Indiana University's Department of French and Italian
Graduate Student Organization (GSO) announces a
Call for Papers
15th Annual GSO Colloquium
April 7-9, 2006
Bloomington, Indiana
Politics and Persuasion
The colloquium seeks to bring together graduate students engaged in French and/or Italian studies in fields such
as literature, applied and theoretical linguistics, literary theory, film studies, art, cultural studies etc. In this years colloquium we will investigate the (ab)use of language in literature and in any type of speech as a means of persuasion. We welcome proposals for 20-minute papers pertaining to subjects including, though not limited
to, the following themes and topics:
The language of rebellion, the polemical and subversive in literature
Rhetoric and structure in language and literature, discourse theory (conversation rules...), discourse analysis of
political speech.
The role of the narrator (who persuades?)
The narrator vs. the author OR the narrator and the author
Imitation, parody, satire
Politics and persuasion across media (book to film, film to book, book to internet) the effects of literature in
politics
The sacred in politics (considering the social and cultural aspects of politics and its representation in literature)
Power and its (ab)use in literature
Literature of/and movement, Literature and travel (Literature concerning migration of ideas and/or people),
linguistic/legal "rights" of minority languages and minority speakers.
Personal agenda(s), literature as an instrument to further ones agenda
Language planning, teaching a second language (the 5 Cs, a national curriculum)
Lexicography and the norm, standardization, legitimization through literature
History of French and Italian, from vernacular to standard
Syntactical and phonological variations in the light of linguistic institutions, attitudes towards variation and
intervention towards variation (defense of language)
Please send your anonymous, 300 word or less abstracts (including title) in English, French or Italian to the GSO
committee at crenaud@indiana.edu in Word, PDF or RTF format by February 28, 2006. In your e-mail include
the title of your paper as well as your name, institution and contact information. Confirmation of receipt will be
given via e-mail within two days. Notification of acceptance will be given via e-mail by March 7, 2006.
If you have any questions, please contact Claire Renaud at:
crenaud@indiana.edu
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