32.2333, Calls: Applied Ling/Italy

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LINGUIST List: Vol-32-2333. Fri Jul 09 2021. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 32.2333, Calls: Applied Ling/Italy

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Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2021 18:01:18
From: Valeria Caruso [vcaruso at unior.it]
Subject: Old and new types of imbalanced communication, XXII AItLA CONGRESS

Full Title: Old and new types of imbalanced communication, XXII AItLA CONGRESS 
Short Title: AItLA 2022 

Date: 10-Feb-2022 - 11-Feb-2022
Location: University of Naples, Italy 
Contact Person: Marta Maffia
Meeting Email: aitla2022napoli at gmail.com
Web Site: http://www.aitla.it/10-primopiano/702-call-for-papers-xx-congresso-internazionale-aitla-3 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 30-Aug-2021 

Meeting Description:

Old and new types of imbalanced communication: channels, structures, and
models

In asymmetrical communicative situations, ''participants differ from each
other according to their imbalanced access to the management of the
interaction'' (Orletti, 2000:12). How we relate to others through language and
the types of more or less asymmetrical relationships that are established in
communicative exchange have been the focus of observation of several areas of
linguistics since Sacks' conversational analysis in the 1960s (Sacks et al.,
1974). This field of studies has defined the necessary tools to investigate
how interlocutors' identities are dynamically shaped during verbal exchange
through control strategies, negotiation activities, and social dominance
realised in language use.

Different studies analysing the disparity between interactants in different
institutional settings have convincingly demonstrated that asymmetric
interaction can jeopardise the fulfilment of communicative goals, e.g. the way
learners’ mistakes are corrected can discourage learning in the classroom
(Orletti, 2000), the way a therapist interacts with his/her patients can
affect the outcomes of therapy (Auer & Hörmeyer, 2016) or, during interaction
between native and non-native speakers, communicative effectiveness can be
compromised by cultural and social distance (Ferguson, 1975; Berruto, 1993).

The aim of the conference is to reflect on old and new forms of asymmetries in
communication, when the different status of the interlocutors affects
communication itself. Furthermore, positive examples of forms or models of
communication which reduce asymmetries in knowledge or language proficiency
are particularly welcome for illustrating good practices to support social
cohesion and inclusion. Consider, for example, the practices adopted by
linguistic-cultural mediators who work in healthcare assisting patients with
different language abilities, i.e. foreigners or native Italians with
restricted code types (Gavioli, 2015).

Returning to the main goals of interactional linguistics (Couper-Kuhlen &
Selting, 2018), the conference aims to encourage discussions and reflections
on (i) describing language structures as a means of social interaction, (ii)
providing analyses and comparisons to highlight how interactional needs shape
language structures and, conversely, how language structures interfere with
organisational aspects of social interactions, and (iii) put forward proposals
for theories and models of general linguistics by taking into account real
language use and structures.

Final Call for Papers: 

The deadline for submitting abstracts is extended to Tuesday, August 30, 2021.

Contributions to the conference can use different approaches and techniques
for analysing any structural level of languages to approach the proposed
topics from different perspectives:

1. channels of transmission of imbalanced communication: text
(in)accessibility, communication aids and environments, new media and
asymmetrical communication in journalism or the web, etc.;
2. imbalanced communication structures: language of inclusion/exclusion,
language of bureaucracy, language disorders and pathological speech, foreigner
talk, etc;
3. linguistic models for the analysis of imbalanced communication in speech
and texts: phonetic-phonological, segmental and suprasegmental,
morpho-syntactic and pragmatic aspects of interaction in the oral and written
form, analysis of structures of textual organisation at the macro- and
micro-level, metaphor and metaphoric vocabulary for monitoring purposes, etc.

Proposals should consist of 4000-5000 characters including spaces
(bibliography excluded). Abstracts must be sent to aitla2022napoli at gmail.com,
specifying ''Abstract2022'' in the subject.
Further information can be found at:
http://www.aitla.it/10-primopiano/702-call-for-papers-xx-congresso-internazion
ale-aitla-3.

Confirmed Invited speakers:
Claudia Bianchi, Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele
Franca Orletti, Università degli Studi Roma Tre
Cristina Vallini, Università degli Studi di Napoli ‘L’Orientale’

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