33.2524, Calls: Discourse Analysis, Phonology, Pragmatics/Belgium

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LINGUIST List: Vol-33-2524. Wed Aug 17 2022. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 33.2524, Calls: Discourse Analysis, Phonology, Pragmatics/Belgium

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Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2022 04:31:12
From: Beatrice Szczepek Reed [beatrice.szczepek.reed at kcl.ac.uk]
Subject: Sound Patterns in Interactions between Human and Nonhuman Animals

Full Title: Sound Patterns in Interactions between Human and Nonhuman Animals 

Date: 09-Jul-2023 - 14-Jul-2023
Location: Brussels, Belgium 
Contact Person: Beatrice Szczepek Reed
Meeting Email: beatrice.szczepek.reed at kcl.ac.uk

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Phonology; Pragmatics 

Call Deadline: 01-Nov-2022 

Meeting Description:

Panel at 18th International Pragmatics Conference

The panel explores the prosodic and phonetic design of vocalizations made in
the context of human-nonhuman interactions. Such sound patterns may be found
in human talk designed for nonhuman animals and also in nonhuman animals’
vocalizations. Interspecies interaction has received increased attention in
recent decades. Several studies in Conversation Analysis and related areas
have investigated pet-directed talk for how it contributes to interactions
between humans, such as Bergmann (1988), Tannen (2004), Roberts (2010) and
Torres Cajo & Bahlo (2016), who focus on pets as resources that humans draw on
to manage their interactions. Other work has begun to unpack interspecies
interaction as an object of study in its own right, for example, at the vets
(McMartin, Coe & Adams 2014; Lohi & Simonen 2021) but also in everyday
interactions (Mondémé 2019; Harjunpää 2022). The sound patterns of
human-nonhuman interactions have so far been under-explored, despite their
central role in the performance of the human-nonhuman relationship (but see
Simonen & Lohi 2021; Cornips 2022; Harjunpää 2022). Some attention in this
area has been on comparing pet-directed talk with ‘baby talk’ (Mitchell 2001).
The panel seeks to bring together work that sheds light on fundamental issues
regarding the nature of the sound patterns that can be identified in
interactions between human and nonhuman animals; the role of sound patterns in
the organization of human-nonhuman interaction; and what the use, delivery and
sequential positioning of sound patterns tells us about the engagement of
nonhuman animals as co-participants. Sound patterns may include the prosodic
and phonetic delivery of verbal turns by humans as well as nonlexical
vocalizations by human or nonhuman participants. There is potential to include
analyses of vocal interactions between nonhuman animals (i.e. without humans)
if they fall within the broad domain of interaction analysis. The panel will
be open to researchers from diverse theoretical and methodological approaches
who share an interest in understanding better the role of vocalized sounds in
human and nonhuman encounters. 

References
Bergmann, J.R. 1988. Haustiere als kommunikative Ressourcen. In H.-G. Soeffner
(Ed.) Kultur und Alltag (pp. 299-312). Göttingen: Schwarz 
Cornips, L. 2022. The animal turn in postcolonial linguistics: the
interspecies greeting of the dairy cow. Journal of Postcolonial Linguistics,
6.209–231
Harjunpää, K. 2022. Repetition and prosodic matching in responding to pets’
vocalizations. Langage & Société, 176(2).69-102
Lohi, H., & Simonen, M. 2021. Hugging and kissing a dog in distress.
Litteraria Copernicana, 37(1).107-122
MacMartin, C., Coe, J.B., & Adams, C.L. 2014. Treating distressed animals as
participants: I know responses in veterinarians’ pet-directed talk. Research
on Language and Social Interaction, 47(2).151-174
Mitchell, R.W. 2001. Americans’ talk to dogs: similarities and differences
with talk to infants. Research on Language and Social Interaction,
34(2).183-210
Mondémé, C. 2019, La socialité interspécifique. Une analyse multimodale des
interactions homme – chien. Limoges : Lambert-Lucas
Roberts, F. 2004. Speaking to and for animals in a veterinary clinic: a
practice for managing interpersonal interaction, Research on Language and
Social Interaction, 37(4).421-446
Simonen, M., & Lohi, H. 2021. Interactional reciprocity in human-dog
interaction. In J. Lindström et al. (Eds.), Intersubjectivity in Action (pp.
397-428). Amsterdam: Benjamins
Tannen, D. 2004. Talking the dog: framing pets as interactional resources in
family discourse, Research on Language and Social Interaction, 37(4).99-420
Torres Cajo, S., & Bahlo, N. 2016. „Ach der ist ja süß..“–Gassigespräche. Eine
kommunikative Gattung in Hinblick auf Soziabilität und
Zweckorientierung,Deutsche Sprache,44(1).77-96

Call for Papers:

Please submit your abstract via the IPrA online platform. More information
about the call for papers, including information on how to submit your
abstract, can be found here:

https://pragmatics.international/page/CfP

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