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Date: 01-Oct-2010
From: Christian Hoffmann < Christian.Hoffmann at phil.uni-augsburg.de >
Subject: The Pragmatics of Quoting in (New) Media
 

	
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Date: Sun, 03 Oct 2010 22:04:46
From: Christian Hoffmann [Christian.Hoffmann at phil.uni-augsburg.de]
Subject: The Pragmatics of Quoting in (New) Media

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Full Title: The Pragmatics of Quoting in (New) Media 
Short Title: PragofQuo 

Date: 03-Jul-2011 - 08-Jul-2011
Location: Manchester, United Kingdom 
Contact Person: Christian Hoffmann
Meeting Email: Christian.Hoffmann at phil.uni-augsburg.de

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Pragmatics; Semantics 

Call Deadline: 15-Oct-2010 

Meeting Description:

The pragmatics of quoting in (new) media

12th IPrA Manchester 2011
Wolfram Bublitz and Christian Hoffmann

This panel addresses the pragmatics of quoting as a metacommunicative 
act in (old and) new media. Surprisingly, there is still little linguistic research 
on this intriguing topic even though quoting is doubtless one of the most 
peculiar and also most frequent features in discourse; what is more, 
excessive quoting seems to be characteristic of several forms of CMC.

With Internet-based forms of CMC we refer to websites, weblogs, discussion 
fora and message boards, chats, emails, social networking sites (and 
others). They stand in between the medium, i.e. Internet-compatible network 
of computers and/or mobile devices, and the text, i.e. the sign-related 
discourse. Though not tangible like a computer or a book, forms of 
communication originate in information technology and emerge in the 
contextual embedding of the text. We adopt the established reading of 
quoting as the act of transferring a source text of an author A1 from its 
context to another (temporally and locally shifted) context by a quoter (A1 or 
A2) as a target text (quotation); to this we append the medium-induced 
amendment that the quoter can be non-human software (and quoting 
accordingly a process rather than an act).  With the advent of CMC, quoting 
has undergone a metamorphosis as to its forms, socio-technological 
potential of textual reproduction and manipulation, functional range and, in 
general, as to its pragmatics. 

Call For Papers

Abstracts are invited for 30-minute talks (20 minutes presentations plus 10
minutes for discussion). Abstracts should be anonymous and confined to 
one page (including examples and references) with 1-inch margins and a 
font no smaller than 11 point.

Please send a pdf-file to christian.hoffmann(at)phil.uni-augsburg.de. The
subject of the message should specify 'IPRA abstract', and the body of the
message should include author name(s), affiliation(s) and contact 
information (including email address), and the title of the abstract.

The language of the conference session is English, and abstracts
should be written in the language of presentation.

Important dates

October 15th 2010: Deadline for submission of abstracts
October 25th 2010: Notification of acceptance
July 3-8, 2011: IPRA Conference (Manchester)





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