33.1699, Confs: English; Sociolinguistics/Australia

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Date: Thu, 12 May 2022 21:35:24
From: Elisabeth Reber [ereber at uni-bonn.de]
Subject: Searching historical recordings: Towards a diachronic analysis of social interaction

 
Searching historical recordings: Towards a diachronic analysis of social interaction 

Date: 26-Jun-2023 - 02-Jul-2023 
Location: Brisbane, Australia 
Contact: Elisabeth Reber 
Contact Email: ereber at uni-bonn.dee 

Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics 

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Meeting Description: 

Searching historical recordings: Towards a diachronic analysis of social
interaction

Elisabeth Reber (University of Bonn / University of Würzburg), Nadine Proske
(IDS Mannheim)

Despite the pioneering work on action formation in journalistic questioning in
press conferences at the White House during the post-war period between 1953
and 2000 (e.g., Clayman / Heritage 2002, Clayman et al. 2006), the study of
historical recordings from an interactional perspective has only recently
found an increased interest (cf. Couper-Kuhlen 2021, Reber 2021).
Nevertheless, questions of how interactional resources, practices, actions,
and activities may evolve in a shared enterprise in ''communities of
practice'' (Lave / Wenger 1991) over time have remained largely
under-researched to date.

In this panel, we invite contributions which address the diachronic study of
social interaction from various angles. Possible topics may include, but are
not limited to:
- Suitable datasets, data collection and constitution. Change in social
interaction has been mainly investigated in English institutional media
settings. What datasets are available across linguistic and social contexts
and lend themselves to a diachronic analysis? How can we collect and
constitute new data to build historical corpora?
- Methodological implications. The diachronic study of social interaction
requires an adapted methodological toolkit to depict processes of change over
time, involving, e.g., quantification, and larger corpora. What methodological
steps should be considered in diachronic study?
- Analytic case studies. So far, most studies have focussed on processes of
change, most notably grammaticalization, in synchronic datasets (e.g., Mulder
/ Thompson 2008). How does the study of historical data broaden our
understanding in terms of qualitative and quantitative changes, ranging from
the micro level to more global levels of linguistic and interactional
structures? What language-specific and / or universal findings can be made,
contributing to our theoretical understanding of historical processes of
change in social interaction?

Citations:
- Clayman, Steven E. and John Heritage. 2002. Questioning presidents:
Journalistic deference and adversarialness in the press conferences of
Eisenhower and Reagan. Journal of Communication 52: 749-777.
- Clayman, Steven E., Marc Elliott, John Heritage, and Laurie L. McDonald.
2006. Historical trends in questioning presidents 1953–2000. Presidential
Studies Quarterly 36: 561-83.
- Couper-Kuhlen, Elizabeth. 2021. Language over time: Some old and new uses of
OKAY in American English. Interactional Linguistics 1(1): 33-63.
- Lave, Jean and Etienne Wenger. 1991. Situated Learning: Legitimate
peripheral participation . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Mulder, Jean and Sandra A. Thompson. 2008. The grammaticalization of but as
a final particle in English conversation. In Ritva Laury (ed.),
Crosslinguistic Studies of Clause Combining: The multifunctionality of
conjunctions. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 179-204.
- Reber, Elisabeth. 2021. Quoting in Parliamentary Question Time. Exploring
recent change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
 






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