33.2591, Calls: Pragmatics/Belgium

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Subject: 33.2591, Calls: Pragmatics/Belgium

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Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2022 06:21:45
From: Rita Vallentin [vallentin at europa-uni.de]
Subject: The pragmatics of human machine interaction

 
Full Title: The pragmatics of human machine interaction 

Date: 09-Jul-2023 - 14-Jul-2023
Location: Brussels, Belgium 
Contact Person: Rita Vallentin
Meeting Email: vallentin at europa-uni.de
Web Site: https://pragmatics.international/page/CfP 

Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics 

Call Deadline: 31-Oct-2022 

Meeting Description:

Even though the field of human-machine interaction (HMI) is blooming and both
computer science and linguistics provide increasingly detailed insight into
the communicative abilities of voice-based devices and the ways humans engage
with emerging technologies, pragmatic aspects of actual in-the-wild
interaction are rarely addressed. Existing pragmatics research on HMI largely
addresses two areas, politeness and communication breakdowns/repair
strategies. Studies on politeness in HMI are predominantly done for English
and don’t reach beyond the use of greetings,  ''thank you and'' please which
are then dismissed as “mindless politeness” (Lopatovska/Williams 2018) and
indirectness (Briggs/Williams/Scheutz 2017). The repair of communication
breakdowns is largely a human responsibility and takes place through
repetition, reformulation, and adjustments of prosody/articulation (Beneteau
et al. 2019). Other aspects of pragmatics, e.g. implicature and
presupposition, deixis and reference, information structure, affective and
evaluative linguistic practices remain unaddressed.


Call for Papers:

This panel aims to provide a first step towards a richer engagement with the
pragmatics of human-machine interaction. We invite contributions that address
any aspects of pragmatics in the sense of language use in everyday HMI, taking
''a general functional perspective on (any aspect of) language, i.e. as an
approach to language which takes into account the full complexity of its
cognitive, social, and cultural (i.e. ‘meaningful’) functioning in the lives
of human beings'' (Verschueren 2012).

Particularly welcome is research on the pragmatics of HMI in languages other
than English and in multilingual settings.

Abstracts (300-500 words) should be submitted no later than October 31st 2022
through the conference website: https://ipra2023.exordo.com/login

For further instructions on how to submit your abstract see:
https://pragmatics.international/page/CfP

References:
Beneteau, Erin et al. (2019): Communication Breakdowns Between Families and
Alexa. In: Chi 2019 ,
May 4-9, 2019, Glasgow, Scotland, UK. DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1145/3290605.3300473.
Briggs, Gordon/Williams, Tom/Scheutz, Matthias (2017): Enabling Robots to
Understand Indirect
Speech Acts in Task-Based Interactions. In: Journal of Human-Robot Interaction
6 (1), 64-94.
DOI: 10.5898/JHRI.6.1.Briggs.
Lopatovska, Irene/Williams, Harriet (2018): Personification of the Amazon
Alexa: BFF or a Mindless
Companion? In: CHIIR’ 18 , DOI: 10.1145/3176349.3176868.
Verschueren, Jeff (2012): The pragmatic perspective. In: Jeff Verschueren;
Jan-Ola Östman (eds.)
Handbook of Pragmatics 2012. DOI: 10.1075/hop.16.prag




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