31.2389, Calls: Pragmatics/Switzerland

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Subject: 31.2389, Calls: Pragmatics/Switzerland

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Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2020 13:08:33
From: Pilar Blitvich [pgblitvi at uncc.edu]
Subject: Im/politeness norms in online affinity spaces

 
Full Title: Im/politeness norms in online affinity spaces 
Short Title: INOAS 

Date: 27-Jun-2021 - 02-Jul-2021
Location: Winterthur, Switzerland 
Contact Person: Pilar Blitvich
Meeting Email: pgblitvi at uncc.edu

Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics 

Call Deadline: 25-Oct-2020 

Meeting Description:

Organizers: Pilar Garcés-Conejos Blitvich & Marta Dynel

Im/politeness norms in online affinity spaces

Social media support the emergence of different kinds of relationships,
associations, and online communities based, among others, on shared interests,
identities, and a sense of belonging different from traditional groups like
family, friends, and geographically based communities; social media also
foster global communicative connectivity and blur the lines between different
types of media an on/offline engagement.  Against this backdrop, notions of
what constitutes an online community and, fundamentally, doing normativity
therein, for instance regarding what constitutes behavioral in/appropriateness
(conceptualized as im/politeness), are of crucial interest to digital media
studies. To advance the field, it has been suggested that digitally native
conceptualizations such as affinity spaces (Gee, 2005) need to be applied. Gee
defined affinity spaces as semiotically mediated social spaces characterized
by users’ common endeavor, a shared space where people affiliate with others
based on their shared activities, interests, and common goals, as well as a
place where informal learning happens.

To add to this current line of research, the focus of the proposed panel is
the pragmatics and metapragmatics of im/politeness norms in online affinity
spaces. Among others, attention is paid to norm negotiation within and across
online affinity spaces, where first-order evaluations and jointly negotiated
norms (see e.g. Eelen 2001; Locher & Watts 2008) play a crucial role. As
Bousfield (2010) rightly observes, norms are a matter of social
conventionalisation. The norms which determine the perception and reception of
im/politeness may be local, situational, personal, and cultural (Culpeper
2008). However, in online affinity spaces, the distinctions between these
categories become blurry. The different norms affect one another and guide
users’ norm negotiation and evaluation both within and across communities
engaging in different types of practices, sometimes becoming the foci of
metapragmatic discussions (see e.g. Dynel &  Poppi 2019; Garcés -Conejos
Blitvich & Lorenzo-Dus, 2010; Graham & Dutt 2019).


Call for Papers: 

Of special interest to the panel is the negotiation of emerging norms in
online affinity spaces and the role im/politeness plays in creating and
maintaining them, for example how aggressive communicative behaviours are used
to challenge and restore norms (Spring et al., 2018) . The fleeting nature of
many online communities, the different constraints on interactional behavior
afforded by the digital medium, and context collapse (Marwick & boyd, 2011),
among others, are reflected in normativities that are in flux and are
sometimes developed ad hoc. As regards established online communities, we are
also interested in how norms and abiding by them are associated with the
identity of a (core/peripheral) group member, and how norms are related to
moral judgements of the ingroup versus the outgroup (Angouri, 2016). These
issues become even more relevant from a glocal (Li & Jung, 2018) perspective
when the discursive struggle about norms of in/appropriateness (im/politeness)
is viewed through a multicultural, translanguaging, polylanguaging angle
(Androutsopoulos, 2015; Sultana et al., 2015).

For submission information, please see
https://pragmatics.international/page/CfP.




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