<html><head></head><body><div class="ydp7e602fe0yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><p class="ydp47b5bddcMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Times New Roman;color:black">Dear all,</span></p>
<p class="ydp47b5bddcMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">We invite papers for a panel for the Annual
Meeting of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), taking place in St.
Louis, MO in November 2020. If interested, please submit an abstract (max.
250-word) to Lilit Ghazaryan (</span><a href="mailto:ghazaryanl@ucla.edu" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Times New Roman">ghazaryanl@ucla.edu</span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">) by <b>March 25,
2020</b>.</span></p>
<p class="ydp47b5bddcMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Times New Roman;color:black"> </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Title: Highlighting Language:</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(29, 34, 40); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> The Interactional
Focusing of Code</span></p><p class="ydp47b5bddcMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Times New Roman,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Times New Roman"></span></p>
<p class="ydp47b5bddcMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Times New Roman,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Times New Roman"> </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Abstract:</span></p>
<p class="ydp47b5bddcMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Times New Roman,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Times New Roman">This panel investigates mechanisms
through which language becomes salient as a code in ongoing discourse. Research
on reflexivity in language has long been a cornerstone of linguistic
anthropology (Silverstein 1976; Babcock 1980; Bauman and Briggs 1990). The
capacity of discourse to simultaneously function as medium and object of communication
lies at the heart of metapragmatic phenomena such as reported speech,
translation, deictics, or poetics, and the like (Lucy 1993; Silverstein 1993).
These all make pragmatically salient, and therefore “highlight (Goodwin 1994),”
different aspects of discourse as their respective objects, in more or less
explicit ways. While reflexivity pervades language at all levels, one type of
metapragmatic discourse explicitly deals with the code itself (sensu Jakobson
1956). For example, “correcting” someone’s pronunciation or teaching the
phoneme of a different language, inevitably highlight the form a linguistic
signal takes. In this panel, we are interested in such phenomena, yet we ask
specifically: Can we draw attention to the code but without the use of overtly
metapragmatic expressions. In other words, how is the linguistic code
highlighted without explicitly talking about it?</span></p>
<p class="ydp47b5bddcMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Times New Roman,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Times New Roman"> </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12pt;">We invite papers exploring the
mechanisms that highlight language yet which do not rely on explicit
metapragmatic expressions. We are especially interested in strategies such as
repairs (Schegloff et al. 1977), recasts (Chouinard and Clark 2003),
repetitions (Rossi 2019), replacements (Sidnell and Barnes 2013), and recycling
of prior talk (Goodwin 2018), as well as prosody, other aspects of delivery,
and nonverbal means, which are likely to play crucial roles. Such strategies
for interactional highlighting may certainly occur in talk that also includes
overtly metapragmatic discourse. We do not want to disregard the latter, yet we
hope to focus on the particular work that is accomplished by the former. While
we hope to analyze specifically those practices where the attention is on
linguistic form, we recognize that often some aspects of the code is
highlighted in order to also achieve some other pragmatic effect—the code is,
in fact, rarely the only focus of attention in metalinguistic and metapragmatic
acts.</span></p>
<p class="ydp47b5bddcMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Times New Roman,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Times New Roman"> </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Organizers:</span></p>
<p class="ydp47b5bddcMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Times New Roman;color:black">Lilit Ghazaryan (UCLA)</span></p>
<p class="ydp47b5bddcMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Times New Roman;color:black">Jan David Hauck (LSE)</span></p>
<p class="ydp47b5bddcMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Times New Roman;color:black"> </span></p></div><br></div><div><br></div><div class="ydp7e602fe0signature"><div style="font-family:new times, serif;font-size:16px;"><span><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:new times, serif;font-size:16px;"><i>-----------------</i></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:new times, serif;font-size:16px;"><i><br></i></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:new times, serif;font-size:16px;"><i>Lilit Ghazaryan, PhD Student</i></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:new times, serif;font-size:16px;"><i>Linguistic Anthropology</i></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:new times, serif;font-size:16px;"><i>University of California, Los Angeles</i></div></span><div><br></div></div></div></div></body></html>