33.2561, Confs: Pragmatics, Psycholinguistics/Belgium

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Subject: 33.2561, Confs: Pragmatics, Psycholinguistics/Belgium

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Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2022 05:29:27
From: Mitsuko Izutsu [mizutsu at fujijoshi.ac.jp]
Subject: Solitude speech: empirical challenges

 
Solitude speech: empirical challenges 

Date: 09-Jul-2023 - 14-Jul-2023 
Location: Brussels, Belgium 
Contact: Mitsuko Izutsu 
Contact Email: mizutsu at fujijoshi.ac.jp 
Meeting URL: https://pragmatics.international/page/CfP 

Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics; Psycholinguistics 

Meeting Description: 

The aim of this panel is to bring together papers that address
language-related issues on solitude speech (or monologue), namely, the use of
language with no ostensible intention of speaking to others. Solitude speech
can be vocalized or unvocalized with the former being assumed to be
“internalized” into the latter in psychology (Vygotsky 1934/1986). Vocalized
solitude speech is likely to occur without any addressees, and if with any
addressees, it only appears in the form of an aside or as a response cry
(Goffman 1978). The presence of an observer (Labov 1972) is so influential
that it may hinder the production of the speech. Unvocalized solitude speech
is known as “inner speech” (Vygotsky 1934/1986), and as the name suggests, it
does not have a substantial form. Thus, the data used for the research of
solitude speech are not easy to gather in the spontaneous form of language,
which causes the research field to fall far behind conversational studies (see
Diaz 1992 for methodological problems of private speech).

Despite such difficulty, various attempts have been made to collect speech
samples of solitude speech. For vocalized solitude speech, Hasegawa (2005,
2010a, 2010b, 2011) collected the data of “soliloquy” in an experiment that
asked the subjects to speak aloud their thoughts while alone in a room.
Izutsu, Kim, & Izutsu (2022) conducted a questionnaire survey to elicit
utterances that the subjects consider they would produce in situations of
Goffman’s response cries (see Koguma & Izutsu 2022 for a similar line of
research). Du Bois (2009, 2011) created a corpus of solitude speech, which was
collected remotely from a subject wearing a portable digital recorder. The
verbal manifestation of solitude speech can also be extrapolated through the
examination of diaries (Hirose & Hasegawa 2010) or the on-stage monologue of
dramas (Caluianu 2021).

Though invisible by nature, unvocalized solitude speech can also be
investigated through the literary representation of thought in interior
monologue, off-stage monologue (Caluianu 2021), or reported discourse
(Takahashi 2021). In psychology, various methods have been developed to
explore the nature of inner speech: for example, “descriptive experience
sampling” (DES) (Hubert & Heavy 2006) and electromyographic recordings of lip
and tongue movements (Sokolov 1972).

Our panel is aimed at sharing recent findings on solitude speech, taking into
consideration what kinds of methodologies can be used to elucidate various
issues of solitude speech. It will seek to address questions including the
following: 

- How is it possible to collect authentic linguistic material of solitude
speech?
- Other than authentic speech samples, what kind of data is available for the
investigation of solitude speech?
- Are there cross-linguistic measures that help compare solitude speech
samples in different languages?
- How are linguistic (lexical and morphosyntactic) facts observed in languages
useful for further understanding of solitude speech (e.g., “displayed
monologue” in Spronck 2021)?
- How is solitude speech linguistically differentiated from speech for
communication?

The panel especially welcomes studies that investigate specific issues of
solitudes speech.

Panel organizers: Mitsuko N. Izutsu (Fuji Women's University), Katsunobu
Izutsu (Hokkaido University of Education)
 






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