31.2776, Calls: Anthro Ling, Cog Sci, Disc Analys, Pragmatics, Socioling/Switzerland

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Subject: 31.2776, Calls: Anthro Ling, Cog Sci, Disc Analys, Pragmatics, Socioling/Switzerland

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Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2020 13:23:23
From: Rea Peltola [rea.peltola at unicaen.fr]
Subject: Language use in human-animal communities

 
Full Title: Language use in human-animal communities 

Date: 27-Jun-2021 - 02-Jul-2021
Location: Winterthur, Switzerland 
Contact Person: Mika Simonen
Meeting Email: mika.simonen at helsinki.fi

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Cognitive Science; Discourse Analysis; Pragmatics; Semantics; Sociolinguistics; Syntax 

Call Deadline: 11-Oct-2020 

Meeting Description:

Language use in human-animal communities: towards interspecies pragmatics

IPrA 2021 Special theme ''Pragmatics of inclusion''

Panel organizers: Rea Peltola (Université de Caen Normandie), Mika Simonen
(University of Helsinki)

This panel investigates the interactional and conceptual organization of
interspecies communities from a linguistic perspective. Urgent concerns about
the state of our environment and the position of non-human beings within
contemporary societies have made manifest the need for reflecting on ethical,
cultural and social issues related to human-animal relationships. These
considerations go alongside growing biological knowledge about the cognitive,
communicative and emotional capacities of different species. Various
interdisciplinary approaches in the humanities and the social sciences
(Human-Animal Studies, Posthumanism, Ecocriticism, Biosemiotics) have shown
that the faculty of speech and language has been used as one of the most
important grounds for separating humans from other living beings and that
power relations based on this dualism are sustained by language use (e.g.,
Stibbe 2012). By undoing conceptual hierarchies and boundaries between humans
and other living creatures, animal philosophies have revealed the possible
existence of local interspecies communities with shared interests and
meanings.

In this wider context of reconsidering the human-animal relationships and the
status of language within them, the aim of this panel is to explore language
use in everyday interaction and cohabitation between humans and other living
beings. The panel welcomes contributions from different theoretical and
methodological approaches that may, but are not restricted to, focus on:
 - The linguistic strategies adopted by human speakers when addressing a
member of another species: Are there expressions or ways of speaking reserved
for non-human addressees? What kind of an interface separates the
“human-to-human language” from the “human-to-non-human language” (Mitchell
2001)?
 - The social actions accomplished by participants in interspecies
interaction: How do human and non-human participants display their orientation
to the sequential environment and to each other as participants (Goode 2006,
Roberts 2004)? To what extent do humans engage in “mind-reading” (Levinson
2006) when producing responses to actions in interspecies interaction?
 - The ways in which the plurality of perceptual universes (von Uexküll 1982)
and semiotic webs (Kohn 2013) is linguistically construed: How can language
structures serve as a support when human speakers seek to understand and
describe non-human actions and states? What can we say about “human” and
“non-human” categories and conceptualizations when looking at grammatical
constructions in actual language use (Goatly 1996, Sealey 2018)?
 - The connections and the tensions between private and public animal talk:
What kind of cultural, political and ideological factors shape the ways in
which humans talk about other species? 

References are available on request.


Call for papers:

If you are interested in participating in this panel, please contact the panel
organizers by October 11, 2020:

Rea Peltola, rea.peltola at unicaen.fr 
Mika Simonen, mika.simonen at helsinki.fi

Abstracts of 250-500 words are to be submitted via the IPrA conference website
by October 25, 2020: https://ipra2021.exordo.com/login

For submission instructions, see https://pragmatics.international/page/CfP




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