32.1156, Calls: Pragmatics/Switzerland
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Subject: 32.1156, Calls: Pragmatics/Switzerland
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Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2021 20:50:19
From: Christian Geddo [christian.geddo at usi.ch]
Subject: Sources of knowledge in talk-in-interaction
Full Title: Sources of knowledge in talk-in-interaction
Short Title: Knowint 22
Date: 07-Feb-2022 - 09-Feb-2022
Location: Lugano, Switzerland
Contact Person: Johanna Miecznikowski
Meeting Email: knowint22 at usi.ch
Web Site: http://www.usi.ch/knowint
Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics
Call Deadline: 30-Jun-2021
Meeting Description:
The meeting is organized by the team of the SNF research project ''The
categorization of information sources in face-to-face interaction: a study
based on the TIGR-corpus of spoken Italian'' (InfinIta) (FNS subsidy no.
100012_192771, USI, 2020- 2024). It takes an interactional approach to
evidentiality, focusing on evidential strategies in spoken language beyond
grammatical and lexical markers.
In discourse, the orientation to sources of knowledge is part of epistemic
stance taking. Sources may become relevant in actions that frame the uttered
content as a proposition, i.e. as a piece of knowledge, and imply claims and
attributions of knowledgeability. Such actions can be described as being
situated in a question-assertion function space or, in a speech act
perspective, as a set that prominently includes illocutionary acts of the
assertive family. In conversation, they correspond to information requests,
confirmation requests, candidate understandings, hypotheses, good guesses,
predictions, informings, assessments, claims, justifications, etc. etc. and
participate in a great variety of sequentially organized action trajectories.
The turn design and sequential implications of such actions are not only
sensitive to the quantitative distribution of knowledge among participants
(Who knows how much?), but also, in some cases, to the sources of knowledge,
i.e. the way participants access (acquire) knowledge.
For example, a participant's direct access to an event (the fact the he/she
has, or is supposed to have, experienced an event on his/her own) is regularly
treated as conferring him/her a particularly knowledgeable status when it
comes to talking about that event. The opposition between direct and indirect
access to knowledge therefore influences the formation, ascription, design and
sequential organization of questions and informings. In other cases, it is the
participants' perceptual access to the immediate surrounding in the moment of
speaking – including the discourse of others – that becomes a source for the
uttered content and contributes to define the action itself. Another type of
source that is specifically linked to subsets of actions in the
question-assertion space is inference. Inference is publicly displayed in
turns and sequences that establish argumentative links between propositions
(e.g. backing up a claim by an argument). Linguistically informed research
about argumentation based on written corpora not only has shown that arguers
frequently recur to inferential evidential markers to categorize and underline
links between textually spelled out propositions; it has also been argued that
argumentation may be viewed as an evidential strategy in its own right.
Links between propositions and their sources become recognizable thanks to a
variety of practices. These are based on the simultaneousness and adjacency of
perceptual experience and talk, on the sequential concatenation of actions,
and/or on verbal reference to sources. Reference to sources may be more or
less specific: participants can refer to specific events of knowledge
acquisition or categorize sources more generically. Reference to sources can
take the form of autonomous utterances (e.g. in pre-, post- or retrosequences)
or – what has been studied mainly in linguistic approaches to information
source – can be made by means of utterance internal/peripherical grammatical
markers and lexical constructions. The entire range of these practices is what
is understood here as evidential strategies.
The investigation of evidential strategies in the broadest sense is not only
useful to better understand knowledge-related social action. It is also
crucial, in a linguistic perspective, to develop hypotheses about the way
specialized lexical and grammatical evidential markers emerge in interaction.
The meeting intends to bring together linguists and analysts of talk-in-
interaction to reflect on such strategies in spoken language.
Call for Papers:
The organizers welcome contributions based on spoken data in various languages
on the following topics:
– the role of sources of knowledge in epistemic stance taking, action
formation and action ascription;
– sequentially organized practices relating utterances to sources that are
present in situ or referred to in the surrounding cotext;
– the evidential dimension of argumentative actions in talk-in-interaction;
– form and function of evidential markers/constructions in spoken language
studied in their sequential environment.
Submissions:
The talks will last 25 minutes and will be followed by 5 minutes of
discussion. Contributors are invited to present an abstract in English or
Italian of no more than 500 words (references included) in line with one of
the topics indicated above. It must clearly state the research question,
include a brief description of the theoretical framework and of the methods
used and highlight the originality of the proposal. The abstract must be
anonymous: neither the text, nor the list of references must contain
information about the author. Each participant can be primary author of only
one contribution.
To submit an abstract, please refer to the following page:
https://www.usi.ch/en/knowint/submissions
Languages:
The official languages of the meeting are English and Italian. Authors who
choose to present in Italian should provide slides and/or a written script in
English.
Calendar:
April 15, 2021 - Opening of the submission phase
June 30, 2021 - Deadline for the submission of abstracts
September 15, 2021 - Notification of acceptance/rejection
December 15, 2021 - Early bird registration deadline
January 20, 2022 - Standard registration deadline
February 7-9, 2022 – Meeting
Invited speakers:
Jérôme Jacquin (University of Lausanne, CH)
Lorenza Mondada (University of Basel, CH)
Ilana Mushin (University of Queensland, AU)
Paola Pietrandrea (University of Lille, FR)
Organization:
The event will be organized as a face-to-face / hybrid meeting if this is
compatible with anti-Covid-19 assembly and travel restrictions in Switzerland.
USI takes adequate disinfection measures and provides sufficiently large rooms
to guarantee social distancing. If anti-Covid-19 rules should forbid
gatherings and travelling, the meeting will be held virtually. In that
scenario, talks will be given by videoconference and will be recorded and
stored for a limited amount of time together with the session’s chat logs and
presentation documents, restricting access to registered participants.
Opportunities for informal interaction among participants will be provided.
Conference website: www.usi.ch/knowint
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