ISA 2021 Annual Convention panel: The Politics of Language or the Language of Politics? Political Linguistics and Conflict

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Stanley Dubinsky presented an Invited talk at the Penn State University Center for Language Science: The Language Conflict Project: Analyzing politicized ethnolinguistic conflict in the 21st century. April 16, 2021.

Tue Apr 06, 6:30 PM – 7:45 PM EDT (1 Hour, 15 Min)

The Politics of Language or the Language of Politics? Political Linguistics and Conflict

This panel has been designed to convey the importance and utility of explicitly incorporating a linguistic perspective to the study of international relations in general, and to conflict/conflict processes in particular. Given the importance of more completely specifying the theoretical context used in our analyses, the panel papers will demonstrate how language and linguistic analysis can and should be included to study conflict in the global arena. The papers on the panel will stress the complementarities and synergies between the work of political scientists and linguists, the development and use of language-based datasets, the importance of adding the concepts/theories/methods of linguists to the analytical toolbox available to political scientists, the forms of contemporary situations of language conflict, and methodologies used to demonstrate the importance of language in political interaction and social conflict (e.g. computational text analyses).

21st century Ethnolinguistic Conflict: Resurgent, Re-created, and Created
- Stanley Dubinsky (University of South Carolina)

Perspectives on Language and Culture in Event Data
- Leah Cathryn Windsor (University of Memphis)

Targeting Language: Exploring Language Endangerment During the Colombian Civil War
- Kimi L. King and James Meernik (University of North Texas)

The World Languages Dataset 1945-2015: Logic, Characteristics, & International Implications
- Jaime Jackson (California State University, Sacramento)

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