36.1513, Confs: ICCA 2026 Panel on Narratives, Activities, and Interactional Settings (Canada)

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Subject: 36.1513, Confs: ICCA 2026 Panel on Narratives, Activities, and Interactional Settings (Canada)

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Date: 12-May-2025
From: Jörg Zinken [zinken at ids-mannheim.de]
Subject: ICCA 2026 Panel on Narratives, Activities, and Interactional Settings

ICCA 2026 Panel on Narratives, Activities, and Interactional Settings

Location: Edmonton, Canada

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Pragmatics

Submission Deadline: 06-Jun-2025

ICCA 2026 Panel on: Narratives, Activities, and Interactional Settings
Narrative within interaction has been a central object of study in
conversation analysis and interactional linguistics for a number of
decades, yielding rich and nuanced observations about the sequential
organization of story-telling and the role of stories in positioning
social actors. A key issue in this literature concerns the integration
of tellings, as ‘big packages’ (Sacks 1992: 354), into the basic
turn-by-turn organization of conversation (Jefferson 1978). While some
stories are elicited and thus granted an extended space within the
conversation, tellers often self-initiate their stories and thus have
to bid for such a space (e.g., through abstracts or pre-tellings,
Sacks 1992: 9ff.; Schegloff 2007: 37ff.). Another major topic of
analytical interest has to do with the recipients’ role in developing
and accomplishing stories. Observably, a telling activity is not a
monologic undertaking; while storytelling presents a clear asymmetry
in speakership roles, the launching and continued enabling of this
large project (Levinson 2013) is dependent on the cooperation of a
teller and a recipient through locally-managed and finely-calibrated
(more explicit or implicit) displays of alignment and affiliation
(Schegloff 1982; Bavelas et al. 2000; Norrick 2000; Sorjonen 2001;
Stivers 2008; Couper-Kuhlen 2012; Jefferson 1984; Selting 2000).
While some previous work has stressed the connection between the
telling activity and its social context, for instance the professional
setting in which the story is told or constructed (Goodwin 2003, 2012;
Lucius-Hoehne and Deppermann 2000), the interactional setting and the
material and physical world in which the telling is embedded did not
make for a focal object of interest so far. This is yet another
important aspect to consider since in interaction storytelling is
often done alongside other activities with which tellers and
recipients are simultaneously engaged.
How is the activity of story-telling shaped by, integrated in, and
coordinated with the interactional and material setting in which it
takes place? The panel aims to bring this point into analytic light.
Specifically, it is concerned with questions such as the following:
(1) Stories are typically displaced in time and their recounting thus
involves talking or reflecting about past (or future/hypothetical)
events (Ochs and Caps 2001: 2); how then are tellings weaved into the
here-and-now and managed vis-à-vis immediate and even pressing
concerns of the present moment?
(2) How is story recipientship managed in a multi-activity context
(Haddington et al. 2014), including in multi-party configurations in
which recipients display different forms or levels of engagement in
the telling (cf. Goodwin 1984, 1986)?
(3) How can social identities/roles that are consequential in the
here-and-now activity be relevant for telling rights or the sustaining
of a telling? (cf. De Fina and Georgakopoulou 2012: 107)?
(4) How does the situation bear on what type of story can be told
and/or its potential development? Are there events/situations/terms
which are more congenial to ‘big narratives’ and such that will only
allow space for ‘small stories’ (Bamberg and Georgakopoulou 2008)?
(5) How are stories connected to participants’ here-and-now situation,
so that it becomes recognizable what makes this story relevant now and
what should be made of it in the local circumstances (e.g., Mandelbaum
2013)?
If you are interested in contributing to this panel, please send an
abstract to one of the panel organisers by June 6th 2025.
Michal Marmorstein: michal.marmorstein at mail.huji.ac.il
Jörg Zinken: zinken at ids-mannheim.de
Abstracts need to follow the specifications given on the ICCA 2026
website (https://icca2026.org/callforsubmissions/):
“Individual paper submissions should include:
1.      A title
2.      An extended abstract (Word document)
3.      Three to five keywords
Extended abstracts should provide a rationale for the study and state
the main analytic point(s) or argument(s) of the paper. For empirical
research, please include a data excerpt with brief analysis. Extended
abstracts can be up to 700 words long, excluding references.”

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