33.2827, Calls: Anthro Ling, Disc Analysis, Pragmatics, Socioling/Belgium

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LINGUIST List: Vol-33-2827. Sat Sep 17 2022. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 33.2827, Calls: Anthro Ling, Disc Analysis, Pragmatics, Socioling/Belgium

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Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2022 04:04:58
From: Carsten Levisen [calev at ruc.dk]
Subject: Panel: Magical Speech Acts

 
Full Title: Panel: Magical Speech Acts 

Date: 10-Jul-2023 - 15-Jul-2023
Location: Brussels, Belgium 
Contact Person: Carsten Levisen
Meeting Email: calev at ruc.dk

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Pragmatics; Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 01-Nov-2022 

Meeting Description:

PANEL: ''MAGICAL SPEECH ACTS''

Organized by: Carsten Levisen (Roskilde) and Nico Nassenstein (Mainz)

Some words are magical. They have the special capacity of bringing change to
the world, and to bring this world into contact with invisible worlds and
spheres, from divine realms to rituals of deep history and cosmology. Magical
words can bless, heal, and unite. They can prevent, predict and protect. But
there’s also a dark side to it: Magical words can curse, cause harm, they can
cause division, death and misfortune – upon individuals, and entire
communities. Magical words have power, and are linked to concealing practices
and unveiling secrets at the same time. Across linguacultural traditions, we
find a variety of words and ways of speaking that have a such transformative
potential, sometimes in the form of linguistic formulae, speech routines,
secret registers of language, manipulated forms and structures, mimetic
performances, or entire magical languages.

This panel brings together scholars engaged in research on ''magic'' in
anthropological linguistics and linguistic pragmatics. Magical speech acts are
in a sense, the “ultimate type of speech acts”, i.e., people are truly “doing
things with words” when they are altering reality through agentive speech,
manipulating the world, causing things to happen, and transforming people and
places, for better or for worse. Exploring the practices and effects of
magical speech acts, we focus in this panel on experience-near realities and
the emic perspective that allows us to ask questions such as “what do people
take themselves to be doing?”, or “what is the world like to people?”. 

We acknowledge that the words “magic” and “magical” are not without flaws,
especially when contextualizing them in the older anthropological literature.
Along with other English terms such as “sorcery”, “witchcraft”, “occultism”
these are often not doing justice to the emic perspective, and often contain
readings of ostracism and Orientalism. For this reason, language-specific
concepts, including speech act verbs and hard-to-translate vocabularies in the
magical domain are of special interest to the panel. At the same time, the
panel also takes an interest in the development of pragmatics as a discipline,
and in expanding it from its modernist, Anglocentric (Eurocentric) moorings.
Paving the way to new intersections of knowledge creation in question spaces
of contention and contraction, i.e., secular and postsecular, colonial and
postcolonial, modern and postmodern, we will use “magical speech acts” as our
heuristic starting point for a joint exploration, and as a metaphor for a
long-neglected meeting place between pragmatics and anthropological
linguistics with a topic that has a long tradition in anthropology, but must
be revisited, too.

The panel is of special interest to pragmaticists working in frameworks such
as cultural pragmatics, postcolonial pragmatics, historical pragmatics, as
well as anthropological linguists broadly conceived. The panel also welcomes
historians of magic, and contributions from literary studies, religious
studies.


Call for Papers:

CALL FOR PAPERS FOR THE ''MAGICAL SPEECH ACTS'' PANEL

Topics (among others) may include:
blessing and cursing; divine invocations; rituals and formulaic speech;
magical discourses and narratives; word avoidance and taboo; indexicality of
magic words and practice; magic-like cultural concepts and keywords; literary
and historical magic; healing discourses, wellbeing and protection; secret
repertoires, secret languages

All contributions to the panel must be submitted separately as panel
contributions by the authors, before the 1 November. 
- Authors must log in to their IPrA 2023 Dashboard with their IPrA username. 
- Authors must go to 'Submit your Abstract Now' and write their abstract. 
- Each abstract cannot contain more than 500 words, including references. 
- Membership of IPrA is required in order to participate in this IPrA panel.




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