[Commlist] Discourse and conflict/peace studies: cfp

CALL FOR PAPERS: Deadline June 30, 2019. No extensions please!

*Discourse Analysis and Conflict Studies: Applying discourse approaches 
to studying conflict and conflict resolution*

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The editors are in talks with John Benjamins Publishing Company 
(Amsterdam) and plan to publish the edited volume in the Benjamins’ 
/Discourse Approaches to Politics, Culture and Society series /(edited 
by Jo Angouri and Andreas Musolff). This book series is peer-reviewed 
and indexed in Scopus.

*Discourse Analysis and Conflict Studies*

Interest in the broad subject of conflict studies by linguists and 
language scholars has increased over the years with the growing 
incidents of conflicts, wars and political violence around the world. 
There have also been increasing and interesting studies that applied 
linguistic and discourse approaches to the study of violent protests, 
activism and political struggles. These studies have given significant 
insights to the role of language use or discourse in conflict initiation 
and conflict resolution. From these burgeoning studies, it is clear that 
there is a strong connection between how what is said or written and how 
conflict may develop and escalate.

Discourse theorists generally believe that oral or writtendiscourse 
produced by different people vary with recognizable patterns, depending 
on their social domains of life (see, for example, Laclau & Mouffe, 
1985). The work of a discourse analyst is to analyze these patterns and 
identify their significance and consequences. Critical discourse 
analysis (CDA) for example, shows how language works in sociocultural 
and political contexts, focusing on power relations and ideological 
perspectives reflected in discourse texts, and their wider implications 
for the society.

Hence, a critical discourse study of subtle texts such as news reports 
(or “fake news”), editorials, propaganda, social media publications, 
etc. in the form of writing, visual or multimodal/video streaming will 
be very important in contemporary times.

This collection of essays will aim to show the synergy between discourse 
analysis and conflict studies by showing how topics in conflicts studies 
and conflict resolution may be researched using methods and approaches 
in discourse analysis (e.g. CDA, multi-modal discourse analysis, 
conversation analysis, pragmatics, argumentation, rhetoric etc.)

This study will attempt to cover all conflict-related topics within the 
fields of political science, international relations, sociology, media 
studies, applied linguistics etc., which will include:

·Terrorism and extremism

·Conflict and war

·Political crisis

·Ethnic violence/sectarian crisis

·Activism and violent protest

·Hate speech and verbal war (in the media and the Internet etc.)

·Conflict resolution techniques

·Discourse and peace processes

·Etc.

Contributors are invited to submit chapter proposals (about 200 words) 
not later than *30^th * *June 2019. *Kindly send**Abstracts or questions 
as email attachment to*Innocent Chiluwa*: 
***(innocent.chiluwa /at/ covenantuniversity.edu.ng)* 
<mailto:(innocent.chiluwa /at/ covenantuniversity.edu.ng)>**


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