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<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);float:none;display:inline">Dear All,</span><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">We are looking for additional panelists for the 2018 AAA meetings in San Jose for a proposed session focusing on the metapragmatics of political talk in primarily non-US contexts.</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">AAA 2018 CFP</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Session Title: <b style="">Metapragmatics of Political Talk</b></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Organizers: Dana Osborne and Katherine Martineau</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Our working abstract is as follows:</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><div>In most of the contemporary world, political talk is a complicated and contradictory beast. While a high degree of entextualization enables wide circulation of political discourse across a variety of media, political success often depends upon signaling participation in speech communities that rely on linguistic resources to establish their distinctiveness. Thus caught between the imperatives of distinction and smooth circulation, political talk often becomes the focus of discourse that is a key source of attention and ideological work — here, talk about political talk serves as a window into what is considered to be “appropriate” and “good” versus what is “out of bounds,” “subversive,” “treacherous” or “backwards.” Explicit metapragmatic discourses about political talk, or performed meta-utterances that comment on that talk, themselves thus become a prime medium for establishing the frameworks for stances as they link up with dominant institutions, ideologies, and social groups, but also offer a space for redefining boundaries and making new claims to power. We seek papers that investigate how and why special forms of political talk themselves become the explicit focus of pointed ideological work -- current papers draw from contemporary political contexts in the Philippines, India, and Poland. Of special importance to this panel is an exploration of the ways that metapragmatic discourses have taken shape in relation to local as well as global orientations to “appropriate” and “inappropriate”  kinds of political imaginings and performances. Here, mass and social media provide pathways for political discourses to move outside of a given milieu, presenting new problems of representation alongside new interpretations and commentary. This session hopes to explore how talk about political talk is a fertile territory for understanding the details of authority and moral legitimacy, scalar relationships, questions of identity differentiation and affiliation, and political futures.</div><div><br></div><div>Please contact Dana Osborne or Katherine Martineau with proposals on or before March 30th -- we look forward to hearing from you.</div><div><br></div><div>Dana Osborne<span> </span><a href="mailto:dana.osborne@ryerson.ca" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">dana.osborne@ryerson.<wbr>ca</a></div><div>Katherine Martineau <a href="mailto:kbmartin@binghamton.edu" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">kbmartin@binghamton.<wbr>edu</a></div></div>

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