27.4426, Calls: Disc Analysis, Phonetics, Psycholing/Switzerland

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Subject: 27.4426, Calls: Disc Analysis, Phonetics, Psycholing/Switzerland

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Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2016 17:46:40
From: Agnes Kolmer [agnes.kolmer at uzh.ch]
Subject: Accommodation in Verbal and Nonverbal Behavior

Full Title: Accommodation in Verbal and Nonverbal Behavior 

Date: 10-Sep-2017 - 13-Sep-2017
Location: Zurich, Switzerland 
Contact Person: Agnes Kolmer
Meeting Email: ufsp.spur at gmail.com

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Phonetics; Psycholinguistics 

Call Deadline: 20-Nov-2016 

Meeting Description:

This workshop explores the manifestations and consequences of verbal and
non-verbal accommodation in conversational interaction. Accommodation can be
described as the interactants' tendency to become more (convergence) and
sometimes less similar (divergence) to each other in conversational
interaction (Giles & Johnson 1987). Accommodation has been documented at
different linguistic levels, and a number of non-verbal behaviors such as
co-speech gestures, body posture, and visual contact have been suggested to
facilitate rapport, mutual liking, and coordination of collaborative tasks
(Babel 2012, Lakin 2013).

Over the last decades, accommodation has been studied in a range of
disciplines including social psychology, sociolinguistics, conversation
analysis, and psycholinguistics using very different methodological and
theoretical approaches (Campbell-Kibler 2011, Weatherholtz, Campbell-Kibler &
Jaeger 2014). The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers
working on verbal or non-verbal accommodation. In particular, we are
interested in bridging the gap between qualitative and quantitative approaches
to accommodation research and discuss more general, overarching questions
regarding the manifestations and consequences of accommodation. 

Workshop Organizers:

Wolfgang Kesselheim (wolfgang.kesselheim at uzh.ch) (URPP Language and Space,
Zurich)
Agnes Kolmer (agnes.kolmer at uzh.ch) (URPP Language and Space, Zurich)
Hanna Ruch (hanna.ruch at uzh.ch) (URPP Language and Space, Zurich)

References:

Babel, M.. 2012. Evidence for phonetic and social selectivity in spontaneous
phonetic imitation. Journal of Phonetics 40, 177-189. 
Campbell-Kibler, K. 2011. The sociolinguistic variant as a carrier of social
meaning. Language Variation and Change 22. 423–441.
Giles, H., & Johnson, P. 1987. Ethnolinguistic identity theory: A social
psychological approach to language maintenance. International Journal of the
Sociology of Language, 68, 69-99. 
Lakin, J. 2013. Behavioural mimicry and interpersonal synchrony. Nonverbal
Communication, 539–575. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter.
Weatherholtz, K., Campbell-Kibler, K., & Jaeger, T. F. 2014. Socially-mediated
syntactic alignment. Language Variation and Change 26, 387-420.

Call for Papers:

We invite contributions that address one or several of the following topics:

- The interplay of verbal and non-verbal accommodation within and between
interactants
- The role of accommodation for the organization of interaction (i.e. social
positioning)
- Perception of and reactions to accommodative behaviour by interactants and
observers
- The susceptibility of different linguistic levels for accommodation (e.g.,
comparative studies between morphosyntactic and phonetic accommodation)
- The relationship between short-term (i.e., over minutes or hours) and
long-term accommodation (i.e., over months or years)
- The relationship between priming and accommodation 

This workshop aims at bringing together researchers investigating
accommodation processes at the phonetic, morphological, syntactic, semantic
and at the discourse level. By exploring the phenomenon of accommodation in
single interactional events we hope to shed light on some of the more general
mechanisms of language variation and change. 

This session is planned as a workshop at the 50th Annual Meeting of the
Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE), which will take place in Zurich, 10-13
September 2017. We invite submissions of preliminary abstracts of 300 words
(for 20 minutes presentations followed by 10 minutes for discussion) that
address any of the topics in the workshop description or related questions.
Please send your preliminary abstract in pdf format to the following address:

ufsp.spur at gmail.com

Please submit your abstract by 20 November 2016.

If the workshop proposal is accepted, all preliminary workshop participants
will be invited to submit the full version of their abstracts to the general
call for papers. Final abstracts of max. 500 words (excluding references)
should be submitted to the SLE organizing committee before 15 January 2017.

Important Dates:

20 November 2016: submission deadline for 300 word abstract to workshop
organizers (submission contact: Dr. Agnes Kolmer, agnes.kolmer at uzh.ch)
25 November 2016: notification of acceptance by the workshop organizers and
submission of the workshop proposal to SLE organizing committee
15 December 2016: notification of acceptance of workshop proposals from SLE
organizers to workshop organizers
15 January 2017: submission deadline for 500 word abstract, taking into
account any feedback from the reviewing procedure, for review by SLE
31 March 2017: notification of acceptance of individual workshop contributions
10 - 13 September 2017: SLE conference

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