[Linganth] AAA 2018 Session CFP: Metapragmatics of Political Talk

[Dana Osborne]

 Dear All,

We are looking for additional panelists for the 2018 AAA meetings in San
Jose for a proposed session focusing on the metapragmatics of political
talk in primarily non-US contexts.

AAA 2018 CFP
Session Title: *Metapragmatics of Political Talk*
Organizers: Dana Osborne and Katherine Martineau

Our working abstract is as follows:

In most of the contemporary world, political talk is a complicated and
contradictory beast. While a high degree of entextualization enables wide
circulation of political discourse across a variety of media, political
success often depends upon signaling participation in speech communities
that rely on linguistic resources to establish their distinctiveness. Thus
caught between the imperatives of distinction and smooth circulation,
political talk often becomes the focus of discourse that is a key source of
attention and ideological work — here, talk about political talk serves as
a window into what is considered to be “appropriate” and “good” versus what
is “out of bounds,” “subversive,” “treacherous” or “backwards.” Explicit
metapragmatic discourses about political talk, or performed meta-utterances
that comment on that talk, themselves thus become a prime medium for
establishing the frameworks for stances as they link up with dominant
institutions, ideologies, and social groups, but also offer a space for
redefining boundaries and making new claims to power. We seek papers that
investigate how and why special forms of political talk themselves become
the explicit focus of pointed ideological work -- current papers draw from
contemporary political contexts in the Philippines, India, and Poland. Of
special importance to this panel is an exploration of the ways that
metapragmatic discourses have taken shape in relation to local as well as
global orientations to “appropriate” and “inappropriate”  kinds of
political imaginings and performances. Here, mass and social media provide
pathways for political discourses to move outside of a given milieu,
presenting new problems of representation alongside new interpretations and
commentary. This session hopes to explore how talk about political talk is
a fertile territory for understanding the details of authority and moral
legitimacy, scalar relationships, questions of identity differentiation and
affiliation, and political futures.

Please contact Dana Osborne or Katherine Martineau with proposals on or
before March 30th -- we look forward to hearing from you.

Dana Osborne dana.osborne at ryerson.ca
Katherine Martineau kbmartin at binghamton.edu


-- 
Dana Osborne, PhD
Assistant Professor
Languages, Literatures and Cultures
Ryerson University
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