[Linganth] 'Dynamic Figurations' Silverstein Conference : Montreal, September 9/10

[Luke Fleming]

Dear Linguistic Anthropologists,

It is with pleasure that we announce the upcoming conference, Dynamic Figurations: Context and Culture in the Work of Michael Silverstein<https://javierdomingo9.wixsite.com/dynamic-figurations>. The conference will be held at the University of Montreal on September 9 and 10 in C-3061 of the Pavillon Lionel-Groulx. The first session begins at 9am on Saturday, September 9.

The conference focuses on the ‘middle period’ of Silverstein’s career (roughly 1990-2005) – specifically, his innovative work on interactional and denotational textuality, the poetic function, and his elaboration of an understanding of culture as the projected context of social action.

The conference is the second of three planned events to commemorate and carry forth the path-breaking scholarship of our dear departed colleague. The first, held at Harvard University in the spring of this year, focused on the early period of Silverstein’s career. The third, focusing on the last 15 years of his career, will be held at the University of Chicago in the spring of 2024.

If you are unable to attend the conference in person, we hope that you will be able to join the simulcast of the event via Zoom. You can register for the Zoom link through the following website:

https://javierdomingo9.wixsite.com/dynamic-figurations/online-conference

Please find a program for the conference pasted below (as well as at the link provided above). We hope to see you there, whether in person or virtually!

Luke Fleming
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
Université de Montréal


Dynamic Figurations:
Context and Culture in the Work of Michael Silverstein

Université de Montréal, September 9 & 10, 2023
C-3061, Pavillon Lionel-Groulx



Saturday, September 9

9:00 – 9:15

Figures and Diagrams: Introductory Remarks on Silverstein on Context and Culture

Luke Fleming (Université de Montréal)



Panel I. Text Structures: What Poetic Patterns Project

9:15 – 11:40

Moderator: Kevin Tuite (Université de Montréal)



9:25 – 10:10

* Revisiting the Pragmatic “Poetry” of Prose

Constantine Nakassis (University of Chicago)



10:10 – 10:55

* Textuality, Genre, and the Appearance of the Human: Creating Intersubjectivity with Chatbots
Courtney Handman (University of Texas at Austin)

10:55 – 11:40
* Metricalization and “Containerization” in Georgian Drinking Cultures
Paul Manning (University of Trent)

11:40 – 12:45 Lunch


Panel II. Iconic Indexicality, Ritual Semiosis and the Emblematicity of Culture

12:45 – 15:10

Moderator: Christine Jourdan (Concordia University)


12:55 – 13:40
* The Semiotics of Atmosphere: Sonic Materiality as Ritual Semiosis in Mauritian Muslim Devotional Voices
Patrick Eisenlohr (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen)

13:40 – 14:25
* Other Orientations: Space and Context
Kamala Russell (University of Chicago)

14:25 – 15:10
* “Do you know who I am?!”: Inversion, Interdiscursivity and Dynamic (Re)figuration in Vietnamese Denunciation Ritual
Jack Sidnell (University of Toronto)

15:10 – 15:40 Coffee break


Panel III. From Translation to Transduction: Mediating Between Languages-in-Cultures

15:40 – 17:20

Moderator: Charles Zuckerman (University of California, San Diego)



15:50 – 16:35

* The Secret Life of Sources: Journalistic Epistemics and Translation in Middle East Reporting in The New York Times, 1970-2022

Alejandro Paz (University of Toronto)

16:35 – 17:20

* On Indexical Alignment: Revisiting Silverstein’s “Transduction” and the Possibility of Material Semiotics

Miyako Inoue (Stanford University)



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Sunday, September 10



Panel IV: ‘Language’ and ‘Culture’ after “Language-in-Culture”
9:00 – 12:10
Moderator: Stanton Wortham (Boston College)

9:10 – 9:55
* Expertise and the Pragmatics of Truth
James Slotta (University of Texas at Austin)

9:55 – 10:40
* The Indeterminacy of Discourse Analysis: What Are We Analyzing?
Angela Reyes (Hunter College)

10:40 – 11:25
* Metapragmatics in Bodily and Moral Kinship
Rupert Stasch (University of Cambridge)

11:25 – 12:10
* A Dynamic Figuration of the Total Linguistic Fact
Nicholas Harkness (Harvard University)

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