[Linganth] Call for contributions to International Pragmatics Association Panel: Between Graphic and Grapheme (Belfast 7/17)

[Jennifer Dickinson]

I am organizing a panel for the International Pragmatics Association conference in Belfast, Ireland 16-21 July, 2017 and am seeking additional panel participants whose work focuses on the pragmatic relationship between writing and images.  The panel proposal has already been accepted, and I will be the one organizing and accepting submissions to fill the panel slots for "Between Graphic and Grapheme: Representation in Writing."  See panel abstract below.  If you are doing work on the pragmatics of emojis, memes, captioning, visually contrastive use of fonts or alphabets, or on language use in graphic media (e.g. comics) I would like to showcase it on our panel!


Deadline for submitting abstracts is October 15, 2016.

Note:  You must be a member of IPrA to submit an abstract


The IPrA conference is a wonderful venue for junior and senior scholars working in linguistic anthropology and sociolinguistics.  There is a particularly interesting range of panels to submit your proposals to this year.  Please consider following the link below to review the options.


To submit an abstract or find out more about the conference, go to:

 http://ipra.ua.ac.be/main.aspx?c=.CONFERENCE15&n=1516

Note that you must log in as an IPrA member before you can submit your abstract.


If you have any questions regarding the panel or would like to run your abstract by me before submitting, please email me at:  jennifer.dickinson at uvm.edu



Between Graphic and Grapheme: Representation in Writing (Organized by: Jennifer A. Dickinson)


Recent work in the study of writing systems has highlighted less formalized practices that fall outside negotiation of written standards. These include mixing writing systems (e.g. Androutsopoulos 2014; Dickinson 2015), codeswitching in writing (e.g. Sebba 2013), and the use of symbols or graphics in combination with graphemes (e.g. Miller 2004). This panel pushes study of the graphic/grapheme interface further, focusing specifically on the pragmatic effects of manipulating paragraphemic features of scripts (Smith and Schmidt 1996) as well as the use of non-linguistic graphics (pictures, symbols) as part of meaning creation in linguistic contexts. Papers on this panel will ask questions such as “How do readers interpret graphics incorporated as elements of written tests?” “What underlying ideologies of graphic representation of linguistic meaning structure graphic elements of writing?” and “How do specific uses and interpretations of writing using graphics and graphemes define or challenge community boundaries?” These questions focus inquiry on representation (of community membership, of linguistic meaning, of shared beliefs) as part of how writers and readers create meaning through these ‘hybrid’ texts. This panel invites participation from researchers exploring pragmatics at the overlap between graphemes and graphics, where the combination produces culturally situated linguistic meanings. Topics might include the pragmatics of emojis and other graphics in texting and social media communication; annotation of gif sets as recontextualization of paralinguistic cues; alternative graphic representations of language (for example sign writing); linguistic effects of mixing visually distinct writing systems; use of ellipsis and acronymization to limit who may access the meaning of a written artifact.


References

Androutsopoulos , Jannis (2014) Moments of sharing: Entextualization and linguistic repertoires in social networking. Journal of Pragmatics 73 (2014) 4—18

Dickinson, Jennifer. 2015. Plastic Letters: Alphabet Mixing and Ideologies of Print in Ukrainian Shop Signs. Pragmatics 25(4): 517-534.

Hoffmann-Dilloway, Erika. 2011. Writing the smile: Language ideologies in, and through, sign language scripts. Language & Communication 31(4): 345-355.

Sebba, Mark. 2013 Multilingualism in written discourse: An approach to the analysis of multilingual texts. International Journal of Bilingualism: 17(1): 97–118.

Smith, Janet S. and David Schmidt. 1996. Variability in Written Japanese: Towards a sociolinguistics of script choice.” Visible Language 30: 46-71



Jennifer Dickinson

Director, Center for Teaching and Learning

Provost's Faculty Fellow for Assessment

Associate Professor, Anthropology

University of Vermont
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