31.2954, Calls: Pragmatics/Switzerland

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Subject: 31.2954, Calls: Pragmatics/Switzerland

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Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2020 12:38:10
From: Kati Hannken-Illjes [kati.hannkenilljes at uni-marburg.de]
Subject: Doing participation in child talk and interactional synchronicity

 
Full Title: Doing participation in child talk and interactional synchronicity 

Date: 27-Jun-2021 - 02-Jul-2021
Location: Winterthur, Switzerland 
Contact Person: Kati Hannken-Illjes
Meeting Email: kati.hannkenilljes at uni-marburg.de

Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics 

Call Deadline: 25-Oct-2020 

Meeting Description:

We are pleased to invite talk proposals for a panel ''Doing participation in
child talk and interactional synchronicity'' at the 17th International
Pragmatics Conference, Winterthur, Switzerland, 27 June - 2 July 2021. 

Participation is a fundamental concept on the macro level of society as well
as for the micro level of interaction. This holds especially true for the
current discussion lines on child discourse (Dobrick 2016). The proposed panel
focusses on the micro level, that is on practices of participating and taking
part in child-child and child-adult interactions. However, even with the focus
on the micro level, the conceptual as well as analytical perspectives are
heterogeneous (Forrester 2017). Our entry point into the debate is, that the
multimodal negotiation and accomplishment of synchronicity constitutes a
central method to allow for and demonstrate „taking part“. The non-linguistic
interactional means include the synchronizing of prosodic parameters and
bodily action (Kim 2015); the linguistic means of accomplishing participation
are among others the co-construction of similar forms on different linguistic
level (Breyer et al. 2017).

On the one hand, the interest in aiming for conformity among participants has
been long standing in developmental theory (Tomasello 2009), as well as in
research informed by conversation analysis, the latter studying rhythm (Breyer
et al. 2017), synchronicity (Kim 2015), resonance and repetition (Tannen 1987)
in interaction. On the other hand, studies on these practices for child-child
and child-adult interaction have been scarce (Keenan 1977, Papoušek 1994).
However, the issue has not been entirely unstudied in the recent years; some
studies have looked into the establishment of synchronicity in child-child
interaction (Arendt/Zadunaisky Ehrlich 2020, Hannken-Illjes/Bose 2019, Bose et
al. 2016, Cekaite/Aronsson 2004, Corsaro/Maynard 1996) and child-adult
interaction (Rohlfing/Nomikou 2014) on different levels of interaction and
language use. By bringing together the interests in synchronicity as related
to the establishment of participation we focus on the interactional practices
of children. This seems especially relevant, as peers function as crucial
instances of socialization (Cekaite et al. 2014).


Call for Papers: 

The papers of this panel analyze the negotiation and achievement of
participating through the construction of similarity and synchronicity in
child discourse. The methodological backgrounds are foremost in interactional
linguistics but are not confined to this stream of study. We are interested in
empirical studies, but are not limited to interactional studies.
The questions we aim to address are:
1. How are context and forms of synchronicity coupled and what functions do
they serve?
2. How can similarities through synchronization to establish interactive
participation be studied and analyzed?
3. In what way do the concepts of similarity, synchronization, mimesis,
mirroring etc. overlap and differ?
4. What kind of link between the macro- and micro-notion of child
participation can be described by analyzing direct interactions?

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.
Abstracts should contain minimally 250 and maximally 500 words and contain a
clear research question, provide information on data and methodology and
formulate (first) findings. Please note that you will have to become a member
of the International Pragmatics Association to submit a paper abstract to the
conference.




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