29.2727, Calls: Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics/China

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LINGUIST List: Vol-29-2727. Sat Jun 30 2018. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 29.2727, Calls: Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics/China

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Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2018 11:58:40
From: Valeria Sinkeviciute [valeria.sinkeviciute at yahoo.com]
Subject: Aggression as (Im)politeness on Social Media

 
Full Title: Aggression as (Im)politeness on Social Media 

Date: 09-Jun-2019 - 14-Jun-2019
Location: Hong Kong, China 
Contact Person: Marta Dynel
Meeting Email: marta.dynel at yahoo.com

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Pragmatics 

Call Deadline: 15-Oct-2018 

Meeting Description:

Aggression as (im)politeness on social media

(panel organised by Marta Dynel (University of Lodz, Poland) and Valeria
Sinkeviciute (The University of Queensland, Australia))

Social media platforms (e.g. discussion forums or networking sites) offer
fertile ground for different types of interpersonal communication that
includes various relationship-building and relationship-maintaining practices,
as well as verbal aggression, and hence impoliteness (see Locher, Bolander and
Höhn 2015). Even though verbal practices and activity types that can be
observed on social media are parallel to those outside digital platforms,
internet users’ (partial) anonymity, coupled with the spatial and temporal
distance the Internet affords, can be said to instil a sense of impunity and
lack of inhibitions in users. In addition, social media interactants’
expectations and beliefs of what constitutes (in)appropriate behaviours might
be different to offline communication (e.g. Nishimura 2008, Graham and
Hardaker 2017). For instance, social media users can apply at least slightly
altered rules to online communication, as a result of which they would be less
likely to feel accountable for the effect they might produce on the target and
the third party (Lea, Spears and de Groot 2001). Along the same lines, the
frequency of aggressive communicative practices online may be explained by
localised rules of interactional behaviour, where easily achieved anonymity
and lack of face-to-face contact play a central role (see e.g. Bolander 2012).
Fundamentally, those ever more present aggressive behaviours in online
environments can occasion evaluations ranging from politeness to impoliteness.
All this suggests not only that digital platforms are examples of specific
communities of practice with their broad sets of discursive practices, but
also that the interactional processes in such contexts are as multi-faceted as
their offline counterparts are, additionally presenting a range of intrinsic
characteristics subject to pragmatic investigation. Overall, social media not
only are a rich source of natural publically available (im)politeness language
data but also give rise to new communicative practices and new research
questions.


Call for Papers:

The panel is meant to bring together researchers interested in the mechanics
and select manifestations of aggression seen through the lens of
(im)politeness. We invite papers, both theoretical and empirical, that address
the (im)politeness of aggression in diverse social media interactions. The
submissions may focus on the following aspects of aggression:

- Interpersonal functions
- Metapragmatics 
- Intercultural/local norms of acceptability
- Practices intrinsic to online contexts (e.g. cyberbullying, trolling or
flaming)
- Multimodality 

Abstracts of 25-minute presentations (250 - 500 words, not including
references and data) should be submitted via the conference website
(https://pragmatics.international/general/custom.asp?page=CfP) and sent via
email to Marta Dynel (marta.dynel at yahoo.com) and Valeria Sinkeviciute
(valeria.sinkeviciute at yahoo.com) by 15 October 2018.




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