[Linganth] Call for Papers - Reframing intentional action: a linguistic-anthropological approach - EASA 2024

[Doughan,Y]

Dear all,

I hope you are all doing well. We would like to share the call for the papers for our upcoming panel at the EASA 2024 conference in Barcelona (23-26th July). The panel, entitled "Reframing intentional action: a linguistic anthropological approach" is sponsored by the EASA Linguistic Anthropology Network. The panel abstract is included below.

To express interest in participating, please send an abstract of no more than 250 words to the panel organizers, Anna Weichselbraun (anna.weichselbraun at univie.ac.at<mailto:anna.weichselbraun at univie.ac.at>), Chelsie Andre (c.j.andre at fgga.leidenuniv.nl<mailto:c.j.andre at fgga.leidenuniv.nl>), and Yazan Doughan (y.doughan at lse.ac.uk<mailto:y.doughan at lse.ac.uk>) by 20 January 2024. The conference submission closes on the 22nd. Also, please share this call with researchers in the department/Institution who might be interested in engaging with the panel.

Best wishes,

Yazan



Reframing intentional action: a linguistic-anthropological approach

Long discredited as a product of Enlightenment thought and Western language ideologies (e.g. Rosaldo 1982; commenting on Searle 1969), 'intentions' are back at the centre of linguistic, and broader, anthropological debates. Recently, some anthropologists have taken interest in claims of "mental opacity" which are said to exist in South Pacific and other cultures (Robbins 2004; Throop 2010; Stasch 2009; Duranti 2014; 1988). Others, by contrast, have insisted that inferences about other people's minds are central to all human action and inter-action (Keane 2016; drawing on Grice 1991). The papers of this panel share an interest in questions of intentions and intentional action but seek to reframe the discussion away from notions of mind and mental states (which is a necessarily speculative endeavour) to how actions are described and variably indexed, and thus how intentions are encoded in language structure and use. Taking our cue from Elizabeth Anscombe's seminal work on intentions (Anscombe [1957] 2000), and its uptake in anthropology (Enfield and Sidnell 2017), as well as earlier anthropological studies of the encoding of action in language (Goldman 1993), the participants in this panel ask: How might an understanding of intentions as socially and linguistically produced allow a reformulation of anthropological literature on (mis)trust? How do moral expectations and demands inform justifications for actions and the framing of intentions? What implications do frames of social accountability have on agents' own self-understanding and, hence, rationality? How do semiotic ideologies of human actions and intentions inform folk theorizations of non-human agents?
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