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.
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