33.2056, Calls: English; Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics/France

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Subject: 33.2056, Calls: English; Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics/France

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Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2022 19:05:19
From: Celia Schneebeli [celia.schneebeli at u-bourgogne.fr]
Subject: The Pragmatics of Cringe Humor on the Screen & on Digital Media

 
Full Title: The Pragmatics of Cringe Humor on the Screen & on Digital Media 

Date: 04-May-2023 - 05-May-2023
Location: Montpellier, France 
Contact Person: Virginie Iché
Meeting Email: cringehumor2023 at gmail.com
Web Site: https://cringe-humor.sciencesconf.org/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Pragmatics 

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Call Deadline: 20-Nov-2022 

Meeting Description:

This conference intends to examine the pragmatics of cringe humor in the
English language on the screen (in sitcoms, TV series, filmed stand-up
comedies, films etc.) and on digital media (in audiovisual, textual or
multimodal forms).


Call for Papers:

This conference intends to examine the pragmatics of cringe humor in the
English language on the screen (in sitcoms, TV series, filmed stand-up
comedies, films etc.) and on digital media (in audiovisual, textual or
multimodal forms). “Cringe humor” should not be taken as yet another coinage
to be added to the long list of terms already used to account for humorous
phenomena (as Attardo puts it (2020, 8), “there is no reason to coin a new
term if there is a perfectly good one already”). Indeed, Schwind uses the
expression “embarrassment humor” (2015) and Schwanebeck, in his introduction
to his special issue devoted to painful laughter (2021), refers to the
expression “cringe humor” along with Moore’s “comedy of discomfort” (2007).
However, the widespread use of “cringe humor” since the success of Ricky
Gervais and Stephen Merchant’s BBC mockumentary sitcom, The Office (BBC Two,
2001-2002) as well as of the hashtag #cringe on digital media pleads for
retaining this term over others. “Cringe humor” points to the specific
embodied reactions to cringeworthy/humorous contents found both on the screen
and on digital media, i.e., “an involuntary inward shiver of embarrassment,
awkwardness, disgust” (OED), “shudder and discomfort” (Schwind 2015, 67),
“psychic unease” or “physical pain” (Duncan 2017, 37), and even “intense
visceral reaction” (Dahl 2018, 19).
  The following topics and questions may be approached, the list not being
exhaustive:

- cringe humor vs. failed humor (Bell 2015): the felicity conditions of cringe
humor in English language on the screen and on digital media,

- the discrepancy between the presence of cringe humor between characters
(CL2) vs. the lack of cringe humor on the recipient’s level (CL1) or vice
versa,

- the cumulated effect of the presence of cringe humor on both CL2 and CL1,
- the dissemination of cringe humor from the initial post on digital media to
the comment section and its pragmatic effects on the various speakers involved
- the (im)politeness and ethics of cringe humor on the screen and on digital
media—whether on CL2 or CL1, or both,
- the distancing/bonding effect of cringe humor; cringe humor and empathy,
- comparative approaches: cringe humor on the big screen/small screen vs.
computer-mediated cringe humor,
- multimodal approaches to cringe humor,
- diachronic approaches to cringe humor: is present-day cringe humor more
rapport-aggravating or rapport-enhancing?
- the impact of the mode of diffusion (cinema, TV screen, VOD, streaming
sites, website, social media) on the type of cringe humor and/or the reaction
of the addressee(s),
- the reception of cringe humor: generational / gendered / sociocultural /
historical perspectives.

Deadline for submission: November 20, 2022

Notification of acceptance: January 10, 2023

Proposals of around 400 words (along with a short bio-bibliographical notice,
no longer than 100 words) to be sent to cringehumor2023 at gmail.com

Language of the conference: English

A selection of papers will be considered for publication after double-blind
peer-review.

Advisory Board :

Salvatore Attardo (Texas A&M-Commerce, États-Unis)
Monika Bednarek (University of Sydney, Australia)
Kristy Beers Fägersten (Södertörn University, Sweden)
Alexander Brock (Martin-Luther Universität, Germany)
Jan Chovanec (Masaryk University, Czech Republic)
Miriam Locher (University of Basel, Switzerland)
Thomas Messerli (University of Basel, Switzerland)
Will Noonan (Université de Bourgogne, France)
Valeria Sinkeviciute (University of Queensland, Australia)
Sandrine Sorlin (Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3, France)
Villy Tsakona (University of Athens, Greece)
Tuija Virtanen (Åbo Akademi University, Finland)

Please find the complete Cfp on the conference website
https://cringe-humor.sciencesconf.org/




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