33.2923, Calls: Pragmatics/Belgium

Tue Sep 27 00:24:53 UTC 2022

LINGUIST List: Vol-33-2923. Tue Sep 27 2022. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 33.2923, Calls: Pragmatics/Belgium

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Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2022 00:24:40
From: Michael Haugh [michael.haugh at uq.edu.au]
Subject: Cognitive and interactional perspectives on conversational humour

Full Title: Cognitive and interactional perspectives on conversational humour 

Date: 09-Jul-2023 - 14-Jul-2023
Location: Brussels, Belgium 
Contact Person: Amir Sheikhan
Meeting Email: s.a.sheikhan at uq.edu.au

Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics 

Call Deadline: 01-Nov-2022 

Meeting Description:

Cognitive and interactional perspectives on conversational humour

Conversational humour, which broadly encompasses (sequences of) utterances
that are designed to ‘amuse’ participants or are treated as ‘amusing’ by
participants across various different kinds of social interaction, has been
the object of study in pragmatics and related fields for a number of decades.
Two main schools of research about conversational humour have emerged over
that time: cognitive-pragmatic approaches that model how participants
understand humour in interactional contexts, including the inferential and
conceptual bases for recognizing and resolving incongruities; and
discourse-pragmatic approaches that focus on describing the forms and
interactional practices by which conversational humour arises and its
associated social functions (Haugh and Priego-Valverde, forthcoming). As
Attardo (2020) notes, however, apart from a few notable exceptions (Langlotz
2015; Tabacaru 2019; Thielemann 2020), there has been little
cross-fertilisation between these two strands of research, a situation which
mirrors the divide between theoretical pragmatics and sociopragmatics in the
field of pragmatics more broadly.

The aim of this panel is to bring together scholars working from broadly
cognitive and interactional perspectives in order to consider how we might
develop a more comprehensive, empirically-grounded and theoretically-sound
account of conversational humour across different language and cultures.
Papers in this panel will focus on key questions that arise in undertaking
such an endeavour, such as whether the traditional distinction between humour
competence and humour performance can be maintained when theorising
conversational humour, what makes conversational humour ‘funny’ and the role
of incongruity therein, the role of shared knowledge and the epistemics of
conversational humour, and the extent to which there are universal cognitive
or sequential mechanisms underpinning conversational humour across languages
and cultures.

References
Attardo, Salvatore (2020). The Linguistics of Humor. Oxford: Oxford University
Press.
Langlotz, Andreas (2015). Creating Social Orientation through Language.
Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Haugh, Michael and Béatrice Priego-Valverde (forthcoming). Conversational
humour. In Thomas E. Ford, Władysław Chłopicki, and Giselinde Kuipers (eds.),
Handbook of Humor Research. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Tabacaru, Sabina (2019). A Multimodal Study of Sarcasm in Interactional Humor.
Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Thielemann, Nadine (2020). Understanding Conversational Joking. A
Cognitive-Pragmatic Study based on Russian Interactions. Amsterdam: John
Benjamins.

2nd Call for Papers:

We anticipate attracting a diverse range of scholars to the panel, as we will
welcome papers drawing from a broad range of theoretical and methodological
perspectives on conversational humour, including neo/post-Gricean, relevance
theoretic, discourse-semantic, and sociocognitive pragmatics, as well as
interactional sociolinguistics, conversation analysis, interactional
pragmatics and multimodal pragmatics. We will especially welcome papers that
attempt to bridge more than one of these approaches.

The above panel description also serves as a call for papers. If you are
interested in contributing to this panel, please submit your abstract via the
conference portal (https://pragmatics.international/page/CfP). Should you have
any queries, please feel free to contact the panel organisers.

Michael Haugh (The University of Queensland, Australia)
Béatrice Priego-Valverde (Aix-Marseille University, France)
Amir Sheikhan (The University of Queensland, Australia)

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