Although methodological and epistemological cross-disciplinarity in the humanities and social sciences seems to be a sine qua non condition of any research, its application depends highly on the social, political and cultural climax of a particular time. Constructing and reinterpreting those liminal areas between research disciplines is a dynamic and always contextualized, cultural process which needs a new language of scientific discourse.
That is why one of the next issues of this year’s Beyond Philology calls for searching the meeting places between literary studies or linguistics and other scientific disciplines, such as philosophy, pedagogy, sociology, psychology, anthropology, history or those related to art, culture or communication. We are particularly, but not exclusively, interested in the new developments in studies on communicative consciousness, in redefinition of discursive identity and construction of new ‘languages of research’, especially with reference to post-anthropocentric cultural turn and post-structuralist methodological approaches. As a theoretical frame we propose, as one of possible options, Jurgen Habermas’s Theory of Communicative Action and the category of Communicative Rationality, as well as a Narrative Theory (McIntyre 1981, Fisher 1984). It is our hope that despite the geo-political situation and multidimensional crisis experienced these days in Europe, we may invite linguists, pedagogues, sociologists, psychologists, culturalists or anthropologists to share their new perspectives and new recognition of the aforementioned categories. We accept both theoretical articles and papers based on empirical research.
CfP – Interdisciplinary Issue of BEYOND PHILOLOGY - Communication and Identity in the Times of Crisis
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