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<p class="MsoNormal">This is a call for submissions for the upcoming International Pragmatics Association conference (June 27-July 2) in Helsinki, Finland.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The structure of the conference involves initial approval of panel proposals followed by individual submissions to panels. Submissions are made directly to the conference website at Meeting URL:
<a href="https://pragmatics.international/page/IPC20Helsinki">https://pragmatics.international/page/IPC20Helsinki</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Deadline for submissions, which are made directly to the site above, is Oct 15, 2026.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This call for submissions is for an approved panel for the conference, for which my co-organizers and I are seeking additional papers which reflect on the use of the conceptual tools of semiotics in the ethnographic project, viewing the
ethnographic as an inherently reflexive process impacted at all points by theoretical lenses.
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<p class="MsoNormal">We welcome scholars at all career stages to join us in this conversation.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Below please find further information about the panel<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Yours,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Judy Pine<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Title: Talking About What and How: The Value of Ethnographic and Semiotic Engagement in Illuminating Our Praxis<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The ethnographic and the semiotic are indelibly linked in linguistic anthropology. Foundational voices in the engagement between linguistic anthropology and semiotics make abundantly clear that we must ground our analysis in actual events,
in what we describe as “the ethnographic” (Silverstein 1975, Silverstein and Urban 1996, Irvine and Gal 2000, Agha 2007). And yet, ethnographers encounter a tension when our analysis is of material from a culture other than our own.<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span>This
tension also requires that we turn a critical gaze onto our own praxis, also acknowledging its extractive colonial past. While an ethnographic praxis may allow us to evade what Davis (2017) describes as linguistic extraction, or “the process of discussing
languages and [...] movements removed from the personal lives, communicative practices, and embodied experiences in which they inherently are embedded,” we nevertheless find ourselves more often speaking for, rather than speaking with, our interlocutors.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hymes's Ethnography of Communication since the 1960s/'70s has given us a helpful tool for identifying the what of the ethnographic. Adding to that, as linguistic anthropologist Michael Agar (2006) argues, the ethnographic may be best defined
as a kind of logic, specifically an abductive logic informed by Peircean semiotics. The “thick” description (Geertz 1973) that informs ethnographic writing in anthropology seeks to explain phenomenon via abductive inference. The Peircean semiotic lens which
continues to be developed and refined in linguistic anthropology offers a complex mechanism for this abduction grounded in the observed speech events of the ethnographic how.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This panel explores the potential for semiotic conceptual frameworks and is inspired in part by the work of Bernard Perley, Maliseet linguistic anthropologist and artist, that invites both indigenous and non-indigenous audiences to engage
in the multifaceted, multivocal complexity of indigenous being in the colonially-dominated world through intertwined stories presented in both text and multimodal installations. In particular, we draw attention to Keane’s notions of semiotic ideologies and
representational economies (2002, 2007), and the recognition that we as scholars operate within such ideologies, as tools for re-framing the presentation of ethnographic data to remove the dominant (Western, subjugator, institutional, etc.) voice from the
center and place all participants in dialogue with one another.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Taking to heart Perley’s call for critical indigeneity, within which ethnography is intended as a “catalyst for action” as a form of engaged anthropology, and expanding this approach to consider a range of complex intersectional identities
encountered by linguistic anthropologists, this panel asks what we can see through our semiotic lens as we engage ethnographically with indigenous, immigrant, and diasporic communities. When we look from a different center what do we see? How might this perspective
inform practice for ourselves and our audiences?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We are seeking papers which reflect on the use of the conceptual tools of semiotics and language and semiotic ideologies – in the ethnographic project as an inherently reflexive process impacted at all points by theoretical lenses. We welcome
scholars at all career stages to join us in this conversation.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#242424;mso-ligatures:none">Judith M.S. Pine </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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