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Subject: 27.2774, Calls: Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics/UK

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Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2016 08:56:02
From: Kristy Beers Fägersten [kristy.beers.fagersten at sh.se]
Subject: The New Normal: Impoliteness in Digital Communication

 
Full Title: The New Normal: Impoliteness in Digital Communication 

Date: 16-Jul-2017 - 21-Jul-2017
Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom 
Contact Person: Kristy Beers Fägersten
Meeting Email: kristy.beers.fagersten at sh.se

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Pragmatics 

Call Deadline: 31-Aug-2016 

Meeting Description:

Full title: The new normal: Aggression and impoliteness in new media and
digital communication

In his 1996 study, Culpeper argues that, “in some contexts - specifically that
of army training and literary drama - impoliteness behaviour is not a marginal
activity, and that we need an appropriate descriptive framework in order to
account for it.” This panel proposes to explore new media as a context in
which impoliteness behaviour is in fact not a marginal activity, but rather
seems ever increasingly to constitute a communicative standard, the “new
normal.” The panel’s point of departure is ‘net rage’, which at one time was
unusual enough to be identified as a phenomenon, but has now become
commonplace. The panel strives to explore new media as sites of aggression and
impoliteness behavior, further building upon the “online disinhibition effect”
(Suler 2004), including toxic and benign disinhibition, which is central to
online aggression research (e.g., Binns 2012, Herring et al. 2002, Jane 2004,
Demjen & Hardaker 2016, Hardaker & Lambert Graham 2016). 

The panel welcomes researchers working with new media data (such as social
media sites Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Reddit, 4chan, etc.), other forms of
digital communication, including Internet news media sites, and even
commentary produced as a by-product of social media and Internet news media.
The goal of the panel is to explore questions such as whether ‘new’ norms can
be identified and linked to online context, digital data type, and/or
communicative goal; to what extent aggression and impoliteness (hostility,
ridicule, sarcasm, etc.) constitute the new normal for digital communication;
and to what extent swearwords and insults are standard indexes of aggression
and impoliteness. The research included in the panel would ideally establish
the descriptive framework Culpeper has called for with regards to new media,
in an effort to determine whether linguistic evidence of aggression and
impoliteness behaviour can be understood to be effecting a recalibration of
what constitutes “normal” or standard language usage. 

References:

Binns, A. 2012. DON'T FEED THE TROLLS!, Journalism Practice, 6:4, 547-562.  
Culpeper, J. 1996. Towards an anatomy of impoliteness. Journal of Pragmatics,
25(3), 349-367.
Herring, S., Job-Sluder, K., Scheckler, R., & Barab, S. 2002. Searching for
safety online: Managing “trolling” in a feminist forum. The Information
Society: An International Journal, 18(5), 371-384.
Jane, E. 2004. Your a Ugly, Whorish, Slut. Feminist Media Studies, 531-546.
Suler, J. 2004. The online disinhibition effect. Cyber Psychology and
Behaviour, 7(3), 321-326.
Demjen, Z., & Hardaker, C., 2016. Metaphor, impoliteness, and offence in
online communication. In E. Semino & Z. Demjen (eds.), Handbook of metaphor
and language. London: Routledge.
Hardaker, C., & Lambert Graham, S. 2016. Impoliteness and computer-mediated
communication. In J. Culpeper, M. Haugh & D. Kádár (eds.), Handbook of
linguistic (im)politeness. London: Palgrave Macmillan.


Call for Papers:

Please contact kristy.beers.fagersten at sh.se for information about the panel or
to submit an abstract for review. Note that all abstracts must be submitted
officially to IPrA by 15 October 2016 via the conference website:
http://ipra.ua.ac.be/main.aspx?c=.CONFERENCE15&n=1516




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