The notion of crisis has emerged as a defining concept of global reality. Its meanings, however, are momentously shifting: from the traditional conception of crises as temporary “turning points”, to “a state of greater or lesser permanence” (Krzyżanowski et al. 2023), as captured by the recent coinage of permacrisis. Yet, these dynamics of language are never just about naming.
Since the first international meeting convened in Tel Aviv in 2008, the annual Linguistic Landscape Workshop established itself as the leading conference for interdisciplinary research on language in public space. The 2025 conference theme “Spaces of collapse and transformation” aims to address the dynamics of transformations that unfold in societies trending toward collapse through war, poverty, overexploitation of resources, environmental destruction, etc. Collapse and transformation are concepts addressed by scholars working in various disciplines.
We are very pleased to announce the call for papers for the CERLIS2025 Conference on "Metaphors in Specialized Discourse In and Across Cultures." This interdisciplinary conference aims to explore the intricate and multifaceted roles that metaphors play in specialized forms of discourse, encompassing scientific, technical, medical, legal, business, media, tourism, and political communication, across diverse cultural contexts.
The conference aims to promote an in-depth understanding of sustainability communication while providing innovative insights and practical solutions to current sustainability challenges.
The event is intended as a meeting place for local companies, academia, and other subjects (e.g. from media, film and television) to exchange knowledge and practices, improve communication, and expand theoretical, methodological, and practical approaches to the study of sustainability.
Over the last decades, the research program outlined by the Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse (SKAD) has spread to many disciplines in social science. SKAD discourse research, drawing upon Michel Foucault’s work, symbolic interactionism and sociology of knowledge, is interested in exploring processes of ‘discursive construction of reality’, social relations of knowledge and knowing, and politics of knowledge and knowing – the manifold ways of discursive meaning making.
Congist’24 - Social Sciences and Artificial Intelligence: Theory and Practice
Date: December 18-20, 2024
Location: Istanbul University Faculty of Letters
Organizers:
Istanbul University Faculty of Letters
Erasmus University Rotterdam School of Philosophy (Scientific Partner Institution)
This conference seeks to explore how changes in the conditions, means, and opportunities of communication in the Western world since 1800 have affected the perception and the evaluation of silence and concealment. Silence is understood broadly as the absence of communication where it could have been expected or relevant, and as encompassing forms of concealment.
The 13th conference of the international network Diskurs Interdisziplinaer (DI 13) will be dedicated to (self)care in microsocial and macrosocial discourses, in a thematic continuity with the two previous conferences on Discourse linguistics beyond Big Data (DI 11, IDS Mannheim) and Discourses of/in disruption (DI 12, TU Dresden).<
The nature of dialogue has changed significantly in a digitally interconnected society. As a result, the question What is dialogue? is more relevant than ever. Different disciplines have approached it from various vantage points, including linguistics, philosophy, ethics, communication, cultural anthropology, cognitive psychology, sociology, argumentation, pragmatics, and logic, among others. The sequence of action and reaction (Weigand 2010) has taken on new implications in the digital medium.