35.16, Calls: Embodiment at Anglistiktag 2024

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Subject: 35.16, Calls: Embodiment at Anglistiktag 2024

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Date: 22-Dec-2023
From: Cornelia Gerhardt [c.gerhardt at mx.uni-saarland.de]
Subject: Embodiment at Anglistiktag 2024


Full Title: Embodiment at Anglistiktag 2024

Date: 15-Sep-2024 - 18-Sep-2024
Location: Augsburg, Germany
Contact Person: Cornelia Gerhardt
Meeting Email: c.gerhardt at mx.uni-saarland.de
Web Site: http://www.anglistenverband.de/tagungen/anglistentag-2024

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Applied Linguistics;
Discourse Analysis; Pragmatics; Sociolinguistics
Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Call Deadline: 15-Jan-2024

Meeting Description:

"Embodiment at the intersection of grammar and lexis in English"
Panel at the annual meeting of Deutscher Anglistikverband

Call for Papers:

Embodiment at the Intersection of Grammar and Lexis in English
While bodily expressions, such as gestures, posture, facial
expression, and gaze, do not immediately appear to pertain to
traditional notions of lexis, let alone grammar, there have been
approaches to the integration of such phenomena into a more holistic
structural view. Keevallik (2018), in her overview of work rooted in
the Conversation Analysis (CA) and Interactional Linguistics (IL)
traditions, differentiates a formal linguistic conception of grammar
as a “device for organizing information in self-contained sentences
that coherently express propositions” (p.1) from a functional
linguistic one, which “has instead documented motivations for lexical
and syntactic features from outside the ‘language system’ itself
(Bybee, 2003)”. Whereas the former describes syntactic units “as if
they were separate from actual usage”, the latter “has embraced audio
and video recordings of people interacting in various situations”.
The functional linguistic view is informed by, for example, Schegloff
(1996), Goodwin (2000), Lindström and Mondada (2009), who understand
grammatical structure as the outcome of contextual features, which
promote a plethora of social action (potential) in modes other than
spoken language. Keevallik also cites Goodwin’s (1981) analysis of the
utterance 'I gave up smoking cigarettes one week ago today actually',
as a case in point. In it, he demonstrates that recipients’ gaze
behavior contributes to the incremental build-up of the complete
utterance rather than it having been planned in its final form from
the outset. Another example is Streeck’s analysis of 'and he was like'
as ‘body quotative’ (1988), a grammatical function of 'like' that can
only be understood by including the bodily behavior in the analysis.
A research tradition that also begins to integrate multimodal
interaction in notions of grammar and lexis is Discourse Analysis:
"Much recent work demands such descriptive principles as the need to
rely on authentic data, to proceed in an interdisciplinary way […] and
to focus on the powerful coherence-securing role of such (sometimes
long neglected) means as gestures ..., discourse topics, collocational
orientation. (Bublitz, 2011: 47)
Likewise, construction grammar views gesture as a possible element of
constructions, that is, “learned pairings of form with semantic or
discourse functions” (Goldberg 2006: 5) which are results of
conventionalization and grammaticalization. For the English language,
Hinnell (2018) investigates recurrent gesture features alongside the
category of aspect, whereas Zima (2014) presents evidence on the
semantic domain of motion events regarding its representation through
multimodal constructions. Mittelberg’s research on linguists’ gestures
in teaching environments has found constructions involving embodiments
of “single linguistic categories as well as larger, internally
structured constructs, such as phrases and sentences, as well as the
corresponding theoretical models” (2016: 4).
Hence, the role of the human body not just in interaction in general,
but more specifically in the emergence of grammatical structure and
lexical expressions is increasingly gaining recognition. This panel,
therefore, invites contributions that investigate combinations
(pairings, chunks, sequences, constructions) that involve the use of
several modes with a specific focus on their status as elements or
indicators of grammatical or lexical building blocks in English
language interactions.
We invite papers presenting finished research (20 min talk/10 min
discussion), but also ongoing research with more focus on the data and
the challenges they bring to traditional notions of English grammar
and lexis (10 min presentation/20 min discussion).
Abstracts (300 words excl. references) to
c.gerhardt at mx.uni-saarland.de by Jan 15, 2024.
PD Dr. Maximiliane Frobenius (University of Münster)
Dr. Cornelia Gerhardt (Saarland University)



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