31.2871, Calls: Applied Ling, Pragmatics/Switzerland

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Subject: 31.2871, Calls: Applied Ling, Pragmatics/Switzerland

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Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2020 11:57:49
From: Lauri Haapanen [lauri.m.haapanen at jyu.fi]
Subject: Linguistic recycling: How and why do we reuse the same linguistic resources

 
Full Title: Linguistic recycling: How and why do we reuse the same linguistic resources 

Date: 27-Jun-2021 - 02-Jul-2021
Location: Winterthur, Switzerland 
Contact Person: Lauri Haapanen
Meeting Email: lauri.m.haapanen at jyu.fi

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Pragmatics 

Call Deadline: 25-Oct-2020 

Meeting Description:

“She said that he said that they said…” – this is a recursive process that can
be termed ‘quoting’ when focusing on discursive practices of using utterances
again and ‘recontextualization’ when focusing on the material and operational
aspects of it. If termed ‘linguistic recycling’, resource aspects of this
process of reusing language are foregrounded. In this panel, we invite
scholars to discuss such linguistic recycling. Contributions are meant to shed
light on how and why language users – both as individuals and as communities –
save resources and create value by quoting and recontextualizing other’s
utterances.
In the world of material goods, the term recycling describes the process of
extracting entire products or their parts at the end of the products’ life
cycle and reusing them to start the life cycle of new products. The value
production chains of material goods are (to a certain extent) comparable with
those of semiotic goods. In everyday talk as well as in professional
communication and public discourse, individuals and communities engage in
practices of recycling utterances. And similarly to material goods, practices
of down-, cross-, and upcycling utterances have been developed to increase or
maintain linguistic capital: Selling a news piece with what used to be casual
utterance as its headline is what we consider upcycling. Reusing the utterance
in more or less the same shape within text bodies of social and mass media
news is comparable to, for example, the crosscycling of a PET bottle. By
contrast, using the utterance as a text dummy in a layout sketch can be
considered a case of downcycling.

Yet there are ontological differences. In the physical world, the same set of
particles has been recycled since the big bang. In the semiotic world,
however, recurrence, in general, and recycling, in particular, refer to the
type, not the token. The utterance itself, as a physical event, is unique,
inseparably intertwined with its context and therefore volatile. But this
holds true in analogue communication only. Digital instances of language use
such as tweets and GIFs can be recycled as exact copies, replicating
themselves in social networks like viruses. So, it could be argued that
digital linguistic recycling combines two types of recycling: the token-based
recycling as know from the material world and the type-based recycling as
known from the semiotic world. This combination results in an intriguing
synthesis: In our digitalized world, we recycle semiotic and linguistic tokens
(and not only types) – and we do it by saving the original token!

We are convinced that systematically scrutinizing motivations and consequences
related to linguistic resources can result in exciting and, perhaps,
inconvenient insights. Therefore, we invite scholars to join our panel by
asking and answering a) how we can theorize linguistic recycling to add value
to the well-known discussions on recontextualization and quoting, b) what
methodological tools and concepts we need to study the resource aspects of
reusing language, and c) how and for whose benefits linguistic recycling is
practiced in various domains, today and tomorrow.


Call for Papers: 

Please submit your paper abstract through the conference website by 25 October
2020. Cf. https://pragmatics.international/page/CfP for further instructions.




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