36.1749, Confs: ICCA2026 panel: Deontics in time-critical contexts (Canada)

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Date: 03-Jun-2025
From: Marine Riou [marine.riou at univ-lyon2.fr]
Subject: ICCA2026 panel: Deontics in time-critical contexts


ICCA2026 panel: Deontics in time-critical contexts

Date: 23-Jun-2026 - 29-Jun-2026
Location: Edmonton, Canada
Contact: Marine Riou
Contact Email: marine.riou at univ-lyon2.fr
Meeting URL: https://icca2026.org/

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Pragmatics; Text/Corpus
Linguistics

Submission Deadline: 25-Jun-2025

Panel Title: Getting others to do things now: Deontics in
time-critical contexts
Organisers of the Panel: Marine Riou (Université Lumière Lyon 2) &
Emma Tennent (Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington)
Are you interested in contributing to a panel at the International
Conference on Conversation Analysis (ICCA2026) which will be held in
Edmonton in June 2026? Emma Tennent and I (Marine Riou) are proposing
a panel on deontic dimensions of action in contexts where time
matters. We already have some contributors exploring emergency calls,
in-hospital interactions, and protests; but there is room for a few
more.
Please see the panel abstract below. If you are interested, please
drop us a quick email to let us know at marine.riou at univ-lyon2.fr
and/or emma.tennent at vuw.ac.nz
We’d need to receive abstracts by June 25th 2025 to give us time to
compile everything and update our panel abstract before the deadline.
Full details for abstracts are available on the ICCA website
(https://icca2026.org/callforsubmissions/) but please be aware they
are 700 words long with a data extract and brief analysis.
Panel Abstract:
Deontic matters are fundamental to social relations, power, and action
in social interaction (Stevanovic & Svennevig 2015). The epistemic
engine underlying social interaction has been widely explored – and
debated – within conversation analysis, yet the deontic dimension of
social interaction has received less analytic attention. This panel
contributes to the investigation of deontics with a focus on
time-critical contexts.
Rather than focusing on specific turn formats like imperatives or
directives (Sorjonen et al., 2017), papers across the panel analyse a
wide range of practices and turn formats that participants use to get
others to act now. The papers examine cases where participants
(attempt to) get others to act immediately, whether to perform,
sustain, stop, or refrain from carrying out an action. Examining
time-critical contexts starkly illustrates how deontic issues are
managed in social interaction. The contexts we examine mean many of
the deontic practices are devoid of some of the facework or
progressive escalation observed in more mundane environments such as
parent-child interaction (Craven & Potter 2010) or driving lessons
(Deppermann 2018). The diversity of contexts and languages allows us
to explore similarities and differences in deontic practices when
participants are co-present or when speaking on the phone; when either
or neither participant are the beneficiary of the action; when the
stakes of acting or not acting vary, and when a directed action may be
part of a larger multistep project. We thus draw connections between
developments like the recruitment continuum (Kendrick & Drew, 2016),
mobilizing others (Taleghani-Nikazm et al., 2020) and benefactive
stance (Clayman & Heritage, 2014) in the exploration of deontic
actions.
The last slot of the panel will be a roundtable involving all speakers
where we will discuss the findings and perspectives of the different
papers. Our aim is to synthesise our analyses and conceptualise the
panel’s contributions with respect to recent developments in deontics.
References:
Craven A and Potter J (2010) Directives: Entitlement and contingency
in action. Discourse Studies 12(4): 419–442.
Deppermann A (2018) Instruction practices in German driving lessons:
Differential uses of declaratives and imperatives. International
Journal of Applied Linguistics 28(2): 265–282.
Clayman, S. E., & Heritage, J. (2014). Benefactors and beneficiaries:
Benefactive status and stance in the management of offers and
requests. In P. Drew & E. Couper-Kuhlen (Eds.), Studies in Language
and Social Interaction, John Benjamins, pp. 55–86.
Kendrick, K. H., & Drew, P. (2016). Recruitment: Offers, Requests, and
the Organization of Assistance in Interaction. Research on Language
and Social Interaction, 49(1), 1–19.
Stevanovic M and Svennevig J (2015) Introduction: Epistemics and
deontics in conversational directives. Journal of Pragmatics 78: 1–6.
Sorjonen, M., Raevaara, L., & Couper-Kuhlen, E. (2017). Imperative
Turns at Talk: The design of directives in action. John Benjamins.
Taleghani-Nikazm, C., Betz, E., & Golato, P. (2020). Mobilizing
Others: Grammar and lexis within larger activities. John Benjamins.



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