ONLINE COLLOQUIUM ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS Legal Communication on Covid-19 A Linguistic and Discursive Approach across Contexts and Media Wednesday 1 December 2021 Department of Studies in Language Mediation and Intercultural Communication University of Milan Members of the Milan Unit of the 4EU+ Alliance Minigrant Project “Transnational Legal Communication on COVID-19: From Legislative to Popular Discourse” in the Department of Studies in Language Mediation and Intercultural Communication are pleased to announce the one-day colloquium to be held online on 1 December 2021. The colloquium intends to explore the aspects of legal communication related to COVID-19 and its popularisation in the evolving stages of the pandemic and its aftermath. Among the consequences of the crisis caused by the pandemic is the rethinking of current global challenges ‒ public health, environmental sustainability, mobility, labour, education, just to name a few ‒ with a better orchestrated approach, both at the national and European level. Against this changing backdrop, political and institutional communication and the media have been playing a key role in (dis)informing citizens of health risks and good practices and promoting social debate to build new perspectives. Understandably, a major area of analysis for language scholars is legal discourse. In each individual EU country and transnationally, governments have been striving to respond to the emergency by promulgating safety regulations and enacting the legislation needed to activate new economic policies and boost the expected recovery of several sectors, deeply affected by the pandemic. This colloquium sets out to investigate the linguistic and discursive construction underlying the implementation of legal measures and their dissemination to face the COVID-19 crisis, with resulting changes. Besides the legal and medical domains, other possible areas of analysis include, but are not limited to, institutional discourse within EU institutions and media discourse, as both have contributed to the dissemination of legal regulations on a national and global scale. In particular, the colloquium aims to explore the perception of all these issues across multiple cultural contexts, which are to be investigated in their linguistic and discursive aspects and implications, as well as in the perspective of translation and interpreting. Synchronic, diachronic, contrastive, interlinguistic and intercultural approaches are equally welcome. Conference Language: English Dipartimento di Scienze della Mediazione Linguistica e di Studi Interculturali Piazza Indro Montanelli, 1 – 20099 Sesto San Giovanni (MI) – Italy Tel.+39 02.503.21629 – Fax +39 02.503.21640 e-mail: smelsi@unimi.it Keynote Speakers Giuliana Elena GARZONE, Professor of English Linguistics and Translation, IULM International University of Languages and Media, Milan. Joanna OSIEJEWICZ, Associate Professor of Law and Linguistics, Principal Investigator of the 4EU+ minigrant, University of Warsaw. Submission Guidelines The submission deadline is 20 October 2021. Proposals of no more than 250 words should be jointly directed to mariacristina.paganoni@unimi.it and valentina.crestani@unimi.it. For all submissions, please clearly indicate: – Abstract title, author names, and full institutional affiliation – Contact e-mail address and phone number for the responsible author Decisions about acceptance will be communicated by 31 October 2021. Oral presentations will be allocated 30 minutes (20 minutes for presentation + 10 minutes for discussion). Publication of selected papers in an international journal will follow. Scientific Committee Maria Cristina Paganoni (Chair), Bruno Arich-Gerz, Maria Vittoria Calvi, Paola Catenaccio, Giuliana Garzone, Joanna Osiejewicz, Giuseppe Sergio Organising Committee Lisa Consonni, Valentina Crestani, Maria Cristina Paganoni Dipartimento di Scienze della Mediazione Linguistica e di Studi Interculturali Piazza Indro Montanelli, 1 – 20099 Sesto San Giovanni (MI) – Italy Tel.+39 02.503.21629 – Fax +39 02.503.21640 e-mail: smelsi@unimi.it
