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Language : New Productions and New Perspectives from Antiquity to the Present Day
Location: Université Jean Monnet, Saint Etienne.
International seminar coordinated by Blandine Demotz from Héritages research center.
Language, whether verbal, visual, or multimodal, has been the foundation of human interactions since Antiquity. In a context marked by rapidly transforming communication tools and the globalization of exchanges, new forms of language are emerging, redefining the ways we interpret, transmit, and manipulate meaning. Such modifications are deeply diachronic and deserve to be studied. This conference thus proposes to explore the linguistic, political, cultural and social stakes of these evolutions, especially as the last few decades have seen the emergence of unprecedented forms of expression, such as GIFs, emojis, and deepfakes. These multimedia tools, very much like comics or ancient and contemporary graffiti, push the traditional boundaries of language by combining text, image, and even movement, raising a variety of questions:
● How do these new forms of language redefine grammar and linguistic conventions?
● How do they impact social, diplomatic, and political practices, in which communication plays a crucial role?
● What new interpretative issues arise in transcultural contexts?
Linguistic evolutions have also caused the emergence of new branches of study. Pragmatics, for example, focuses on the contextual use of language and the weight of the implicit. Other disciplines, such as digital sociolinguistics, explore the impact of technologies on linguistic practices.
To attend the event
Language, whether verbal, visual, or multimodal, has been the foundation of human interactions since Antiquity. In a context marked by rapidly transforming communication tools and the globalization of exchanges, new forms of language are emerging, redefining the ways we interpret, transmit, and manipulate meaning. Such modifications are deeply diachronic and deserve to be studied. This conference thus proposes to explore the linguistic, political, cultural and social stakes of these evolutions, especially as the last few decades have seen the emergence of unprecedented forms of expression, such as GIFs, emojis, and deepfakes. These multimedia tools, very much like comics or ancient and contemporary graffiti, push the traditional boundaries of language by combining text, image, and even movement, raising a variety of questions:
● How do these new forms of language redefine grammar and linguistic conventions?
● How do they impact social, diplomatic, and political practices, in which communication plays a crucial role?
● What new interpretative issues arise in transcultural contexts?
Linguistic evolutions have also caused the emergence of new branches of study. Pragmatics, for example, focuses on the contextual use of language and the weight of the implicit. Other disciplines, such as digital sociolinguistics, explore the impact of technologies on linguistic practices.
To attend the event