35.2410, Calls: 19th International Pragmatics Conference - Panel: "Humor as an Emergent Property of the Interactional Context"

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Subject: 35.2410, Calls: 19th International Pragmatics Conference - Panel: "Humor as an Emergent Property of the Interactional Context"

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Date: 03-Sep-2024
From: Elisa Gironzetti [elisag at umd.edu]
Subject: 19th International Pragmatics Conference - Panel: "Humor as an Emergent Property of the Interactional Context"


Full Title: 19th International Pragmatics Conference - Panel: "Humor
as an Emergent Property of the Interactional Context"
Short Title: IPC19

Date: 22-Jun-2025 - 27-Jun-2025
Location: Brisbane, Australia
Contact Person: Elisa Gironzetti
Meeting Email: elisag at umd.edu
Web Site: https://pragmatics.international/page/CfP2025

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

Call Deadline: 01-Nov-2024

Meeting Description:

19th International Pragmatics Conference - Panel: "Humor as an
Emergent Property of the Interactional Context"

Organizers
Dr. Salvatore Attardo (Texas A&M University-Commerce)
salvatore.attardo at tamuc.edu
Dr. Béatrice Priego-Valverde (Aix-Marseille Université)
beatrice.priego-valverde at univ-amu.fr
Dr. Elisa Gironzetti (University of Maryland) elisag at umd.edu

Call for Papers:

There is growing consensus that interactional humor is dynamic,
cooperative, and co-constructed. Its study has been primarily
approached from a linguocentric perspective, starting with an account
of the verbal (e.g., the humorous utterance) and then further opening
the analysis to a variety of other nonverbal elements, such as the
social and physical context of the interaction, interlocutors’ facial
expressions, or visual elements surrounding the humorous text. This
perspective is in line with recent works that argue for a multimodal
language faculty in which verbal and nonverbal resources are part of
the same system (e.g., Cohn & Schilperoord, 2024; Hagoort & Özyürek,
2024; Willems, Özyürek, & Hagoort, 2007).

However, in the same way as nonverbal elements have been considered
extralinguistic, context has been perceived as external as well, as if
it were a mere backdrop for interactional humor. The study of context
has been described metaphorically as the study of peripheral vision
(Schegloff 1992, p. 223). It is impossible to “look at” peripheral
vision because when one tries to focus it one merely changes one’s
focus. Here we propose to turn the metaphor inside out, so to speak,
and consider humor in interaction as a complex system, occurring in a
situated context, and as an emergent property of said context, in
which the interactants soft assemble (Thelen et al., 1984;
Larsen-Freeman, 2012) the stimuli (verbal and nonverbal) and their
reactions to them. This approach is an integral part of the move away
from linguocentric accounts of humor (Gironzetti, 2022) and toward
multimodal accounts of it in terms of “complex multimodal gestalts”
(Mondada, 2014, p. 139).

As part of this panel, we seek original research papers presenting
results of empirical studies (quantitative, qualitative, or mixed)
and/or engaging in theoretical discussions about any of the following:

1)     The characteristics and role of contextualization cues to the
play frame of humor (key in Goffman’s terms, 1974, 1981a/b) and/or to
the humorous nature of the interaction, particularly focused on the
interaction of these clues (e.g., smiling and hand gestures).
2)     “Difficult” cases in which the interactants do not readily
agree to the play frame/key or disagree to its appropriateness,
including cases in which they reject it entirely (Priego-Valverde,
2020; Bell, 2015).
3)     Cases in which the humor key emerges from the interplay of
contextual elements and their interpretation by the interactants,
especially if they include recontextualizations within joint
fictionalization (Kotthoff, 1999).
4)     Types and functions of markers/contextualization cues beyond
laughter, smiling, pauses, and others already discussed in Pickering
et al. (2009) and Attardo (2020).
5)     Embodied theories of cognition applied to the study of humor in
signed languages and/or visual communication.

Submissions should be made via the Official IPrA2025 Call for Papers
site:
https://pragmatics.international/page/CfP2025 (further information on
submission format is available at this site)

For inquiries, please contact the panel organizers:
Dr. Salvatore Attardo (Texas A&M University-Commerce)
salvatore.attardo at tamuc.edu
Dr. Béatrice Priego-Valverde (Aix-Marseille Université)
beatrice.priego-valverde at univ-amu.fr
Dr. Elisa Gironzetti (University of Maryland) elisag at umd.edu

We look forward to receiving your submissions!



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