31.2353, Calls: Anthro Ling, Applied Ling, Disc Analys, Pragmatics, Socioling/Switzerland

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Subject: 31.2353, Calls: Anthro Ling, Applied Ling, Disc Analys, Pragmatics, Socioling/Switzerland

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Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2020 11:05:25
From: Gudrun HELD [gudrun.bachleitner-held at sbg.ac.at]
Subject: Revisiting FACE – ontological, epistemological and methodological ‘faces’ of a socio-pragmatic concept

 
Full Title: Revisiting FACE – ontological, epistemological and methodological ‘faces’ of a socio-pragmatic concept 

Date: 28-Jun-2021 - 02-Jul-2021
Location: Winterthur, Switzerland 
Contact Person: Gudrun HELD Johanna WARM
Meeting Email: gudrun.bachleitner-held at sbg.ac.at

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Applied Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Pragmatics; Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 18-Oct-2020 

Meeting Description:

As a figurative and hardly graspable concept of self-awareness that comes into
play in social encounters, face is at the base of a variety of theoretical
frameworks that have been developing over more than 40 years, giving rise to a
wide and still ongoing debate on both its validity as a scholarly concept and
its utility as an explanatory tool. The main issue of the different positions
is to create a plausible bridge from the abstract conceptualisation as an
inner value to its concrete appearance as an outer phenomenon. As the latter
was assumed to be mainly conveyed with language, face became a widely studied
subject in linguistics and its ramification in different socio-linguistic and
pragma-linguistic strands. 
Whilst Goffman puts the exteriorization of face into the vague concept of
facework, Brown & Levinson (1978/87) presumed its verbal performance in
politeness. According to their dualistic model, politeness is understood as
face-saving behaviour due to the satisfaction of face-wants by correlated
bipolar strategies, which are mainly realized as redressing the famous
face-threatening acts.
It was the predictable clarity of the norm-oriented model that was responsible
for linking face firmly to politeness, and thus constituting the widely
spanned area of research where both face and politeness are constantly treated
together until being critically measured against each other. Being at first
indispensable as the normative point of reference, face has then been put
under different skeptical scrutiny in the following waves of the politeness
paradigm. With the increase of cross-cultural investigations and the widening
of relation-oriented as well as genre- and frame-based positions face was more
and more disentangled from politeness until the two concepts were considered
as research-objects “of their own right” (cf. Haugh 2013).
Therefore, alternatives to the politeness angle have been created (cf.
O’Driscoll 2007, Bargiela/Haugh 2009). On the one hand, under
socio-psychological conditions, there was a recourse to Goffman’s general
conception of face and the concept of facework regained fundamental relevance
as “no facework without face” (Tracy 1990), and vice-versa. On the other hand,
with the turn to intercultural and interpersonal pragmatics the view was
enlarged from micro- to macro-contexts thus regarding procedures of
face-management according to culture-specific identity concerns and to
socially acquired face claims (e.g. Ting Toomey 1994, Hopkins 2015). Further
on, the interactional approach – developed in Arundale’s (2006, 2013) Face
Constituting Theory – defined face not only as relational but simultaneously
as interactional, viz. it is per se both constitutive for and constituted in
the ongoing interaction flow. The classical but static face-dualism has thus
been released into the more active distinction between associative and
dissociative (inter)actions constituting situations of approach and
withdrawal, of connectedness and separateness (cf. O’Driscoll 2017).
It is difficult to reassume the variety of opinions given on face in the
sociopragmatic research of the last 50 years. There is a growing number of
overviews looking at this situation under different viewpoints, but many
problems concerning face and facework have been left unresolved; new problems
are still emerging when widening the perspectives to complementary visions,
other disciplines and different linguacultures. This is why the panel invites
contributions that treat the following research areas:
The notion of face 
- in the (meta-)linguistic lens, 
- in the epistemic discourse; 
the empirical realization of face and facework
- in (inter)cultural view, 
- in historical pragmatics, 
- in media discourse, 
- in groups and individuals, etc.


Call for Papers: 

The panel encourages submissions from different current definitions of face,
facework and intersubjectivity, investigating data from any kind of languages
and linguacultures, providing qualitative analysis of different communicative
events, text genres and activity types.

We invite submissions for oral presentations(normally 20 minutes plus 10
minutes for discussion) dealing with any aspects related to the topic of the
panel. Abstracts should be submitted by October 18, 2020 to both, the IPRA
website https://ipra2021.exordo.com/ and to the following email:
gudrun.bachleitner-held at sbg.ac.at.




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