[Linganth] CfP for a special issue about Evidence for review by Anthropological Linguistics

[Sonia Das]

Dear colleagues,

I am putting together a special issue proposal solicited by *Anthropological
Linguistics *(editor, David Tavárez) entitled, "Past-Lives and After-Lives
of Evidence: Theorizing Certainty in Knowledge Production," which is based
on a recent SLA conference panel that I co-organized with Hyemin Lee.

We require *one more author* to complete the proposal for this special
issue and are seeking someone who will write a research article speaking to
the conference panel's theme and works with material in a *non-Indo-European
language*. If you are interested and would like to submit a short abstract
(250 words) or inquire further about this topic or proposal, please reach
out to me.

Here is the long abstract from the SLA panel (to be tweaked once the full
roster of authors is completed).


*Past-Lives and After-Lives of Evidence:Theorizing Certainty in Knowledge
Production*

“Evidence” draws our attention to issues of certainty and problems of
objectivity and subjectivity in everyday interactions with data and
information. One way to examine how evidence “lives” is by examining how
individuals or groups interact with, think about, and communicate evidence.
This panel revisits groundbreaking scholarship on the dialogic mediation of
evidence discussed by Jane Hill and Judith Irvine in *Responsibility and
Evidence in Oral Discourse* (1992), which gave rise to approaches that
incorporate theories of language ideology, interdiscursivity, and
translation to investigate how evidence and evidential forms presuppose and
entail social action (Jacquemet, Haas, and Shuman 2019; Kuipers 2013;
López-Espino 2023; O’Barr 2014). We follow Hill and Irvine’s argument that
evidence “is complex in its dimensions, and highly variable in the range of
potential dimensions which may be relevant in interaction” (4) to examine
the past-lives and after-lives of evidence ethnographically. We ask, first,
how do communicative practices transform tokens of data and information
into different types of evidence, what are the (e)valuations emergent in
these typifications, and how are they being indexed across speech events?
Second, which language ideologies inform how data and information are
translated into evidence and whether evidence maintains or surrenders its
authoritative status over time to resume earlier or adopt alternative
forms? Third, how is the relationship between the past-lives and
after-lives of evidence influenced by the social, political, and economic
pathways shaping the interactional uptakes of evidential forms? We conclude
with our reflections on the relationship between evidence and
anthropological knowledge.

All the best,
Sonia

Sonia N. Das, Ph.D. (she/her/hers)
Associate Professor
Department of Anthropology
New York University
sd99 at nyu.edu <sonia.das at nyu.edu>
212-992-7476

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