27.2782, Calls: Pragmatics/UK

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Subject: 27.2782, Calls: Pragmatics/UK

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Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2016 11:50:41
From: Ryoko Sasamoto [ryoko.sasamoto at dcu.ie]
Subject: (Pragmatics) Beyond Verbal Communication

 
Full Title: (Pragmatics) Beyond Verbal Communication 

Date: 16-Jul-2017 - 21-Jul-2017
Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom 
Contact Person: Ryoko Sasamoto
Meeting Email: ryoko.sasamoto at dcu.ie
Web Site: http://http://ipra.ua.ac.be/main.aspx?c=.CONFERENCE15&n=1516 

Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics 

Call Deadline: 15-Oct-2016 

Meeting Description:

In recent years, a wide range of communicative phenomena cross-cutting the
verbal and non-verbal distinction has begun to attract the attention of
scholars in pragmatics. Some of these – emotional tone of voice,
interjections, onomatopoeia – have already been addressed within ‘traditional’
linguistics frameworks, and are considered to be located at the edge of
language with their roots in a form of sound symbolism. Others – hashtags,
emoji, typography – have only recently attracted attention as a result of an
increasing interest in the pragmatics of the interaction between verbal and
non-verbal modes in a variety of media and communicative genres, including
participatory online communication, fandom, and face-to-face communication. In
addition, more and more communication is taking place with anonymous,
non-singular hearers in mind.

As a cognitively-grounded theory of communication, relevance theory does not
limit its application to specific communicative phenomena or specific genres
of communication. Rather, it provides a framework in which the interaction
between verbal and non-verbal stimuli, and the different ways such stimuli are
put to use, might be explored. It accounts for how each ‘mode’ plays a role in
a particular context without relying on taxonomies and without treating them
as special cases. Indeed, the relevance-theoretic notion of the showing-saying
continuum has been applied in the analysis of tone of voice, interjections and
onomatopoeia. In addition, it has been shown that uses of other items which
would have been considered exceptions (for example online communication and
digital media devices such as hashtags), can also be explained in these terms.
 There are also many works that attempt to unpack the strategies humans employ
in online communication from the perspective of politeness or speech act
theory.

The fact that many of the notions within pragmatics have been developed with
verbal communication in mind means that we are yet to establish precisely what
the limits of pragmatic research are, and how existing frameworks can be
applied to the under-researched non-verbal communicative phenomena and/or
societal aspects of communication mentioned above. 

For this panel, we invite papers that discuss how insights and concepts from
relevance theory and other pragmatic approaches can be applied to the
interaction between verbal and non-verbal communicative stimuli, and to
emerging aspects of communication such as participatory communication,
communication with plural/imagined audience, and fandom/community. How do we
signal to a non-specified audience how to interpret an utterance? How can the
interaction between the verbal and the visual modes create extra effects for
an audience? How do fandom and community form online?

For further queries, please contact Ryoko Sasamoto (ryoko.sasamoto at dcu.ie) or
Kate Scott (kate.scott at kingston.ac.uk)

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

Panel organisers:
Ryoko Sasamoto, Dublin City University 
Kate Scott, Kingston University,
Tim Wharton, University of Brighton


Call for Papers: 

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




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