35.2172, Calls: International Pragmatics Conference (IPrA)- Panel: “Affective pragmatics: Doing things with emotions”

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Subject: 35.2172, Calls: International Pragmatics Conference (IPrA)- Panel: “Affective pragmatics: Doing things with emotions”

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Date: 01-Aug-2024
From: Marco Mazzone [marco.mazzone at unict.it]
Subject: International Pragmatics Conference (IPrA)- Panel: “Affective pragmatics: Doing things with emotions”


Full Title: International Pragmatics Conference (IPrA)- Panel:
“Affective pragmatics: Doing things with emotions”
Short Title: IPrA 2025

Date: 22-Jun-2025 - 27-Jun-2025
Location: Brisbane, Australia
Contact Person: Marco Mazzone
Meeting Email: marco.mazzone at unict.it
Web Site: https://pragmatics.international/page/Brisbane2025

Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories; Pragmatics;
Psycholinguistics

Call Deadline: 01-Nov-2024

Meeting Description:

Subject: International Pragmatics Conference (IPrA)- Panel: “Affective
pragmatics: Doing things with emotions”

Full title: International Pragmatics Conference (IPrA)- Panel:
“Affective pragmatics: Doing things with emotions”

Date: 22-June-2025 – 27-June-2025
Location: Brisbane, Australia
Contact persons: Marina Terkourafi (Leiden) & Marco Mazzone (Catania)
Meeting email: marina.terkourafi at gmail.com; marco.mazzone at unict.it
Web Site: https://ipra2025.exordo.com/

Linguistic fields: Pragmatics; Psycholinguistics; Biolinguistics &
Biosemiotics

Call deadline: 01-Nov-2024

Meeting description:
Research on language and emotion within linguistics has primarily
focused on talking about emotions, that is, expressing our emotions
through verbal means. However, in neighbouring disciplines such as
(social) psychology and philosophy of mind, interest has also been
devoted to how externalizing our emotions through nonverbal means can
carry meaning in itself and function to bring about changes in the
world.
        This panel will engage with the Theory of Affective Pragmatics
(Scarantino 2017, Scarantino 2019, Scarantino et al. 2022; henceforth
TAP), according to which expressions of our emotions using nonverbal
means don't just bring about perlocutionary effects but can be used to
perform the analog of illocutionary acts. One interesting question, in
this case, is exactly what does the performative work: we clearly
don't experience the emotion (of pain, joy, fear, etc.) in order to
bring about a change in the world, however, it is possible that we
strategically let these emotions show to other people when we
experience them in order to bring about certain effects in those
people. This claim needs a lot more unpacking to find out how it works
and whether it is consistent with how speech acts work (for instance,
one may doubt whether there can be socially acknowledged procedures
that secure the intended effects, as in the case of verbal speech
acts).
        Taking the TAP as a starting point, this panel will address
questions such as:
 a) What type of meaning is involved in emotional communication?
 b) Can externalizing one's emotions bring about changes in the world?
What is the best way to theorise that?
 c) How do emotions relate to the dynamics of illocutionary and
perlocutionary acts?
 d) How many things can we do with emotions?
Scholars from different subfields, including theoretical and
experimental pragmatics, neurolinguistics, human-machine interface,
and the philosophy of language, will be invited to address the above
questions, highlighting relevant findings from their areas of
expertise. The answers are expected to not only expand the scope of
emotion language research beyond the use of language to express
individually experienced emotions to the performative potential of
one's emotional repertoire but also to push us to consider the
possibility that we can communicate using units of meaning that do not
rely on either (Gricean reflexive) intention or convention (and what
kind of "meaning" such units express).

We have so far secured the participation of Andrea Scarantino (Georgia
State University), Mitchell Green (University of Connecticut), Dorit
Bar-On (University of Connecticut), Marina Sbisà (University of
Trieste).

References:

Scarantino, Andrea (2017). How to do things with emotional
expressions: The theory of Affective Pragmatics. Psychological Inquiry
28(2–3): 165–185.
Scarantino, A. (2019). Affective Pragmatics Extended: From natural to
overt expressions of emotions. In: Hess, Ursula, Hareli, Shlomo
(eds.), The Social Nature of Emotion Expression. Springer, Cham.
49–81.
Scarantino, Andrea, Hareli, Shlomo, & Hess, Ursula (2022). Emotional
expressions as appeals to recipients. Emotion 22(8): 1856–1868.

Call for Papers:

We invite panel contributions addressing the above and related
issues/questions for presentations and discussions. We will negotiate
the actual form of the panel as a group to make the best use of the
allotted time. If you are interested, contact us at
marina.terkourafi at gmail.com or marco.mazzone at unict.it.

Abstracts (min. 250 and max. 500 words) for panel contributions need
to be submitted via the IPrA conference website
(https://ipra2025.exordo.com/login) by 1 November 2024. Please note
that IPrA membership is required for submitting an abstract and
presenting at the conference. For more information, see
https://pragmatics.international/page/CfP2025

Panel organizers: MarinaTerkourafi (University of Leiden) and Marco
Mazzone (University of Catania).



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