22.784, FYI: Call for AAA Panel Participants

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Date: 14-Feb-2011
From: Heidi Swank [heidi.swank at unlv.edu]
Subject: Call for AAA Panel Participants
 

	
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From: Heidi Swank [heidi.swank at unlv.edu]
Subject: Call for AAA Panel Participants

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This call for papers is for a panel that will be proposed for the American 
Anthropological Association (AAA) meeting to take place on November 
16-20, 2011, in Montreal, Canada.

Gossip, Confession, and Innuendo: Family Resemblances, Social 
Processes, and Interstitial Linguistic Practices

This panel explores how language use in 'the nooks and crannies of 
everyday life' (Besnier, 2009:11) can be used to build relationships, 
create collusion, and engender exclusion. We build upon Niko 
Besnier's work on gossip as a less than hidden linguistic practice, 
expanding its scope to a variety of understudied language activities, 
such as confession and innuendo, that are often thought of as related. 
However, it is not the hidden nature of these linguistic activities that 
creates their coherence. For, as has been pointed out by Besnier as 
well as Gal (1995) and others, gossip and other hidden transcripts 
(Scott, 1990) often do not remain neatly tucked away. Thus, the aim of 
this panel is to take seriously Wittgenstein's notion of 'family 
resemblances' whereby a collection of similar linguistic or social actions 
are linked not by a single fundamental shared property but through a 
chain or series of overlapping similarities. In order to explore and flesh 
out such resemblances, we delve into the ways in which language in 
these nooks and crannies is both similarly and differentially organized 
to create openings for participation in terms of connection, collusion, 
and/or exclusion. In doing so, we attend to the microscopic aspects of 
linguistic exchanges, while simultaneously placing these activities within 
the larger social processes through which each is mutually constituted. 
We suggest that it is in Besnier's emphasis on the nexus of these dual 
foci (i.e. the microscopic and macroscopic) that we can best examine 
the resemblances among gossip, confession, innuendo and the like. 
Thus, this panel seeks to further our understanding of such interstitial 
language activities not only by following Besnier's linking of the 
microscopic and macroscopic, but also through bringing together 
scholars of these language activities to better understand their 
distinctions and correspondences across the globe.

If you are interested in this call, please submit a 250 word abstract by 
March 1 to Angela Lewis at lewisa14 at unlv.nevada.edu. Decisions on 
abstracts will be made by March 5. 



Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                     Discourse Analysis
                     Sociolinguistics





 




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