Iada 2020 - Discourse, Dialogicity & Dialogue

The Iada 2020 - Discourse, Dialogicity & Dialogue is a multidisciplinary discussion of prospects and limits of mediating human culture(s) through dialogue.

Topics

• Dialogue in (public) social institutions (media, politics, business, healthcare, courts, science, education, religion, family, etc.);
• (new) genres and modalities of dialogue;
• Multilingual and intercultural dialogue;
• Narratives in dialogue;
• Searching for common ground in communication;
• Pragmatics, semantics and rhetoric of dialogue;
• Positioning in dialogue; heteroglossia and polyphony of voices in dialogue;
• (un)certainty and knowledge in dialogue: negotiating, deliberating and establishing social facts; argument structure; commitment to truth and obligation, etc.;
• Conflict management and problem-solving in mediation, arbitration, social consultations, counselling, therapy, etc.; dialogue in peace-making, peace-building and peace-keeping;
• Tension or complementariness between/within local and global, contemporary and historical, modern and traditional interactive patterns;
• Confronting and counteracting verbal oppression (deception, cheating, lying, perpetration, propaganda, censorship, manipulation, etc.);
• Online dispute resolution;
• Minority and immigrant discourses in intercultural dialogue;
• Discourses of commemoration and reconciliation;
• Transparency of meaning in dialogue; discoursal bias and neutrality;
• Ethical aspects of dialogue: participation and uniplurality in discourse; speaker/writer subjectivation; authentic and fake dialogue;
• Dialogic formation of personal and communal identity; transformation of self, other and culture in dialogue; dialogue and language/culture change;
• Expressing reflexivity, (self-)reflection and responsibility in dialogue;
• Dialogue-oriented attitudes in intercultural and foreign/second language instruction;
• Role of dialogue in pedagogy of critical language awareness and language/media literacy;
• Literary/artistic discourses and dialogue; translation and dialogue.

Who should Attend

• Discourse analysts
• Linguists
• Psychologists
• Sociologists
• Law experts
• Political and media scientists
• Anthropologists
• Philosophers
• Teachers)
• Culture mediators (translators
• Other researchers from related disciplines