27.3103, Calls: Pragmatics/UK

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Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2016 14:00:26
From: Nancy Bell [nbell at wsu.edu]
Subject: Trickery, Cheating, and Deceit in Language Play

 
Full Title: Trickery, Cheating, and Deceit in Language Play 

Date: 16-Jul-2017 - 21-Jul-2017
Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom 
Contact Person: Nancy Bell
Meeting Email: nbell at wsu.edu

Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics 

Call Deadline: 05-Sep-2016 

Meeting Description:

Conveners: 

Nancy Bell (Washington State University) 
Michael Haugh (The University of Queensland)

Lying and other forms of deception have been focus of a number of studies in
pragmatics (Dynel, 2011, forthcoming a, b; Saul, 2013; Parrett, 1994; Vincent
and Castelfranchi, 1981; Vincent Marrelli, 2004). Much of this work has
focused on the function of deception and pretence in communication, that is,
cases where the speaker expresses something he or she believes to be false in
ways that are designed to be readily obvious to the recipient (overt pretence)
or less so (covert pretence/deception) (Dynel, forthcoming a, b). However,
despite the potential to explore the intersection of overt and covert forms of
pretence with humour (Bell, 2015; Dynel, forthcoming a, b), there have only
been a limited number of studies exploring the role of various forms of
deception and pretence in playful discourse (e.g. Dynel, 2009; Haddington,
2011; Haugh, 2016). The aim of this panel is thus to bring together an
international group of scholars to explore the ways in which trickery,
cheating, and various other forms of deception and pretence arise and function
in and around playful discourse. At the most basic level, we aim to examine
the forms and functions of such practices: How are jocular forms of cheating
and trickery constructed in interaction? What interpersonal and instrumental
goals might they achieve? How do interlocutors respond to such practices? We
also recognize that what counts as play, as well as what counts as deception,
may vary cross-culturally or situationally, thus the panel will include
contributions that illuminate sociocultural norms around playful deceptive
practices. Similarly, we ask what linguistic resources are drawn on across a
variety of participants and contexts in order to construct and cue that these
practices are underway? How are these practices negotiated in multilingual
contexts? Furthermore, although we focus on deceptions that are playful, it is
well-recognized that non-serious language also works to achieve serious,
instrumental goals, and so the functions of ostensibly non-serious forms of
deceptive pretence will also be considered. 

As there as yet no established research group working in this area we
anticipate this panel will attract a diverse range of researchers in order to
represent a range of theoretical and methodological perspectives, including
(im)politeness theory, language socialization, interactional sociolinguistics,
and conversation analysis.


Call for Papers:

Submit abstract to nbell at wsu.edu by September 5, 2016




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