27.2850, Calls: Pragmatics/UK

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Subject: 27.2850, Calls: Pragmatics/UK

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Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2016 13:00:38
From: Daria Dayter [daria.dayter at unibas.ch]
Subject: Self-Presentation and Self-Praise

 
Full Title: Self-Presentation and Self-Praise 

Date: 16-Jul-2017 - 17-Jul-2017
Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom 
Contact Person: Daria Dayter
Meeting Email: daria.dayter at unibas.ch
Web Site: http://ipra.ua.ac.be/main.aspx?c=.CONFERENCE15&n=1516 

Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics 

Call Deadline: 15-Oct-2016 

Meeting Description:

Self-praise (or boasting, bragging, self-elevation, positive disclosure…) is a
speech act that aims to invoke a desired positive image of the speaker, and
can thus be seen as a face-enhancing act directed at the speaker and
non-supportive to the hearer (Dayter 2016). The assumption in literature has
been mostly that self-praise is interactionally risky in bona fide discourse.
However, there is very little research on self-praise from a linguistic
perspective and the few empirical studies that exist seem to contradict the
intuitions about the ‘social ban’ on self-praise (Underwood 2011, Wu 2011).
For example, in certain genres such as job applications or interviews positive
self-presentation is appropriate and expected (Holtgraves 1990, Jones et al.
1961).

This panel will involve a series of presenters whose work addresses linguistic
self-disclosure and positive self-presentation in the widest variety of
communicative contexts. The focus will be on evidence-based investigations
devoted to the linguistic practices, strategies and interactional functions of
self-presentation in autobiographical reporting on- and offline. With the
participation of the contributors to this panel, we intend to investigate the
ways in which people market themselves as a “personal brand” ( cf. Manning
2010, Page 2012, Gershon 2014) and present themselves as successful,
enthusiastic, enterprising without losing credibility. An inalienable part of
this research question is the influence of gender and cultural background on
strategies used to maintain the balance between professional competence and
personality, between credibility and persuasive strength in self-praising
contexts.



Call for Papers:

We would like to invite contributions which investigate self-enhancement in
everyday conversation along with the genres that are traditionally judged to
be more appropriate for bragging (social media profiles, professional
biographies on social networks such as LinkedIn, selfie captions, award
acceptance speeches). The aim of this panel is to open up the discussion of
these hitherto neglected communicative activity and to demonstrate that
self-praise is an integral and frequent element of interaction. Ideally, the
panel will reach beyond the politeness-theory based approaches to
self-enhancement and provide an update on the developments of self-praise
research from the vantage point of different theoretical models and
disciplines, including linguistics, discursive psychology, sociology, and
media studies. The attendants of the panel will hopefully contribute to paving
the way to the comprehensive description of self-praise, its place and role in
interaction and the possible social censure associated with it.

Please see http://ipra.ua.ac.be/main.aspx?c=.CONFERENCE15&n=1516




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