DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACT SUBMISSIONS: 10 December 2010

Mini Track on Linguistic Analysis, Discourses and Narratives of Western Military Organizations

This track examines the information age representations of war in political rhetoric and technological syntax. The track focuses on the actors in information warfare, namely how states and enterprises construct identities that legitimize participation in conflicts unrelated to the actor. A special emphasis is placed on the construction of nationalist discourse and myths through historic analogies, metaphors and value assignment, and purposeful discourses of enmity.

Topics for submissions to this mini track may include, but are not limited to:

1) Different concepts of the enemy
2) Strategic Communications and Information Operations, such as a large media corporation
3) Different kinds of military narratives and discourses in texts, pictures and social media
4) Concepts, categories and typologies of enmity - theoretical or case-oriented approaches
5) Poor people as a target of risk and business threat
6) The so called hate texts and speeches