21.3980, Calls: Anthro Ling, Disc Analysis, Socioling/United Kingdom

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Date: 06-Oct-2010
From: Elwys De Stefani < destefani at rom.unibe.ch >
Subject: Names in Interaction

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Date: Sat, 09 Oct 2010 10:17:50
From: Elwys De Stefani [destefani at rom.unibe.ch]
Subject: Names in Interaction

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Full Title: Names in Interaction 

Date: 03-Jul-2011 - 08-Jul-2011
Location: Manchester, United Kingdom 
Contact Person: Elwys De Stefani
Meeting Email: destefani at rom.unibe.ch

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; 
Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 20-Oct-2010 

Meeting Description:

Proper names constitute a well established object of research at least in two 
branches of linguistic investigation, namely in onomastics (adopting 
predominantly a historical perspective) and in language philosophy, 
debating on the 'properhood' (Coates 2006) of names. While these two 
fields of study have developed a considerable amount of literature, scholars 
have granted surprisingly little attention to the ways speakers actually use 
names in their everyday conversation. With few exceptions, the pragmatic 
approach to the analysis of names is indebted to the language philosophical 
(and essentially theoretical) tradition. In contrast, onomastic approaches 
interested in name usage usually turn to interview data (for instance within 
socio-onomastics; see Pablé 2009). Yet work focussing on names as they 
are used in naturally occurring interaction is scarce. Conversation Analysis 
(CA) has developed an early interest in names, considering chiefly their 
referential dimension: on the one hand, Schegloff 1972 has analysed place 
names as a particular kind of place descriptions, pointing out the reflexive 
interrelationship between place terms, the localisation of the speakers, the 
current topic of the conversation and the speakers' membership 
categorisation. On the other hand, the research on person reference has 
produced a considerable amount of CA literature (Sacks & Schegloff 1979, 
Downing 1996, Schegloff 1996, Enfield & Stivers 2007), showing that 
person name usage is a recipient designed action and analysing referential 
practices established through pronouns as opposed to person name 
reference. The aim of this panel is to go beyond the strictly referential view 
on names. A first set of questions will be concerned with the interactional 
tasks that participants carry out by using names and with recurrent 
interactional phenomena involving names - such as name repair, name 
repetition, assessment (see Goodwin 2003) etc. A second set of questions 
relates to the  methods that participants employ when treating a language 
unit as being a (proper) name. How is properhood interactionally displayed 
and taken into account by the participants? How is the category proper 
name made relevant (see Hopper 1990)? 

References
Coates, R. 2006: Properhood. Language, 82, 356-382.
Downing, P. 1996: Proper names as a referential option in English 
conversation. In: B. A. Fox (ed.), Studies in anaphora. 
Amsterdam/Philadelphia, Benjamins: 95-143.
Enfield, N. J. & Stivers, T. 2007 (eds.): Person reference in interaction. 
Linguistic, cultural, and social perspectives. Cambridge, Cambridge 
University Press.
Goodwin, C. 2003: Recognizing Assessable Names. In: P. J. Glenn et al. 
(eds.), Studies in Language and Social Interaction. Mahwah, Erlbaum: 151-
161.
Hopper, P. 1990: The emergence of the category 'proper name' in 
discourse. In: G. D. Hayley & T. J. Taylor (eds.), Redefining linguistics. New 
York, Routledge: 149-162.
Pablé, A. 2009: The ?dialect myth' and socio-onomastics. The names of the 
castles of Bellinzona in an integrational perspective. Language and 
Communication, 29/2, 152-165.
Sacks, H. & Schegloff, E. A. (1979): Two Preferences in the Organization of 
Reference to Persons in Conversation and Their Interaction. In: G. Psathas 
(Hg.): Everyday Language.Studies in Ethnomethodology. New York, 
Irvington Publishers: 15-21.
Schegloff, E. A. 1972: Notes on a Conversational Practice. Formulating 
Place. In: D. Sudnow (ed.), Studies in Social Interaction. New York, The 
Free Press: 75-119.
Schegloff, E. A. 1996: Some Practices for Referring to Persons in Talk-in-
Interaction: A Partial Sketch of a Systematics. In B. A. Fox (ed.), Studies in 
Anaphora. Amsterdam/Philadelphia, Benjamins: 437-485. 

Call For Papers

Abstracts focusing on the use of (proper) names in interaction and 
analysing empirical data are welcome. They should not exceed 400 words 
and have to be sent to the panel conveners by October 20, 2010.

Elwys De Stefani (destefani at rom.unibe.ch)
Anna Claudia Ticca (ticca at rom.unibe.ch)

The conveners will send out a notification of acceptance/refusal by October 
27. The participants will then have to officially submit their abstracts to the 
organisers of the IPrA conference (by October 29).

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