35.2394, Calls: The 19th International Pragmatics Conference - Panel: Blue Pragmatics - Speaking of the Sea and Planetary Water

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Subject: 35.2394, Calls: The 19th International Pragmatics Conference - Panel: Blue Pragmatics - Speaking of the Sea and Planetary Water

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Date: 03-Sep-2024
From: Stephanie Mašková [stephaniemaskova.pedersen at griffithuni.edu.au]
Subject: The 19th International Pragmatics Conference - Panel: Blue Pragmatics - Speaking of the Sea and Planetary Water


Full Title: The 19th International Pragmatics Conference - Panel: Blue
Pragmatics - Speaking of the Sea and Planetary Water
Short Title: IPrA2025

Date: 22-Jun-2025 - 27-Jun-2025
Location: Brisbane, Australia
Contact Person: Stephanie Mašková
Meeting Email: stephaniemaskova.pedersen at griffithuni.edu.au

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Cognitive Science;
Discourse Analysis; Pragmatics; Semantics

Call Deadline: 01-Nov-2024

Meeting Description:

We invite contributions to our IPrA 2025 panel 'Blue Pragmatics -
Speaking of the Sea and Planetary Water', which will be held at the
University of Queensland, Brisbane, 22-27 June 2025. The panel is
organised by Carsten Levisen (Roskilde University) and Stephanie
Mašková (Griffith University).

This panel brings together pragmatics and the Blue Humanities. As a
transdisciplinary response to the current planetary crisis, the Blue
Humanities has emerged as a field of inquiry that “comprises a current
of scholarly and artistic discourses that foreground human
relationships with water in all its forms” (Mentz 2024:17).

”Blue Pragmatics” seeks to contribute to the Blue Humanities by
studying the language of waterscapes and the discourse of water in
linguacultures across the planet. This involves, for instance, to
study the meanings that speakers assign to seas and oceans, to rivers
and icebergs, to islands and beaches, to cruise ships and drilling
rigs, to dolphins and sea turtles, and to mermaids and monsters of the
sea.

Providing new insights into the scripts, narratives and worldviews
that undergird the language and discourse of all such types of
meanings, the panel explores how the Blue Humanities can benefit from
including Blue Pragmatics into its portfolio of perspectives, but also
how pragmatics can benefit from a “blue turn” – a new attentiveness to
the sea and other kinds of planetary water in human life and
linguaculture.

It is of special interest to the panel to seek to understand how
agency is ascribed to blue entities, e.g. as brutal or healing agents
(e.g. the roaring sea, holy water), how more-than-human agents are
construed and interacted with (e.g. ”interspecies interaction”) and
how mythology and ritual intersect with water discourse. The interest
expands also to transient blue socialities (e.g. cruise ship tourists,
beach vendors), as well as water disasters (flooding, tsunamis, etc.)
and the discourse of the current eco-crisis of the planet.

The panel welcomes contributions that offer case studies on Blue
Pragmatics, through analysis of the human-water relationship in
well-defined linguacultural contexts. The panel welcomes studies in
the language and discourse about waterscapes from both synchronic and
diachronic perspectives, as well as the language and discourse in
waterscapes, i.e. enchronic in-situ perspectives.

Our two methodological frames are:

(i) Blue fieldwork, i.e. fieldwork that centers in on the human
relationship with water and water-related ecologies, with a focus on
analysing the cultural pragmatics of blue linguaculture(s), or, the
situational pragmatics of transient human-water encounters. The
technical requirement for blue fieldwork necessitates on-site
fieldwork based on extensive language-culture-nature engagements and
an analytical attunement to semantic and pragmatic detail, via e.g.
keyword analysis, script analysis, indexicality analysis,
QGIS-assisted analysis, etc.

(ii) Blue discourses studies: studies in blue eco-narrative,
water-centered ritual and myth, representations and texts on
water-related dangers and disasters, etc. The technical requirements
for blue discourse studies should encompass corpus-assisted analysis
of contemporary or historical text, orature analysis, multimodal
semiotics, interactional analysis, etc.

The panel is open to scholars working in frameworks such as
cross-cultural and intercultural pragmatics, ethnopragmatics and the
ethnography of communication, ecolinguistics and language ecology,
anthropological linguistics and linguistic worldview studies.

Call for Papers:

Are you interested in presenting? Please get in touch with Carsten
Levisen, Roskilde University, at calev at ruc.dk or Stephanie Mašková,
Griffith University, at stephaniemaskova.pedersen at griffithuni.edu.au

Abstracts: 250-500 words
Deadline: 1 November 2024



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