35.2546, FYI: Call for papers: Panel on ‘The making of multi-unit turns – cross-linguistic perspectives’, International Pragmatics Association 2025

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Subject: 35.2546, FYI: Call for papers: Panel on ‘The making of multi-unit turns – cross-linguistic perspectives’, International Pragmatics Association 2025

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Date: 17-Sep-2024
From: Ilana Mushin [i.mushin at uq.edu.au]
Subject: Call for papers: Panel on ‘The making of multi-unit turns – cross-linguistic perspectives’, International Pragmatics Association 2025


This panel is being organised by the investigators of the Australia
Research Council-funded project ‘Conversational Interaction in
Aboriginal and Remote Australia’  (Ilana Mushin, Joe Blythe, Rod
Gardner, and Lesley Stirling ) and presents an opportunity to report
findings from our investigations into turn-taking to date, and to
collaborate with others working on similar research questions. The
International Pragmatics Association conference is being held in
Brisbane, Australia, 22-27 June 2025.

There is now substantial evidence that turn-taking is a multimodal
accomplishment, including for the projection and construction of
multi-unit turns. There is an extensive body of work that has
identified the ways in which grammar and prosody are used to enable a
speaker to circumvent transition relevance places in order to secure a
second turn constructional unit. There are fewer studies on the ways
in which embodied resources, for example gesture, gaze and posture,
are used to hold the floor. There is also evidence that participants
orient to certain projected actions (e.g. complaints) or activities
(e.g. stories) that may require more than one turn constructional unit
by the same speaker. Nonetheless, there is still much to discover
about how current speakers and recipients draw on and integrate
resources from multiple modalities in order to secure and maintain a
longer conversational turn.

We invite papers that present insights into the ways in which
multi-unit turns are constructed in ordinary conversation or
institutional interactions across different languages. Research on
multi-unit turns has to date focused on data from a relatively limited
number of mainly major languages and so we welcome papers using data
from lesser-studied languages in turn-taking research.

Some of the questions panellists might consider include:
•       How should the relationship between extended multi-unit turns
and transition relevance places be conceptualised?
•       How do speakers continue to deploy resources to maintain the
trajectory of an extended  multi-unit turn once it has been launched?
•       How do extended multi-unit turns come to a close?
•       Are the same resources for holding the floor used in the same
ways across languages and cultures, or is there variability?
•       Are resources deployed in particular ways depending on the
kind of action or activity projected?

If you would like to participate in this panel, we invite you to
submit your abstract through the IPrA Call for Papers page
(https://pragmatics.international/page/CfP2025), selecting this panel.
Abstracts are due November 1st 2024.

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                     Pragmatics




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