31.2425, Calls: Sociolinguistics/Switzerland

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Subject: 31.2425, Calls: Sociolinguistics/Switzerland

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Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2020 12:41:02
From: Neal Norrick [n.norrick at mx.uni-saarland.de]
Subject: Narrative Practices and Dimensions

 
Full Title: Narrative Practices and Dimensions 

Date: 27-Jun-2021 - 02-Jul-2021
Location: Winterthur, Switzerland 
Contact Person: Neal Norrick
Meeting Email: n.norrick at mx.uni-saarland.de

Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 25-Oct-2020 

Meeting Description:

In recent years the spotlight in narrative pragmatics/studies has often
shifted from stories themselves to narrative practices and dimensions.
Narrative dimensions or parameters have been defined in relation to tellers,
recipients and contexts in place of traditional categories like genres and
classifications like fictional versus non-fictional or narratives of personal
versus vicarious experience. Research has revealed gradient dimensions and
hybrid genres. At the same time, recognition of a wider variety of telling
contexts, moving beyond traditional content-based canonical stories, has led
to recognition of the analytical need for a range of narrative practices in
place of  “large stories” versus “small stories.” Researchers began to explore
narrative practices not just within the story (text) but also within the
overall narrative performance including elicitation of stories, justification
for telling, obtaining the floor, recipient design, and recipient responses,
even as these responses turn into parallel and conflicting  narratives.
Storytelling in interaction was also analyzed in relation to embodied action,
e.g., gestures, diverse forms of re-enactments, and “showing” objects, persons
or features of the material environment. Various strategies of “recipient
design” result in narrative practices tailored to the current participants and
interactional goals of the immediate local performance. The affordances of
computer mediated communication influence narrative dimensions and shape
narrative practices of their own, particularly in the social media.
Tellability, initially based on story content, has come to be understood as
often grounded on interactional criteria such as relationships between tellers
and recipients, who has the right to tell whom, who should know the story and
why. This panel will bring together an international group of scholars
interested in narrative discourse and narrative performance, seeking to
identify and illuminate narrative practices and dimensions across story
genres, telling contexts, social groups and cultures, to relate, compare and
perhaps reconcile approaches based in narrative dimensions and narrative
practices.


Call for Papers: 

If you would like to contribute to this panel, please send your 250-500 word
abstract to neal at norrick.de for pre-approval.

All abstracts will ultimately have to be submitted individually through the
IPrA website (https://ipra2021.exordo.com/) by 25 October 2020. Please prepare
your abstracts for submission with a reference to the IPrA Call for papers &
Submission guidelines https://pragmatics.international/page/CfP and select the
panel “Narrative Practices and Dimensions.”




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