33.3186, Calls: Pragmatics/Belgium

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Subject: 33.3186, Calls: Pragmatics/Belgium

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Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2022 17:58:17
From: Clara Kindler [kindler at europa-uni.de]
Subject: Multimodal Stancetaking – the (a) typical case of taking a stance?

 
Full Title: Multimodal Stancetaking – the (a) typical case of taking a stance? 

Date: 11-Jul-2023 - 16-Jul-2023
Location: Brussels, Belgium 
Contact Person: Clara Kindler
Meeting Email: kindler at europa-uni.de
Web Site: https://pragmatics.international/page/Brussels2023 

Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics 

Call Deadline: 01-Nov-2022 

Meeting Description:

Call for abstracts for a panel on Multimodal Stancetaking – the (a) typical
case of taking a stance? on the occasion of the next conference of the
International Pragmatics Association (IPrA)
 
Held in Brussels: 9-14 July 2023
Panel organizer: Cornelia Müller (cmueller at europa-uni.de)

The goal of this panel is to offer a cross-disciplinary space for discussion
and sharing of research on the multimodal shape of stancetaking. Despite a
rich and diverse literature on stance and stancetaking (Du Bois 2007;
Englebretson 2007; Dancygier 2012), the role of gesture, posture, and prosody,
as aspects of this communicative activity remain only scarcely studied.
Although Du Bois’ paper on the stance triangle mentions gesture several times
as one of the expressive forms that contribute to stancetaking and suggests
speaking of stancetaking as an activity rather than of stance as a phenomenon
of lexical semantics and textlinguistics his insight did not foster a
systematic inclusion of gesture, speech, and body movement in the study of
stancetaking. Some of the few exceptions come from anthropology and
conversation analysis (Goodwin et al. 2012; Ochs & Schieffelin 1989), gesture
studies (Bressem & Müller 2017), including shrugs and head tilts (Debras &
Cienki 2012) and prosody (Freeman 2015). More recently, and in a plea to
integrate conversation analytic and interactional perspectives on stance with
the usage-based approach of cognitive linguistics, Feyaerts, Brône, and Oben
(2017) lay out the significance of multimodal aspects of stancetaking
specifically with regard to alignment. Dancygier’s (2012) cognitive linguistic
work highlights the semantic complexity of stance which becomes further
complexified by the interplay of several modalities and by considering stance
as an interactional activity, rather than as a process of an individual
speaker. Against this backdrop, the panel invites contributions from different
theoretical and methodological backgrounds to jointly explore the shape of
stancetaking as a dynamic orchestration of gesture, posture, speech, and
prosody in the multimodal activity of taking a stance.  

References

Bressem, J. & Müller, C. (2017). The “Negative-Assessment-Construction” – A
multimodal pattern based on a recurrent gesture? In: Linguistics Vanguard. A
Multimodal Journal for the Language Sciences. Special Issue „Towards a
Multimodal Construction Grammar“, 3(s1).
Dancygier, B. (2012). Negation, stance verbs, and intersubjectivity. In E.
Sweetser & B. Dancygier (Eds.), Viewpoint in Language. A Multimodal
Perspective (69-96). Cambridge: CUP.
Debras, C. & Cienki, A. (2012) Some Uses of Head Tilts and Shoulder Shrugs
during Human Interaction, and Their Relation to Stancetaking. In Proceedings
of the ASE/IEEE International Conference on Social Computing, 932-937.
Du Bois, J. W. (2007). The Stance triangle. In R. Englebretson (Ed.),
Stancetaking in Discourse (139-182). Amsterdam: Benjamins.
Englebretson, R. (2007). Stancetaking in discourse: An introduction. In R.
Englebretson (Ed.), Stancetaking in Discourse. Subjectivity, evaluation,
interaction (1-25). Amsterdam: Benjamins.
Feyaerts, K., et al. (2017). Multimodality in interaction. In B. Dancygier
(Ed.), The Cambridge Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics (135-156). Cambridge:
CUP.
Freeman, V. (2015). Prosodic features of stance acts. The Journal of the
Acoustical Society of America, 138(3), 1838-1838.
Goodwin, M. et al. (2012). Emotion as Stance. In M.-L. Sorjonen & A. Perakyla
(Eds.), Emotion in Interaction (16-41). Oxford: OUP.
Ochs, E. & Schieffelin, B. (1989). Language has a heart. Text, 9, 7-25.


Call for Papers:

Abstract submission
Abstracts should have no more than 500 words. Abstracts have to be submitted 
via the conference website. Note that you have to become an IPrA member to
submit your abstract to the system. Submissions are for a 20-minute talk.
Submission deadline is November 1st (23:59 CET). Feel free to contact the
panel organizer in case of any further questions.




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