[Linganth] CFP on multimodal directives and children's language development

[E. Mara Green]

Dear all,
Please find below a CFP from Alan Rumsey, who also encourages others to
share this widely. Thank you! Please contact Alan directly with any
questions/submissions.

Call for papers:

All interested researchers are invited to submit an abstract to be
considered for a special issue on multimodal directives and children’s
language development.

Directives/requests have long been recognised as central to interactions
involving young children, and to their language learning. While early
studies (e.g., Ervin Tripp et al 1990) focused exclusively on directive
speech forms, directives are increasingly being studied within the context
of multimodal directive-response trajectories in which they occur, which
include not only speech or sign, but also gaze, gesture, touch and other
forms of bodily comportment (e.g., de León 2017, Goodwin and Cekaite 2018,
Gaskins and Frick 2023). For the proposed special issue, we invite
contributions with a multimodal focus on directives and the role they play
in children’s language learning – including deaf children learning sign
languages. (A possible additional focus could be on the role of directives
in children’s socialization to particular cultures, of which
language-learning is one aspect.)  We welcome proposals using a wide range
of theoretical approaches and methods. If interested, please send a 200-400
word abstract by March 30 to *alan.rumsey at anu.edu.au
<alan.rumsey at anu.edu.au>*. If your proposal is accepted, a near-final
version of your paper will be due in by July 30. Feedback on it will be
offered, and you will then have until August 30 to send us a final version,
to be submitted for review byLanguage Development Research.

References

De León, Lourdes 2017. Emerging learning ecologies: Mayan children's
initiative and correctional directives in their everyday enskilment
practices. Linguistics and Education 41:47-58.

Ervin-Tripp, S., Guo, J., & Lampert, M. (1990). Politeness and persuasion
in children’s control acts. Journal of Pragmatics, 14(2), 307–331.

Gaskins, D., & Frick, M. 2023. Embodiment in directive sequences: The case
of triadic interactions in a Polish-English bilingual family. International
Journal of Bilingualism, 27(1), 122-142.

Goodwin, M. H., & Cekaite, A. 2018. Embodied Family Choreography: Practices
of Control, Care, and Mundane Creativity London: Routledge.

If you have any queries, please send them to me at *Alan.Rumsey at anu.edu.au
<Alan.Rumsey at anu.edu.au>*

-- 
E. Mara Green (she/her/hers)
Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology
Barnard College, Columbia University

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