27.3252, Calls: Disc Analysis, Pragmatics, Psycholing, Socioling, Text/Corpus Ling/UK

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Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2016 12:47:03
From: elda weizman [ekda.weizman at biu.ac.il]
Subject: Constructing Ordinariness across Media Genres

 
Full Title: Constructing Ordinariness across Media Genres 

Date: 16-Jul-2017 - 21-Jul-2017
Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom 
Contact Person: Elda Weizman
Meeting Email: elda.weizman at biu.ac.il

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Pragmatics; Psycholinguistics; Sociolinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 15-Oct-2016 

Meeting Description:

Session Conveners: Elda Weizman, Bar-Ilan University and Anita Fetzer, 
Augsburg University

In on doing “being ordinary” Sacks (1984) examines the “event’s ordinariness,
its usualness” (1984: 414) and how “being ordinary” (ibid.) is done. Departing
from the interactional-sociolinguistic premises that ‘being ordinary’ is (1)
an interactional achievement and thus constructed, reconstructed and
deconstructed in communication, and (2) that ordinariness is brought into the
discourse and brought out in the discourse, this panel investigates the
(re-/de-)-construction of ordinariness, that is ‘being ordinary’, in the
context of media discourse, paying particular attention to its
(re-/de-)-construction across media genres, and to its strategic use in order
to achieve particular goals in media discourse by both professional and
non-professional participants. Ordinariness may be a constitutive part of the
media discourse, as is the case with reality shows, audience-participation TV
programmes and participatory journalism online, but it may also be
(re-/de-)-constructed locally to achieve particular perlocutionary effects,
for instance when public figures such as politicians assign their private
lives the status of an object of talk in the context of political discourse,
for instance in Prime Minister’s Questions, political interviews and political
speeches.

Media discourse has been described as public discourse, institutional
discourse and professional discourse, which is generally produced in
accordance with institutional constraints on the macro level, genre-specific
constraints on the meso level and genre-specific contextual constraints and
requirements on the micro level. Unlike face-to-face interaction, media
discourse allows the uncoupling of space and time and thus communication with
distant others, and this also holds for the (re-/de-)-construction of
ordinariness, which is also a public endeavour and which is generally produced
and interpreted in accordance with institutional and genre-specific
constraints. The (re-/de-)-construction of ordinariness is also frequently
followed up in media discourse and may even be assigned the status of an
object of talk (Fetzer & al. 2015, Weizman & Fetzer 2015). The self- and
other-positioning (Harré & Van Langenhove,1999)  as ordinary is generally done
by foregrounding ordinariness and at the same time backgrounding
non-ordinariness anchored to professional or expert identities.

This panel examines the strategic construction, reconstruction and
deconstruction of ordinariness across media genres done by professional
participants (e.g., politicians, journalists, scientists, artists) and by
ordinary people participating in media discourse (e.g., viewers, members of
the audience, on-line commenters, bloggers etc.). It focuses on contexts in
which (1) professional and non-professional participants position themselves
as ordinary, (2) addressees and significant others are positioned as ordinary,
in various genres of public talk. Discursive strategies to bring about
ordinariness in media discourse may include, for instance, small stories,
quotations, conversational style, irony, naming and addressing as well as
references to the private-public interface.

The panel encourages the use of compositional methodology anchored to:

1) Sociopragmatics as regards context, sequentiality, participant format,
communicative action, implicature
2) Corpus linguistics as regards quantification of data in order to identify
possible communicative patterns across discourse domains and cultures
3) Discourse analysis as regards the definition of genre
4) Social psychology as regards face and face-work, and evasiveness.


Call for Papers:

Contributions are invited to this panel accepted for the IPRA conference. 

Please submit via the official IPRA site:
http://ipra.ua.ac.be/main.aspx?c=.CONFERENCE15&n=1516. 

Submissions should follow the directions on the above page.




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