31.2905, Calls: Pragmatics/Switzerland

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Subject: 31.2905, Calls: Pragmatics/Switzerland

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Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2020 17:05:08
From: Johanna Jud [johanna.jud at uzh.ch]
Subject: When co-presence arouses suspicion: Studies on interaction in times of pandemia

 
Full Title: When co-presence arouses suspicion: Studies on interaction in times of pandemia 

Date: 27-Jun-2021 - 02-Jul-2021
Location: Winterthur, Switzerland 
Contact Person: Johanna Jud
Meeting Email: johanna.jud at uzh.ch

Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics 

Call Deadline: 25-Oct-2020 

Meeting Description:

A few months ago, the Covid-19 virus has swept the world and since then held
us tightly in its grip. Several — if not all — areas of our lives have
undergone severe modifications. Social interaction at large has become a risky
undertaking requesting precautionary measures that concern many aspects of our
habitual behaviour. Take, for instance, physical distancing, mandatory
mask-wearing and the emerging omnipresence of plexiglass windows between
participants all over different social settings in private and public spaces.
As a result, interactional spaces have undergone a far-reaching
re-configuration. At the same time, face-to-face interaction episodes have
been increasingly substituted by meetings and gatherings among no longer
co-present participants. All in all, physical co-presence has appeared to
arouse suspicion. The participants' awareness of other co-present bodies has
been refined in the blink of an eye, and careful navigation in terms of
co-orientation and co-ordination has become a sensible requirement.

The Covid-19 pandemic accordingly poses a strong challenge for social
interaction research in order to keep up with a still ongoing process of
social change. The proposed panel is meant to encourage exchange and
discussion on the evolution of social interaction throughout a pandemic.
Researchers from different disciplines will be invited to share the newest
findings of their studies concerning social and interactional change during a
pandemic. Possible contributions include empirical case studies as well as
theoretical reflections. There is reason to assume that a lot of empirical
research and theoretical thinking has already been initiated within different
research groups. 

The panel explicitly welcomes contributions from conversation analysis and
related strands of linguistic and sociological interaction research. We expect
micro analyses of face-to-face interaction under corona terms as well as media
research dealing with various aspects of the transition from co-presence to
tele-presence as it is enabled, for instance, by videoconference tools. The
overall motto of invited contributions is the re-configuration of
interactional space(s) through pandemia caused protective measures. The goal
of the panel is to consolidate complementary approaches to these current
phenomena and to speed up research activities in a new and promising field of
social interaction change.


Call for Papers: 

We are pleased to invite talk proposals for the panel. Please submit your
paper abstract through the conference website. Cf.
https://pragmatics.international/page/CfP for further instructions.

Submitted abstracts will be reviewed as part of the official review process.
Please note that you will have to become a member of the International
Pragmatics Association to submit a paper abstract to the conference.




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