31.2390, Calls: Clinical Ling, Neuroling, Pragmatics, Psycholing, Socioling/Switzerland

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Subject: 31.2390, Calls: Clinical Ling, Neuroling, Pragmatics, Psycholing, Socioling/Switzerland

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Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2020 13:15:55
From: Yoshiko Matsumoto [yoshikom at stanford.edu]
Subject: Taking actions to enhance inclusivity of persons with dementia: Pragmatics of active social inclusion

 
Full Title: Taking actions to enhance inclusivity of persons with dementia: Pragmatics of active social inclusion 

Date: 27-Jun-2021 - 02-Jul-2021
Location: Winterthur, Switzerland 
Contact Person: Yoshiko Matsumoto
Meeting Email: yoshikom at stanford.edu

Linguistic Field(s): Clinical Linguistics; Neurolinguistics; Pragmatics; Psycholinguistics; Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 25-Oct-2020 

Meeting Description:

Taking actions to enhance inclusivity of persons with dementia: Pragmatics of
active social inclusion

Panel Organizers: 
Yoshiko Matsumoto (Stanford University)
Heidi E. Hamilton (Georgetown University)

The panel seeks to gather researchers who have investigated verbal and
nonverbal interactions of people with dementia in a variety of settings. The
aim is to collectively tackle the question of how the theory and practice of
pragmatics can contribute to transforming society into a place where
individuals with dementia are integrated with other members of the community
or, to put it differently, into a place where people without dementia
proactively include themselves in the lives of people with dementia.

The number of people diagnosed with dementia is rapidly growing throughout the
world and is projected to reach 82 million in 2030 (WHO 2019). While this
number represents a minority of the world population, we argue that the
disregard for or exclusion of this group is just as problematic as prejudices
against other social minorities and individuals with disabilities.

Persons with dementia (PwDs) face myriad impediments to active social
inclusion; contributing factors include these individuals’ communicative and
cognitive challenges (Wray 2020); actions taken (or not taken) by their
interactional partners (Hamilton 1994, 2019); and dominant discourses (Sabat
2003) that (even if unintentionally) shape exclusionary public policy and
related societal circumstances.

Over the past twenty years or so scholars and professionals representing a
range of disciplines (Pinkert et al. 2019; Innes et al. 2004) have examined
the complex phenomenon of social inclusion/exclusion on the micro-level (the
subjective experience of the PwD), the meso- level (the intermediate
interactional environment) and the macro-level (the broader socio-cultural
context) (Forbes et al. 2011). Much of this interest – no matter what level –
has been sparked by the seminal work on “personhood” (Kitwood 1997) that aims
to highlight the “person within – the reflexive, immaterial communicable
essence of a person that is located deep within the body, but that is
sometimes veiled by symptoms.”

With this background, our focus here is to examine aspects of social
inclusion/exclusion in a variety of verbal and nonverbal settings and to
consider the pragmatic implications of the vital interrelation between the
personhood of PwDs and others in a society.

We plan to address this question in a panel comprising four to five sessions
that explore (1) everyday interactions including multilingual situations, (2)
institutional interactions (e.g. nursing homes, physician encounters), (3)
technology-assisted interactions, and consider (4) direct participation of
PwDs in research and policy making. 

Currently leading scholars from Denmark, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Japan,
Sweden, UK, USA and Taiwan (including Davis, Gerstenberg, Hamaguchi, Hamilton,
Hydén, Leskelä, Lin, Lindholm, Matsumoto, Müller, Plejert, Ramanathan,
Rasmussen, Stickle, Wray) have indicated their interest to join the panel. We
invite additional scholars who propose measures that enhance the social
inclusion of PwDs within any area of verbal and nonverbal interaction.

Based on the insights of our multi-faceted panel, we hope to illuminate ways
to enhance the inclusion of people with diverse conditions and differing
communicative practices and to suggest a future direction of pragmatics to
advance the goal of inclusion.


Call for Papers: 

We are pleased to invite talk proposals for a panel ''Taking actions to
enhance inclusivity of persons with dementia: Pragmatics of active social
inclusion'' at the 17th International Pragmatics Conference, Winterthur,
Switzerland, 27 June - 2 July 2021.

Please submit your paper abstract through the conference website by 25 October
2020. Cf. https://pragmatics.international/page/CfP for further instructions.
Submitted abstracts will be reviewed as part of the official review process.
Please note that you will have to become a member of the International
Pragmatics Association to submit a paper abstract to the conference.

We would appreciate it if you could send a note of interest to
yoshikom at stanford.edu and hamilthe at georgetown.edu but this is not a condition
for acceptance.




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