33.2474, Calls: Pragmatics/Belgium

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LINGUIST List: Vol-33-2474. Sat Aug 13 2022. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 33.2474, Calls: Pragmatics/Belgium

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Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2022 22:50:02
From: Chi-He Elder [c.elder at uea.ac.uk]
Subject: “Only joking”: Negotiating offensive humour in interaction

 
Full Title: “Only joking”: Negotiating offensive humour in interaction 

Date: 09-Jul-2023 - 14-Jul-2023
Location: Brussels, Belgium 
Contact Person: Chi-Hé Elder
Meeting Email: c.elder at uea.ac.uk
Web Site: https://www.uea.ac.uk/web/groups-and-centres/a-z/jokes-gone-wrong 

Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics 

Call Deadline: 01-Nov-2022 

Meeting Description:

Offensive humour is a broad category, including but not limited to teasing,
sarcasm, put downs and jocular insults. We look forward to a rich discussion
of the theoretical and practical challenges that offensive humour presents,
such as how to identify speakers’ humorous and/or offensive intentions, the
nature of offensive messages, and how recipients can hold speakers accountable
for having caused offence.

Framing offensive messages through the lens of humour allows speakers to
invoke plausible deniability for having intended any offence: they can always
claim to be ‘only joking’. Indeed, it is due to the inherent ambiguity of
joking that allows a speaker to distance themself from potentially offensive
messages and to disguise any disparaging attitudes that their humour may
inadvertently reveal. These ambiguities in turn make it difficult for
recipients to flag and register having taken offence. As offensive messages
are backgrounded to the humorous effect, it can be difficult to explicitly
‘call out’ the speaker and hold them accountable for having caused offence.

We hope that discussing these issues, and more, will shed new light on how
language functions as the critical vehicle for committing offensive humour, as
well as how it is perceived, negotiated and/or ignored by participants in
interaction.


Call for Papers:

We welcome submissions on any issues relating to offensive humour, non-serious
talk, misunderstandings, communicative intentions, accountability and
impoliteness.

Authors are welcome to contact the panel organisers by email for assistance in
advance of submitting if they wish.

To contribute to this panel, authors should submit an abstract (250-500 words)
as a “Panel contribution” on the IPrA website (https://ipra2023.exordo.com/),
selecting the “‘Only joking’: Negotiating offensive humour in interaction”
panel.

The deadline for submissions is 1 November 2022.

Note you must be a member of the International Pragmatics Association to
submit an abstract.




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