[Dgkl] Beitragsaufruf für ein Themenheft zum multimodalen Stance-taking

[Elisabeth Zima]

Liebe Listenmitglieder,

Auf diesem Wege möchte ich Sie alle auf ein geplantes Themenheft zu
Stance-taking in Embodied and Virtual Interaction aufmerksam machen,
das ich zusammen mit meinen Kolleg:innen Silva Ladewig, Geert Brône und
Kurt Feyaerts herausgeben werde und das in Frontiers in Psychology
erscheinen soll.

Eine Beschreibung des Themas und der Forschungsfragen, die wir in
diesem Zusammenhang für besonders relevant halten, finden Sie im
englischsprachigen Call for Papers am Ende dieser Nachricht. Weitere
Informationen, insbesondere zu den Einreichungsfristen, finden Sie
unter

https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/57395/stance-taking-in-embodied-and-virtual-interaction

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Mit den besten Grüßen
Elisabeth, Silva, Geert und Kurt

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PD. Dr. Elisabeth Zima
Universität Freiburg
Germanistische Linguistik
Platz der Universität 3
79085 Freiburg


CALL FOR PAPERS:

A fundamental property of human language is its ability to
simultaneously represent subjects, objects or events, and express the
speaker’s stance towards these representations. The notion of
stance-taking involves a positioning along three different axes:
epistemic (the distribution of knowledge, e.g. by expressing certainty
or uncertainty), affective (the expression of attitudes and feelings),
and deontic (the expression of desirability or necessity of an action).


(Psycho)linguistics and neighboring fields have a long track record in
the study of stance-taking as a socially contextualized and recognized
interpersonal phenomenon, focusing on the lexical and grammatical
resources that language users have at their disposal to communicate
stance, but also on the cognitive processes underlying this
positioning. In addition, the phenomenon has been studied extensively
in different communicative settings (from spontaneous face-to-face
communication to institutional and mediated forms of interaction), from
different disciplinary angles (Interactional Linguistics,
Ethnomethodology, Cognitive Psychology HCI Research, etc.) and using
different empirical methods (from controlled experiments to qualitative
and quantitative corpus analysis).

Recent studies have explored the ways in which embodied resources such
as hand gestures, body posture, facial expressions and eye gaze play a
role in the expression of stance (see Andries et al. 2023 for a
systematic literature review). What is largely missing to date,
however, is systematic empirical research that shows the interplay of
these resources in the realization of multimodal stance acts, as well
as the cognitive processes that drive the choice of these resources. 

The goal of this Research Topic is to collect original research that
helps to bridge this gap, by zooming in on either the co-occurrence of
(i.e. ‘multimodal packages’) or interdependence between different
semiotic resources (i.e. sequential relationship within or across
speakers). Although the focus is on language in interaction, the Topic
explicitly aims to unite a variety of methodological approaches,
ranging from the study of naturally occurring interactions to carefully
controlled experiments that tap into the cognitive underpinnings of
multimodal stance-taking.

Apart from the basic question on how stance is multimodally construed
and negotiated in spoken and signed face-to-face interaction, the
Research Topic also wants to explore the strategies that interlocutors
employ to express stance in mediated forms of interaction. More
specifically, given the recent surge in the use of video conferencing
and virtual communication tools and the (public) availability of
corpora of interactions using such tools, we can empirically study the
affordances and constraints of different communicative settings.

With this Research Topic on Stance-Taking in embodied and virtual
interaction, we aim to collect original research on this emerging
theme, with a particular focus on empirical studies that present a
decidedly multimodal approach to this phenomenon. We invite
contributors to present work that deals with the following questions:

- Which recurrent multimodal patterns can be identified for the
expression of stance in spoken and signed interaction?

- How are multimodal stance acts negotiated interactionally and
embedded sequentially?

- What are the cognitive processes underpinning the expression and
negotiation of stance in interaction?

- What are the similarities and differences in the multimodal
realization of stance across languages?

- What is the impact of medium on the strategies that interlocutors
employ to express stance?

- What is the interplay between the local dimensions of stance-taking
(including its sequential embeddedness) and its more global effects in
terms of interpersonal relationships, emotion work and identity
construction?

- Which quantitative, qualitative or mixed-methods approaches can
provide valuable insights into multimodal stance-taking phenomena? How
can researchers tap into the underlying dynamic mental processes
involved in the construal and negotiation of stance?

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