33.3044, Calls: Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics/Belgium

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Subject: 33.3044, Calls: Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics/Belgium

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Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2022 05:59:32
From: Barbara Laner [barbara.laner at germanistik.uni-freiburg.de]
Subject: The impact of participants’ orientation in space on the functions of gaze in interaction

Full Title: The impact of participants’ orientation in space on the functions of gaze in interaction 

Date: 11-Jul-2023 - 16-Jul-2023
Location: Brussels, Belgium 
Contact Person: Barbara Laner
Meeting Email: barbara.laner at germanistik.uni-freiburg.de
Web Site: https://pragmatics.international/page/Brussels2023 

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Pragmatics 

Call Deadline: 31-Oct-2022 

Meeting Description:

Dear all,

we would like to invite you to contribute to our panel at the IPrA-conference
in Brussels in July 2023:

The impact of participants’ orientation in space on the functions of gaze in
interaction 

Organized by: Barbara Laner & Elisabeth Zima 

Recent years have witnessed an increased interest in the study of gaze in
interaction. However, most studies have focused on static settings in which
the participants face each other (e.g. Rossano 2012, Kendrick & Holler 2017,
Auer 2018). There is significantly less work on gaze patterns found in other
types of F-formations (vis-à-vis, side-by-side, and L-shaped F-formations,
Kendon 1990). The aim of our panel is to shift focus to these lesser studied
configurations (see e.g. Mondada 2014, Stukenbrock & Dao 2019) and to explore
whether and how the functionality of gaze as a resource to mobilize response
(e.g. in question-answer sequences, Stivers & Rossano 2010) or to elicit help
during word searches (Goodwin & Goodwin 1986) etc. is dependent on
participants’ spatial arrangement (as argued by Auer & Zima 2021). This
includes the question as to when and for which interactional purposes,
participants in atypical F-formations and mobile settings such as walking or
cooking together side-by-side, gaze at each other. In these formations, the
bodies of the participants are prototypically directed into space before them
and unless they turn their heads, their gazes are averted from each other.
Thus, their transactional segments usually only peripherally overlap, or at
times, there is no shared o-space (Kendon 1990: 233ff) at all, i.e. whenever
the participants gaze to their sides.

Given this divergence in gaze patterns related to different F-Formations, this
panel aims to encourage a discussion about the influence of the setting and
the participants’ orientation in space on the functions of gaze in
interaction.

Call for Papers:

We thus invite contributions on the functions of gaze that topicalize the
(potential) influence of the interactions’ spatial settings (static and
mobile; side-by-side, vis-à-vis, triangular etc.) on the phenomena under
scrutiny. Data may cover a wide range of activities such as walking, cooking,
playing board games, making music, storytelling activties and other
conversational and interactional activities. The panel is equally open to
contributions that rely on technological equipment (e.g. eye-tracking glasses)
and other ways to analyze gaze in social interaction.

References:

Auer, P. (2018). Gaze, addressee selection and turn-taking in three-party
interaction. In: G. Brône & B. Oben (eds.), Eye-tracking in Interaction.
Studies on the role of eye gaze in dialogue, Amsterdam: Benjamins, 197-231.
Auer, P. & Zima, E. (2021). On word searches, gaze, and coparticipation.
Gesprächsforschung Online 22, 390-425.
Goodwin, M. & Goodwin, C. (1986). Gesture and coparticipation in the activity
of searching for a word. Semiotica 62(1-2), 51-75.
Kendon, A. (1990). Conducting interaction: Patterns of behavior in focused
encounters. Conducting interaction: Patterns of behavior in focused
encounters. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Kendrick, K. H., & Holler, J. (2017). Gaze direction signals response
preference in conversation. Research on Language and Social Interaction,
50(1), 12–32.
Mondada, L. (2014). Bodies in action: Multimodal analysis of walking and
talking. Language and dialogue 4(3), 357-403.
Rossano, F. (2012). Gaze behavior in face-to-face interaction. Nijmegen: MPI.
Stivers, T., & Rossano, F. (2010). Mobilizing response. Research on Language
and social interaction 43(1), 3-31.
Stukenbrock, A., & Dao, A. N. (2019). Joint attention in passing: What dual
mobile eye tracking reveals about gaze in coordinating embodied activities at
a market. In: E. Reber & C. Gerhardt (Eds.), Embodied Activities in
Face-to-face and Mediated Settings. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 177-213.

In case you have any questions or need additional information, please do not
hesitate to contact us:

barbara.laner at germanistik.uni-freiburg.de,
http://paul.igl.uni-freiburg.de/laner/

elisabeth.zima at germanistik.uni-freiburg.de,
http://paul.igl.uni-freiburg.de/zima/

We look forward to reading your contributions!

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