21.1619, Calls: Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis, Socioling/Japan

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Date: 01-Apr-2010
From: Etsuko Oishi < etsuko at fujijoshi.ac.jp >
Subject: 3rd One-day Workshop on Pragmatics

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Date: Sat, 03 Apr 2010 23:05:35
From: Etsuko Oishi [etsuko at fujijoshi.ac.jp]
Subject: 3rd One-day Workshop on Pragmatics

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Full Title: 3rd One-day Workshop on Pragmatics 

Date: 09-Sep-2010 - 09-Sep-2010
Location: Sapporo, Japan 
Contact Person: Etsuko Oishi
Meeting Email: etsuko at fujijoshi.ac.jp

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Philosophy of Language; Pragmatics;
Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 01-Jul-2010 

Meeting Description:

3rd One-day Workshop on Pragmatics: Context, Contextualization and
Entextualization, at Fuji 
Women's University in Sapporo

Dates:
9th of September, 2010
Plenary Speaker:
Anita Fetzer, University of Wuerzburg,

Organized by:
Department of English Language and Culture, Fuji Women's University, Kita 16
Nishi 2, Kita-ku, 
Sapporo, 001-0016, Japan

The goal of this workshop is to examine the complexity of context (and its
multifaceted and multilayered nature) and communicative acts in context.
Researchers in related areas, including pragmatics, discourse analysis,
sociolinguistics, and the philosophy of language, are invited to join. 

Call for Papers

Abstracts are invited for talks (25 minutes + 15 minutes discussion) on any
topic related to the workshop topic, 'Context, Contextualization and
Entextualization'.

Context, Contextualization and Entextualization

Context can no longer be seen as an analytic prime but needs to be conceived of
as a relational construct anchored to the premises of indexicality and
intentionality. Rather than being looked upon as an external constraint on
linguistic performance, context relates communicative action, it relates
communicative acts and their surroundings, it relates individual participants
and their individual surroundings, and it relates the set of individual
participants and their communicative acts to their surroundings. Under this
interpretation of context, communication is both context-creating and
context-dependent (Bateson 1972) and in communication context is imported and
invocated (Levinson 2003). In discourse, context is analysed as a product of
language use, as interactionally constructed and as negotiated. Constructed
context is also foregrounded in the discourse, as is explained by the concept of
entextualization, which is the process by which texts are produced by extracting
discourse from its original context and reifying it as a bounded object (Park
and Bucholtz 2009).

Context has been conceptualized with respect to the dichotomies of figure versus
ground, and given-and-there versus re-constructed, it has been assigned the
status of a dynamic construct, and it has been looked upon as never saturated
(Goodwin and Duranti 1992). Furthermore, it has been assigned the status of a
relational construct (Fetzer and Akman 2002) relating communicative acts and
their surroundings, relating communicative acts, relating individual actors and
their surroundings, and relating the set of individual actors and their
communicative acts to their surroundings. It has been further refined by the
differentiation between social context, sociocultural context, linguistic
context (or co-text) and cognitive context, and between micro, meso and macro
contexts (Fetzer 2004).

Degrees of connectedness between context and communicative acts are subject to
debate. Such connectedness might be taken minimally as the one between
indexicals and the context, or as pragmatic "situatedness" of communicative acts
in context (Bach 1994, Cappelen and Lepore 2005, 
Kaplan 1989, Mey 2001, Recanati 2004).

The goal of this workshop is to examine the complexity of context (and its
multifaceted and multilayered nature) and communicative acts in context,
tackling one (or more) of the following aspects:

- the connectedness between the indexicality of social action and context(s)
- the connectedness between intentionality of communicative action and context(s)
- the connectedness between illocutionary acts and context(s)
- the connectedness between micro contexts and their embedding contexts (for
instance, linguistic constructions seen as a constitutive part of utterances;
locutionary and illocutionary acts seen as constitutive parts of speech acts; or
meta-representations; or illocutionary-force-indicating devices,
contextualization cues or other types of connectives)
- the connectedness between meso contexts and their embedding contexts (for
instance, genre, speech event, activity type, frame or communicative project)
- the connectedness between macro context (for instance, culture, institution
and society) and their embedded meso/micro contexts
- context(s) interactionally constructed and negotiated in discourse
- entextualization of producing texts

References
Bach, Kent (1994): Conversational implicature. Mind and Language 9, 124-162.
Bateson, Gregory (1972): Steps to an ecology of mind. New York: Chandler
Publishing Company. 
Cappelen, Herman and Lepore, Ernie (2005): Insensitive Semantics. Malden, MA:
Blackwell.
Fetzer, Anita and Akman, Varol (2002): Contexts of social action: guest editors'
introduction. Language and Communication 22(4): 391-402.
Fetzer, Anita (2004): Recontextualizing context: grammaticality meets
appropriateness. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
Goodwin, Charles and Duranti, Alessandro (1992): Rethinking context: an
introduction. In A. Duranti and C. Goodwin (eds.), Rethinking Context. Language
as an Interactive Phenomenon, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1-42.
Kaplan, David (1989): Demonstratives. In J. Almog, J. Perry, and H. Wettstein
(eds.), Themes from Kaplan. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 481-563.
Levinson, Stephen C. (2003): Contextualizing 'contextualization cues'. In:
Eerdmans, Susan, Prevignano, Carlo and Thibault, Paul (eds.), Language and
interaction. Discussions with John J. Gumperz. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 31-40.
Mey, Jacob L. (2001): Pragmatics. Oxford: Blackwell.
Park, Joseph Sung-Yul and Bucholtz, Mary (2009): Public transcripts:
entextualization and linguistic representation in institutional contexts. Text &
Talk 5, 485-502.
Recanati, François (2004): Literal meaning. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Please send a one-page abstract with a separate page specifying the authors'
name, affiliation, postal address, and e-mail address, to the addresses below
before the 1st of July (the message title should be 'Context, Contextualization
and Entextualization'). Abstracts will be blind peer-reviewed, and notification
of acceptance will be around the 15th of July, 2010.

engdept at fujijoshi.ac.jp 
Department of English Language and Culture, Fuji Women's University, Kita 16
Nishi 2, Kita-ku, 
Sapporo, 001-0016, Japan

For further enquiries:
Etsuko Oishi
Fuji Women's University
Kita 16 Nishi 2, Kita-ku, 
Sapporo 001-0016, Japan
tel: +81 (0)11 736 5395
fax: +81 (0)11 709 8541
e-mail: etsuko at fujijoshi.ac.jp

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