31.2691, Calls: Pragmatics/Switzerland

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Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2020 11:18:26
From: Tuija Virtanen [tuija.virtanen at abo.fi]
Subject: Navigating verbal hypocrisy in face-to-face and mediated contexts: Towards a pragmatic model

 
Full Title: Navigating verbal hypocrisy in face-to-face and mediated contexts: Towards a pragmatic model 
Short Title: Verbal Hypocrisy 

Date: 27-Jun-2021 - 02-Jul-2021
Location: Winterthur, Switzerland 
Contact Person: Tuija Virtanen
Meeting Email: tuija.virtanen at abo.fi

Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics 

Call Deadline: 25-Oct-2020 

Meeting Description:

Hypocrisy is widely conceptualised in negative terms as a mismatch between
people’s insincere claims and their actual deeds which is not intended to be
detected. The notion has rarely been theorized across disciplines: if its
ubiquity has been noticed in philosophical political thought (Runciman 2008),
sociology has shown a “lack of systematic attention to the origins, patterns,
and implications of hypocrisy” (Wieting 2015: 2). Linguists of various
orientations have paid little, if any, theoretical attention to this notion.
Rather, it is used, in passing, in its everyday sense. Still, hypocrisy is
arguably a pragmatic phenomenon. Despite good candidates for conceptual
affinity such as (im)politeness and (in/post)civility, irony and sarcasm, as
well as faking, lying, and deception at large, hypocrisy appears in everyday
use of language as a multifaceted conceptualisation in its own right. The goal
of this panel is to investigate the phenomenon across contexts in order to
devise a pragmatic model of verbal hypocrisy, including prosody.


Call for Papers: 

We invite micro-pragmatic or macro-pragmatic contributions on verbal
hypocrisy, including prosody. Studies may address questions such as: why and
when is hypocrisy used and what linguistic resources are employed? How can
hypocrisy be detected, and what can the responses be like? How do language
users construct shared understandings of hypocrisy, for the purposes of tact
or mutual gain? Of interest would also be studies raising metapragmatic issues
concerning communication that language users manifestly interpret as
hypocritical. Other questions might address assumptions of tacit pragmatic
norms that may turn visible when hypocrisy is detected. Conversely, (some
extent of) hypocrisy seems to be a sine qua non of public discourse: for
Machiavelli, political aims cannot be met honestly, so condemning hypocrisy
amounts to condemning politics altogether (see Grant 1997). But even beyond
politics, Feinberg (2002: 59) shows that “Life without dissimulation is
impossible in what we call civilized society. The question is not whether
everyone is a hypocrite. Everyone is. The only variant is the degree of
hypocrisy practiced by every person.” Would these “different degrees” of
hypocrisy constitute a hazard to pragmatic theory as regards the ideal of
trust and cooperation in communication? How is hypocrisy related to adjacent
theoretical concepts such as politeness, humour and deception? In what ways
does it contribute to power and manipulation? Or are we now in a
post-hypocrisy era in our post-truth times?

The panel (in English) is open to studies of different languages and the
navigations of hypocrisy under study may involve processes of translanguaging.
Panelists are encouraged to make their chosen theoretical framework explicit
for the benefit of a wide audience. Taken together, the analyses are expected
to have a bearing on pragmatics, (i) disclosing fuzzy boundaries inherent in
adjacent concepts such as deception, irony, and politeness, (ii) advancing the
study of verbal hypocrisy as a phenomenon per se, and (iii) suggesting avenues
towards a comprehensive pragmatic model.

Format of panel: papers and discussion

Abstracts of 250-500 words including references should be submitted via IPrA’s
submission system https://ipra2021.exordo.com/ before 25 October 2020. For
further instructions, see https://pragmatics.international/page/CfP

References:
Grant, R. W. (1997). Hypocrisy and Integrity: Machiavelli, Rousseau and the
Ethics of Politics. The University of Chicago Press.
Feinberg, Leonard (2002). Hypocrisy: Don’t Leave Home Without It. Pilgrims’
Process.
Runciman, David (2008). Political Hypocrisy: The Mask of Power from Hobbes to
Orwell and Beyond. Princeton University Press.
Wieting, Stephen G. (2015). The Sociology of Hypocrisy: An Analysis of Sport
and Religion. Ashgate.

Keywords: hypocrisy, tact, (im)politeness, civility, dissimulation, deception,
faking, norms




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