33.2547, Calls: Pragmatics/Belgium

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Subject: 33.2547, Calls: Pragmatics/Belgium

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Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2022 06:37:52
From: Loukia Lindholm [loukia.lindholm at abo.fi]
Subject: Internet memes of everyday life

 
Full Title: Internet memes of everyday life 

Date: 09-Jul-2023 - 14-Jul-2023
Location: Brussels, Belgium 
Contact Person: Loukia Lindholm
Meeting Email: loukia.lindholm at abo.fi

Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics 

Call Deadline: 10-Oct-2022 

Meeting Description:

A key element and form of digital participatory culture, internet memes are
both products and driving forces of online social practices (Xie, 2020). Memes
in their various forms, such as image macros, GIFs, phrasal templates, and
online videos, are prototypical instances of user-generated multimodal digital
humor and creativity (Piata, 2020; Vásquez & Aslan, 2021). Users’ meme
practices and the functions of memes are rapidly growing areas of research;
yet the mundane as a source and target of memes has received less attention.

This panel focuses on the ‘memefication’ of mundane everyday life and examines
the dynamics of humorous internet memes as multimodal devices for enacting
personal and collective identities in everyday interactions on social media.
Approaching internet memes as a form of ‘cyberselfing’ (Virtanen, 2021), the
panel explores the ways online users creatively mobilize the mimetic
dimensions of form, content, and stance (Shifman, 2013) to enact collective
identities and construct and negotiate shared understandings of mundane
experiences and activities of everyday life in local discourse environments.
Of particular interest is how memes create and foster a sense of
‘conviviality’ (Varis & Blommaert, 2015) and construct relatability in online
social spaces. Focusing on internet memes in context, we address questions
such as: how do online users as (re)producers and recipients of memes
construct a ‘relatable’ self? How do internet memes contribute to the digital
ecology of cyberselfing processes? In what ways do memes contribute to
polyvocal discussions of mundane experiences and activities of everyday life
on social media? 

References
Piata, A. (2020). Stylistic humor across modalities. The case of Classical Art
Memes. Internet Pragmatics 3(2).
Shifman, L. (2013). Memes in a digital world: Reconciling with a conceptual
troublemaker. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 18(3).
Varis, P. & Blommaert, J. (2015). Conviviality and collectives on social
media: Virality, memes and new social structures. Multilingual Margins, 2(1).
Vásquez, C. & Aslan, E. (2021). “Cats be outside, how about meow”: Multimodal
humor and creativity in an internet meme. Journal of Pragmatics 171.
Virtanen, T. (2021). Fragments online: Virtual performatives in recreational
discourse. Acta Linguistica Hafniensia, 53(1).
Xie, C. (2020). Internet memes we live by (and die by). Internet Pragmatics
3(2).


Call for Papers:

We invite panel contributions that may examine, but not be limited to, the
following topics: ‘everyday’ memes and cyberselfing; the creative combination
of multimodal components of memes as meaning-making resources in the service
of local communicative concerns and as acts of semiotic belonging; the
(meta)pragmatic functions of memes in users’ situated constructions and
negotiations of everyday experiences; the trajectory of particular humorous
memes of everyday life across social media contexts. Submissions of empirical
studies of different languages, one of which is English, and cross-cultural
comparisons are welcome.

Panel organizers: Loukia Lindholm (Åbo Akademi University) and Tuija Virtanen
(Åbo Akademi University)

Panel format: 20-minute presentations (plus 10 minutes for discussion)

Please submit an abstract (min. 250 and max. 500 words) to the panel
organizers by October 10, 2022 at the latest. Contact email:
loukia.lindholm(at)abo.fi

Accepted panel contributions need to be submitted via the IPrA conference
website (https://ipra2023.exordo.com/login) until November 1st, 2022. Please
note that IPrA membership is required for submitting an abstract and
presenting at the conference. For more information, see
https://pragmatics.international/general/custom.asp?page=CfP




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