22.116, Confs: Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics, Sociolinguistics/Poland

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Date: 07-Jan-2011
From: Magdalena Murawska [plm at ifa.amu.edu.pl]
Subject: Narratives in Interaction
 

	
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From: Magdalena Murawska [plm at ifa.amu.edu.pl]
Subject: Narratives in Interaction

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Narratives in Interaction 

Date: 01-May-2011 - 03-May-2011 
Location: Poznan, Poland 
Contact: Agnieszka Kie?kiewicz-Janowiak 
Contact Email: kagniesz at ifa.amu.edu.pl 

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Pragmatics; Sociolinguistics 

Meeting Description: 

The workshop is meant to mark the 'narrative turn' in sociolinguistics. 

This new approach aims at exploring situated language use, 'employed           
by speakers/narrators to position a display of contextualized identities'  
(Bamberg and Georgakopoulou 2008: 379). Such a conceptualization of           
the narrative allows analysts to look into the processes of identities 'in-the- 
making' or 'coming-into-being' (Bamberg and Georgakopoulou 2008: 379).  
Accordingly, emphasis will be put on the contextualizing aspects of          
the narrative: in their narratives speakers construct their identities 
contextualised in the current topic, they also evaluate their experience and 
express attitudes towards others. The narrative is treated here as a practice 
within social interaction, in which participants take and negotiate their 
positions (cf. positioning theory). 

Therefore we would particularly like to invite papers in which narratives are 
talk, i.e. text-in-interaction (cf. Georgakopoulou 2007), observed (and 
recorded) as part of authentic exchanges in a speech community; they may 
be life stories, reminiscences, accounts of (intimate) personal experience, 
etc. These are often so-called 'small stories', i.e. fragmented, with multiple 
tellers, heavily embedded in their contexts (see Bamberg 2004; 
Georgakopoulou 2003, 2007; Ochs and Capps 2001). Nevertheless, the 
narratives under study may have also been collected in the interview setting 
(in clinical or everyday-like contexts). Ultimately, in the course of discussion, 
we hope to be able to compare narratives elicited in interviews with 
narratives which are talk-in-social-interaction.

Special attention will be given to the analytical tools of 'narrative analysis' 
(e.g. Conversation Analysis, ethnomethodology) which allow for the fine-
grained micro-analysis of the narrative as talk-in-social-interaction with the 
aim to capture the discursive process through which individuals make sense 
of themselves in the currently available contexts.





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