35.2185, Calls: IPrA2025 Panel - "Solitude speech: Everything that linguists want to know about it but psychologists may not be so interested in"

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Subject: 35.2185, Calls: IPrA2025 Panel - "Solitude speech: Everything that linguists want to know about it but psychologists may not be so interested in"

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Date: 03-Aug-2024
From: Mitsuko Izutsu [mizutsu at fujijoshi.ac.jp]
Subject: IPrA2025 Panel - "Solitude speech: Everything that linguists want to know about it but psychologists may not be so interested in"


Full Title: IPrA2025 Panel - "Solitude speech: Everything that
linguists want to know about it but psychologists may not be so
interested in"

Date: 22-Jun-2025 - 27-Jun-2025
Location: Brisbane, Australia
Contact Person: Mitsuko Izutsu
Meeting Email: mizutsu at fujijoshi.ac.jp
Web Site: https://pragmatics.international/page/Brisbane2025

Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics; Psycholinguistics

Call Deadline: 01-Nov-2024

Meeting Description:

We invite contributions to the following panel at the 19th
International Pragmatics Conference.

Solitude speech (monologue/soliloquy) is an underdeveloped field of
inquiry in linguistics, but it has gained a greater attention in
psychology under the name of private speech/egocentric speech. The
primary concern of psychologists is to uncover how the use of private
speech is related to the development of human mind. However, since
their research is mainly based on quantitative data, little focus has
been given on the lexico-grammatical features or discourse patterns of
private speech. The statistics they present in the forms of figures or
tables hide a speaker’s actual use of language.

Vygotsky is an exceptional psychologist who notes grammatical or
semantic characteristics of private/egocentric speech. In his Thought
and Language, Vygotsky ([1934]1986) states that the development of
egocentric speech into inner speech is accompanied by syntactic and
semantic peculiarities (e.g., “abbreviation,” “predication,”
“agglutination”). He also maintains that egocentric speech “originates
through differentiation from speech for others,” suggesting that
private as well as inner speech is dialogic (Berk 1992).
Unfortunately, however, these accounts are not confirmed by rigorous
linguistic analyses of data based on various languages.

Some researchers, especially those from Asian backgrounds, observe
linguistic characteristics of solitude speech. For example, Maynard
(1993) notes the non-interactional use of Japanese “naked-abrupt
forms” (e.g., Dokoka okasii ‘Something is wrong’), in which the
absence of polite forms or addressee-oriented final particles
signifies the utterance as monologic. Japanese also has “positive
indicators of private expression” including “exclamatory
sentence-final particles” (e.g., -na(a), -kana(a)) (Hasegawa 2010).

Moreover, Nitta (1991) identifies -tto as a “monologization” particle,
which serves to disguise an utterance as monologic. The particle was
developed from the complementizer -to by suppressing the superordinate
clause (“insubordination,” Evans 2007). Interestingly, the non-use of
polite forms and the suppression of superordinate clauses are also
reported in Korean. Rhee and Koo (2017) call them “audience-blind
forms (ABFs)” like -(n)da, -na and -nka, which are also strategically
exploited in conversation. The strategic use of solitude speech is
likewise attested in the use of “displayed monologue” in Australian
Aboriginal languages (Spronck 2021).

The dialogic nature of solitude speech has often been questioned
(Hasegawa 2010) or regarded as cross-linguistically diverse. The
latter is illustrated by the infelicity of speakers’ second-person
self-reference (*Omae[anta] nani yatten-dayo? ‘What the heck are you
doing?’) or proper-name vocatives (*Takeshi, omae-nara dekiru! ‘You
can do it, Takeshi!’) in Japanese self-addressed speech (Koguma et al.
2020).

Call for Papers:

This panel invites any research addressing linguistic issues of
solitudes speech. The following are some possible issues to be
addressed in this panel:
 1. Are there any linguistic features specific (or unique) to solitude
speech?
 2. Are there any linguistic features that support the dialogic (or
non-dialogic) conception of solitude speech?
 3. How is solitude speech different from or similar to conversational
speech?
 4. How are Vygotsky’s linguistic peculiarities of private/inner
speech justified by linguistic data?
 5. What kinds of linguistic devices are used to disguise utterances
as monologic?

The data sources are not limited to spontaneous speech; research based
on non-authentic data (movies, dramas, novels, grammar books, etc.) is
also welcome.

Abstracts (min. 250 and max. 500 words) should be submitted through
the conference website (https://pragmatics.international/page/CfP2025)
before 1 November 2024.

For questions about this panel, contact panel organizers: Mitsuko N.
Izutsu (Fuji Women's University: mizutsu at fujijoshi.ac.jp), Katsunobu
Izutsu (Hokkaido University of Education).



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