33.2794, Calls: Pragmatics/Belgium

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Subject: 33.2794, Calls: Pragmatics/Belgium

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Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2022 06:12:45
From: Camilla Vasquez [cvasquez at usf.edu]
Subject: The Feedback Society: Discourses, Identities, Modalities

 
Full Title: The Feedback Society: Discourses, Identities, Modalities 

Date: 09-Jul-2023 - 14-Jul-2023
Location: Brussels, Belgium 
Contact Person: Camilla Vasquez
Meeting Email: cvasquez at usf.edu

Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics 

Call Deadline: 30-Sep-2022 

Meeting Description:

Mechanisms for evaluative feedback have become enmeshed into the fabric of
nearly every aspect of contemporary society. Spanning a range of contexts,
social relationships and modalities, the production – and reception – of
feedback is always a discursive activity.  Conceptualized broadly, feedback
can take many forms, for example: routine performance reviews in workplace
organizations (Correll et al., 2020); evaluations of products and services in
online consumer reviews (Vásquez, 2014); responses to patient satisfaction
metrics used to assess healthcare services (Baker et al., 2019); as well as
peer reviews responding to academic scholarship and judging its suitability
for publication (Paltridge, 2017), among others. Several of these feedback
activities are underpinned by neoliberal ideologies related to organizational
efficiencies, professional effectiveness, or the constant project of improving
the self.
Feedback activities are never ideologically neutral: they often entail power
relations, gatekeeping, or other forms of control and surveillance. Feedback
also involves subjectivity and any act of evaluative feedback may involve
unexamined biases, whether of a personal or structural nature. Recognizing
that acts of evaluation are never only about the object or focus being
assessed – but are also productive sites for identity construction and the
positioning of selves – discursive feedback always includes stancetaking (Du
Bois, 2007; Kiesling et al., 2018). For instance, providers of feedback may
engage in epistemic stancetaking (e.g., Parini & Fetzer, 2019) to position
themselves as experts, authorities, or otherwise entitled to offer assessments
and to make judgements. Often, feedback involves considerations of face,
(im)/politeness and other forms of relational work that might be influenced by
the socio-cultural context in which feedback occurs. With more of our social
and professional activities taking place in networked contexts, many genres of
feedback today involve the use of multiple modes and materialities of
communication.

This panel brings together researchers interested in feedback as a discursive
practice. We invite scholars studying not only diverse genres of feedback, but
also those who adopt diverse  methodological approaches to the study of
feedback. Of special interest are forms of feedback that take place in
professional contexts; types of feedback (and/or responses to feedback)
occurring in digitally mediated or otherwise networked spaces; and genres of
feedback that involve multiple modalities and/or materialities. Submissions
are expected to address some of the following questions but are not limited in
scope to these:

1. How is authority or expertise constructed in feedback? 
2. What entitlements are signaled by the individual(s) offering evaluation?
3. How do feedback-givers align with others, construct various forms of
sociality, or engage in relational work within their evaluative texts or
activities? 
4. In what ways do specific genres of feedback reflect cultural differences?
5. In what ways is feedback-giving influenced by social factors including age,
gender, race, ethnicity, socio-economic status?   
6. How are various racial, ethnic, gender biases and stereotypes embedded and
reproduced in feedback? 
7. How do mechanics of power and control play out in the discourse of feedback
and how can those be discursively challenged or resisted?  
8. How are diverse modalities (and/or materialities) exploited in discursive
feedback?


Call for Papers:

The above panel description serves as a call for papers. If you are interested
in contributing to this panel, please submit an abstract via email to the
panel organizers by September 30.

Sylvia Jaworska  (s.jaworska at reading.ac.uk)
Camilla Vásquez (cvasquez at usf.edu)




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