Political Linguistics, Department of Pragmatics, University of Łódź & Institute of Applied Linguistics, Warsaw University, September 17-19, 2009.

PL2009's aim is to convene scholars from a wide range of disciplines, interested, broadly speaking, in the rich and heterogeneous but thus yet to become better demarcated area of intersection of language/discourse and the political sphere (i.e. politics, both in its institutionalized and everyday dimensions). The general purpose is to explore and deepen ways of analyzing language as a political instrument, a political theme, and a political domain. PL2009 will be a forum for presentation of papers addressing the following issues:

• the use of language in political rhetoric, advertising, media discourse, propaganda, persuasion, etc.;
• language and processes of ideological symbolization; including folk linguistic ideologies, normative use of language and language-based reproduction of ideologies;
• language of the state, viz. language policies and language planning at various stages of the information flow, including the art of document design and press releases;
• rhetoric of political systems and political changes;
• language of political institutions;
• linguistic thought (its development and directions) in the light of past and present political transformations;
• politics in language pedagogy;
• societal multilingualism, linguistic pluralism and linguistic minority policies;
• language change and variation in political discourse: transformations at the lexical (terminology, neologisms, semantic shifts), morpho-syntactic, and text/discourse-pragmatic levels;
• language contact in the political domain: borrowing processes, style-shifting, code-mixing;
• globalisation of political discourse: homogenisation of social and linguistic knowledge in the political milieu;
• hybridisation of generic/discursive structures, text types, and interactive strategies across languages and cultures;
• mulitimodality and unification patterns in political communication;
• historical/diachronic transformations in political genres;
• intertextuality and mediation in political communication;
• axiological aspects of political discourses (valuation in political texts);
• language attitude research: social attitudes to political discourse(s);
• literary reflections of political communication;
• translating/interpreting the language of politics;
• directions in language training of politicians.

Plenaries:

The conference will feature between 4 and 6 plenary lectures given by world-leading specialists in political discourse analysis and related disciplines.

Visit the conference webpage here: http://cadaad.org/node/953.