31.2538, Calls: Gen Ling, Pragmatics/Switzerland

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Subject: 31.2538, Calls: Gen Ling, Pragmatics/Switzerland

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Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2020 11:09:35
From: Naomi Truan [naomi.truan at uni-leipzig.de]
Subject: Indexing Exclusion through Style

 
Full Title: Indexing Exclusion through Style 

Date: 27-Jun-2021 - 02-Jul-2021
Location: Winterthur, Switzerland 
Contact Person: Naomi Truan
Meeting Email: naomi.truan at uni-leipzig.de

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Pragmatics 

Call Deadline: 25-Oct-2020 

Meeting Description:

Organizers: 
Cornelia F. Bock (Universität Hamburg) – cornelia.bock at uni-hamburg.de 
Florian Busch (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg) –
florian.busch at germanistik.uni-halle.de 
Naomi Truan (Universität Leipzig) — naomi.truan at uni-leipzig.de 

There is no inclusion without exclusion. Our panel tackles the dynamics of
inclusionary and exclusionary practices from a sociolinguistic perspective,
i.e. one that investigates stylistic choices in interaction, understood as the
shaping of utterances from a pool of socially meaningful semiotic resources
(Eckert 2000; Coupland 2007; Selting 2008). Twenty years after the first
thematic issue of the Journal of Sociolinguistics on new research on
sociolinguistic style and stylization (Rampton 1999), we propose to reexamine
stylistic practices through the lens of exclusion.

The distinctiveness of performable signs is the foundation of social
identities. Social actors either align with social values and categories (a
process that can be summed up as ‘adequation’), or they highlight differences
and non-belonging through style (known as ‘distinction’) (Bucholtz & Hall
2005). As social actors index exclusion, they perform activities of social
dis-alignment in micro-level interactions on the one hand, and distance
themselves from social stereotypes at macro-level of discourses on the other
(De Fina 2013; Spitzmüller 2013). Sociolinguistic style is thus inevitably an
ideological matter, as it presupposes “an interpretation of the social world
and of the meanings of elements within it, as well as a positioning of the
stylizer with respect to that world” (Eckert 2008: 456). Style, finally,
reveals how these positions are made valid in a given community of practice—in
other words, the metapragmatic ideologies attached to them—, either through
contextualizing effects of stylistic features in use or through explicit
meta-discourse shaping stylistic awareness and social enregisterment
(Silverstein 2003; Agha 2007).

Our panel focuses on two aspects regarding the exclusionary dimension of
stylistic practices: First, what semiotic means do social actors use to
presuppose and/or entail exclusion through style and stylization? Second, on
which ideological assumptions are these choices perceived, rationalized,
justified and/or contested as exclusionary? 

The panel is open call to anyone working on the topic. At present, we have
secured presentations by Theresa Heyd (Universität Greifswald), Concha Höfler
(University of Nottingham), Kristin Vold Lexander (Inland Norway University of
Applied Sciences), Nico Nassenstein (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz),
Hasret Saygı (Bogazici University), and Katharina Tyran (Universität Wien).


Call for Papers: 

We invite papers from Interactional Sociolinguistics, Conversation Analysis,
Interactional Stylistics, and Metapragmatics dealing with these questions on
all structural levels of language. We also encourage papers focusing on: 
- exclusionary styles of writing (spelling, orthography, and typography), 
- media usage (media choices and media switching), 
- and multilingualism (code-switching, language policies, language choice and
regulation).

Possible sociocultural contexts might include, but are not limited to,
education and workplace (including academia and linguistics), family and peer
group, religion and spiritualism, subcultures, and digital communities.

We invite submissions of abstracts (between 250 and 500 words) by 25 October
2020 via the IprA website. Select the panel “Indexing Exclusion through
Style”. For more information on abstract submission, see
https://pragmatics.international/page/CfP or get in touch with us directly.




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