36.2747, FYI: Call for Papers: Video-Mediated Interaction: Multimodal and Intercultural Perspectives

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Subject: 36.2747, FYI: Call for Papers: Video-Mediated Interaction: Multimodal and Intercultural Perspectives

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Date: 14-Sep-2025
From: Anna Ladilova [anna at ladilova.de]
Subject: Call for Papers: Video-Mediated Interaction: Multimodal and Intercultural Perspectives


We are inviting researchers in all career stages to send us abstracts
for book chapters to be included in an edited volume, which will be
published at Verlag für Gesprächsforschung. The tentative title will
be
Video-Mediated Interaction: Multimodal and Intercultural Perspectives
Editors: Ulrike Schröder, Annal Ladilova & Galina Gostrer
Overview
As digital communication becomes increasingly integral to both
everyday and institutional life, this volume aims to explore how
meaning is co-constructed in intercultural and multilingual
video-mediated interactions (VMI). Special attention is given to the
fragmentation of sensory resources—visual, auditory, gestural, and
embodied—, screen-mediated visual design, and the way, how
participants creatively reconfigure these affordances to promote
intercultural understanding, as well as address potential challenges
that may arise from the complexities of the video-mediated interaction
itself as well as the cultural or linguistic aspects.
Key topics may include (but are not limited to):
·       Conversation-analytic approaches to video-mediated interaction
(VMI) in intercultural institutional, professional, educational, and
informal settings (e.g., lingua franca communication, turn-taking
dynamics or teletandem exchanges);
·       Multimodal resources, in particular
·       Gestural resources in intercultural VMI, with particular
attention, but not limited to facial gestures;
·       Interactional-linguistic cueing through co-occurring verbal,
prosodic, and gestural features;
·       Acoustic features in digital multilingual encounters;
·       Intercultural pragmatic phenomena, including culture-specific
(im)politeness markers;
·       Methodological challenges in researching VMI, such as
epistemological considerations, multimodal transcription, or the
integration of quantitative with qualitative methods;
·       Ethical considerations in multinational corpus building,
including informed consent, anonymization, and data sharing practices;
·       Theoretical frameworks of research on VMI and their
combination.
We welcome contributions grounded in, or engaging with, a range of
theoretical and methodological perspectives, including but not limited
to:
·       Conversation analysis
·       Interactional linguistics
·       Gesture studies
·       Multimodal interaction analysis
·       Intercultural communication studies
·       Sociolinguistics
·       Discourse studies
This edited volume originates from the PROBRAL CAPES/DAAD-funded
project “The Multimodal Coordination of Intercultural Video-Mediated
Interaction” (2022-2026), a collaborative research initiative
involving three Brazilian and three German universities, along with
additional international partners who joined the project during its
implementation.
Types of Contributions
We invite both theoretical-methodological and empirical contributions.
Theoretical-methodological papers should directly address how to
capture and analyze the fragmented, multimodal nature of multilingual
talk-in-interaction within culturally diverse, global contexts.
Empirical papers should present fine-grained analyses of
video-mediated interaction data. Possible areas of focus include
online teamwork, classroom discourse, family or peer interactions, and
institutional, professional, or public communication.
Submission Guidelines and Timeline
Please submit an abstract (400–500 words, excluding references) along
with a short author biography (maximum 150 words) to Ulrike Schröder
[uschr400 at gmail.com] by October 15, 2025.
Notification of acceptance: November, 15, 2025
Full chapters (6,000–8,000 words) due: May, 15, 2026.

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                     Applied Linguistics
                     Discourse Analysis
                     Pragmatics
                     Sociolinguistics




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