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Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2016 10:09:32
From: Jan Chovanec [chovanec at phil.muni.cz]
Subject: Laughing at the 'Other': Critical Pragmatic Insights

 
Full Title: Laughing at the 'Other': Critical Pragmatic Insights 

Date: 16-Jul-2017 - 21-Jul-2017
Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom 
Contact Person: Jan Chovanec
Meeting Email: chovanec at phil.muni.cz

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Pragmatics 

Call Deadline: 15-Oct-2016 

Meeting Description:

Laughing at the 'other': Critical pragmatic insights into the humorous
construction of opposing groups

Convenors
Jan Chovanec (Masaryk University, Brno)
Villy Tsakona (Democritus University of Thrace, Alexandroupoli)

Having enjoyed an increasing popularity among scholars over the past couple of
decades, the issue of humour has developed an extensive body of research in
linguistic pragmatics. This panel aims to develop that tradition by focusing
on humour explicitly involving the ‘other’. However, while the ‘us’ vs. ‘them’
dichotomy is a recurrent theme in humour pragmatics, the issue has a broader
significance: the analysis of humour involving the ‘other’ can reveal broader
social practices, i.e. the ideologies, stereotypes and social beliefs that
underlie the relationship between such mutually opposed groups. To this end,
the present panel calls for a multidisciplinary approach enriching pragmatics
with insights from critical discourse studies in order to explore how the
mutual contrast of ‘us’ vs. ‘them’ operates, what forms the relevant humorous
acts take, and what ends the targeting of ‘others’ ultimately serves.

Being central to much humour, the notion of the ‘other’ features in various
forms in some of the theories of humour. It plays a role, for instance, in the
superiority theory, as well as in incongruity-based humour theories, where the
mutually opposed semantic scripts often discursively construct differences
between mutually opposed groups. Most attention to the ‘other’ has probably
been paid in sociological accounts of jokes and short narratives since such
short texts systematically draw on stereotypical representations of diverse
ethnic and social groups, reminding us that such representations of the
outgroup are imagined rather than real. Within the burgeoning field of the
pragmatics of humour, the focus of the discipline has traditionally been on
communicative micro-situations, affiliative/disaffiliative functions of
humour, and politeness and face that typically involve individuals rather than
groups.


Call for Papers: 

For this panel, we invite papers that address the issue of the ‘other’ as a
target of humour, discussing the diverse discursive realizations, effects, and
functions of othering via humour. We are particularly interested in exploring
how personal/public texts (the micro-level) and discursive practices (the
meso-level) connect with the broader social practices (the macro-level); or
how humor mediates between the macro-level involving dominant values and
views, and the micro-level involving the discoursal strategies and texts
produced by individuals. This implies, for instance, tracing what stereotypes
are associated with the various out-groups and how they are discursively
handled by members of the in-group, particularly with view to delegitimising
the outgroup or pursuing some other overt and covert aims in local
communicative contexts. The papers in this panel will apply the relevant
methodologies of various sub-disciplines of pragmatics, complementing them
with a perspective informed by critical discourse studies. The data for
analysis will come from various domains including media discourse, political
communication, conversational interactions, and social media.

If interested in participating in this panel, please contact the convenors
(chovanec at phil.muni.cz and villytsa at otenet.gr) and send your abstract to them
preferably by 30 September 2016. The deadline for the submission of abstracts
with IPrA is 15 October 2016. For more information about submission
procedures, see http://ipra.ua.ac.be/main.aspx?c=.CONFERENCE15&n=1516




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