[Linganth] AAA panel seeking additional panelists

[Rachel Flamenbaum]

Please see below for a panel co-organized by Rachel George and myself. We
already have several panelists and are seeking one or two more. Please be
in touch by replying to this email, or at either flamenbaum at csus.edu or
georgerl at whitman.org.

Cheers, all!
r.

Rachel Flamenbaum, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology
California State University Sacramento


Following on the productive SLA session approaching silence as social
action in digitally-mediated contexts, this panel builds on feedback,
ongoing research, and additional panelist contributions to further engage
with the ways in which situated silences taken on new and different
meanings in screen-based communication.

Taking a cue from classic situated approaches to silence in face-to-face
contexts (Basso 1970, Zimmerman & West 1975, Bauman 1983, Sattel 1983,
Sorrels 1983, Tannen & Saville-Troike 1985, Gal 1991, DeFrancisco 1991), as
well as more recent engagements with the pragmatics of silence in
conversation (c.f. Ephratt 2008, Frimpong 2010, Benus et al 2011, Heydon
2011, Haddix 2012, Hoey 2017), we aim to grapple with such questions as:
how is silence produced, experienced, and understood in mediated spaces?
How are communicative gaps felt and managed in digital, real-time
interaction? When is non-participation in online circulating discourses
made relevant as silence? Building on the SLA Social Justice Task Force's
2015 blog post
<http://linguisticanthropology.org/blog/2015/04/14/an-news-silent-meditation-speech-power-and-social-justice-by-the-committee-on-language-social-justice/>
reflecting
on the problematics of online (non)responses to social injustice, how are
the various possible political and personal meanings of
silence—suppression, complicity, power, judgement, avoidance, comfort, and
so on—reconfigured in mediated interaction?

            In carrying the classic work of scholars of silence-in-language
into screen-based settings, we seek panelists addressing the relevance of
non-participation vis-à-vis viral hashtags on social media; the place of
silence in autocratic language; the role of new media editors in silencing
or amplifying voices; ideological framings of silence across communicative
modes; and the pragmatics of managing silence in real-time
digitally-mediated interaction.
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