35.248, Calls: IADA - The Dialogic Dimension of the Digital

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Subject: 35.248, Calls: IADA - The Dialogic Dimension of the Digital

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Date: 18-Jan-2024
From: Razvan Saftoiu [razvan.saftoiu at unitbv.ro]
Subject: IADA - The Dialogic Dimension of the Digital


Full Title: IADA - The dialogic dimension of the digital
Short Title: IADA

Date: 12-Sep-2024 - 14-Sep-2024
Location: Brasov, Romania
Contact Person: Razvan Saftoiu
Meeting Email: iada-brasov at unitbv.ro
Web Site: https://iada-brasov.unitbv.ro/

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Pragmatics; Sociolinguistics

Call Deadline: 01-Jun-2024

Meeting Description:

The nature of dialogue has changed significantly in a digitally
interconnected society.  As a result, the question What is dialogue?
is more relevant than ever. Different disciplines have approached it
from various vantage points, including linguistics, philosophy,
ethics, communication, cultural anthropology, cognitive psychology,
sociology, argumentation, pragmatics, and logic, among others. The
sequence of action and reaction (Weigand 2010) has taken on new
implications in the digital medium.

Call for Papers:

We maintain dialogue as a central concept for this conference and aim
to identify and discuss its new dimensions as they emerge in the
digital medium.

The internet language has become complex, multimodal, worldwide and
culturally connected, and has transcended verbal manifestations. The
tools used in digital communication – social media platforms,
messaging apps, video conferencing tools – may influence the way
people communicate, promoting brevity in the form of quick reactions
(likes) and immediacy given the rapid pace of online interactions. The
digital offers the medium for multimodal encounters and the users –
digital natives and digital immigrants (Prensky 2001) – must adapt to
this complexity. Emojis, GIFs, photographs, cartoons, movies, music,
voices, and colours can all be used as actions and reactions, while
text is not always the first option for users. Although the form of
communication has changed, the process of meaning construction
develops alongside similar modes as in face-to-face dialogue: the bona
fide (the serious mode) and the non-bona fide (the humorous or the
figurative mode). Both transactional and social communicative purposes
are present in the digital medium, but the complexity of social and
professional interactions has increased tremendously. The task of
decoding meanings and functions of digital messages proves to be more
difficult due to “context dispersion”, i.e., the inability to control
the communicative context in terms of number of participants,
relationships between interlocutors, or the type of envisaged
response. Reactions (likes, set phrases, wishes, and customised
responses/messages) may be posted on the same platform/page in
response to the communicative action. Messages from one platform/page
can be copied, paraphrased, quoted, and commented on in other
platforms/pages. In such instances, we can talk about
“inter-reactions”.

We invite submissions (case studies and analyses) that explore the
dialogic dimension of the digital. Topics that are more specific
include, but are not limited to, the following:

    The Linguistics of the Digital – revealing the linguistic shifts
and innovations in the digital realm
    The Multimodal Dimension of Online Dialogues – exploring the
fusion of diverse modes of communication
    Distinguishing User Typology from a Dialogic Perspective –
analysing various user roles
    Genres and Narrative Forms in Digital Dialogues – investigating
the emergence of new genres and narrative structures
    Political and Social Engagement in the Digital Medium –
understanding the role of digital dialogue in shaping political and
social discourses
    Organisational Communication in the Digital Medium – examining the
implications of digital dialogue on organisational communication
    Teaching and Learning through Dialogic Education Technology –
evaluating the potential of dialogic educational technologies in the
digital learning landscape

We invite scholars, researchers, practitioners, and enthusiasts from
the fields of dialogue studies, pragmatics, discourse analysis, media
studies, sociolinguistics, humour studies, education to contribute
their insights and research findings to this conference on the
transformative power of dialogue in the online environment.



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