[Commlist] The International Association for Dialogue Analysis 2023: The Dialogicity Continuum: Rethinking the Value-ladeness of Communication and Discourse (Online) (Conference)

Conference

Ramat Gan (Online), Israel

Date: 12/06/2023 - 15/06/2023
Call for papers ending on: 1/03/2023

The Dialogicity Continuum: Rethinking the Value-ladeness of Communicationand
Discourse

With the background of a tidal spread of neoliberal ideologies, in recent
decades we have witnessed the global flourishing of populist leaders and
governments, leaning towards totalitarian and fascist regimes. These regimes
share the tendency for personal veneration, moral corruption, excessive use
of oppressive methods, and types of governmentality that employ 
separationist
and exclusionary discourses and divisive rhetoric. They also share a global
spread, including within liberal democracies.

Moreover, such tendencies have been fueled during the last two decades bythe
related pervasive rise of social media and social network sites. These
pervasive, private owned technologies, further echo, magnify, and enhance
radicalism and separationist ideologies, deepening social exclusion of
ever-growing marginalized publics and populations. Radical reactionary
discourse and social media networks are viewed as reactionary in relation to
civic ideas and ideals, and hyper-conservative in terms of potential
emancipatory and democratic social change.

At the same time, social media platforms and social network sites
specifically act as online spaces of and for support, communality and
solidarity. At times they supply arenas for radical social activism, which
may spill over from cyberspaces to offline spaces of protest and defiance.
Scholars of public discourse have in the past focused mainly on negative
rhetoric and discourse. Yet recently, we have experienced an emerging
tendency to emphasize the implications and ramifications of positive and
hopeful communication and discourse in the public sphere.

At this point in time, we wish to intervene, and to position the discussion
of positive and negative modes of communication and rhetoric in 
center-stage.
We offer to do so by proposing a conceptual continuum, whereon different
value-laden communication and discourses may be arranged, arching between
positive and negative types of communication and discourse.

In the part of the continuum that concerns positive communication and
discourse, we may offer such discursive themes and genres as hope, trust,
support, solidarity, community, social justice and social activism, 
civility,
politeness, and amicable communication. On the other side of the continuum,
we may see communication practices and discourse strategies associated with
despair, disappointment, alienation, impoliteness, hate speech, and racism.

We propose an exploration into this continuum and into these discursive and
value-laden themes, by applying the concepts of dialogue and dialogicity;and
vice versa, we seek to interrogate and develop the conceptual and
methodological vocabulary of dialogue studies, through examining these
contemporary, powerful and pervasive discourses. Indeed, the tensions 
between
negative and positive discourses shed light on the role of negotiations and
dialogue across a myriad of environments and of scholarly disciplines.
Questions may be addressed as to the genre-dependent and culture-dependent
relations between the negative/positive ends of the continuum through such
notions as:

• power and solidarity
• social and interactional rights and obligations
• self- and other positioning
• social and interactional relations between speakers
• audience- and shadow audience-construction, addressivity and
responsiveness
• co-construction of collective action
• conflict management
• conflict resolution
• coexistence of social groups holding contrasting views in an
institutional setting
• praise and blame, exhortation or repudiation, and other rhetorical modes

We contend that the notion of continuum suggests not only edges and 
extremes,
but also overlaps, similarities, intermixtures, and tensions between and
along different types of discourses and rhetoric positioned on this
continuum. We seek to explore and ask of the mechanisms of these types of
public discourses and rhetoric, as well as the spaces in which they flourish
(or from which they have been barred) in malevolent and benevolent alleged
capacities. We are particularly interested in empirical and theoretical
studies that address dialogical contexts and settings, including 
face-to-face
and mediated communication, health and educational environments, social
movements and social activism, media and new media studies, museum studies,
organizational studies, and so on.

While we encourage submissions of papers and sessions around the
aforementioned discussion, contributors are also invited to suggest
additional questions connecting the negative/positive continuum and 
dialogue,
as well as broader themes relating to dialogue.


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