Sep 26
ThE CLOwNannouncements
Call Deadline: 15-Nov-2013
Call for Papers:
We invite submission of abstracts for a panel entitled “Persuasion in
Public Discourse: Functional and Cognitive Perspectives”, to be proposed as
a part of The Fifth International Conference on Critical Approaches to
Discourse Analysis across Disciplines (CADAAD 2014), which will take place
at ELTE (Loránd Eötvös University) in Budapest, Hungary, 1-3 September
2014. The proposed panel aims to investigate persuasion as a rhetorical
phenomenon, from both functional and cognitive perspectives. We welcome
papers based on authentic discourse data in the public sphere. We are in
particular interested in papers that explore how grammar and lexical choice
creates persuasive effects and, meanwhile, how such choices co-contribute
for the purpose of changing the audience’s mental states.
We are especially interested in discussions based on authentic data, with a
special focus on public discourse for its hugely influential nature at
various levels of human social life. The possible text types that we are
interested may range from the domain of politics, business, mass media to
that of religion and academia.
Submissions of 250-350 words abstracts are welcome. Please include in your
abstract: 3-5 keywords, type of data, methodology, expected outcome and
possible contribution to the field, and a list of bibliography. Please send
in a separate file containing your name, affiliation, contact details, and
a brief bio-note. Submissions are due 31 October 2013. Notification of
acceptance will be sent 15 November 2013. For inquiry or submission,
contact either of the panel conveners: Louis Wei-lun Lu (weilunlu AT gmail
DOT com) and Jana Pelclova (pelclova AT phil DOT muni DOT cz).
For More Information:
http://www.cadaad.net/cadaad_2014 (main conference website)
http://weilunlu.blogspot.cz/2013/09/panel-proposal-for-cadaad-2014.html(CFP
in full)
Sep 24
ThE CLOwNannouncements
Title: Body – Language – Communication
Subtitle: An International Handbook on Multimodality in Human Interaction Volume 1
Series Title: Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft / Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science (HSK) 38/1
Publication Year: 2013
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
http://www.degruyter.com/mouton
Book URL: http://www.degruyter.com/view/product/38327?format=G
Editor: Cornelia Müller
Editor: Alan Cienki
Editor: Ellen Fricke
Editor: Silva H. Ladewig
Editor: David McNeill
Editor: Sedinha Teßendorf
Electronic: ISBN: 9783110261318 Pages: 1138 Price: Europe EURO 299.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9783110209624 Pages: 1138 Price: Europe EURO 299.00
Abstract:
Questions of multimodal communication, language and embodiment have become pertinent in a wide range of research areas: cognitive science, psychology, linguistics, computer science, anthropology, sociology, semiotics, and art. What is lacking is an overview of this fast growing but highly diverse field. This reference work provides encompassing documentation of how body movements relate to language and communication. Chapters authored by leading scholars outline the scope of the phenomenon, present current and past approaches, and provide multidisciplinary methods of analysis.
It offers a perspective on the body as ‘part’ and ‘partner’ of language and communication and contributes to some of the current key issues of the humanities and the sciences: the multimodal nature of language and communication, embodiment as a resource for meaning-making and conceptualisation and as felt experience, and the emergence and evolution of language from body movements. It overcomes the longstanding dichotomy represented in the concepts of verbal and nonverbal communication, and promotes an incorporation of the body as integral part of language and communication. In 5 chapters the handbook documents the bodily and embodied nature of language.
Sep 19
ThE CLOwNannouncements
Self as a Sign, the World, and the Other: Living Semiotics
by Susan Petrilli
Ostentation of the Subject is a practice that is asserting itself ever more in today’s world. Consequently, criticism by philosophers, psychologists, sociologists, and anthropologists has been to little effect, considering that they are not immune to such practices themselves. The question of subjectivity concerns the close and the distant, the self and the other, the other from self and the other of self. It is thus connected to the question of the sign. It calls for a semiotic approach because the self is itself a sign; its very own relation with itself is a relation among signs. This book commits to developing a critique of subjectivity in terms of the “material”
that the self is made of, that is, the material of signs.
Susan Petrilli highlights the scholarship of Charles Peirce, Mikhail Bakhtin, Roland Barthes, Mary Boole, Jacques Derrida, Michael Foucault, Emmanuel Levinas, Claude Levi-Strauss, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Charles Morris, Thomas Sebeok, Thomas Szasz, and Victoria Welby. Included are American and European theories and theorists, evidencing the relationships interconnecting American, Italian, French, and German scholarship.
Petrilli covers topics from identity issues that are part of semiotic views, to the corporeal self as well as responsibility, reason, and freedom. Her book should be read by philosophers, semioticians, and other social scientists.
Susan Petrilli is the seventh Thomas A. Sebeok Fellow of the Semiotic Society of America and professor of philosophy of language and semiotics at the University of Bari, Aldo Moro, Italy. She is the co-author, with Augusto Ponzio, of Semiotics Unbounded and author of Signifying Understanding, among others.
Sep 05
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhannouncements
Title: Analysing Political Speeches
Subtitle: Rhetoric, Discourse and Metaphor
Publication Year: 2013
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
http://www.palgrave.com
Book URL: http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=405831
Author: Jonathan Charteris-Black
Hardback: ISBN: 9780230274389 Pages: 296 Price: U.K. £ 60.00
Paperback: ISBN: 9780230274396 Pages: 296 Price: U.K. £ 24.99
Abstract:
This new book considers how traditional approaches such as cohesion and
classical rhetoric may be integrated with ‘critical’ approaches to discourse
analysis such as critical metaphor analysis. Charteris-Black presents a range
of critical and discourse theories and considers the relationships between
linguistic features of speeches and their social and cultural contexts.
Aug 09
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhannouncements
Call for Papers /Information for contributors
The aim of the International Journal of Language and Culture (IJoLC) is to disseminate cutting-edge research that explores the interrelationship between language and culture. The journal is multidisciplinary in scope and seeks to provide a forum for researchers interested in the interaction between language and culture across several disciplines, including linguistics, anthropology, applied linguistics, psychology and cognitive science. The journal publishes high-quality, original and state-of-the-art articles that may be theoretical or empirical in orientation and that advance our understanding of the intricate relationship between language and culture. IJoLC is a peer-reviewed journal published twice a year.
The International Journal of Language and Culture welcomes authoritative, innovative articles. Topics of interest to the Journal include, but are not limited to the following:
a. Culture and the structure of language,
b. Language, culture, and conceptualisation,
c. Language, culture, and politeness,
d. Language, culture, and emotion,
e. Culture and language development,
f. Language, culture, and communication.
http://benjamins.com/#catalog/journals/ijolc/main
Manuscripts, books for review and all editorial correspondence can be sent to the Editor: Farzad Sharifian (cl-ijolc@monash.edu)
Aug 09
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhannouncements
Title: Analyzing Genres in Political Communication
Subtitle: Theory and practice
Series Title: Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture 50
Publication Year: 2013
Publisher: John Benjamins
http://www.benjamins.com/
Book URL: http://benjamins.com/catalog/dapsac.50
Editor: Piotr Cap
Editor: Urszula Okulska
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027271488 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 149.00
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027271488 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 99.00
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027271488 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 83.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027206411 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 104.94
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027206411 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 83.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027206411 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 149.00
Abstract:
Featuring contributions by leading specialists in the field, the volume is a
survey of cutting edge research in genres in political discourse. Since, as is
demonstrated, “political genres” reveal many of the problems pertaining to the
analysis of communicative genres in general, it is also a state-of-the-art
addition to contemporary genre theory. The book offers new methodological,
theoretical and empirical insights in both the long-established genres
(speeches, interviews, policy documents, etc.), and the modern,
rapidly-evolving generic forms, such as online political ads or weblogs. The
chapters, which engage in timely issues of genre mediatization, hybridity,
multimodality, and the mixing of discursive styles, come from a broad range of
perspectives spanning Critical Discourse Studies, pragmatics, cognitive
psychology, sociolinguistics, applied linguistics and media studies. As such,
they constitute essential reading for anyone seeking an interdisciplinary yet
coherent research agenda within the vast and complex territory of today’s
forms of political communication.
Aug 09
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhannouncements
Title: Argumentation in Political Interviews
Subtitle: Analyzing and evaluating responses to accusations of inconsistency
Series Title: Argumentation in Context 5
Publication Year: 2013
Publisher: John Benjamins
http://www.benjamins.com/
Book URL: http://benjamins.com/catalog/aic.5
Author: Corina Andone
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027271754 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 128.00
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027271754 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 85.00
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027271754 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 71.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027211224 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 90.10
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027211224 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 71.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027211224 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 128.00
Abstract:
In Argumentation in Political Interviews Corina Andone uses the
pragma-dialectical concept of strategic maneuvering to gain a better
understanding of political interviews as argumentative practices. She analyzes
and evaluates the way in which politicians react in political interviews to
the accusation that the position they currently hold is inconsistent with a
position they advanced before. The politicians’ responses to such charges are
examined for their strategic function by concentrating on a number of concrete
cases and explaining how the arguers try to enhance their chances of winning
the discussion. In addition, the soundness criteria are formulated for judging
properly when the politicians’ responses are indeed reasonable.This book is
important to argumentation theorists, discourse analysts, communication
scholars and all other researchers and students interested in the way in which
language is used for the purpose of persuasion in a political context. Corina
Andone is Assistant Professor of Speech Communication, Argumentation Theory
and Rhetoric at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Amsterdam in
the Netherlands.
Jul 19
ThE CLOwNannouncements
Title: The Travelling Concepts of Narrative
Series Title: Studies in Narrative 18
Publication Year: 2013
Publisher: John Benjamins
http://www.benjamins.com/
Book URL: http://benjamins.com/catalog/sin.18
Editor: Mari Hatavara
Editor: Lars-Christer Hydén
Editor: Matti Hyvärinen
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027271969 Pages: 311 Price: U.S. $ 143.00
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027271969 Pages: 311 Price: U.K. £ 80.00
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027271969 Pages: 311 Price: Europe EURO 95.00
Abstract:
Narrative is a pioneer concept in our trans-disciplinary age. For decades, it
has been one of the most successful catchwords in literature, history,
cultural studies, philosophy, and health studies. While the expansion of
narrative studies has led to significant advances across a number of fields,
the travels for the concept itself have been a somewhat more complex. Has the
concept of narrative passed intact from literature to sociology, from
structuralism to therapeutic practice or to the study of everyday
storytelling? In this volume, philosophers, psychologists, literary theorists,
sociolinguists, and sociologists use methodologically challenging test cases
to scrutinise the types, transformations, and trajectories of the concept and
theory of narrative. The book powerfully argues that narrative concepts are
profoundly relevant in the understanding of life, experience, and literary
texts. Nonetheless, it emphasises the vast contextual differences and
contradictions in the use of the concept.
Jul 19
ThE CLOwNannouncements
Title: Reading the Absurd
Publication Year: 2013
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
http://www.euppublishing.com
Book URL: http://www.euppublishing.com/book/9780748670017
Author: Joanna Gavins
Hardback: ISBN: 9780748669264 Pages: 224 Price: U.K. £ 75.00
Paperback: ISBN: 9780748670017 Pages: 224 Price: U.K. £ 24.99
Abstract:
Challenges traditional scholarship on absurdist literature, privileging the
reader and the genre’s stylistic achievements.
What is the literary absurd? What are its key textual features? How can it be
analysed? How do different readers respond to absurdist literature? Taking the
theories and methodologies of stylistics as its underlying analytical
framework, Reading the Absurd tackles each of these questions. Selected key
works in English literature are examined in depth to reveal significant
aspects of absurd style. Its analytical approach combines stylistic inquiry
with a cognitive perspective on language, literature and reading which sheds
new light on the human experience of literary reading. By exploring the
literary absurd as a linguistic and experiential phenomena, while at the same
time reflecting upon its essential historical and cultural situation, Joanna
Gavins brings a new perspective to the absurd aesthetic.
Jul 19
ThE CLOwNannouncements
Title: Language, Music, and the Brain
Subtitle: A Mysterious Relationship
Series Title: Strungmann Forum Reports
Publication Year: 2013
Publisher: MIT Press
http://mitpress.mit.edu/
Book URL: http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/language-music-and-brain
Editor: MIchael A Arbib
Hardback: ISBN: 9780262018104 Pages: 584 Price: U.S. $ 50.00
Abstract:
This book explores the relationships between language, music, and the brain by pursuing four key themes and the crosstalk among them: song and dance as a bridge between music and language; multiple levels of structure from brain to behaviour to culture; the semantics of internal and external worlds and the role of emotion; and the evolution and development of language. The book offers specially commissioned expositions of current research accessible both to experts across disciplines and to non-experts. These chapters provide the background for reports by groups of specialists that chart current controversies and future directions of research on each theme.
The book looks beyond mere auditory experience, probing the embodiment that links speech to gesture and music to dance. The study of the brains of monkeys and songbirds illuminates hypotheses on the evolution of brain mechanisms that support music and language, while the study of infants calibrates the developmental timetable of their capacities. The result is a unique book that will interest any reader seeking to learn more about language or music and will appeal especially to readers intrigued by the relationships of language and music with each other and with the brain.
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