34.380, Calls: Applied Linguistics, Linguistic Theories, Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics/Germany

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Subject: 34.380, Calls: Applied Linguistics, Linguistic Theories, Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics/Germany

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Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:15:34
From: Alexander Haselow [haselow at uni-wuppertal.de]
Subject: Language in Social Interaction - International Workshop

Full Title: Language in Social Interaction - International Workshop 
Short Title: LISI2023 

Date: 07-Jul-2023 - 07-Jul-2023
Location: University of Wuppertal, Germany 
Contact Person: Alexander Haselow
Meeting Email: haselow at uni-wuppertal.de

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Linguistic Theories; Pragmatics 

Call Deadline: 20-Mar-2023 

Meeting Description:

Description

There is a long tradition of describing language use, grammar and conversation
from the viewpoint of an individual speaker's mind outside the world of social
interaction. This ''offline'' perspective on linguistic cognition and
interaction, which feeds into processing mechanisms residing ''inside'' the
individual speaker, has recently been questioned and expanded to include an
''online'' perspective on the speaker in concrete social interaction, which
pays tribute to the interaction dynamics between speakers and the responsive
character of language use in interactional encounters. For instance, speakers
usually build on each other's contributions and they use expressions whose
occurrence is tied to concrete communicative situations, thus creating a fluid
interplay of moves, structures, actions and thoughts that allows
co-participants to become ''one social unit of agency'' (Dingemanse 2020:12)
rather than acting as isolated agents (or minds). This explains why a large
amount of what speakers produce in a turn (an estimated 40%) in spontaneous
speech does not primarily serve building grammatical and semantic relations,
but is motivated by interaction management (e.g. backchanneling, response
elicitation), consideration of the listener's needs, and the organization of
information flow (e.g. managing discourse relations). All this leads to the
premise that language use and linguistic cognition are fundamentally different
when we are in interaction with others as compared to when we act outside
interactive contexts, as is evidenced in more recent studies in the fields of
social neuroscience (e.g. Pfeiffer et al. 2013; Schilbach et al. 2013), or in
recent interaction-based work in linguistics (e.g. Heine 2023).

Goals

By focusing on recent research in interaction-oriented linguistics and related
areas, this workshop seeks to bring together contributions to gain new
insights into language-related aspects of social interaction, moving away from
the individual-based perspective toward an interaction-based perspective. What
is it that separates the above-mentioned ''online'' from ''offline'' forms of
language use and linguistic cognition? This includes: 

1. understanding to which extent particular linguistic resources (e.g.
discourse markers, ''interactives'' such as backchannels, interjections or
response elicitors, prosody) and practices (e.g. turn co-constructions, joint
actions) contribute to the interaction dynamics between agents, 

2. understanding the cognitive mechanisms and processes involved in the
temporary coupling of two minds engaged in conversational interaction (e.g.
interactive alignment/ synchronization; establishing common ground;
conversational coordination, discourse processing, Theory of Mind).

Format:
20 minutes talk + 15 minutes for discussion; 
language used for presentations and in the discussions: English

Guest speakers
Bernd Heine (University of Cologne)
Haiping Long (University of Guangdong)

Practical information
Conference venue: University of Wuppertal, Germany 
Workshop date: 07 July 2023 
Organization: Alexander Haselow (University of Wuppertal) 

References
Dingemanse, Mark. 2020. The space between our heads. Aeon 4/2020.
Heine, Bernd. 2023. The Grammar of Interactives. Oxford: Oxford University
Press. 
Pfeiffer, Ulrich et al. 2013. Toward a neuroscience of social interaction.
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 7, 22.
Schilbach et al. 2013. Toward a second-person neuroscience. Behavioral Brain
Sciences 36.4, 393-414.

Call for Papers:

We invite contributions that expand our understanding of language-related
aspects of social interaction, moving away from the individual-based
perspective toward an interaction-based perspective. This includes: 

1. understanding to which extent particular linguistic resources (e.g.
discourse markers, ''interactives'' such as backchannels, interjections or
response elicitors, prosody) and linguistic practices (e.g. turn
co-constructions, joint actions) contribute to the interaction dynamics
between agents, 

2. understanding the cognitive mechanisms and processes involved in the
temporary coupling of two minds engaged in conversational interaction (e.g.
interactive alignment/ synchronization; establishing common ground;
conversational coordination, discourse processing, Theory of Mind).

Please send your abstract (max. 500 words without references) to:
haselow[at]uni-wuppertal.de

March 20, 2022: Deadline for submission of an abstract (around 500 words).
Abstracts have to be related to the topic of the workshop. The abstract should
provide sufficient detail to assess the contents of the paper that will be
based on it. 

April 10, 2022: Contributors will be informed of the outcome of the selection
process.

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