27.1833, Calls: Pragmatics/UK

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Subject: 27.1833, Calls: Pragmatics/UK

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Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2016 11:18:46
From: Cornelia Gerhardt [c.gerhardt at mx.uni-saarland.de]
Subject: Activities in Interaction

Full Title: Activities in Interaction 

Date: 16-Jul-2017 - 21-Jul-2017
Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom 
Contact Person: Cornelia Gerhardt
Meeting Email: c.gerhardt at mx.uni-saarland.de

Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics 

Call Deadline: 20-May-2016 

Meeting Description:

Abstract: 

“Activities in interaction”
Cornelia Gerhardt (Saarland University)/ Elisabeth Reber (University of
Würzburg)

This panel conceptualizes the notion “activity” as a perspective on the thick
descriptions that challenge researchers when analyzing video-recordings of
mundane and institutional interaction. Despite the relevance of activities to
the social organization of mundane and institutional interaction (Levinson
1992, 2003), Robinson (2013) notes a “relative lack of clarity and precision
regarding the conceptualization and definition of activity as a unit of
interaction” (Robinson 2013: 260). This panel intends to shed more light on
how activities may be conceptualized and defined, taking a specific interest
in the embodied organization of activities across linguistic and
socio-cultural communities.

It is commonly agreed that activities are sequences of actions produced and
shaped by an overall structural organization which participants orient towards
as a coherent whole. Activities may consist of a minimal sequence, i.e. a
single adjacency pair, e.g. a greeting (Sacks 1972, Schegloff 2007), or they
may come in ‘big packages’ (Sacks 1992 vol. II: 354), i.e. longer, more
extended sequences, such as troubles talk (. Participants can engage in
‘multi-activity’, i.e. in more than one activity at the same time, e.g. dinner
table conversation (Ch. Goodwin 1984) or telephone calls (Mondada 2008).

The panels brings together contributions that explore the embodied
accomplishment of activities in social interaction, at multiple levels and in
various settings, drawing on video recordings of naturalistic interaction from
these complementary perspectives: 

1) The use of specific vocal, verbal, visuo-spatial resources and/or object to
shape, orchestrate and constitute an emerging embodied activity, in being
functional e.g. in turn-taking and sequence organization; in displaying,
managing and negotiating the epistemic access, rights and authority as well as
speaker’s source of information; in displaying and making relevant stance. The
panel welcomes studies that examine the formal and functional range of such
resources.

2) The embodied coordination and organization of (multi-)activities by
participants: in accomplishing the beginning and/or end and/or the transition
from one activity to another ; in managing the internal organization of the
ongoing activity (e.g. Ch. Goodwin 1984, M. Goodwin 1980a,b, Heath 1982,
1984); in orienting to the (changing) participation framework or
supra-sequential structures as meaningful steps in the activity at hand
(Robinson 2013).

3) A theoretical-methodological discussion about which unit of analysis
provides the best grasp on the data, i.e. the bodily conduct or talk (or
both?) that provides for the progression and coordination of the activity; how
extra technological equipment, e.g. eyetrackers, can help us further our
understanding of the forms and functions of gaze across activities and
cultures; how we can grasp that both a minimal sequence of adjacency pairs
(e.g. assessments) as well as extended tellings where turn-taking is suspended
are conceptualized as activities theoretically and methodologically.
Contributions should be based on conversation analytic and/or interactional
linguistic methods of analysis.

Cornelia Gerhardt, Saarland University
Elisabeth Reber, University of Wurzburg

Invitation for Panel Contributions:

We would like to invite notes of interest to participate in a panel on
“Activities in Interaction” at the 15th International Pragmatics Conference,
Belfast, Ireland, 16-21 July 2017. 

Please send your notes of interest including a title by 20 May 2016 to
c.gerhardt at mx.uni-saarland.de.

Should the panel be accepted, abstracts (250-500 word, excl. references and
data) will be due with the panel organizers 05 September 2016. 
Please note that you will have to become a member of the International
Pragmatics Association to submit officially to the conference. Deadline for
the submission of the abstracts with IPrA is 15 October 2016. For more
information about procedures, see
http://ipra.ua.ac.be/main.aspx?c=.CONFERENCE15&n=1516

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