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From: Mima <mdedaic@VOA.GOV> To: <DISCOURS@LINGUIST.LDC.UPENN.EDU> Sent: Thursday, July 29, 1999 5:46 PM Subject: Call for papers - Language of War > CALL FOR PROPOSALS: > Edited Volume on LANGUAGE / WAR / CONFLICT > > > > > We are working on a project entitled *AT WAR WITH WORDS*. Several > publishers have expressed preliminary interest. We are looking for > several theoretically-informed essays (25-30 pages finished length, not > including notes or tables) addressing the relationship between > linguistic usage and political competition, conflict, turmoil, and war. > > Possible topics include, but are not limited to: > > -- State-imposed language use. > -- Politically inspired language change and language shift. > -- Language of media in a war-torn country. > -- Language of media covering a war. > -- The (linguistic) construction of identities in new political > settings. > -- Language of political speeches, interviews, debates, letters, > documents... > -- Language of personal accounts in the midst of war. > -- Ideology and power vs. language. > > Other topics are welcomed as long as the focus of the paper centers on > interdependence of language and politics. > > All theoretical approaches are welcome. Scholars involved in discourse > analysis techniques, pragmatics, quantitative studies, and political > writing contexts are especially of interest. Please do not submit work > that is primarily anecdotal or descriptive. > > Abstracts of 500-750 words are requested by October 15, 1999, > accompanied by a short bibliography (a couple of paragraphs). > > Email submission of abstracts and bios is preferred. Those writers whose > abstracts are selected for inclusion will be notified by December 1, > 1999. Completed papers will be expected by May 15, 2000. Any accepted > paper must be in Chicago-style format. > > Please send all inquiries/abstracts to: > > Dr. Daniel N. Nelson (Editor of International Politics) > and > Mirjana Nelson Dedaic (Department of Linguistics, Georgetown University) > > P. O. Box 20046 > Alexandria, VA 22320 > > or > > GLOBCON@EROLS.COM > > Please, examine the INTERNATIONAL POLITICS, Vol. 36/No. 2 wherein you > will see several articles devoted to the theme of language and politics. > > http://www.muohio.edu/~intlpols/IPOL3602.html > > You will help us by forwarding this message to anyone who may be > interested. Thank you. # distributed via nettime-l: no commercial use without permission of author # <nettime> is a moderated mailinglist for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # un/subscribe: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and # "un/subscribe nettime-l you@address" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org/ contact: <nettime@bbs.thing.net>