31.2355, Calls: Lang Acq, Pragmatics, Psycholing, Socioling/Switzerland

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Subject: 31.2355, Calls: Lang Acq, Pragmatics, Psycholing, Socioling/Switzerland

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Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2020 11:41:33
From: Iris Hübscher [iriscarmela.huebscher at uzh.ch]
Subject: Multimodal im/politeness: in spoken, sign and written language

 
Full Title: Multimodal im/politeness: in spoken, sign and written language 

Date: 27-Jun-2021 - 02-Jul-2021
Location: Winterthur, Switzerland 
Contact Person: Iris Hübscher
Meeting Email: iriscarmela.huebscher at uzh.ch

Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition; Pragmatics; Psycholinguistics; Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 25-Oct-2020 

Meeting Description:

We are organizing a panel on ''Multimodal im/politeness in spoken, sign and
written language'' at the IPrA (International Pragmatics Association)
conference in Winterthur (Switzerland), June 27-July 2 2021. The panel has
been accepted by the conference organizers, and we are now soliciting
contributions to the panel. 

While im/politeness for many years focussed on verbal strategies, recent years
have seen the emergence of a vibrant interest in multimodal components of
im/politeness in oral and sign languages, such as prosody/ non-manual
features, gesture, sign and other bodily signals in face-to-face interaction
and emojis and other cues in written language channels. For example, on the
side of oral languages, research has found that different prosodic features
such as pitch, speech rate, intensity and breathiness play an important role
in the encoding of im/politeness (Brown, Winter, Idemaru, & Grawunder, 2014;
Winter & Grawunder, 2012). Similarly, nonverbal cues such as manual gestures,
head nods and other bodily cues can be shaped by im/politeness factors (Brown
& Winter, 2018; Kita & Essegbey, 2001). Also, it has been demonstrated that
gesture and prosody interact closely in the perception of im/politeness
(McKinnon & Prieto, 2014; Nadeu & Prieto, 2011). Furthermore, multimodal cues
have been shown to play a crucial role in the development of the perception
and production of politeness in first language acquisition (Hübscher, Garufi,
& Prieto, 2019; Hübscher, Wagner, & Prieto, 2020). Regarding sign languages,
research has, for instance, investigated taboo signs (Loos, Cramer, & Napoli,
2020) and also how the head and other non-manual features are used to
communicate politeness (Mapson, 2014). Finally, research has shown that in
written languages, including computer mediated communication, interactants use
different cues such as emojis and special use of punctuation to mitigate a
potential face threat or more generally to signal their im/polite intention
(Haugh et al., 2015). 

This panel would like to bring together researchers whose work focuses on one
or several of the above-mentioned multimodal aspects of im/politeness in
either oral, sign or written languages. This panel aims to discuss the role of
different multimodal signals from both a perception and production point of
view, looking at the phenomena across languages and cultures and at different
stages of language development. Ultimately, the aim is to contribute to a
better understanding of how multimodal im/politeness should figure in our
description of the pragmatics of im/politeness more widely.


Call for Papers: 

We welcome contributions that deal with the analysis of multimodal components
of im/politeness in oral and sign languages, such as prosody/ non-manual
features, gesture, sign and other bodily signals in face-to-face interaction
and emojis and other cues in written language channels.

Abstracts should be submitted through the IPrA website
(https://ipra2021.exordo.com/) by the October 25, 2020 deadline. Please make
sure to select ''Multimodal im/politeness in spoken, sign and written
language'' as the panel for your submission. 

Feel free to get in touch with us at the email addresses below if you have any
questions. We look forward to your submissions. 

Iris Hübscher (URPP Language and Space, University of Zurich),
iriscarmela.huebscher at uzh.ch
Andreas H. Jucker (University of Zurich), ahjucker at es.uzh.ch
Lucien Brown (Monash University), lucien.brown at monash.edu




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