Workshop

AIMS

PhD Workshop

2 ECTS POINTS

2018 International Communication Association (ICA) Conference, Prague, Czech Republic

Blue Sky Workshop

Analysing Political Discourse and Rhetoric in the Digital Age

Friday, May 25, 9:30 to 10:45, Hilton Old Town, M, Mozart II

Session Submission Type: Meeting

Abstract

Friday, May 25, 9:30 to 10:45, Hilton Old Town, M, Mozart II (Prague, Czech Republic)

Session Submission Type: Meeting

Blue Sky Workshop

Friday, May 25, 9:30 to 10:45, Hilton Old Town, M, Mozart II

Session Submission Type: Meeting

Organizers:
Prof. Darren Lilleker (Ph.D.), Bournemouth Media School, Bournemouth University,UK
Mitra Naeimi, Ph.D. Candidate, Faculty of Communication, University of Navarra, Spain

Dear colleagues, there are only few free places left in our introductory workshop on the Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse (SKAD) at the University of Augsburg in 2018. The organizers invite novice as well as experienced academics from a wide range of disciplines, including but not limited to sociology, ethnology, political science, linguistics, psychology and educational science, to explore the potential of this approach to studying discourses in the context of their own projects and research.

PhD Course title: Figurative language in public discourse: metaphor, irony and sarcasm

Course leader: Professor Andreas Musolff, University of East Anglia, UK

This PhD course focuses on the role of figurative language in political discourse, using both cognitive and discourse-analytical methodology. It consists of four main parts:

1. Introduction into Cognitive, Pragmatic and Discourse-historical methods to studying figurative language, specifically metaphor, irony and sarcasm

Call for Papers:
ParlaCLARIN: LREC2018 workshop on creating and using parliamentary corpora

Date: 7 May, 2018. To be held as part of the 11th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), at the Phoenix Seagaia Resort, Miyazaki, Japan.

Website: https://www.clarin.eu/ParlaCLARIN
Submission Deadline: 10 January 2018

Austerity is a complex phenomenon with far reaching consequences for economic wellbeing, social justice and political systems. It is not without alternative, but connected to different political projects that can only be understood by looking at both sedimented economic and political mechanisms as well as the meaning giving efforts of human actors. As part of a broader research project on austerity, the workshop will focus on discursive constructions of austerity in the British media. The British case is of particular importance.

Austerity is a complex phenomenon with far reaching consequences for economic wellbeing, social justice and political systems. It is not without alternative, but connected to different political projects that can only be understood by looking at both sedimented economic and political mechanisms as well as the meaning giving efforts of human actors. As part of a broader research project on austerity, the workshop will focus on discursive constructions of austerity in the British media. The British case is of particular importance.