31.2934, Calls: Sociolinguistics/Switzerland

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LINGUIST List: Vol-31-2934. Mon Sep 28 2020. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 31.2934, Calls: Sociolinguistics/Switzerland

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Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2020 23:11:49
From: Anita Fetzer [anita.fetzer at philhist.uni-augsburg.de]
Subject: Accountability of Discursive Action and the Private-Public Interface

 
Full Title: Accountability of Discursive Action and the Private-Public Interface 

Date: 27-Jun-2021 - 02-Jul-2021
Location: Winterthur, Switzerland 
Contact Person: Anita Fetzer
Meeting Email: anita.fetzer at philhist.uni-augsburg.de

Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 01-Oct-2020 

Meeting Description:

In discourse pragmatics, discursive action is firmly based on the premises of
rationality and intentionality, action ascription, and pluralism and
indexicality of discursive action. In line with ethnomethodological
understanding of accountability of social action, we maintain that
participants not only perform social actions but are also able to account for
their actions as they know, at some level, what they say and what they mean by
their utterances. Accountability may be achieved explicitly, for instance
through metacomments and reformulations or implicitly, through such discourse
patterns as naming, small stories, speech acts.  By so doing, participants
convey what they intend their actions to count as, and what goals they intend
to achieve, demonstrating substantive rationality and daily life
rationalities. In short, they can account for why this to me now. 

Accountability of discursive action is a fundamental premise in dialogic
interaction and thus is a constitutive part of negotiation-of-meaning and
negotiation-of-validity sequences. It utilizes context-dependent practical
reasoning making explicit taken-for-granted background information.

This panel intends to examine the theory and practice of accountability of
discursive action across different sociocultural contexts and different speech
communities, different media, and different communicative genres, activities
and modalities (e.g., online commenting, parliamentary discourse, election
campaign). The focus is on the strategic use of references to the
private-public interface in mediated discourse, especially on speakers’
conceptualisations and negotiations of (non)accountability indexed by (1)
ordinary people utilizing public-domain references, and (2) members of the
elite utilizing private-domain references. Private and public domain are not
only seen as scalar concepts with fuzzy boundaries but also as interdependent
on medium, context, genre and participants and their discursive identities.


Call for Papers: 

We invite contributions which address the following questions:
- Accountability and address terms
- Accountability and positioning
- Accountability in CMC 
- Accountability in professional / elite political discourse
- Accountability in grassroot discourse 
- Accountability in argumentation and decision-making
- Accountability and the construction and deconstruction of discursive
identities 
- Accountability and ironic representation

If you are interested in presenting a paper in this panel, please send your
abstract (min. 350 and max. 500 words) by 01 October 2020 to:
anita.fetzer at philhist.uni-augsburg.de & Elda.Weizman at biu.ac.il

All abstracts will have to be submitted individually through the IPrA website
(https://ipra2021.exordo.com/login) by 25 October 2020. Please prepare your
abstracts for submission with a reference to the IPrA Call for papers &
Submission guidelines (https://pragmatics.international/page/CfP) and make
sure to select “Accountability of Discursive Action and the Private-Public
Interface” as the panel for your submission.




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