33.2401, Calls: Writing Systems/Belgium

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Subject: 33.2401, Calls: Writing Systems/Belgium

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Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2022 06:43:32
From: Neal Norrick [neal at norrick.de]
Subject: (A)typicality in narrative forms and practices

 
Full Title: (A)typicality in narrative forms and practices 

Date: 09-Jul-2023 - 14-Jul-2023
Location: Brussels, Belgium 
Contact Person: Neal Norrick
Meeting Email: neal at norrick.de

Linguistic Field(s): Writing Systems 

Call Deadline: 01-Nov-2022 

Meeting Description:

The announced theme of the conference “The shape of interaction: the
pragmatics of (a)typicality” provides the impetus for this panel inviting
contributors to develop their own various perspectives on (a)typicality in
narrative forms and practices: Atypicality as tellability in narrative,
(re)telling typical stories, (a)typicality in narrative identity construction,
formulaic narrative structures, the evolution of typical narrative practices
in new interfaces, and diverse approaches to describing typicality such as
quantification via corpus linguistic methods.

Certain features are typical of narrative at the macro-level: recurrent story
types, stories as anticipated responses and characteristic speech acts such as
confessions. On the micro-level, narration typically unfolds sequentially in
past tense clauses, while breaks in sequential order, tense shifts, and
negation are atypical structures generating inferences. Typical phrases or
formulas occur at characteristic junctures such as prefaces and closings;
especially in recurrent “typical” stories, one finds formulaic moves like the
climax phrase: “and I said ‘this is it’” in near-death stories (Labov), while
atypical wordings can achieve novel results.

>From an epistemic perspective, the teller typically has knowledge of an event
to impart to listeners and bears responsibility for clear, concise telling,
but less typically the teller cannot completely reconstruct an event, and
seeks to rationalize the performance saying “I don’t remember exactly” and the
like; less typically listeners ask questions, express doubts and fill in
blanks to ensure uptake according to the principle of “epistemic vigilance”
(Sperber et al.).

Typically, tellability is determined by newsworthiness or reportability, but
there’s a “dark side of tellability” (Norrick), where the determining factors
are taste, tact and social distance. In some (atypical?) contexts, like
children recounting their daily experiences at the dinner table and the
retelling of family stories, newsworthiness typically fades, replaced by
interest in a child’s developing narrative competence and the rapport of
co-narration respectively.

Typical is a single focalization (Genette), namely internal on the
teller-protagonist in personal experience narratives, but a switch to an
external (omniscient) perspective can produce comments about unrealized
trajectories and future outcomes; in narratives of vicarious experience
focalization is typically omniscient, but it can narrow to detail perceptions
and feelings of the protagonist and even include play-acting on the part of
the teller.

The notion of a typical story from the perspective of face-to-face interaction
is now evolving along with the dynamic interplay of affordances offered by
varying platforms, as genres and practices develop through story sharing,
recontextualization and resemiotization on social media (de Fina). Recently
the pandemic has further disrupted traditional production formats for
narratives, moving them to online interfaces, which has in turn affected
typical narrative practices and reactions to stories; finally, narrative
formats are being used atypically to envision future developments, as in
narratives conceptualizing cell-based and lab-grown foods.

These themes and related issues will be addressed in the contributions to this
panel.


Call for Papers:

submissions to panel ''(A)typicality in narrative forms and practices''
20-minute presentation, 10 minute discussion

18th International Pragmatics Conference
Brussels, Belgium
9-14 July 2023
  
https://pragmatics.international/page/Brussels2023




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