27.2754, Calls: Applied Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics/UK

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Subject: 27.2754, Calls: Applied Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics/UK

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Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2016 10:05:29
From: Eva-Maria Graf [eva-maria.graf at aau.at]
Subject: The Pragmatics of Change in Therapy and Related Formats

Full Title: The Pragmatics of Change in Therapy and Related Formats 

Date: 16-Jul-2017 - 21-Jul-2017
Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom 
Contact Person: Eva-Maria Graf
Meeting Email: eva-maria.graf at aau.at

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Pragmatics 

Call Deadline: 31-Jul-2016 

Meeting Description:

The Pragmatics of Change in Therapy and Related Formats 

Eva-Maria Graf, Claudio Scarvaglieri, Thomas Spranz-Fogasy

Numerous studies have identified recurrent discursive and interactional
practices in psychotherapy (Peräkylä et al. 2008; Pawelczyk 2011, Scarvaglieri
2013) and related formats like coaching (Graf 2015) or counseling (Muntigl
2004; Hutchby 2007). The primary focus was on reconstructing specific
“trajectories” of interaction (Vehviläinen 2003; Peräkylä 2004) and on
understanding potential difficulties that emerge in the investigated
interaction formats (Streeck 2004, MacMartin 2008).

More recently, research focus has turned towards relating interactional
processes of psychotherapy to their institutional purpose, i.e. clients’ need
for change (Pawelczyk & Graf forthc.). Since “change of some sort is the
motivation for all psychotherapies” (Peräkylä 2013: ch. 6), this shift has the
potential to draw attention to discursive aspects that are of vital importance
for process and outcome of psychotherapy (Voutilainen et al. 2011).
Concurrently, such findings contribute to discussions in clinical psychology
on factors that support change, on ways in which change manifests itself, and
on conceptual aspects of change (e.g. Streeck 2008; Lambert (ed.) 2013). Yet,
change is not only a motivating factor for psychotherapy, but also for related
discourse formats, especially coaching and physician-patient interaction.
Discourse-based process-research in these formats has however only started to
address issues of change (e.g. Graf & Pawelczyk 2014; Busch & Spranz-Fogasy
2015).

Investigating the pragmatics of change within and across various helping
formats addresses crucial interactional processes and allows for deeper
insights into differences and commonalities of helping professions (Graf et
al. 2014), particularly in the context of their raison d’ ȇtre, i.e. change.
To do so, the panel aims to address conceptual and empirical questions
particularly, but not exclusively, in the context of dimension of change,
object of change and interactional format of change:

- Regarding the various dimensions of change, change is understood as
transformed ways of talking (Voutilainen et al. 2011) from a purely language
based perspective, as differences in the way clients act and deal from an
action-theoretical perspective (Scarvaglieri 2013) and as differences in the
way clients think and react from a mental(istic) perspective.  
- Regarding the object of change, most work restricts change to the client.
Yet there are studies (Buchholz 2003) that locate it in the relationship
between client and the professional that undergoes change in successful
helping professional interaction. As such, the idea of change in therapist,
coach,  doctor etc., i.e. in the way these professionals deal with clients,
understand and react towards them, needs to be examined as well (cf. Crichton
2015). 
- Regarding the interactional formats that contribute to change (Ribeiro et
al. 2013), questions center on: Where in the interaction does change start
(Scarvaglieri 2015)? How can interactional formats that serve as starting
points for change be identified and characterized? Which actions and
interaction formats pursue processes of change and how are they co-constructed
by professional and client? And more generally: How is change manifested in
interaction? How can change be traced linguistically?

Call for Papers:

We invite papers that discuss how these (and possibly other) dimensions of
change can be documented and investigated from an interaction based standpoint
and with the help of authentic data from psychotherapy, counseling, coaching,
physician-patient interaction and related helping formats.  

If you are interested in participating in this panel, please contact
eva-maria.graf at aau.at or claudio.scarvaglieri at unine.ch or
spranz at ids-mannheim.de
by end of July.

Please note that you will have to become a member of the International
Pragmatics Association to submit officially to the conference. Deadline for
the submission of the abstracts with IPrA is 15 October 2016. For more
information about procedures, see IprA’s official website.

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