31.2465, Calls: Chinese; Disc Analysis/Switzerland

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LINGUIST List: Vol-31-2465. Tue Aug 04 2020. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 31.2465, Calls: Chinese; Disc Analysis/Switzerland

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Date: Tue, 04 Aug 2020 15:23:30
From: Xinyang Xie [leo19871005 at sina.com]
Subject: Building responses in Chinese talk-in-interaction

Full Title: Building responses in Chinese talk-in-interaction 

Date: 27-Jun-2021 - 02-Jul-2021
Location: Winterthur, Switzerland 
Contact Person: Xinyang Xie
Meeting Email: xie.xinyang at mail.shufe.edu.cn

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis 

Subject Language(s): Chinese, Mandarin (cmn)

Language Family(ies): Sino-Tibetan 

Call Deadline: 25-Oct-2020 

Meeting Description:

Organizers: Xinyang Xie, Wei Zhang, Yaqiong Liu, Xianyin Li

Abstract: Responses are part and parcel in social interactions across cultures
and languages. Research in conversation analysis and interactional linguistics
has accumulated a wealth of studies which contributes to, and continues to
update, our understanding of responses in interaction (Lee 2013). Research
focus has extended from examining responses with reference to preference
organization (Pomerantz & Heritage 2013, Schegloff 2007) to the design of
responses in relation to different question types and in specific action
sequences. A wide range of issues have been explored, e.g., the interactional
properties embodied in phrasal and clausal responses to wh-questions (Fox &
Thompson 2010), the normative structure underlying type-conforming and
nonconforming responses to polar questions (Raymond 2003), respondents’
independent epistemic authority over, or resistance to, questions as displayed
in the formats of responses (Heritage & Sefi 1992, Stivers 2011, Stivers &
Hayashi 2010), and grammatical forms of responses in action sequences other
than the question-answer sequence (Thompson et al. 2015). Also much researched
are the functions of turn-initial responsive tokens (Heritage 1998, Schegloff
& Lerner 2009). Common to this line of inquiry is the departure from
‘traditional’ approaches which views grammar not as internal to language, but
as “sequence-specific” and “positionally sensitive” (Schegloff 1996) resources
out of which speakers build their actions in, and for, the interaction they
are engaged in. Such a view of the relationship between grammar and social
interaction has also yielded fruitful insights from studies of responses in
languages other than English. However, our understanding of responsive actions
in Chinese talk-in-interaction awaits more systematic investigation. Early
studies of Chinese grammar have made insightful observations about answers,
responses and their relations to questions (Lü 1942, Chao 1968, Hu 1987).
However, it is until more recently that studies of responses grounded in
naturally-occurring talk-in-interaction begin to emerge (e.g., Wu 2014, Wang
et al 2010, Li 2014, Xie 2016). There is still much to be understood about
grammar and social interaction in Chinese.

This panel aims to explore the ways speakers build responsive turns/actions in
Chinese talk-in-interaction. We welcome papers which look into how responses
are related to, and constrained by, initial actions in terms of action types
and grammatical formats, how they may transform the terms of initiating
actions, and how they may display stance and shape ongoing courses of actions;
also welcome are papers which examine responses in light of the complexities
of preference organizations, as well as responses in larger activities. It is
anticipated that through examining the design of responsive turns, e.g.,
turn-initial responsive tokens, lexical choices, grammatical formats, prosodic
patterns, and their possible interactional functions in specific sequential
contexts, practices for constructing responses in Chinese talk-in-interaction
can be uncovered and compared to those in other languages for
language-specific or more general properties of responsive actions in
interaction. In this regard, the panel also welcomes comparative studies of
responses in Chinese and other languages. Findings from the panel papers will
contribute to cross-language research on types of responses and their design
as part of the organization that underlies human social interaction.

Call for Papers: 

If you are interested in presenting a paper in this panel, please send your
abstract draft(min. 350 and max. 500 words) by 10 October 2020 to:
xie.xinyang at mail.shufe.edu.cn. We may give you some advice to revise your
abstract. All abstracts will have to be submitted individually through the
IPrA website (https://ipra2021.exordo.com/) by 25 October 2020 and make sure
to select “Building responses in Chinese talk-in-interaction” as the panel for
your submission.

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