22–23 November 2018

Upholding the well-established traditions of annual Ukrainian Sociolinguistic Seminars (2004-2015) and building on the notable success of the First International Conference - Lviv 2016 Sociolinguistic knowledge as an instrument of forming new security culture: Ukraine and the world, our new academic forum seeks to provide a viable platform for researchers and practitioners to articulate and exchange stimulating ideas in the field of sociolinguistics and national security. Participants are expected to engage in a constructive dialogue and to follow the discussions initiated by the scholars in 2015-2016 during the academic events held with the assistance of the NATO Information and Documentation Centre in Ukraine.

Organizers:

Ivan Franko National University in Lviv

Faculty of Linguistics

Faculty of International Relations

International Security and Partnership Centre

The purpose of 2018 Conference is to discuss a wide range of issues related to the role of language in contemporary social processes in Ukraine and other countries, to facilitate the exchange of relevant experience, the development of fresh ideas, and the production of clear recommendations in order to accomplish the tasks defined by the National Security Strategy of Ukraine (2015).

Questions for discussion:

1. Language and society: interdisciplinary analysis and research trends in sociolinguistics.

2. Interaction between language and national security. Theoretical and applied aspects of analysis.

3. International communication and hybrid threats.

4. Language and identity, language and ideology, language and culture.

5. Interaction between language and politics as language policy and language of politics. Political communication.

6. Language situation: status and functions of languages, media attitudes, and government action.

7. Linguistic landscape as a marker of society and government.

8. Language and education, church, business, health care, army, family, etc.

9. Interpersonal communication, communication between different social groups (in the data of sociological surveys, discourse of traditional mass media and social media, art discourse, etc.).

10. Language, public opinion, propaganda: the past and the present.

11. Language and migration policy.

12. Theory and practice of teaching sociolinguistics.

13. Security dimension of humanitarian education.

Abstract submission

Abstracts of no more than 300 words should be sent by October 15, 2018 in .doc format to our e-mail address: socioconference2018@gmail.com. Abstracts will be reviewed anonymously and notification of acceptance will be sent no later than October 17, 2018. Abstracts will be published prior to the conference.

The preliminary deadline for submission of completed papers is February 1, 2019. Texts are to be sent to our e-mail address: socioconference2018@gmail.com. The papers will be published: a) in the next issue of Language and Society 2019 (since 2015, the articles of the journal has been indexed in Index Copernicus); b) in Bulletin of Lviv University. International Relations Series, 2018-2019.

Conference languages: Ukrainian and English, and Polish.

Languages of abstracts and articles: Ukrainian and English.

Important dates

Abstracts should be sent by October 15, 2018

Notification of acceptance - October 17, 2018

Submission of completed papers - February 1, 2019.

Organizing Committee

Azhnuk B.M, Doctor of Philology, Professor, director of Oleksandr Potebnia Institute of the Ukrainian Language of the NAS of Ukraine

Vasylieva L.P., Doctor of Philology, Professor of the Department of Slavic Languages

Vynnychenko S.V., the secretary of Organizing Committee

Vovk R.V., Candidate of Physics and Mathematics, docent of the Department of International Relations and Diplomatic Service

Halas A.S., lecturer at Hryhoriy Kochur Department of Translation Studies and Contrastive Linguistics

Harasym Ya.I., Doctor of Philology, Professor, Vice-rector for Research and Teaching of Ivan Franko National University of Lviv

Hrytsenko P.U., Doctor of Philology, Professor, Director of the Institute of the Ukrainian Language of the NAS of Ukraine

Ktitorova A.S., Master’s student at the Department of General Linguistics

Kuchyk O.S., Candidate of History, docent of the Department of International Relations and Diplomatic Service

Malskyi M.Z. Doctor of Economics, Professor, dean of the Faculty of International Relations, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine

Matsyuk H.P., Doctor of Philology, Professor of the Department of General Linguistics

Mytnik I., Doctor hab., head of the Department of Ukrainian Studies of Warsaw University (Poland)

Pylypchyk S.M., Doctor of Philology, Professor, dean of the Faculty of Philology

Robak M., manager of the Department of Information Provision

Fuderer T., head of the Department of the Ukrainian Language of Zagreb University (Croatia)

Yavorska H.M, Doctor of Philology, Professor, National Institute of Strategic Research

Participation Form

International Conference - Lviv 2018

Sociolinguistic knowledge as an instrument of forming

new security culture: Ukraine and the world

(November 22-23, 2018)

(Participants are kindly asked to fill in the form and to send it with the title and abstract to the following address: sociolinguistics.lviv@gmail.com)

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