29.3178, Calls: Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics/China

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Subject: 29.3178, Calls: Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics/China

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Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2018 13:37:54
From: Xinyang Xie [leo19871005 at sina.com]
Subject: Co-producing Sentences in Conversation

 
Full Title: Co-producing Sentences in Conversation 

Date: 09-Jun-2019 - 14-Jun-2019
Location: Hong Kong, China 
Contact Person: Xinyang Xie
Meeting Email: xie.xinyang at mail.shufe.edu.cn

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Pragmatics 

Call Deadline: 15-Oct-2018 

Meeting Description:

Sacks, Schegloff and Jefferson’s seminal paper on turn-taking (1974) proposed
turn-constructional unit (TCU) as the basic unit for building turns in
interaction. This has generated an increasing body of literature which explore
the relation between TCUs as interactional units and syntactic constructions
that are usable as TCUS, and the real-time production of syntactic
constructions within and across TCUs and turns (Goodwin 1981; Auer 1992;
Schegloff 1996; Ford & Thompson 1996; Ford, Fox & Thompson 1996, 2002; Tanaka
1999; Selting 2000; Luke 2004; Luke and Zhang 2007; Couper-Kuhlen & Ono 2007;
Laury and Ono 2014; Couper-Kuhlen and Selting 2018). This panel invites papers
which examine co-production of syntactic units across turns in
talk-in-interaction.

It is found in English conversation that a single sentence may be jointly
produced by two speakers (Lerner 1989, 1991, 1996). The entry of a second
speaker into an on-going turn of the first speaker is furnished by the
projection of a preliminary-component and final-component format based on the
first speaker’s sentence-so-far. In such cases, the second speaker can be seen
as completing the sentence begun by the first speaker, displaying his/her
understanding of the linguistic form and interactional function of the
sentence-under-construction.

On a different line of inquiry, it has long been observed in spoken Chinese
(Chao 1968; Shen 1989) that a speaker may construct a topic-comment sentence
by combining a question-answer adjacency pair as one utterance. Or, the
clauses of a complex sentence may be co-constructed by separate speakers. More
recent studies (e.g. Fang 2012) have examined the types of relation between
the co-produced clauses of the complex sentences. As an interesting contrast
to the phenomenon studied by Lerner, in the instances analyzed by Fang (2012),
a next speaker, upon a hearably complete turn, produces the next turn which,
constructed as a subordinate clause (often marked by a conjunction),
retrospectively makes the first speaker’s turn the main clause, resulting in a
complex sentence across two speaking turns. Such practice is found to
facilitate topic continuity in Chinese conversation.


Call for papers:

This panel explores possible ways of co-producing sentences in
talk-in-interaction in Chinese and other languages. It brings together papers
which analyze syntactic and prosodic characteristics of jointly produced
sentences and examine possible discourse effects and interactional functions
of such co-production across turns. The panel will contribute to a better
understanding of the complex issues involved in organizing and producing turns
in real-time interaction. As a result, we invite papers addressing any aspect
within this topic, including both empirical (methodological) or theoretical
contributions. 

Submission details: 

Abstracts of 20-minute presentations should be 250 - 500 words in length (not
including references and data) and should be submitted via the conference
website (https://pragmatics.international/general/custom.asp?page=CfP) and
sent via email to Xinyang Xie (xie.xinyang at mail.shufe.edu.cn) by October 15,
2018.




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