LANGUAGE, LITERATURE, PROCESS 2023 - BOOK OF ABSTRACTS

Abstract

Since early 2020, we have been witnesses, actors and victims of rapid changes on a global scale. The consequences of the socio-economic and political crises seemingly driven by the global pandemic have been becoming more visible. The very act of venturing into ontological explorations of various aspects of contemporaneity might be deja vu, overdramatized and reminiscent of the early twentieth century. The processes underlying socio-political and economic changes have been the subject of research in social sciences and humanities throughout centuries, and they are particularly perceptible in language and literature. Their various aspects are inherent to both language and literature. In language, these changes are traced in the field of synchrony and diachrony at almost all grammatical levels, from the phonetic to the phonological, the morphological through morphosyntactic and syntactic, and they are visible in the discourse. If processual exploration is not long overdue in the post-pandemic times, riddled with war, socio-economic crises and overall uncertainty, we invite you as academics to participate in panels and discussions designed to provide an overall (processual) framework that describes these processes of contemporaneity - in language, literature and society overall.