27.2750, Calls: Anthropological Linguistics, Pragmatics/UK

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Subject: 27.2750, Calls: Anthropological Linguistics, Pragmatics/UK

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Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2016 13:48:55
From: Ulrike Schröder [schroederulrike at gmx.com]
Subject: Intercultural Pragmatics and Cultural Linguistics

 
Full Title: Intercultural Pragmatics and Cultural Linguistics 

Date: 16-Jul-2017 - 21-Jul-2017
Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom 
Contact Person: Ulrike Schröder
Meeting Email: schroederulrike at gmx.com
Web Site: http://ipra.ua.ac.be/main.aspx?c=.CONFERENCE15&n=1516 

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Pragmatics 

Call Deadline: 15-Oct-2016 

Meeting Description:

Intercultural Pragmatics and Cultural Linguistics
(Ulrike Schröder & Hans-Georg Wolf & Farzad Sharifian)

Recently, critique has been leveled against the primary focus of many
pragmatic studies on functional aspects such as action patterns,
co-orientation and coordination in talk, while cognitive aspects concurrently
involved in the process of co-construction of meaning have been largely
excluded (Deppermann 2012). Especially when it comes to cross-linguistic,
cross-cultural, and intercultural matters, this tendency often goes along with
the avoidance of entering the problematic field of tabooed claims about
‘culture,’ since in poststructuralist approaches to intercultural
communication, group bearers and sharers of culture have fallen into disrepute
due to the suspicion of essentialism (Wolf 2015; Schröder 2015). 

Cultural Linguistics is a multidisciplinary field of research that explores
the entrenchment of language in culture-specific conceptualizations comprising
schemata, categories, prototypes and metaphors (Sharifian 2015: 474; Sharifian
2011). As opposed to the traditional view of Cognitive Linguistics, Cultural
Linguistics emphasizes the dynamic aspects of such concepts that emerge by
‘distributed cognition’ (Sharifian 2003) in the interaction of the
participants of a speech community. This view entails that conceptualizations
do not necessarily correspond to the L1 of a speaker but can also represent
the result of a particular cultural environment where new cultural
conceptualisations emerge as a synthesis of intercultural contacts. English as
a lingua franca is just one example of a research field where the emergence of
such concepts is actually being studied (Wolf & Polzenhagen 2006). In the
field of intercultural pragmatics, especially the work of Kecses (2013, 2015;
Kecskes & Horn 2007) has called upon the exploration of the sociocultural and
cognitive dimensions of intercultural communication, showing how semantics and
pragmatics are intertwined by way of language use and context. Finally, we can
observe interesting developments pointing to possible interfaces in the work
related to metaphor and gesture in real interaction (Cienki 2008; Müller 2008;
Müller, Cienki, Fricke et al. 2013), although there is still a need for
bringing those studies to the realm of culture. 

The aim of this panel is to bring together scholars who want to discuss the
dialogue between intercultural pragmatics and Cultural Linguistics from a
theoretical and empirical perspective. Hence, we welcome papers based on
epistemological, theoretical and methodological questions related to this
interconnection, as well as those which present results of cross-cultural, as
well as intercultural research.


Call for Papers:

For more information see the official conference website:
http://ipra.ua.ac.be/main.aspx?c=.CONFERENCE15&n=1516




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