<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small">Hi everyone-</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small">The deadline for papers is looming for IPrA 2021, which as of writing is still on. I'm organizing the following, for which (AFAIK) there are still spaces. If interested feel free to submit as described in the IPrA CFP (<a href="https://pragmatics.international/page/CfP">https://pragmatics.international/page/CfP</a>), although I would appreciate a heads up, and feel free to write for more info (<a href="mailto:kiesling@pitt.edu">kiesling@pitt.edu</a>). Also feel free to forward widely.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small">Thanks!</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small">Scott Kiesling</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small">
<p style="margin-bottom:0.1in;line-height:115%;background:transparent"><b>The poetic function and social meaning in language</b><br></p><p style="margin-bottom:0.1in;line-height:115%;background:transparent">Discussions
of social meaning in language are most commonly pursued through the
indexicality of a single form, including the phonetics, intonation,
morphology, and lexis of an utterance. But relatively little work in
sociolinguistics to date has been focused on the linguistic poetic
function and social meaning. One example of such work is Lempert’s
(2008) article that shows that Tibetan monks use interspeaker poetic
patterns to create stances in competitive speech events. There are
also older works that appeal to poetic forms, such as the studies of
figures of speech in Tannen’s (1989) book <i>Talking Voices</i>,
the most well-known of which is the chapter that argues for the
importance of different forms of repetition in interaction. This
panel will host papers that show how Jakobson’s (1960) poetic
function is used to create social meanings in linguistic form in
interaction.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0.1in;line-height:115%;background:transparent">The poetic function is most famously articulated by Jakobson
(1960:358) as the function that “projects the principle of
equivalence from the axis of selection into the axis of combination.”
For practical analytic purposes, the important issue is that meaning
is not attached to a single token of a form that is taken to be of a
particular type (the axis of selection), but that the form is a
pattern across a stretch of speech, including across different
speakers (the axis of combination).
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0.1in;line-height:115%;background:transparent">The notion of social meaning is understood here to be pragmatics
broadly construed. That is, any sort of meaning that relies on
indexical understandings outside of the denotational combination of
parts of an utterance. These meanings include social identities like
gender, class, race, nationality, etc., but also forms such as stance
and affect, and especially the link between the two.
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0.1in;line-height:115%;background:transparent">Papers in this panel are invited to connect poetics and social
meaning in a wide range of ways and forms. For example, some of the
questions papers could address with data include:
</p>
<ul>
<li><p style="margin-bottom:0.1in;line-height:115%;background:transparent">What is the relationship between indexicality and poetics?</p>
</li><li><p style="margin-bottom:0.1in;line-height:115%;background:transparent">What is the relationship between poetics and iconicity?</p>
</li><li><p style="margin-bottom:0.1in;line-height:115%;background:transparent">How are stances created through poetics?</p>
</li><li><p style="margin-bottom:0.1in;line-height:115%;background:transparent">Are certain kinds of poetic form enregistered to particular
forms and identities?</p>
</li></ul>
<ul>
<li><p style="margin-bottom:0.1in;line-height:115%;background:transparent">What is properly understood as poetics? For example, is scale
recursivity a kind of poetic form?</p>
</li><li><p style="margin-bottom:0.1in;line-height:115%;background:transparent">In more ‘poetic’ genres (poetry, rap, laments) how do
linguistic features such as deixis and variation work together in
ways that create meaning that is not possible without the relational
elements?</p>
</li><li><p style="margin-bottom:0.1in;line-height:115%;background:transparent">How does metrical structure create affect in language?</p>
</li></ul>
<p style="margin-bottom:0.1in;line-height:115%;background:transparent">I propose that the panel be organized as two 90-minute sections of
three papers each, with a 20-minute paper followed by an 8-minute
question period.
</p>
<p style="break-before:auto;break-after:avoid;margin-bottom:0.1in;line-height:115%;background:transparent"><u>References</u></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0.1in;line-height:115%;background:transparent">Jakobson, Roman. 1960. "Closing statements: Linguistics and
Poetics." In <i>Style in Language</i>, ed. By Thomas Sebeok,
350-377. New York: MIT.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0.1in;line-height:115%;background:transparent">Lempert, M. (2008). The Poetics of Stance: Text-metricality,
Epistemicity, Interaction. <i>Language in Society</i>, 37(04),
569–592.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0.1in;line-height:115%;background:transparent">Tannen, Deborah. 1989. <i>Talking Voices: Repetition, Dialogue,
and Imagery in Conversational Discourse</i>. New York and Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press.</p></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><span><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt">Scott F. Kiesling, PhD<br>Professor</span></font></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="font-size:10pt"><div style="font-size:small;display:inline">Department Chair (as of Sept.1)</div></span>
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