At the intersection of discourse and media studies lies media 
linguistics (from German Medienlinguistik), an umbrella term for the 
study of mediated language in society. Two approaches can be discerned 
within media linguistics. Work on language ofthe media examines how 
(news) media use language to represent social life. Work on language 
inthe media investigates how language standards, ideologies, and change 
are represented in the media. The popularity of media linguistics is 
spurred on by two developments: the shifting ecology of media 
organizations and their fragmented audiences, and the proliferation of 
mediated communication in society, or mediatization (Van Hout & Burger 
2016).


This panel invites researchers to address the relationship between 
political humor and media(ted) language. In keeping with the conference 
theme of ‘Pragmatics in the real world’, this panel examines the 
distinctive nature of the pragmatics of humor as this involves


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     news events such as sound bites (Lee 2012), bloopers (Silverstein
     2011), or talk scandals (Ekström & Johansson 2008)

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     media genres such as cartoons (Swain 2012), fake news (Waisanen
     2011), late-night comedic monologues (Santa Ana 2009) or internet
     memes (Milner 2013)

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     types of humor such as irony (Sanina 2014), and political satire
     (Reilly 2012)


This panel welcomes empirically grounded contributions that show what 
social action is accomplished when political discourse and media 
discourse are juxtaposed. We expect relevant contributions to explore 
political humor from a variety of analytical approaches such as 
discourse analysis, rhetorics, multimodality, and linguistic 
ethnography. We welcome other participants to join this panel with their 
contributions and look forward to pooling our interests and insights 
with the aim to publish the papers presented during the panel.


Abstracts should be sent to 
<mailto:(politicalhumorpanel /at/ gmail.com)>(politicalhumorpanel /at/ gmail.com). 
Proposals should contain: title of proposed paper, author name and 
affiliation, contact details and an abstract in the 250-300 word range. 
The deadline for receipt of abstracts is 15 October 2016.


References
Ekström, M., & Johansson, B. (2008). Talk scandals. Media, Culture & 
Society, 30(1), 61-79.
Lee, F.L.F. (2012). The Life Cycle of Iconic Sound Bites: politicians’ 
transgressive utterances in media discourses. Media, Culture, & Society 
34(3), 343-358.
Milner, R. M. (2013). Pop Polyvocality: Internet Memes, Public 
Participation, and the Occupy Wall Street Movement. International 
Journal of Communication, 7, 2357-2390.
Reilly, I. (2012). Satirical Fake News and/as American Political 
Discourse. The Journal of American Culture, 35(3), 258-275.
Sanina, A. G. (2014). Visual political irony in Russian new media. 
Discourse, Context & Media, 6, 11-21.
Santa Ana, O. (2009) Did you call in Mexican? The racial politics of Jay 
Leno immigrant jokes. Language in Society, 38(1), 23–45.
Silverstein, M. (2011a). Presidential Ethno-blooperology: Performance 
Misfires in the Business of "Message"-ing. Anthropological Quarterly, 
84(1), 165-186.
Van Hout, T., & Burger, P. (2016). Mediatization and the language of 
journalism. In O. García, N. Flores & M. Spotti (Eds.), Oxford Handbook 
of Language and Society. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Waisanen, D. J. (2011). Crafting Hyperreal Spaces for Comic Insights: 
The Onion News Network's Ironic Iconicity. Communication Quarterly, 
59(5), 508-528.

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