33.635, Calls: Applied Ling, Disc Analysis, Lang Acquisition, Pragmatics, Semantics/Romania

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LINGUIST List: Vol-33-635. Fri Feb 18 2022. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 33.635, Calls: Applied Ling, Disc Analysis, Lang Acquisition, Pragmatics, Semantics/Romania

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Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2022 00:34:34
From: Razvan Saftoiu [razvansaftoiu at gmail.com]
Subject: 7th International Conference on Theoretical and Applied Linguistics: Structure, Use, and Meaning

 
Full Title: 7th International Conference on Theoretical and Applied Linguistics: Structure, Use, and Meaning 
Short Title: SUM 2022 

Date: 15-Sep-2022 - 17-Sep-2022
Location: Brasov, Romania 
Contact Person: Razvan Saftoiu
Meeting Email: sum.brasov at gmail.com
Web Site: https://sumbrasov.unitbv.ro/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Language Acquisition; Pragmatics; Semantics 

Call Deadline: 01-Jun-2022 

Meeting Description:

7th International Conference on Theoretical and Applied Linguistics
Structure, Use, and Meaning (SUM)
Language and Dialogue from an Intercultural Perspective


Call for Papers:

We welcome contributions dealing with language and dialogue, from the point of
view of syntax, semantics, pragmatics, rhetoric, dialogue studies, discourse
analysis, sociolinguistics, or intercultural and foreign/second language
instruction.

For submission info, visit:
https://sumbrasov.unitbv.ro/index.php/info

For almost 50 years, culture in linguistic analysis has evolved from
communicative competence (Hymes 1974), cultural linguistics (Langacker 1994),
languaculture (Agar 1994), and ethnolinguistics (Wierzbicka 1997), towards
ethnopragmatics (Goddard 2006) and intercultural pragmatics (Kecskes 2014).

‘Dialogue’ is a familiar concept in the field of intercultural communication
with a great potential for development and exploration in terms of theoretical
resources and forms of practice. Dialogue has been mostly seen as a ‘social
practice’, constructed and enlivened by users in a variety of contexts
throughout the world. Multiple intellectual traditions were born within a
dialogic perspective upon language, bearing in mind the centrality of
discourse, as a language-in-use system of thought that structures the way
people make sense and act in their social worlds (Fairhurst and Putnam 2004).
The dialogic nature of language has been traditionally interpreted as either a
contiguous or an interactive process, in which the two interlocutors may
merely be mutually presenting ideas to each other or enabling and affecting
the other, in a ‘functional’ manner, highly dependent on the multiple voices
and cultural logics that need to contend with each other. If one investigates
the structure of language and linguistic presentation, one might also say that
the utterance/sentence/ word itself stands in a similar juxtaposed
relationship to other utterances/sentences/words in a speech or text, as in a
kind of internal dialogue without hierarchy. Bakhtin (1981, 275) presents a
three-layer nesting model of juxtaposed “dialogue orientation, [first] amid
other utterances inside a single language, (…) [second] amid other ‘social
languages’ within a single national language, and finally amid different
national languages within the same culture”, also relating to genre, age
group, social dialects, and so on. The essential elements in Bakhtin’s
dialogical theory refer to the existence of multiple voices in ‘polyphony,’
the open communication among these voices, and the development of human beings
during dialogue.

Dialogue is a situated performance. In turbulent times, a dialogical approach
may equate with initiating and facilitating negotiations between conflicting
groups, and mobilising them towards a common goal (Gao 2017). For example,
Holliday (2013) challenges the old frame of cultural perception (us vs. them,
self vs. other, the East vs. the West, etc.), suggesting that research in this
area should focus on the identification and acknowledgement of common themes
that operate across group boundaries. This approach could also be used to
analyse other aspects, such as teacher-student relationship, or to promote
dialogical learning. Thus, intercultural dialogues must not be restricted to
interethnic levels (Gao 2017) since they can also take the form of a dialogue
between different communities, real or virtual, a dialogue between different
fields of practice or even a dialogue between different voices of the same
individual.

The dialogic perspective allows the interplay among communication, context,
action, and meaning, being viewed as a holistic and systemic outcome of the
human linguistic manifestations. A strict separation of competence and
performance, between language as an abstract system of rules and language as
use, that displays “language-internal, cognitive and social factors” (Kempson
2017, 197), is no longer in line with modern linguistic research. The
perspectives have changed in time and, given the development of computational
models of dialogue, there has appeared a more flexible perspective, Dynamic
Syntax, which primarily considers the natural process of language use based on
“shifting goals, shifting contents and shifting contexts” (Kempson 2017, 203)
or goal-oriented sequences of action.




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