35.304, Calls: A Linguistic Lens on Narratives in Professional Settings

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Subject: 35.304, Calls: A Linguistic Lens on Narratives in Professional Settings

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Date: 24-Jan-2024
From: Cecilia Lazzeretti [cecilia.lazzeretti at unibz.it]
Subject: A Linguistic Lens on Narratives in Professional Settings


Full Title: A Linguistic Lens on Narratives in Professional Settings

Date: 16-May-2024 - 18-May-2024
Location: Brixen/Bressanone, Italy
Contact Person: Cecilia Lazzeretti
Meeting Email: aiabrixen2024 at unibz.it
Web Site: https://www.aiabrixen2024.com

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis
Subject Language(s): English (eng)
Language Family(ies): Germanic

Call Deadline: 15-Mar-2024

Meeting Description:

Since the narrative turn in the 1990s there has been ongoing academic
interest in the role of narrative as a meaning-making practice that
reaches across time and place, and is reflected not only in ‘grand
narratives’, or broad cultural scripts, but also in situated social
realities and everyday oral and written practices. It is widely
recognized that narratives are used to express and negotiate both
individual and collective identities, which are performed through a
variety of communicative modes and codes (De Fina, 2015; Fairclough,
1995). We are socialized in narrative frames of mind from an early
age, and we continue to tell stories throughout our lives, in both
personal and professional domains.

In narratological research, narratives have historically been
characterized as being driven by micro components, the “basic elements
of narrative” (Herman, 2009), which Toolan identifies as a combination
of “events, characters and settings” (1988: p. 12), providing a
minimal form that captures core problems of individuals and societies,
drives stories forward, and makes them coherent. Departing from
Labov’s (1972) influential model of naturally occurring narratives,
more recent studies have explored ‘small stories’ (Georgakopoulou,
2006; Bamberg and Georgakopoulou, 2008), an “umbrella term that
captures a gamut of underrepresented narrative activities” (Bamberg
and Georgakopoulou, 2008: p. 381) and include a variety of texts with
which we are engaged in professional and public settings, such as news
stories, social media posts, emails, instant messages, reports,
proposals, case studies, clinical notes, ethnographic interviews, etc.
These texts not only crosscut the spoken, written, and electronic
modality, but are increasingly multi-modal. This multi-dimensional
complexity reveals “the reflexive relationship between discourse and
social change”, highlighting how each informs and drives the other
(Candlin et al., 2017: p. 217). Furthermore, in professional domains,
stories are often made not only to be told, but also to be sold, and
emerge from multiple stakeholders’ collaboration, which complicates
any assumption about the writer’s creativity and freedom of
expression.

Research on professional discourse follows various lines of inquiry
and offers diverse socio-critical perspectives on the use of language
in institutionalized and workplace contexts. How are social and
personal identities performed through the process of storying within
professional discourse communities? Which genres are preferred over
others in specific social groups and professional interactions? Which
heterogeneous practices of intertextuality and interdiscursivity
(Candlin and Maley, 1997) emerge in professional communication? How is
narrative stance-taking constructed? How is the communicative success
of the story evaluated? Do discursive practices in institutional
settings maintain a critical distance from dominant ideologies or
reproduce them? What ethical potential and risks are associated with
different strategies for narrating experiences in professional
contexts? What lexical and morphosyntactic features are typical of
specific narrative texts? How are narrative and discourse analysis
interrelated? These are some of the questions the AIA 2024 Seminar “A
Linguistic Lens on Narratives in Professional Settings” seeks to
explore.

Plenary Speakers

Paola Catenaccio, University of Milan
Alexandra Georgakopoulou, King’s College, London
Camilla Vasquez, University of South Florida

Organising Committee

Maria Cristina Gatti (chair)
Martina Irsara
Cecilia Lazzeretti
Graham Burton
Francesca Vitali
Laura Narisano

Scientific Committee

Giuseppe Balirano
Graham Burton
Paola Catenaccio
Manuela D’Amore
Massimiliano Demata
Maria Cristina Gatti
Alexandra Georgakopoulou
Martina Irsara
Cecilia Lazzeretti
Bruna Mancini
Marilena Parlati
Irene Ranzato
Camilla Vasquez

Call for Papers:

We invite reflections on English-language narratives in professional
settings from different research areas and disciplines. We
particularly welcome contributions from PhD students and emerging
scholars from a range of theoretical and methodological approaches,
such as, but not limited to, conversation analysis, discourse
analysis, critical discourse analysis, genre analysis, corpus
linguistics, contrastive linguistics, cognitive linguistics, and
ethnography of communication.

Possible topics to be explored include, but are not limited to:

Academic writing and speaking
Corporate and organizational communication
Culture, cultural studies, cultural promotion, cultural mediation
Education
Environment and environmentalism
Health and medicine
Legal practice
News, mass media, social media
Politics
Science and technology
Social work and welfare
Travel and tourism

Abstract Submission and Timeline

Submissions can be made by AIA members only. For information about AIA
membership, see: https://www.anglistica.it/join-aia/.

We are accepting abstracts for 20-minute presentations, with 10
minutes for questions and discussion. Abstracts will be 250–300 words
(not including references). Please use the APA 7 citation style for
references.



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