31.3093, Calls: Applied Ling/Switzerland

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Subject: 31.3093, Calls: Applied Ling/Switzerland

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Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2020 08:58:27
From: Simone Girard [simone.girard at fhnw.ch]
Subject: Practices of inclusion in multi-challenging communication

 
Full Title: Practices of inclusion in multi-challenging communication 

Date: 27-Jun-2021 - 02-Jul-2021
Location: Winterthur, Switzerland 
Contact Person: Simone Girard-Groeber
Meeting Email: simone.girard at fhnw.ch

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 25-Oct-2020 

Meeting Description:

Inclusion is promoted to a great extent by thinking and addressing people as
''persons'' in communication processes, e.g. as newspaper readers in the media
system, as clients in a process, as study participants in a research (cf.
Wansing, 2007). Only in this way can they participate in these communication
systems and thus in society. The current efforts towards barrier-free
communication make a contribution in this area in particular. Since
communication has complex goals and challenges, however, it is usually not
sufficient to simply re-model a communication offer for specific sensory
impairments or in an easily understandable language. 

In this panel, we want to focus on the question of which communicative and
linguistic practices are used to design multi-challenging communication
situations in such a way that they enable and encourage the participation of
communication-vulnerable groups (e.g. people with speech, language, hearing,
visual and cognitive impairments; people with cultural, ethnic, sexual
orientations, gender identities or religious differences that are not
understood or accepted by the service providers; cf. Blackstone & Pressman,
2016: 70). The barriers and challenges differ depending on the addressee. By
multiple challenging communication situations we mean those that are
characterized by the fact that they present several barriers at different
levels simultaneously. Three levels in particular will be emphasized, all of
which are relevant in pragmatic theory and research:
1. The relationship or attitudes between the participants (existing or to be
established) 
2. An appropriate selection of verbal, non-verbal and paraverbal resources to
shape communicative actions (choice of words, syntax, etc.) 
3. The content (e.g. complexity, sensitivity of the content) 

The questions to be addressed by the panel include: 
- How do communication participants (producers and recipients) deal with the
multiple challenges? What practices have emerged?
- What sacrifices are made if not all barriers can be addressed? 
- On the basis of which criteria are certain challenges neglected? (for
example: Do we prefer to dispense with content, or rather with an easily
understandable formulation? Do we rather renounce the relationship or rather
the content?)


Call for Papers: 

In this context, we encourage contributions in the field of oral, written and
signed communication and interaction, e.g. between authorities and their
customers, medical staff and their patients (e.g. medical consent) or
researchers and study participants (e.g. informed consent). Papers should
focus on the challenges and data-driven solutions or communication practices
that participants use or report on to meet these multiple challenges in
communicating with communication-vulnerable people. 

Abstracts of 250-500 words need to be submitted by October 25, 2020 via the
IPrA submission system (see https://pragmatics.international/page/CfP for full
submission instructions). If you have any questions, please contact the panel
organizers at simone.girard at fhnw.ch. 

References: 
Sarah W. Blackstone & Harvey Pressman (2016). Patient Communication in Health
Care Settings: new Opportunities for Augmentative and Alternative
Communication, Augmentative and Alternative Communication, 32:1, 69-79, DOI:
10.3109/07434618.2015.1125947
Wansing, Gudrun (2007): Behinderung: Inklusions- oder Exklusionsfolge? Zur
Konstruktion paradoxer Lebensläufe in der modernen Gesellschaft. In:
Waldschmidt, Anne; Schneider, Werner (Hg.): Disability Studies,
Kultursoziologie und Soziologie der Behinderung: Erkundungen in einem neuen
Forschungsfeld. Bielefeld: transcpit verlag, S.275-297.




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