[Air-L] discourse analysis and conflict/peace studies

[Dr. Chiluwa]

CALL FOR PAPERS for an edited book tentatively entitled:

*Discourse Analysis and Conflict Studies: Applying discourse approaches to
studying conflict and conflict resolution*



The editors are in talks with *John Benjamins Publishing Company*
(Amsterdam) and plan to publish the edited volume in the Benjamins’ *Discourse
Approaches to Politics, Culture and Society *(edited by Jo Angouri and
Andreas Musolff). This book series is peer-reviewed and indexed in Scopus.

*Discourse Analysis and Conflict Studies*

Interest in the broad subject of conflict studies by linguists and language
scholars has increased over the years with the growing incidents of
conflicts, wars and political violence around the world. There have also
been increasing and interesting studies that applied linguistic and
discourse approaches to the study of violent protests, activism and
political struggles. These studies have given significant insights to the
role of language use or discourse in conflict initiation and conflict
resolution. From these burgeoning studies, it is clear that there is a
strong connection between how what is said or written and how conflict may
develop and escalate.

Discourse theorists generally believe that oral or written discourse
produced by different people vary with recognizable patterns, depending on
their social domains of life (see, for example, Laclau & Mouffe, 1985). The
work of a discourse analyst is to analyze these patterns and identify their
significance and consequences. Critical discourse analysis (CDA) for
example, shows how language works in sociocultural and political contexts,
focusing on power relations and ideological perspectives reflected in discourse
texts, and their wider implications for the society.

Hence, a critical discourse study of subtle texts such as news reports (or
“fake news”), editorials, propaganda, social media publications, etc. in
the form of writing, visual or multimodal/video streaming will be very
important in contemporary times.

This collection of essays will aim to show the synergy between discourse
analysis and conflict studies by showing how topics in conflicts studies
and conflict resolution may be researched using methods and approaches in
discourse analysis (e.g. CDA, multi-modal discourse analysis, conversation
analysis, argumentation etc.)

This study will attempt to cover all conflict-related topics within the
fields of political science, international relations, sociology, media
studies, applied linguistics etc., which will include:

·         Terrorism and extremism

·         Conflict and war

·         Political crisis

·         Ethnic violence/sectarian crisis

·         Activism and violent protest

·         Hate speech and verbal war (in the media and the Internet etc.)

·         Conflict resolution techniques

·         Discourse and peace processes

·         Etc.

Contributors are invited to submit chapter proposals (about 200 words) not
later than *30th* *June 2019. *Kindly send Abstracts or questions as email
attachment to* Innocent Chiluwa*:
*innocent.chiluwa at covenantuniversity.edu.ng*
<innocent.chiluwa at covenantuniversity.edu.ng>









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*Professor of Language & Digital Communications*
*Humboldt Fellow & Digital Expert*
*Department of Languages & General Studies*
*Covenant University, OTA, Nigeria*
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