35.2681, Calls: 19th International Pragmatics Conference

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Subject: 35.2681, Calls: 19th International Pragmatics Conference

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Date: 27-Sep-2024
From: Andrea Rodriguez [a.rodriguezortega at uq.edu.au]
Subject: 19th International Pragmatics Conference


Full Title: 19th International Pragmatics Conference
Short Title: IPrA2025

Date: 22-Jun-2025 - 27-Jun-2025
Location: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Contact Person: Jef Verschueren
Meeting Email: ipra2025 at pragmatics.international
Web Site: https://pragmatics.international/page/Brisbane2025

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Discourse Analysis;
Philosophy of Language; Pragmatics; Sociolinguistics

Call Deadline: 01-Nov-2024

Meeting Description:

The is the 19th edition of the International Pragmatics Conferences
organized by the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA;
https://pragmatics.international).

Special theme: PRAGMATICS IN ACTION
The aim of this conference is to bring the notion of action back to
the forefront of pragmatics, to encourage cross-fertilization of ideas
and approaches across the many (sub)disciplines with which pragmatics
engages, and to demonstrate the difference that a pragmatics in action
can make in the world. Given the central importance of action to
pragmatics we do not envisage this so much as being a special topic or
focus for the conference, but rather as a theme that is intended to
help consolidate and unite pragmatics, as well as pushing it forward
in exciting new directions that demonstrate its real world relevance
and importance.

As on all earlier occasions, all topics are welcome that are relevant
to the field of linguistic pragmatics in its widest sense as the
interdisciplinary science of language use.

Final Call for Papers:

Foregrounding the substrate of accountability: Advances and new
directions in the study of accounting practices

The study of how members of society display orientation to
accountability for normative and deviant courses of action has
received considerable attention since Garfinkel’s (1967)
groundbreaking breaching experiments. The now ever-growing body of
research includes a wide variety of accounting practices ranging from
account solicitations (Schegloff, 1997; Sterponi, 2003; Robinson,
2006; Robinson & Bolden, 2010) to volunteered accounts (Sterponi,
2009) accomplished on-record (Bolden & Robinson, 2011) off-record
(Raymond & Stivers, 2016). From a talk-in-interaction perspective,
Robinson’s (2016) overview shows that accounts have received the most
scholarly attention for breaches of relevance rules associated with:
(1) the sequential implications of actions associated with a relevant
second-pair part including not being able to provide one (e.g., “I
don’t know” [Heritage, 1988]; meta-accounts “It’s a long story” [Scott
& Lyman, 1968]), (2) the formation of actions, such as the use of more
or less appropriate formats, which often emerges through self-repairs
(e.g., “I mean” [Maynard, 2013]), and (3) the use of dispreferred or
sensitive actions as sequence initiating (e.g., requests, complaints)
and sequence responding (e.g., refusals, denials) actions (Buttny,
1993). Nevertheless, as Robinson (2016) points out, there are yet many
other different types of relevance rules that sustain the multilayered
“logic of action” (Heritage, 1990:38) that need to be explored.

This panel aims to bring together scholars from diverse disciplines
employing discourse analysis methods for the analysis of naturally
occurring interactions in varied contexts, including, public,
institutional, mundane, and digital interaction. More specifically,
the panel expects to attract the attention of academics interested in
contributing to advancing the understanding of accountability for
breaches of various types of relevance rules. It hopes to spark
discussions in relation to “why” accounting practices unfold the way
they do, considering relevance rules involved in, for example but not
limited to, the sequential contexts were a seemingly preferred
response (e.g., acceptance of an invitation) is yet followed by an
account, or sociocultural and relational contexts where the preference
for “self-accounting” or “accounting for accountable conduct”
(Robinson, 2016) are challenged. The panel welcomes contributions
toward the off-record management of responsibility alongside the
inferential processes in which interlocutors engage, which is a
considerably underexplored area, and any other noteworthy phenomena
that may expand the current understanding of accounting practices in
diverse contexts.

If you have any questions, feel free to contact me, Andrea Rodriguez
a.rodriguezortega at uq.edu.au



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