27.2970, Calls: Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics/UK

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Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2016 12:10:43
From: Valeria Sinkeviciute [valeria.sinkeviciute at yahoo.com]
Subject: From Self to Culture: Identity Construction in Humour

Full Title: From Self to Culture: Identity Construction in Humour 

Date: 16-Jul-2017 - 21-Jul-2017
Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom 
Contact Person: Valeria Sinkeviciute
Meeting Email: valeria.sinkeviciute at yahoo.com

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Pragmatics 

Call Deadline: 10-Sep-2016 

Meeting Description:

>From self to culture: Identity construction in humour-related discourses

(organised by Valeria Sinkeviciute, IPrA Research Center, University of
Antwerp, Belgium)

The question of identity has become one of the most frequently raised not only
in the areas of social psychology and variationalist sociolinguistics, but
also in conversation and discourse analyses and, consequently, in the field of
interpersonal pragmatics (Benwell & Stokoe 2012; Fitzgerald & Housley 2015;
Spencer-Oatey 2005; Mullany 2010). Even though some types of identity,
especially those related to gender or ethnic background, can be referred to as
more fixed, it is in different social contexts and in interaction that most
identities are constructed and negotiated (e.g. Mullany 2008; De Fina 2010;
Clift 2013). Taking into consideration that one of the main functions of
humour refers to interpersonal relationships, it is easy to conceive that
humorous interactions can contribute to the construction of identity in
various ways (e.g. Schnurr 2010). For instance, humour can help to establish
one’s membership in a group (Boxer & Cortés-Conde 1997; Fine & de Soucey 2005;
Haugh forthcoming) or maintain one’s individual or social identity at
workplace (Schnurr 2009; Schnurr and Holmes 2009; Holmes and Marra 2002). On
the other hand, humour is a powerful tool for social exclusion, when one can
be easily positioned (or position him/herself) as an outsider (Moody 2014).

Call for Papers:

The aim of this panel is to look at how identity is constructed in different
humour-related discourses, e.g. in conversations, story-telling or interviews,
and to observe to what extent the concept of self (whether individual,
collective or culture-related) and the other are portrayed and negotiated by
the interlocutors. Thus, pragmatically-oriented papers that analyse the
question of identity from different methodological perspectives in various
humour-related interactional practices as well as qualitative interviews are
welcome for submission. Those can be but are not limited to:   

- Humour and group membership
- Humour and social, cultural, ethnic, professional identity
- Humour, identity and gender
- Humour, identity and (im)politeness
- Humour and minority groups

If you are interested, please send your abstract to
valeria.sinkeviciute at yahoo.com by September 10. After the reviewing process
(by September 25), you will be notified whether your abstract has been
accepted. 

For the conference information, see the official website
http://ipra.ua.ac.be/main.aspx?c=.CONFERENCE15&n=1510

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to email me at
valeria.sinkeviciute at yahoo.com

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