27.3065, Confs: Pragmatics/Ireland

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Subject: 27.3065, Confs: Pragmatics/Ireland

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Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2016 11:35:34
From: Xiaoting Li [xml at ualberta.ca]
Subject: Multimodality and Diversity in Chinese Interaction

 
Multimodality and Diversity in Chinese Interaction 

Date: 16-Jul-2017 - 21-Jul-2017 
Location: Belfast, Ireland 
Contact: Xiaoting Li 
Contact Email: xml at ualberta.ca 
Meeting URL: http://ipra.ua.ac.be/main.aspx?c=.CONFERENCE15&n=1516 

Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics 

Meeting Description: 

Multimodality and Diversity in Chinese Interaction is a panel at the 15th
International Pragmatics Conference.

Panel organizers:

Xiaoting Li (University of Alberta)
Wei Zhang (City University of Hong Kong)

Fueled by the advent of the video technology in research, issues of
multimodality and embodied interaction have found recent attention in
linguistic research informed by conversation analysis and interactional
linguistics. Interaction-oriented approaches have enriched linguistics not
only with regard to data and methods, but also in view of concepts and
theoretical understandings. However, most of the research on multimodality in
interaction has been based on Indo-European languages. Research on
multimodality in Chinese interaction is still relatively scarce (see Li,
2014). Previous work on Chinese spoken discourse has mainly focused on
lexico-syntactic constructions and their function in Chinese conversation
(e.g., Zhang & Fang, 1998; Wu, 2004, 2005; Luke, 2000, 2005, 2012). Li (2013,
2014) explores the role of lexico-syntax, prosody, bodily movements and their
interaction in turn organization in Chinese face-to-face conversation, and
shows that resources of different modalities are relevant to the construction
of Chinese interaction. 

Further, Chinese is a language with great internal diversity. It is commonly
accepted that Chinese has seven mutually unintelligible varieties including
Mandarin, Cantonese, Min, Wu, Xiang, Gan, and Hakka. The linguistic structure
of each variety may provide affordances for different methods of constructing
interaction. Within the study of Chinese interaction, the research has been
predominantly on the standard variety, Mandarin. We know next to nothing about
how speakers of other Chinese dialects use multimodal resources to construct
social action in interaction. 

This panel brings together research from conversation analysis, interactional
linguistics, gesture studies, and multimodal analysis to explore the function
of multimodal resources in forming situated activities in interaction
conducted in Mandarin and other Chinese dialects. Papers in the panel aim to
analyze how interactants use linguistic resources (lexico-syntax, prosody,
etc.) situated in a larger semiotic context in interdependence with visual
signals, such as e.g. gaze, gestures, and body posture in constructing talk
and action in the diverse Chinese (dialects) interaction. 

Specifically, this panel intends to discuss the following questions:

- What are the multimodal resources that are related to the construction of
interaction in Mandarin and other Chinese dialects? 
- What is the role of each type of multimodal resource (lexico-syntax,
phonetics/prosody, gaze, gesture, posture, action, etc.) in interaction in
Mandarin and other Chinese dialects?
- How do the resources of different modalities interact (i.e., mutually
elaborate or play off each other) in constructing turns, actions, and
activities in Mandarin and other Chinese dialects?

For further queries, please contact Xiaoting Li (xml at ualberta.ca) or Wei Zhang
(weizhang at cityu.edu.hk)

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






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