27.2934, Calls: Pragmatics/UK

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Subject: 27.2934, Calls: Pragmatics/UK

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Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2016 12:39:24
From: Lucien Brown [lucien at uoregon.edu]
Subject: Multimodal (Im)politeness

 
Full Title: Multimodal (Im)politeness 

Date: 16-Jul-2017 - 21-Jul-2017
Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom 
Contact Person: Lucien Brown
Meeting Email: lucien at uoregon.edu

Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics 

Call Deadline: 15-Oct-2016 

Meeting Description:

The negotiation of (im)politeness that accompanies communicative events is
mediated through various modalities, including not only verbal language, but
nonverbal aspects such as the sound of the speaker’s voice, and the use of
polite bodily and facial gestures. Despite this, detailed analysis of prosody,
gesture, and other nonverbal modalities rarely featured in the (im)politeness
literature, which was instead dominated by the analysis of verbal
(im)politeness. Indeed, Culpeper (2011) observed that “remarkably, the bulk of
research on politeness or impoliteness pays woefully little attention to the
role of prosody'' (p. 146), and also notes that “non-verbal cues … [receive]
relatively little attention in communication and pragmatic studies.”

However, recent years have seen the emergence of a vibrant interest in
multimodal components of politeness (see Brown and Prieto, forthcoming).
Research has shown that various acoustic and prosodic features correlate with
politeness and impoliteness-related meanings including, pitch (e.g., Winter
and Grawunder 2012 for Korean), speech rate (e.g. Lin et al. 2006 for
Taiwanese), breathiness (e.g., Ito 2004 for Japanese), and pitch contour
(e.g., Orozco 2008 for Mexican Spanish). Nonverbal speech sounds such as oral
and nasal fillers (e.g., Winter and Grawunder 2012 for Korean), hisses (e.g.,
Fredsted 2005 for Danish), “kiss teeth” (Figueroa 2005 for Caribbean Creoles),
and sounds denoting gustatory pleasure (Wiggins 2013) are also tied up with
(im)politeness, as is the use or avoidance of manual gestures (e.g., Ola 2009
for Yoruba), head nods (Kita and Ide 2007 for Japanese) and other nonverbal
behaviors. Gestures interact closely with acoustic and prosodic features to
modulate the politeness levels of utterances (Nadeu and Prieto 2011) and to
distinguish between mock impoliteness and genuine impoliteness (McKinnon and
Prieto 2014), and are also crucial in the development of politeness
sensitivity in children (Hübscher, Wagner and Prieto 2016). In sign language,
interlocutors use mouth gestures, movements of the head and other non-manual
features to communicate politeness (George 2011; Mapson 2014). Finally, in
Computer Mediated Communication (CMC), interactants make use of cues such as
emoticons, nonstandard/multiple punctuation and lexical surrogates to mitigate
potential face threat (e.g., Vandergriff 2013; Haugh et al 2015).

The goal of this panel is to bring together politeness researchers whose work
focusses on nonverbal elements of communication, or whose work features in
depth analysis of these features. Nonverbal elements may include (but are not
limited to) the following: 

(1) Acoustics and prosody
(2) Non-verbal speech sounds
(3) Gestures, nonverbal behavior, body language
(4) Non-manual features of sign language
(5) CMC (Computer Mediated Communication) cues

The panel will discuss the relevance of these nonverbal elements in the
production and perception of (im)politeness across languages and cultures, and
investigate the way that these different nonverbal aspects interact with
verbal aspects, and with each other. We will also discuss methodological
issues related to the study of multimodal impoliteness, as experienced by
different researchers and different research labs.


Call for Papers:

We are organizing a panel on “Multimodal (im)politeness” at the IPrA
(International Pragmatics) conference in Belfast, July 16-21 2017. The panel
has been accepted by the conference organizers, and we are now soliciting
contributions to the panel.

We welcome papers that feature analysis of nonverbal elements of politeness,
including acoustics and prosody, non-verbal speech sounds, gestures, nonverbal
behavior, body language, non-manual features of sign language and CMC
(Computer Mediated Communication) cues. The full panel description can be
found below this message.

Abstracts should be submitted through the IPrA website
(http://ipra.ua.ac.be/main.aspx?c=.CONFERENCE15&n=1510) by the October 15 2016
deadline. Please make sure to select “Multimodal (im)politeness” as the panel
for your submission. 

Please feel free to get in touch with us at the email addresses below if you
have any questions. We look forward to your submissions.

Lucien Brown (University of Oregon) lucien at uoregon.edu 
Pilar Prieto (ICREA-Universitat Pompeu Fabra) pilar.prieto at upf.edu




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