29.3071, Calls: Anthropological Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics/China

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LINGUIST List: Vol-29-3071. Wed Aug 01 2018. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 29.3071, Calls: Anthropological Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics/China

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Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2018 14:12:06
From: Ilana Mushin [i.mushin at uq.edu.au]
Subject: Turn Design and 'Rights to Know' in Small Communities

 
Full Title: Turn Design and 'Rights to Know' in Small Communities 
Short Title: TD-RTK 

Date: 09-Jun-2019 - 14-Jun-2019
Location: Hong Kong, China 
Contact Person: Ilana Mushin
Meeting Email: i.mushin at uq.edu.au

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

Call Deadline: 15-Sep-2018 

Meeting Description:

Turn design and ‘rights to know’ in small communities 
Panel organisers: Joe Blythe, Ilana Mushin, Lesley Stirling, Rod Gardner

The aim of this panel is to bring together researchers working in communities
and on languages that are currently underrepresented in research on the
deployment of epistemic management strategies in ordinary conversation,
especially those communities which are small enough for all members to know
each other. The focus of the panel is on how turn design reflects the
management of ‘rights to know’ in ordinary conversation.  Our aim is to use
this panel to expand our understanding of which features of knowledge
management are common to humans in general, and which are developed for
specific social contingencies, and how linguistic design of conversational
turns reflects these contingencies. 


Call for Papers:

It is now well established that the linguistic design of conversational turns
projects the ways in which knowledge differentials between participants are
being managed (Kamio 1997, Heritage 2012a, DuBois 2007, Stivers et al 2011).
The features of language most commonly associated with knowledge management
include sentence types (declarative and interrogative) (e.g. Heritage 2012b),
modals and evidentials (e.g. Nuckolls & Michael 2014), egophoricity (e.g
Floyd, Norcliffe & San Roque 2017), and forms of referring expressions (e.g.
Clark 1996). 

While there has been significant linguistic description and typological study
of these language features, there has been considerably less focus on their
deployment in ordinary conversation and what this can tell us about normative
social practices around knowledge management. That is, while actual knowledge
plays a role in turn design, displaying one’s knowledge or lack of knowledge
is usually affected by the social relations between participants and their
relationship to what is being talked about. As Kamio (1997) points out,
typically people do not claim direct knowledge of other people’s internal
states (eg. I am sad vs. ?You are sad), instead relying on external evidence
to support a such a claim (You look sad). However claims about others’
internal states are possible if it is a parent talking to their young child,
or an expert (eg. a pyschiatrist) who is authorized to have knowledge of
others’ internal states. The design of turns thus typically reflects the
epistemic stance of participants, taking these factors into consideration,
rather than actual knowledge (what Heritage called ‘epistemic status’). 

Most of the recent empirical research on the intersection between social
relations and epistemic stance taking has examined data from major world
languages, typically with participants living in urban centres. To this
extent, research on epistemics reflects normative practices of the mainstreams
of higher socio-economic strata of large industrialised societies. The panel
organisers will present findings from their research on knowledge management
in Aboriginal Australian and remote non-Aboriginal communities. We will invite
other participants who are working on lesser-known languages and/or
communities whose social organization falls outside of the Western urban
industrialised context. 

Important dates:
September 15  2018: Abstracts to be submitted to Ilana Mushin
(i.mushin at uq.edu.au) for initial feedback.
September 30 2018: Feedback on abstracts to be sent back to applicants. 
October 15 2018: Final version of abstracts to be submitted via the IPrA2019
webpage:
https://pragmatics.international/page/CfP




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