27.4, Calls: Anthropological Ling/France

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Subject: 27.4, Calls: Anthropological Ling/France

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Date: Mon, 04 Jan 2016 12:17:39
From: Yosra GHLISS [yosra.ghliss17 at gmail.com]
Subject: The Language-Being, Between Body and Technique: New Data, New Deal?

Full Title: The Language-Being, Between Body and Technique: New Data, New Deal? 
Short Title: RIAL 

Date: 23-Mar-2016 - 25-Mar-2016
Location: Montpellier, France 
Contact Person: Laurent Fauré
Meeting Email: 2016rial at gmail.com
Web Site: http://itic.univ-montp3.fr/RIAL2016/englishversion.html 

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 20-Jan-2016 

Meeting Description:

« Human 2.0 », « hybrided » or « augmented », « post/transhumanism », « robotic artifacts » of the behavior of communicating and active man, abundance of touch-screen interfaces: many are today the humanoid « avatars » and other imitations of human presence. So many identity and self-image issues, with, at both ends, either a promotion or an alteration of bodies. So many questions are involving also the relations between the body’s discourses with the subjects of language. 

This symposium aims to establish a dialogue between social sciences, neurosciences and engineering sciences. This dialog is anchored within the context of a certain societal urgency: in fragmenting our approaches to the body, do we not also weaken the unity of man and of his conceptions? In following with previous events linked to similar themes (Researcher in situ, Immersion through body, Norms and deviancies, Montpellier, 2014; Interacting bodies, Lyon, 2005), this international meeting proposes to broach the relation between body, language and technique, within the framework of an unprecedented interdisciplinary dialogue. 

In this perspective, and because it takes an interest in language related events in their link to social action, including technical knowledge (Duranti, 2002; Fornel, 1994; Goodwin, 2000), in its diversity (Bornand & Leguy, 2013; Lafont, 2004; Londei & Santone, 2013), linguistic anthropology takes a central position, postulating a continuity of communicating bodies, perceiving, feeling, thinking, interacting with both natural and artificial environments, in an analytic perspective aiming to avoid the atomizing of study subjects and their contextual uprooting. Through its interdisciplinary nature, this perspective is able to open a dialogue between the different approaches. In this way, the studies in this field, which are always anchored in an ethnographic context, interrogate the expressions of rationality and praxis (Goody, 1996/1999), in particular in investigations of affects and developmental difficulties (Ochs, 1989; Ochs & Solomon, 2010), of intentionality (Duranti, 2015) and 
 of mediated interactions (Jones & Schieffelin, 2009; Verdier, 2014). Most surely, the models developed in action neurosciences, as well as the works in engineering and robotics would benefit in being discussed through the outlook of these contextualist approaches (Kockelman, 2013). 

Researchers that question the discourses to the body within the framework of human-machine interactions are strongly encouraged to participate (Suchman, 2007): for example, philosophic works (Andrieu, 2008; Andrieu & Berthoz, 2011), sociologic (Le Breton, 2013), in communication sciences (Renucci, 2014) or neurosciences (Damasio, 2010)… One will crossover research in bodily techniques – of which depends language practice – and in action, mimics or the voice of the living body and the body that is lived. With a dialogue between works on enaction (Varela & al., 1991; Bottineau 2010) and on emersiology (Andrieu, 2015), the aim will be to discuss the manner in which social interactions are linked to linguistic resources and thus insure human existence through the entanglement of the body and the thought processes that accompany it.

Call for Papers: 

Submissions: before January 20, 2016
Acceptation: February 5, 2016
Symposium dates: March 23-25, 2016 

A choice of articles and contributions will be later published in various themed collections.

For full call information, see: http://itic.univ-montp3.fr/RIAL2016/englishversion.html#1

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