31.2542, Calls: Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics/Switzerland

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Subject: 31.2542, Calls: Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics/Switzerland

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Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2020 11:47:02
From: Mirka Rauniomaa [mirka.rauniomaa at oulu.fi]
Subject: Practices of inclusion in workplace interaction

 
Full Title: Practices of inclusion in workplace interaction 

Date: 27-Jun-2021 - 02-Jul-2021
Location: Winterthur, Switzerland 
Contact Person: Mirka Rauniomaa
Meeting Email: mirka.rauniomaa at oulu.fi

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Pragmatics 

Call Deadline: 25-Oct-2020 

Meeting Description:

Organizers: Mirka Rauniomaa, Mari Holmström & Marika Helisten (University of
Oulu, Finland)

In line with the special theme of the conference, the panel sets out to
identify and examine everyday interactional practices that promote – or
possibly hinder – social and knowledge-based inclusion at the workplace.
Practices of inclusion are understood to be closely tied with opportunities
for participation in the activities of the work community as well as with
orientation by community members to collegiality and social solidarity.

The panel seeks to investigate how practices of inclusion manifest themselves
in the rich details of social interaction, especially as is evident through
language and bodily conduct. They are examined as part of the situated,
multimodal activities of work communities, including explicit as well as the
more subtle, implicit instances of inclusion. Practices of inclusion at the
workplace may be related to or take form as, for example, displays of
affiliation and rapport, sharing of personal and work-related narratives,
addressing shared knowledge about participants’ private lives,
(re)distributing, negotiating and constructing work-related knowledge, and
raising delicate or challenging issues for joint discussion.

Further, the panel seeks to explore whether, and to what extent, practices of
inclusion are space- and time-bound, and how they might transform when
opportunities for participation change in different ways. For example, various
organizational changes within a work community, or even changes on a more
global scale that transform ways of working (such as the COVID-19 pandemic of
2020), may also impact forms of inclusion. In more practical terms, members of
a work community may have to deal with, for instance, challenges related to
organizing their work tasks or maintaining their sense of community when most
members work from home and only meet others online.

Finally, the panel invites discussion on possible practical applications and
societal impact of the investigations: how both social and knowledge-based
inclusion could best be cultivated and facilitated in work communities, and
how the micro-level practices of inclusion – or perhaps the lack of such
practices – may be connected to macro-level issues such as work-related
well-being, job satisfaction and the overall organizational climate.


Call for Papers: 

Contributions are invited that study practices of inclusion in workplace
settings with a focus on social interaction and that are based on empirical
data (e.g. video and audio recordings, ethnographic interviews, field
observations). The examined settings may range from formal to informal and
from face-to-face to technology-mediated ones. Investigations may also reveal
situations in which practices of inclusion are shown to be relevant, but in
which none are employed.

The panel is organized by members of a research project on break-taking at the
workplace and is expected to include three presentations by the project
members.

If you are interested in contributing to the panel, please follow the
instructions at the IPrA website (https://pragmatics.international/page/CfP)
to submit an abstract of 250–500 words by 25 October 2020. For further
information on the panel, please contact the organizers.




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