33.2684, Confs: Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics/Belgium

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Subject: 33.2684, Confs: Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics/Belgium

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Date: Sun, 04 Sep 2022 06:36:38
From: Bracha Nir [bnir at univ.haifa.ac.il]
Subject: Institutional Incongruity: When the practitioner is doing the right thing at the wrong time

 
Institutional Incongruity: When the practitioner is doing the right thing at the wrong time 

Date: 09-Jul-2023 - 14-Jul-2023 
Location: Brussels, Belgium 
Contact: Gonen Dori-Hacohen 
Contact Email: gonen at comm.umass.edu 

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Pragmatics 

Meeting Description: 

Organized by: Gonen Dori-Hacohen, Bracha Nir    
Rational: Interactions in institutions are constrained by structures at the
sequential level (e.g., Drew and Heritage, 1992) as well as at the level of
the overall structural organization (Robinson, 2012). Thus, participants in
such interactions not only perform their part as interlocutors but also
perform their institutional parts. Both structural levels direct the
participants to routinely follow particular actions and processes. However,
the multi-layered participation in interaction can lead to incongruity in the
performance of such routines – the issue at the heart of this panel.  
We follow Goffman’s (1959) view namely that different orders exist in social
life to focus on possible incongruities between them. The panel aims to
highlight cases where incongruity emerges between the institutional (or
technical in Goffman’s terms) order and the interactional one. Specifically,
the panel focuses on situations where the practitioner follows the routines of
the institutional interaction; however, they do not follow the moments of the
exchange itself. Thus, they perform an action that is correct from an
institutional perspective but is misplaced or mistimed at the specific
interaction.  
Scope: The overall aim of the panel is to bring together scholars who
investigate the complexity of institutional interactions from various
approaches – highlighting aspects of pragmatics and communication alongside
linguistically-motivated analyses and conversation analysis to illustrate how
the incongruity between institutional and interactional orders may create
problems for the other participant(s) in the interaction. Similarly, these
incongruities illustrate the functional flexibility of various actions.
Thirdly, we aim to discuss the harmful potential these incongruities have on
the remainder of the interaction and the participants’ relations. 
The panel will rely on insights from data that allow the analysis of
incongruities from various institutional settings. The panel invites
contributions that focus on face-to-face in either mediated or non-mediated
settings, including but not limited to Speech-Language-Therapy interactions,
doctor-patient interactions, television game shows, and talk shows. Each
setting will focus on specific actions, such as questions or evaluations,
typically routines to that setting, and will explore the various conditions
under which these routines are employed counter to the interactional
constraints. The analyses will take into account the interaction of
grammatical restrictions and conventions of usage across comparable contexts.
For example, welcomed contributions will point to what can be perceived as
failures of the specific agents to follow the here-and-now and instead to
follow the preconceived structure. As such, the panel follows the pioneering
work of Zimmerman, Whalen, and Zimmerman (1988) while conceptualizing this
path using the concept of incongruity. 
Aims: The proposed panel aims to look into several questions that, to date,
have not been systematically considered with respect to institutional
discourse: 
Which interactional actions are susceptible to the constraints of the
institution?  Which incongruities emerge as a result of the aims of the
institution?  What can violations of the pragmatic constraints on a given
action tell us about these actions? 

Colleagues who are interested in contributing to our panel can contact us:
Gonen - gonen at comm.umass.edu or Bracha - bnir at univ.haifa.ac.il
Or directly submit your abstract at Call for Papers platform:
https://pragmatics.international/page/CfP
 






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