Final CfP: CADAAD 2012

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THE INDEXICAL ZERO POINT
 IN MOBILE TELEPHONE CONVERSATIONS

By
Gbenga Ibileye (phD)
Depatment of English
Ahmadu Bello University,
Zaria, Nigeria
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The belief that language is designed for use in face to face interaction (Stubbs 1983), especially in view of the use of deictic expressions, requires some qualification considering the emergence of technology which has made face to face interaction in human communication almost unnecessary. The telephone, for instance would be used with the presumption or assumption that two people have broken the barriers of space in their interaction. This will shape the structure of the exchange between interlocutors. The revolution in telephony has however been taken a notch higher with the evolution of the Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM), which makes it possible for interlocutors to mobilely interact with their points of respective location and expectedly, their view-points constantly changing. The general preoccupation of linguistic pragmatics allows for the interrogation of the peculiarity of language use in the context of mobile telephony. The goal of this paper is to examine how interlocutors utilize the instrumentality of indexical expressions, which in general terms are said to be some of the most salient features by which pragmatic connections are established in the structure of conversational exchanges (Lyons 1981, Leech 1993, Levinson 1993, Mey 2001), to encode their locations relative to their co-interlocutors and to other mutually shared locations, persons and times. Using data from mobile telephone exchanges in Nigeria, the paper asserts that the use of indexicals in mobile telephone conversations differs markedly from their use in other language situations. 
REFERENCES
 Lyons, J. (1981) Language, Meaning and Context. London: Fontana.
Leech, G.N. (1993) Principles of Pragmatics London: Longman
Levinson, S.C. (1993) Pragmatics Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Mey, J. (2001) Pragmatics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Stubbs, M. (1983) An Introduction to Discourse Analysis. London: Oxford University Press.


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Dear colleagues,

 

**Final Call for Papers**

 

The fourth international conference Critical Approaches to Discourse
Analysis across Disciplines (CADAAD) will take place at the University of
Minho in Braga, Portugal, 4-6 July 2012.

The following distinguished scholars have confirmed their participation as
plenary speakers:

 

·         Professor Paul Chilton
<http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/profiles/Paul-Chilton/>  (Lancaster University)

·         Professor Michal Krzyzanowski
<http://ifa.amu.edu.pl/fa/krzyzanowski_michal>  (Adam Mickiewicz University)

·         Professor Michelle Lazar <http://profile.nus.edu.sg/fass/ellmml/>
(National University of Singapore)

·         Professor Juana Marín Arrese
<http://www.ucm.es/info/fing1/profesores/marin.html>  (Universidad
Complutense Madrid)

·         Professor Teun van Dijk <http://www.discourses.org/>  (Universitat
Pompeu Fabra)

CADAAD conferences are intended to promote current directions and new
developments in cross-disciplinary critical discourse studies.  We welcome
papers dealing with any contemporary social, scientific, political,
economic, or professional discourse/genre.  Possible topics include but are
not limited to the following:

 

·         (New) Media discourse

·         Party political discourse

·         Advertising 

·         Discourses of war and terrorism

·         Discourses of discrimination and inequality

·         Power, ideology and dominance in institutional discourse

·         Identity in discourse

·         Education discourses

·         Environmental discourses

·         Health communication

·         Language and the law

We especially welcome papers which re-examine existing frameworks for
critical discourse studies and/or which highlight and apply new
methodologies sourced from anywhere across the humanities, social and
cognitive sciences including but without being limited to:

 

·         Sociolinguistics

·         Functional Linguistics

·         Cognitive Linguistics

·         Corpus Linguistics

·         Pragmatics and Argumentation Theory

·         Conversation and Discourse Analysis

·         Discursive Psychology

·         Multimodality

·         Media Studies

·         Communication Studies

·         Political Science

Papers will be allocated 20 minutes with 10 minutes for questions.  The
language of the conference is English.  Abstracts of no more than 300 words
including references should be sent as MS Word attachment to
christopher.hart at northumbria.ac.uk before 18 December 2011.  Please include
in the body of the email but not in the abstract your name, affiliation and
email address.  Notifications of acceptance will be communicated by February
2012.

 

Further information is available at www.cadaad.net/cadaad_2012.  For any
other inquiries please contact Chris Hart
(Christopher.hart at northumbria.ac.uk) or the local organiser, Maria Zara
Simões Pinto Coelho (zara at ics.uminho.pt). 

 

 

Dr Christopher Hart

Senior Lecturer in Cognitive Linguistics

Northumbria University

www.hartcda.org.uk

 


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