33.3089, Calls: Pragmatics/Belgium

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LINGUIST List: Vol-33-3089. Sat Oct 08 2022. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 33.3089, Calls: Pragmatics/Belgium

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Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2022 21:09:11
From: Elke Diedrichsen [e.diedric at googlemail.com]
Subject: Modelling cultural and contextual influence: Patterns, templates and schemas in utterance interpretation

Full Title: Modelling cultural and contextual influence: Patterns, templates and schemas in utterance interpretation 

Date: 09-Jul-2023 - 14-Jul-2023
Location: Brussels, Belgium 
Contact Person: Elke Diedrichsen
Meeting Email: e.diedric at googlemail.com
Web Site: https://pragmatics.international/page/CfP 

Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics 

Call Deadline: 01-Nov-2022 

Meeting Description:

IPrA Conference, Brussels, July 9-14, 2023 
https://pragmatics.international/page/CfP 

Call for papers for the IPrA-Panel 
Modelling cultural and contextual influence: Patterns, templates and schemas
in utterance interpretation

Organisers: 
Elke Diedrichsen, Technological University Dublin: e.diedric at googlemail.com
Frank Liedtke, University of Leipzig: liedtke at uni-leipzig.de

2nd Call for Papers:

IPrA-Panel 
Modelling cultural and contextual influence: 
Patterns, templates and schemas in utterance interpretation

Organisers: 
Elke Diedrichsen, Technological University Dublin: e.diedric at googlemail.com
Frank Liedtke, University of Leipzig: liedtke at uni-leipzig.de

In communicative situations, interlocutors rely on context in order to
successfully process linguistic utterances. Models of the context dependency
of utterance meaning have been proposed in semantics and pragmatics, including
the notions of frame (Fillmore), relevance (Sperber and Wilson), Austinian
proposition (Récanati), core and emergent common ground (Clark 1996, Kecskes
and Zhang 2009).
For utterance-context integration, interpreters usually rely on standardised
patterns (Carston 2002). Situation-bound utterances as defined by Kecskes
(2010) are highly conventionalized, prefabricated pragmatic units tied to
standardised communicative situations. 
Mey (2001, 2010) observes that pragmatic acts and the speech acts accompanying
them are situated acts. By playing within the limits of the situation,
pragmatic acts establish, confirm, and recreate its setting. Anything in a
speech act, including its references to people and objects, can be interpreted
with respect to that setting by default. Pragmemes are defined as general
situational prototypes of pragmatic acts. 
The situated nature of utterances involves the cultural background shared by
societies or smaller groups of people. A cultural perspective on pragmatics is
warranted and highly topical, as the availability or absence of shared
cultural knowledge affects communicative interactions (Kecskes 2014).
Sharifian (2017) offers a culturally based outlook on pragmemes, in which a
cultural pragmatic schema is presented as the overarching culturally acquired
cognitive influence on speech acts, pragmemes and practs. Goddard and
Wierzbicka (2004) define a cultural script as a cluster of established
practices, guiding the understanding of interactional moves. In order to
capture the utterance-context-relation systematically, pragmatic templates
have been introduced as holistic clusters of pairings between utterances on
the one side and elements of a proper utterance situation on the other
(Liedtke 2013). Van Dijk (2008) suggests context models incorporating
influences that are relevant for participants in producing and interpreting
utterances. Mazzone (2009) models utterance interpretation as a case of
pattern recognition in context. The relation between form and meaning of
utterances has been modelled as constructions in Construction grammar
(Goldberg 1995) and constructional schemas in Role and Reference Grammar (Van
Valin 2005). They have been adjusted to account for cultural and situational
factors that apply in the production and comprehension of language
(Diedrichsen 2013, 2020, 2022, Nolan 2022). 
The panel seeks to find ways of systematically modelling
utterance-context-pairings as part of the pragmatic competence of speakers and
hearers. We are interested in approaches that address cultural and / or
situational influences on utterance production and interpretation, their
complex dynamics and interdependence, and their effect on linguistic choices
in a variety of communicative settings. We also welcome research on repair
mechanisms or workarounds for cases in which assumptions of shared knowledge
or relevance fail.
Panel contributions are expected to be oral presentations of 20 minutes,
followed by 10 minutes of discussion. Upon abstract submission to the IPrA
website, please indicate the panel your submission is intended for. Abstracts
should be 250-500 words long. The deadline for abstract submission is 1
November 2022.

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