29.3137, Calls: Anthro Ling, Disc Analysis, Pragmatics, Socioling/China

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Subject: 29.3137, Calls: Anthro Ling, Disc Analysis, Pragmatics, Socioling/China

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Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2018 15:35:47
From: Lydia Catedral [lcatedra at cityu.edu.hk]
Subject: Mobility, Marginality and Meaning: A Chronotopic Approach

 
Full Title: Mobility, Marginality and Meaning: A Chronotopic Approach 

Date: 09-Jun-2019 - 14-Jun-2019
Location: Hong Kong, China 
Contact Person: Lydia Catedral
Meeting Email: lcatedra at cityu.edu.hk

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

Call Deadline: 15-Oct-2018 

Meeting Description:

Pragmatics has been traditionally understood as the study of language in
context, i.e. how contextual information guides the production and
interpretation of meaning. Context in turn, has been understood in various
ways, leading to different theorizations of language use and meaning (c.f.
Austin 1962; Searle 1969; Gumperz 1982; Silverstein 1992). While a number of
scholars have moved beyond the stable and static aspects of context (see Auer
& Di Luzio 1992), their insights are now being further interrogated as a
result of empirical data coming from those impacted by globalization, mobility
and migration. In accounting for the dynamicity apparent in these empirical
sites, the notion of chronotope — or, more specifically, abstractable images
of compressed time and space (Bakhtin 1981; Agha 2007) — has been found to be
a particularly useful way of theorizing context (Blommaert 2017; Park 2017;
Koven 2013). Understanding context as chronotopic captures the complex and
multi-layered nature of pragmatic and metapragmatic practices, because it
highlights the interaction of the multiple time-space configurations that are
relevant to speakers and hearers. 

Specifically, the notion of chronotope accounts for the language use of those
who are marginalized as a result of their mobility, by focusing on not only
how their immediate time-space impacts interactions, but also how the
invocation and synchronization of other times and spaces from their past
creates alternative points of orientation in their participation frameworks.
By allowing us to account for the multiplicity of time-space frames that are
at play, chronotopic analysis can also decenter the analyst’s unitary
understanding of context, and move us towards a framework in which the impact
of multiple contexts, some of which have been previously considered peripheral
and external, can be traced in meaning-making processes. Additionally, this
approach reinforces a view of context that is primary – and not secondary --
to language, thus highlighting the potential of the study of pragmatics to
decentralize language itself in order to more provide a more accurate
understanding of social interactions.
 
This panel will highlight how chronotopes can be used to (1) construct an
understanding of the socio-pragmatic behaviors of marginalized mobile
populations, and (2) refine pragmatic understandings of context, interaction
and meaning. Thus, contributions to this panel should engage with the notion
of chronotope in the study of socio-pragmatic meaning, and may draw on a
variety of empirical data from interactions or linguistic displays in online
and offline spaces. We specifically invite papers that interrogate the
different socio-linguistic aspects of marginalization brought about by the
mobility of people, resources and discourses. Contributions should address the
notion of power, the movement between differently scaled  centers and
peripheries, and the ways in which these relations inform context, language
use and meaning-making.


Call for Papers:
 
The submission deadline is October 15, 2018. Please submit abstracts directly
via the conference website https://ipra2019.exordo.com/login. Make sure that
you select the “Panel contribution” track in Step 1 and attach your abstract
to this panel by choosing it as your “Topic” in Step 4. Please consult the
call for papers for additional information about submission guidelines
https://pragmatics.international/general/custom.asp?page=CfP. If you have
questions, feel free to contact the organizers, Lydia Catedral
(lcatedra at cityu.edu.hk) or Farzad Karimzad (fkarimzad at salisbury.edu).




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