Hi Ed, Many thanks for your ideas and topics which could contribute to the work of the SIG. At this stage the purpose of the SIG is still to be determined, which I’m hoping will be the main item of business at the inaugural meeting. Looking forward to seeing you there.
I’ll send out an agenda to the list a couple of days prior to the meeting.
Warmest regards,
ET
On 5 Nov 2021, at 12:34 pm, Edward McDonald <laomaa63@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Dear all
Some interesting links being made here.
Elizabeth talks about "the language of peace and compassion", which David sees as consonant with "positive discourse analysis", but what exactly is the relationship between the two?: how does understanding inform doing, and intellectual clarity feed into effective activism?
Elizabeth draws our attention to the Andrew Lamings of this world, as presumably an (alleged) representative of toxic masculinity, while David gives a roll call of the women who have suffered the worst and tragic effects of a world of toxic masculinity, but are now us showing us the way out of it
Do we need to "talk to" as well as "talk about" the toxic males, the Andrew Lamings, Christian Porters, Mark Lathams, Alan Joneses of this world whose power seems to stem from their masculinity, but whose exercise of that power (arguably) reveals them as deeply uncertain of it?
Do we need to "hold up" the women who have suffered as matres dolorosae, as models outside ourselves whose example we can emulate; or do we need to use the example of their lives to turn the spotlight back on ourselves, and see how we are implicated in the relations of power and violence in our society?
I suspect this Special Interest Group is going to have a lot to talk about!
best to all
Ed
On Fri, Nov 5, 2021 at 10:57 AM David Rose <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:This is great Elizabeth
We need more and more positive discourse analysis
How do Grace Tame, Rosie Batty, Greta Thunberg, Nyadol Nyuon ... touch our hearts and minds?
David
> On 5 Nov 2021, at 9:53 am, Elizabeth Thomson <ethomson15@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Dear All,
>
> At the ASFLA Annual General Meeting this year, I put the following motion to the meeting:
> to establish a Special Interest Group which seeks to research and understand the language of peace and compassion. It was seconded by Shooshi Dreyfus and Rosemary Huisman and accepted unanimously.
>
> My motivation for this is to foster and support SF linguistic research in this area to grow the body of knowledge in relation to the registers of peace, compassion and inclusion. Adversarial language is everywhere but what about language choices which socially connect and include? I’m reminded of the ‘empathy training’ for Andrew Lamming. https://theconversation.com/andrew-laming-why-empathy-training-is-unlikely-to-work-158050
> What did he learn in his online course, I wonder? And was his training based on any language evidence?
>
> I’d like to kick start the SIG by inviting interested researchers to join me at the inaugural meeting to agree on the role of the SIG, its mission and structure. The meeting is scheduled for Wednesday 1 December at 2.30pm via zoom. See the link below.
>
> Join Zoom Meeting https://us06web.zoom.us/j/88022388511?pwd=UEpxY0V6ZGQ3bkRncGVtTE9jT0FxQT09 Meeting ID: 880 2238 8511 Passcode: y9lGiiHh
>
> In the first instance, I will chair the meeting and send out an agenda shortly. If you wish to attend, please reply to this email. And if you have an agenda item, send it through. Please note that the zoom meeting is coming from my business zoom account, thus the name Coaching2Clarity.
>
> Looking forward to seeing you.
>
> Warm regards,
>
> Elizabeth
> 0413 324 325
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