33.2952, Calls: Applied Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics, Sociolinguistics/Italy

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Subject: 33.2952, Calls: Applied Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics, Sociolinguistics/Italy

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Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2022 02:05:10
From: Emanuela Paone [emanuela.paone at unisalento.it]
Subject: What words don’t say: Intercultural, cross-cultural and societal aspects of (in)direct communication

Full Title: What words don’t say: Intercultural, cross-cultural and societal aspects of (in)direct communication 

Date: 02-Feb-2023 - 04-Feb-2023
Location: University of Calabria, Italy 
Contact Person: Anna De Marco
Meeting Email: anna.demarco at unical.it

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

Call Deadline: 15-Nov-2022 

Meeting Description:

Pragmatics is a broad discipline encompassing a range of approaches to the
study of language and communication in context. Taking the lead from Leech’s
words (2014: 77) – “Why is what people say often at variance with what they
mean, and how is it that (despite this) we humans can nevertheless more or
less understand one another?” –, the conference aims to promote theoretical
and applied research on pragmatics as “meaning in interaction” (Thomas, 1995;
Culpeper & Terkourafi 2017), which includes what is conveyed explicitly and
implicitly.

Interlocutors collaborate to establish a joint understanding of what they are
talking about by creating a common ground of direct and indirect references
that allows them to share, negotiate and mediate meaning(s). Since people
communicate through and beyond words, the 'unspoken' needs to be inferred from
the context, but what remains implicit in conversation may vary depending on
the relationship between the interlocutors, the language(s) they are using,
the topic they are discussing, and the social and cultural context in which
the interaction occurs (Hall, 1969/1990).

References

Bratt Paulston, C., Kiesling, S. F., Rangel E. S. (Eds) (2012), The Handbook
of Intercultural Discourse and Communication, Wiley-Blackwell.
Culpeper, J., Terkourafi, M. (2017).“Pragmatics and (Im)Politeness”. In:
Culpeper J., Haugh, M.
and Kadar D. (eds.), Palgrave Handbook of (Im)politeness. Basingstoke:
Palgrave, 11-39.
Hall, E. T. (1969/1990). The hidden dimension. New York: Anchor Books
Editions.
Leech, G. (2014). The Pragmatics of Politeness. Oxford: Oxford University
Press.
Lombardi Vallauri, E. (2019). La lingua disonesta. Contenuti impliciti e
strategie di persuasione. Bologna: Il Mulino.
Ochs, E., Schlegoff,  E.A. Thompson, S. A. (2010), Studies in Interactional
sociolinguistics; Cambridge: CUP.
Thomas, J. (1995). Meaning in Interaction: An Introduction to Pragmatics.
London and New York: Longman.

Call for Papers:

The conference is meant to open a debate on issues relevant to explicit and
implicit communication. Research questions can be approached within various
frameworks in pragmatics such as neo-Gricean approaches, relevance theory,
usage and corpus-based approaches theory of mind, meaning-making, the role of
context, the semantics/pragmatics interface, explicature, implicature,
grammaticalization, speech act theory, presuppositions, (im)politeness,
dialogism, cognitive pragmatics, clinical pragmatics, neuropragmatics,
variational pragmatics etc. In addition, insightful contributions can be
offered within the neighbouring disciplines of sociolinguistics, conversation
analysis and discourse analysis.

Specifically, we welcome papers dealing with, but not restricted to, the
following topics:
Bilinguals’ and heritage speakers’ language use 
Intercultural and cross-cultural communication
Implicit aspects of linguistic content
Co-construction and negotiation of meaning
Persuasive strategies (from implicit meaning to inferences)
Pragmatic competence, teachability and learnability of pragmatic skills
Interlanguage pragmatic development (L1, L2, L3…)
Interaction between verbal and non-verbal aspects in web-mediated
communication
Digital resources for relational and (im)politeness purposes
Construction of identities, affiliation and group memberships in mediated
context 
Quasi-proxemics aspects of mediated communication
Multimodal communication 
Managing interaction: (Im)politeness  and relational work
The interface between pragmatics and morphology, lexicon, syntax and prosody  
Pragmatics and non-verbal communication 
Pragmatic aspects of accommodation
Language conflict
Expression and perception of emotions
Translation and interpreting
Figures of speech (irony, metaphor, hyperbole, etc.). 

We welcome theoretically or empirically oriented proposals (up to 300 words)
for 20-minute oral presentations (+ 10 minutes for questions) or posters,
which should be sent by October  30, 2022, to the three following addresses:
anna.demarco at unical.it or mariagraziapalumbo at yahoo.it, mnl.paone at gmail.com, 
inserting “What words don’t say” in the subject line of the e-mail. Abstracts
must include name, surname, affiliation and a short bio-note (50 words).
Acceptance will be communicated by November 30,  2022. The languages of the
conference, which will be held on site, are English and Italian.
Contributions will be published in ad edited volume.

Important dates and deadlines:  
Conference date: February 2-4, 2023
Abstract submission deadline: November 15, 2022
Notification of abstract acceptance:  December  10, 2022
Confirmation of attendance:  January 1, 2022  

Conference organizers: Anna De Marco (chair of the organizing commitee), 
Mirko Casagranda, Emanuele Fadda, Giusy Gallo, Giorgio Lo Feudo, Mariagrazia
Palumbo, Emanuela Paone.

Scientific committee:
Grazia Basile, Mirko Casagranda, Barbara D’Annunzio, Anna De Marco, Emanuele
Fadda, Giusy Gallo, Sara Gesuato, Paola Leone, Giorgio Lo Feudo, Elena Nuzzo,
Renata Oggero, Mariagrazia Palumbo, Emanuela Paone, Patrizia Sorianello, Ineke
Vedder.

The conference link will be available by the end of September 2022.

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