Edited volume: Speech Strategies and Discourse Analysis: the Powerful and the Oppressed.
Deadline for proposal submissions: 1 March 2025.
Edited by:
Manuel Macías (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos) and
M. Carmen Gómez-Galisteo (UNED)
Volume presentation
This edited volume analyzes political speeches in the last thirty years from a discourse analysis perspective. In real and fictitious political speeches, as important as the contents, are the emotions these texts elicit, moving audiences to support a running candidate or to endorse a political decision. By political speeches we encompass those given in political meetings and rallies as well as parliamentary discourse in various legislative bodies in real life or in fiction contexts. Public authorities’ declarations and statements can also be considered. All these texts may be oral or in written form. While our focus is on political discourse in English-speaking contexts (L1, L2 or EFL), we also welcome submissions that offer a comparative perspective between, for example, EU parliamentary discourse vs. American Congress speeches.
Potential submissions may address the following questions (although not limited to):
- What are the most common ideas in political discourse?
- What pragmatic strategies do speakers employ?
- What discourse analysis conventions are observed? Which are flounted?
- How do speakers engage their audiences? What strategies do they use?
- How do speakers appeal to their audiences? Do they appeal to their emotions, to their feelings, to their rational thoughts?
- How can the language in political discourse be characterized? What register does it belong to?
- What implicatures are used?
- How is persuasive language employed?
- How are inferences used? How does the speaker imply information? How is presupposition used?
- How is politeness conveyed?
- How is the linguistic adaptation theory put into practice in political speeches?
Timeline
- Submission of proposals – please send a 500/1,000-word proposal along with your contact information and a biographical statement (approx. 100/200 words) by email to both editors (manuel.macias@urjc.es and cgomez@flog.uned.es) by March 1, 2025.
- After acceptance, contributors are expected to submit final book chapters (6,000/8,000 words, including references and footnotes) by December 1, 2025.
Strong interest in this volume has been expressed by a leading academic publisher. More information will be given to prospective contributors as details are finalized and a contract is secured.
Contact details:
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Publication and issue: Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses. Special Issue on “Decolonising Affective Relationships in Contemporary Romantic Narratives”.
Deadline for proposal submissions: 30 March 2025.
Edited by: Dr Irene Pérez Fernández and Dr Cristina Cruz Gutiérrez
Issue theme / Volume description
Popular romance has traditionally been decried as low-quality and escapist genre by conservative canon gatekeepers and feminist scholars alike, scornfully repudiated on account of its allegedly endless recreation of old-fashioned romantic fantasies and harmful gender stereotypes, and generally understood as stubbornly impervious to politics and, as a result, unworthy of academic attention. Despite the complex evolution experienced by the genre in the last few decades and its indisputable popularity, romance fiction continues to be perceived by many as unsuitable for classroom discussion and postcolonial critical thinking. Our aim in this special issue is to reflect on how romance – in its multiple print and media forms–, can be a suitable vehicle for postcolonial/decolonial critique.
Contemporary romance is going through a process of transformation and diversification that reverberates social and cultural changes occurring beyond the gates, but not under the market’s radar. As the third wave of romantic criticism (Teo 2018) has demonstrated, modern popular romantic narratives are shaking the formulae and even re- evaluating the very idea of romantic love as a cultural construct and are, therefore, articulating some of the recurrent preoccupations found in the corpus of works which conform the postcolonial literary canon. In the last two decades, we have witnessed a proliferation and increasing diversification of the romantic narratives that populate bookshops, library shelves and readers’ apps. Encouraged by the genre’s popularity and spurred on the demand for new voices, authors from various postcolonial, diasporic, Indigenous and minority backgrounds have embraced romance in its various subgenres and formats, infiltrating and reshaping it to accommodate their particular stories and advance their own political agendas (Pryde 2022; Young 2021; Teo 2021). Contributors to this special issue will be asked to consider the following discussion questions, among other related topics:
- How romance revises hegemonic historical narratives, reimagines or recovers silenced stories, and seeks redress via plots which favour reparation and reconciliation;
- How the format serves to engage in discussions of interracial tensions, national identity conflicts and intercultural negotiations through stories which narrate love in all its diversity and complexity and offer satisfactory or joyful endings;
- How romantic novels reject hegemonic and white visions of love and articulate positive visions of hope, solidarity and affective justice in alternative and previously unrecorded versions of the “happily ever after”.
Timeline
- 30th March 2025: submission of a 300-500 word abstract together with a short biographical note (100 words) to cristina.cruz@uib.es and perezirene@uniovi.es
- 15th December 2025: submission of full articles (6000-8000 words)
- Estimated publication 2026
Contact details
perezirene@uniovi.es
cristina.cruz@uib.es and
CFP
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(Posted 26 February 2025)