Call for Papers 15th APRIL CONFERENCE Humanity/Humanities Institute of English Studies, Jagiellonian University Kraków, 20-22 April 2023 THEME SESSION: THE WAR IN UKRAINE: STANCE, IDENTITY, LEADERSHIP SESSION ORGANISERS: Magdalena Szczyrbak, Jagiellonian University Anna Tereszkiewicz, Jagiellonian University Valentyna Ushchyna, Lesya Ukrainka Volyn National University Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 sent shockwaves around the globe. In response to the aggression, many governments, politicians and ordinary citizens made efforts to aid the people of Ukraine and called for a restoration of peace. Seven months on, there is no end in sight for the war, and many social actors are stepping up their efforts to achieve a peaceful solution to the crisis. As the war unfolds, it receives extensive media coverage, including frontline reports and eyewitness accounts. Parallel to this, social media are awash in pictures, videos and satellite images of war-stricken areas, and abuzz with comments and discussions which articulate anti-war stances. At the same time, social media platforms are used to spread propaganda and misinformation, which has turned the Russia-Ukraine conflict into a fully-blown social media war. Our session aims to bring together linguists, discourse analysts and communication scholars exploring various facets of discourses on/of war and war-related communication. The session is conceived as a discussion forum for participants who apply various analytical models and who adopt diverse research perspectives, including discourse analysis, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, critical discourse studies, media studies, multimodality and social semiotics. We welcome contributions addressing the concepts of stance, identity and leadership in discourses on/of war, but submissions focusing on the war in Ukraine are particularly encouraged. Suggested areas of scholarly discussion include, but are not limited to, the following: ▪ Construction of identity and leadership in war-related discourse ▪ War-related stance-taking practices in public discourse and social media ▪ Conceptualisations of crisis, conflict and aggression and their discursive manifestations ▪ War and emotion-sharing on social media ▪ Evaluation and authority in war-related discourse ▪ Rhetorical strategies in pro-war and against-war discourse ▪ War narratives in online and offline settings ▪ War rhetoric, political propaganda and manipulation ▪ Risk communication in times of war ▪ Individual and collective beliefs about war and peace ▪ War and multimodal communication If you would like to participate in the session, please submit your proposals for 20- minute papers (app. 200 words) together with short biographical notes (up to 100 words) via the submission portal at: https://april.confer.uj.edu.pl as well as send them to: [email protected]. Deadline for abstract submission: 31 December 2022 Notifications of acceptance: 31 January 2023 Conference website: https://april.confer.uj.edu.pl A selection of conference papers will be published in an edited volume and/or a Scopus- indexed journal. This event is supported by the Jagiellonian University’s “Excellence Initiative – Research University” programme, under Grant: WFilolog.2.2.2022.1.
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