31.2386, Calls: Applied Ling, Disc of Ling, Disc Analys, Pragmatics, Socioling/Switzerland

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Subject: 31.2386, Calls: Applied Ling, Disc of Ling, Disc Analys, Pragmatics, Socioling/Switzerland

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Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2020 15:30:49
From: Marta Dynel [marta.dynel at yahoo.com]
Subject: Communicating meanings through multimodal humour on social media

 
Full Title: Communicating meanings through multimodal humour on social media 
Short Title: CMMHSM 

Date: 27-Jun-2021 - 02-Jul-2021
Location: Winterthur, Switzerland 
Contact Person: Marta Dynel
Meeting Email: marta.dynel at yahoo.com

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Discipline of Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Pragmatics; Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 25-Oct-2020 

Meeting Description:

Contrary to the well-entrenched distinction between “seriousness” and
“non-seriousness”, the latter being equated with “humour”, ample research has
shown that humour can be the bearer of serious meanings. It has been widely
attested that humour may communicate people’s true beliefs (see Dynel, 2017
and references therein). This holds for the traditional forms of humour,
namely conversational humour and canned jokes, both of which may be shared
online (e.g. Tsakona, 2015, 2018; Demjén, 2016; Dynel and Poppi, 2018; Rivers
and Ross, 2019). The same postulate has been made about multimodal forms of
humour – that is humour based on multiple integration of meaning-bearing
resources across modes (van Leeuwen, 2004; Kress, 2010) – its online epitome
being humorous memes (see Shifman, 2013; Yus, 2019; Johann and Bülow, 2019;
Wiggins, 2019).

Ample research has shown that social media users can voice their opinions
through multimodal humour, which can be approached from various theoretical
vantage points and with various methodological tools (e.g. Huntington, 2015;
Ross and Rivers, 2017, 2018; Piata, 2019; Jiang and Vásquez, 2019; Dynel and
Poppi, 2020; Hakoköngäs et al., 2020). Thus, user-generated multimodal humour,
whether or not formally qualifying as memes (see Dynel and Poppi, 2019, 2020;
Vásquez, 2019), can give insight into current issues and socio-political
topics of public discussion, performing an informative function about
contemporary problems and ideologies (e.g. Shifman and Lemish, 2010; Milner,
2013, 2016; Dynel, 2020).


Call for Papers: 

This panel is intended to bring together scholars interested in the study of
multimodal humour on social media. The overarching aim is to examine novel
multimodal data as they serve the communication of (variously conceptualised)
meanings on social media. As long as relevant to (broadly understood)
pragmatic research on humour, all topics, methods and approaches are welcome.
The proposed papers may concern, but are not restricted to, the following:

 - Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis of meme cycles, for instance as
bearers of ideologies
 - Multimodal humour as a vehicle for political rhetoric
 - Meaning production and reception processes on the communication of
multimodal humour
 - New conceptualisations of meaning conveyed by multimodal humour
 - Metapragmatics of multimodal humour
 - Core pragmatic concepts (e.g. implicature or presupposition) in humorous
multimodal discourse
 - Socio-pragmatics of meaning-making in new forms of multimodal humour

For submission information, please visit:
https://pragmatics.international/page/CfP




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