33.2414, Calls: Pragmatics, Anthro Ling, Applied Ling, Comp Ling, Disc Analysis/Belgium

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Subject: 33.2414, Calls: Pragmatics, Anthro Ling, Applied Ling, Comp Ling, Disc Analysis/Belgium

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Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2022 15:09:51
From: Florence Oloff [oloff at ids-mannheim.de]
Subject: (A)typical users of technology in social interaction

 
Full Title: (A)typical users of technology in social interaction 

Date: 09-Jul-2023 - 14-Jul-2023
Location: Brussels, Belgium 
Contact Person: Florence Oloff
Meeting Email: oloff at ids-mannheim.dee
Web Site: https://pragmatics.international/page/CfP 

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Applied Linguistics; Computational Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Pragmatics 

Call Deadline: 01-Nov-2022 

Meeting Description:

This panel aims to reflect on the notion of (a)typicality regarding the use of
technological devices and appliances used for communicating, assisting,
moving, inspecting, learning, etc. More specifically, the panel’s objective is
to focus on different types of users of technologies and to investigate their
routines, skills, and challenges while interacting with technology and their
co-participants.

In conversation analysis and applied clinical linguistics, the notion of
“atypical interaction” relates to social settings in which some of the
participants have been diagnosed with conditions that result in communicative
difficulties (e.g., autism or aphasia, Goodwin 1995, Wilkinson 2019). Here,
the usual focus is on the specific formatting and management of social
actions, and technology has not been centrally considered (but see, e.g.,
Aaltonen/Arminen/Raudaskoski 2014). While studies on assistive technologies in
social interaction have been emphasizing the situated learning processes of
participants with “communicative challenges” (Krummheuer/Raudaskoski 2016:
812, see also Due 2021), research more globally interested in technology in
social interaction usually considers users who do not have specific
communicative difficulties (e.g., Raclaw/Robles/DiDomenico 2016,
Porcheron/Fischer/Sharples 2018, Pelikan/Broth/Keevallik 2020). What all types
of technology users have in common, however, is that they systematically face
pragmatic challenges and disfluencies at some point. Indeed, participants
might frequently experience “frustrations in communication” (Antaki/Wilkinson
2012: 533) when introduced to a new technological tool or practice. In this
respect, novices could be considered as more “atypical” than more expert
users, and “(a)typicality” can also be connected to the idea of acquiring
strategies, routines and standard procedures involving a specific
technological tool. Digital literacy studies, for instance, looked into
(mostly younger) users’ situated appropriation of new techno-digital skills
(e.g., Wolfe/Flewitt 2010, Melander Bowden 2019). These learning processes do
obviously not only concern very young participants (e.g.,
Flewitt/Messer/Kucirkova 2015, Kucirkova/Zuckermann 2017), but also elderly
persons getting in touch with a tactile interface for the first time (e.g.,
Weilenmann 2010, Oloff 2021). Conversation analytic studies focusing on
first-time encounters between participants and, for instance,
voice-user-interfaces (Porcheron/Fischer/Sharples 2018,
Reeves/Porcheron/Fischer 2018) give a glimpse in how “atypical” users can turn
into “typical” users of a given technology. In this respect, a user-centred
approach (Amrhein/Cyra/Pitsch 2016) and a longitudinal perspective on
empirical data (e.g., Deppermann/Pekarek Doehler 2021, Pekarek Doehler/Balaman
2021) can be deemed particularly relevant.


Call for Papers:

We invite contributions from various backgrounds (e.g., conversation analysis,
digital literacy studies, Human-Computer interaction, media studies, etc.)
that empirically reflect on different facets of “(a)typicality” with regard to
technology use in social encounters, such as: newcomers vs. expert users,
“typical” user routines and new challenges, or assistive and therapeutical
technologies in “atypical” interactions and their potentials and challenges.
Accordingly, the range of technological tools can include both mundane and
specialised ones. Ultimately, we wish to discuss the contribution of human and
social sciences to an interactionally founded understanding of “(a)typicality”
for studying technology use and skills in social interaction.

For submission info, visit:
https://pragmatics.international/page/CfP

Panel organisers: Florence Oloff (Leibniz-Institute for the German Language,
Mannheim) & Henrike Helmer (Leibniz-Institute for the German Language,
Mannheim)




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