31.2852, Calls: Pragmatics/Switzerland

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Subject: 31.2852, Calls: Pragmatics/Switzerland

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Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2020 12:21:29
From: Alain Bovet [alain.bovet at he-arc.ch]
Subject: Touching and being touched in the local organization of gestural trajectories in interaction

 
Full Title: Touching and being touched in the local organization of gestural trajectories in interaction 

Date: 27-Jun-2021 - 02-Jul-2021
Location: Winterthur, Switzerland 
Contact Person: Alain Bovet
Meeting Email: alain.bovet at he-arc.ch

Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics 

Call Deadline: 25-Oct-2020 

Meeting Description:

Drawing on a number of recent studies on touch in interaction (Nishizaka,
2007, Goodwin, 2017, Routarinne, Tainio and Burdelski (eds) 2020, Cekaite and
Mondada (eds) 2020; Edmonds and Greiffenhagen, 2020), this panel focuses on
activities in which the co-participants produce gestural trajectories that
involve touching (hapticity) and being touched (tactility). These contacts may
constitute either the main involvement (Goffman, 1963), and, as such, be
sustained for all or most of the activity, or be an optional or provisory
involvement, occasioned by interactional contingencies. An example of the
former is the practice of mundane massage, in which two co-participants have
managed a spatial arrangement suitable for a massage through which a localized
muscular tension is attenuated by repeatedly lifting and squeezing the muscles
between fingers and thumb. An example of the latter is when dancers get in
bodily contact with one another in the course of an improvised dance
trajectory.
 
By focusing on such situations, we want to address what hapticity and
tactility do to interactions, notably in terms of structuration and
organization. How are these haptic and tactile moments anticipated, initiated,
negotiated, interrupted, resumed, or closed? How are hapticity and tactility
articulated to or co-elaborated by other communicative means such as talk or
gaze? Is there a specificity of tactile and haptic engagements and how do
co-participants accountably orient to it? Once the activity has begun, how do
previous haptic and tactile trajectories (Sudnow, 2002) orient and organize a
relevant field (Merleau-Ponty, 1945) that can both constrain and be enriched
by subsequent moves, pressures, tapping, delineations, etc.?

We suggest apprehending hapticity and tactility through recordings of
naturally occurring activities, to remain as sensitive as possible to what
happens throughout and around haptic and tactile moments (see Greco et al.,
2019).


Call for Papers: 

Please submit your proposal directly on the main conference submission page
(https://pragmatics.international/page/CfP) by 25 October, 2020.




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