35.2927, Calls: IPrA 2025 Panel: Toward a Pragmatics of Understanding

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Subject: 35.2927, Calls: IPrA 2025 Panel: Toward a Pragmatics of Understanding

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Date: 19-Oct-2024
From: Kerstin Fischer [kerstin at sdu.dk]
Subject: IPrA 2025 Panel: Toward a Pragmatics of Understanding


Full Title: IPrA 2025 Panel: Toward a Pragmatics of Understanding

Date: 22-Jun-2025 - 22-Jun-2025
Location: Brisbane, Australia
Contact Person: Kerstin Fischer
Meeting Email: kerstin at sdu.dk
Web Site:
https://pragmatics.international/general/custom.asp?page=Brisbane2025

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Clinical Linguistics;
Cognitive Science; Discourse Analysis; Pragmatics

Call Deadline: 01-Nov-2024

Meeting Description:

This panel is organized by Yoshiko Matsumoto and Kerstin Fischer and
will be held in connection with the 19th International Pragmatics
Conference at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia.

Call for Papers:

Much work in pragmatics has been inspired by theories, such as those
on speech acts (Austin 1962, Searle 1969), relevance (Sperber & Wilson
1986), linguistic politeness (Brown & Levinson 1978) and Grice’s
conversational logic (Grice 1975), which propose universally
applicable principles of conversational exchange with the premise that
the same principles are prevailingly followed by the participants in a
verbal interaction.  While such theories are insightful, other studies
have questioned the assumptions from the cross-cultural/linguistic
perspective (Keenan 1976, Rosaldo 1982, Wierzbicka 1986, Matsumoto
1989, Kádár and Haugh 2013, Ameka and Terkeroufi 2019) and argued for
indexical meanings beyond the referential meaning (Silverstein 1976),
and interpersonal content beyond the propositional content (Matsumoto
1988, Locher & Graham 2010).  Furthermore, since participants often
hold diverse knowledge and beliefs based on their linguistic,
sociocultural and cognitive backgrounds, it is open to what extent
they share the same principles of a conversational exchange, and how
they achieve smooth communication in case of discrepancies.

In this panel, we wish to explore the directions that pragmatics
research should take to account for the joint efforts of communication
participants (both the speaker and, importantly, the recipient) to
create a shared basis for understanding, embracing (1) a broader range
of socio-cultural and cognitive background, (2) other phenomena than
the management of propositional content and the transfer of factual
information, and (3) different ways in which a common ground may be
created.

We will investigate a variety of interactions between participants who
do not apparently share pragmatic assumptions or backgrounds within
and outside of otherwise shared linguistic, sociocultural and
cognitive backgrounds. Specifically, we examine instances of
interactions that present apparent “communicative coherence” or show
“communicative dissonance” in order to ascertain essential pragmatic
factors or principles that are at work in an interaction. For example,
common ground (Clark 1996) may be evoked to address the flexible and
evolving nature of shared ground contemporaneously created in
interaction by the participants. The trust that one’s interlocutors
have genuine communicative intent may be crucial to achieving a
pragmatics of understanding. The (truthfulness of) propositional
content of utterances or the transfer of factual information may play
a secondary role; the primary focus may be on other communicative
tasks, such as maintaining the flow of the interaction or building an
interpersonal connection.

Confirmed prospective presenters include: Anna Filipi, Kerstin
Fischer, Jacqueline Guendouzi, Angela Grimminger, Michael Haugh,
Shumin Lin, Yoshiko Matsumoto, Francois Nemo, Bracha Nir, Makiko
Takekuro; Discussants: Jef Verschuren, Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen,
Marina Terkourafi.

We invite empirical contributions that document the negotiation of
understanding in a broad range of situations, for instance:
 • situations in which communicative goals are in conflict
 • interactions with people living with atypical cognitive conditions,
e.g. dementia, autism, aphasia
 • interaction with non-native speakers
 • interactions with artificial agents
 • situations in which propositional contents are not primary
concerns,
and theoretical papers that discuss issues of attended-to
communicative tasks, the role of common/shared ground, and how we can
achieve an inclusive concept of a pragmatics of understanding.

Presenters are asked to submit an abstract through the conference
website: https://pragmatics.international/page/CfP2025.



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