27.4233, Calls: Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics/Switzerland

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Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2016 15:30:09
From: Daniel Weiss [dawe at slav.uzh.ch]
Subject: How to do Things with Quotes

Full Title: How to do Things with Quotes 

Date: 10-Sep-2017 - 13-Sep-2017
Location: Zurich, Switzerland 
Contact Person: Daniel Weiss Andreas Musolff
Meeting Email: dawe at slav.uzh.ch, A.Musolff at uea.ac.uk

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Pragmatics 

Call Deadline: 20-Nov-2016 

Meeting Description:

This workshop is planned as a session of the 50th Annual Meeting of the
Societas Linguistica Europea (SLE), which will take place in Zürich, 10-13
September 2017.

As one of the most fundamental indirect communicative strategies, quotations
are ubiquitous in oral and written discourse. They function in such diverse
genres as narratives, political debates, scientific discussions, online
forums, and take textual, signed or multimodal shapes. They may be explicitly
introduced or otherwise marked as citations, or lack any marking. They serve
manifold purposes, such as argumentation from analogy, delegitimisation of
others, evaluation of the source itself, self-staging, entertaining the
audience, building social identity, etc. They may refer to any kind of
sources, for example, pop songs, films, TV serials, slogans, ads, jokes,
literary fiction, proverbs, fairy tales, dictionaries, philosophical,
scientific, political, historical, religious and legal texts. Moreover, they
are often accompanied by other communicative strategies, such as: conventional
and fresh metaphors, irony/sarcasm, rhetorical questions, which may enhance
the effects intended by the current speaker. 

All this raises a multitude of questions: are there any group-specific or
individual preferences for one or the other type of sources? What is the
impact of the genre at hand on the distribution of sources? Are there
particular political or other topics that invite a more frequent use of quotes
(Weiss 2016)? How do other participants take up the quotation (Fetzer 2012)?
What happens if the current speaker’s assessment of the addressees’ background
knowledge fails? Do we find cases where the quotation engenders false
inferences? How important is the full identifiability of the source? What
types of implicatures can be triggered by quotations? How is the lack of
explicitness compensated by other effects? What challenges does the
intertextual quotation strategy pose for Relevance Theory? How are quotations
related to the echo effect of irony (Sperber & Wilson 1995, Kotthoff 2002)? In
what sense may spontaneous direct quotations be said to be nonserious actions
(Clark & Gerrig 1990)? How are quotations marked prosodically in oral speech
(Günthner 1999)? How are multimodal quotations realised? How do online
comments contribute to the construction of social identity in real life
(Tannen 2007) or Internet identity (Musolff 2016)?

The session will encompass at least 8 (maximally 15) papers.

Call for Papers:

We encourage submissions of preliminary abstracts (max. 300 words, excluding
references) for 20 minute presentations. The list of possible topics includes,
but is not limited to, the following aspects:
1) Types of implicit or explicit argumentation from analogy or by contrast
realised by quotations, including argumentum ad auctoritatem, praeteritio, but
also disapproval of the source.
2) Interplay of quotations with other communicative strategies (verbal humour,
irony, metaphor)
3) Inferences triggered by quotations: typology, success or failure, impact of
the wording (full or partial identification of the source) 
4) Quotations in oral discourse: syntactic and prosodic marking, nonverbal
signals, uptakes, etc.
5) Quotations as an identity building strategy in oral and Internet
communication 
Contact Persons: Daniel Weiss (dawe at slav.uzh.ch); Andreas Musolff
(A.Musolff at uea.ac.uk)
Call deadline: 20-Nov-2016. Later submissions cannot be considered due to the
strict deadline for workshop proposals.

References:

Clark, Herbert H., & Richard J. Gerrig. 1990. Quotations as demonstrations.
Language, 66 (4), pp. 764-805.
Anita Fetzer, Elda Weizman & Elisabeth Reber (eds.). 2012. Follow-ups across
Discourse Domains: A Cross-cultural Exploration of their Form and Function.
Proceedings of the EFC strategic workshop, Würzburg, 31 May–2 June 2012,
Universität Würzburg: OPUS. http://opus.bibliothek.uni-wuerzburg. de/
frontdoor/index/index/docId/6116.
Günthner, Susanne. 1999. Polyphony and the ‘layering of voices’ in reported
dialogues: An analysis of the use of prosodic devices in everyday reported
speech. Journal of Pragmatics, 31(5), pp. 685-708.
Kotthoff, Helga. 2002. Irony, quotation, and other forms of staged
intertextuality. Double or contrastive perspectivation in conversation. In
Graumann, Karl Friedrich, and Werner Kallmeyer (eds.), Perspective and
Perspectivation in Discourse, 201–229. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
Levinson, Stephen C. 2000. Presumptive meanings: The Theory of Generalised
Conversational Implicature. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press Hay 2001.
Musolff, Andreas: Quotation and online identity: The voice of Tacitus in
German newspapers and internet discussions. Pre-publication version of Chapter
in: Arendholz, Jenny, Bublitz, Wolfram & Monika Kirner (eds). (in print). The
Pragmatics of Quoting Now and Then. Berlin: de Gruyter.
Sperber, Dan & Deirdre Wilson. 21995. Relevance. Communication and Cognition.
Oxford: Blackwell.
Kashmiri Stec, Mike Huiskes, & Gisela Redeker. 2015. Multimodal analysis of
quotation in oral narratives. Open Linguistics, Band 1, Heft 1.
Tannen, Deborah. 22007. Talking voices: Repetition, dialogue and imagery in
conversational discourse. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Weiss, Daniel. 2016. Quotations in the Russian State Duma: types and
functions. In: D.Weiss (guest editor), Contemporary Eastern European political
discourse, ZfSl 1/2016, Special issue, 2016, 184-214.

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