27.2806, Calls: Pragmatics/Ireland

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Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2016 11:31:44
From: Zohreh Eslami [zeslami at tamu.edu]
Subject: Complimenting Behaviour in Social Media

 
Full Title: Complimenting Behaviour in Social Media 

Date: 16-Jul-2017 - 21-Jul-2017
Location: Belfast, Ireland 
Contact Person: Zohreh Eslami
Meeting Email: zeslami at tamu.edu

Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics 

Call Deadline: 31-Jul-2016 

Meeting Description:

Panel for IPRA Conference 2017 (Belfast, 16-21 July 2017)  
                                                                              
                                 
Panel Organizers: 
María Elena Placencia (Birkbeck, University of London, UK)  
Anupam Das (Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode, India) 
Zohreh Eslami (Texas A&M, USA) 

Complimenting behaviour in social media 
IPrA 2017 Conference Panel (Belfast, 16-21 July 2017)
                                                     
Complimenting is a commonplace activity that can fulfil a range of discoursal,
instrumental, relational and other functions (cf. Golato, 2011; Jaworski,
1995; Kerbrat-Orecchioni, 1994; Sifianou, 2001; Wolfson & Manes, 1980).  
There is a wealth of research on the realization of compliments and compliment
responses in different languages and sociocultural contexts in relation to
face-to-face interactions (see Chen, 2010, for an overview). However, not much
attention has been given to online environments, and social media, in
particular, where complimenting is a conversational resource of widespread
use; indeed, in recent years, its (mis)use in some situations has been the
object of heated debate in the press, blogs and social media (cf. Quinn, 8 Sep
2015). Interesting findings are emerging from recent work on compliments and
compliment responses on SNSs sites such as Orkut (Das, 2010) and Facebook (cf.
Das, work-in-progress; Eslami, Jabbari, & Kuo, 2015; Maíz Arévalo & García
Gómez, 2013; Placencia & Lower, 2013; Placencia, Lower, & Powell, in press). 
Nonetheless, there is still a great deal to be explored  in relation to
Facebook and other sites such as LinkedIn, Twitter, MySpace, Tumblr and
Instagram: for example, how complimenting behaviour is shaped by technology
and whether SNSs and globalization processes are bringing about homogenized
behaviour (Sifianou, 2013); the objects of compliments and the form that
compliments take in these new environments, including the use of
multimodality; the functions compliments fulfil, who compliments who, how
compliments are perceived by different groups and how compliments are
responded to (or not). The aim of this panel is thus to advance our
understanding of complimenting behavior in social media as well as to
contribute to the discussion of methodological issues and challenges in the
examination of this mundane activity online.


Call for Papers: 

If interested, please contact Zohreh Eslami at zeslami at tamu.edu with a title
and a brief summary of the paper by July 31, 2016.  A full abstract of
approximately 250 words will need to be submitted to the panel organizers by
1st September 2016 and to IPRA, by 15 October 2016. 

Zohreh R. Eslami




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