37.2628, Confs: Panel at IPC20: Official Parliamentary Transcripts and Video Recordings as Research Data in Pragmatics (Finland)

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Subject: 37.2628, Confs: Panel at IPC20: Official Parliamentary Transcripts and Video Recordings as Research Data in Pragmatics (Finland)

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Date: 10-Aug-2026
From: Jenni Räikkönen [jenni.m.raikkonen at helsinki.fi]
Subject: Panel at IPC20: Official Parliamentary Transcripts and Video Recordings as Research Data in Pragmatics


Panel at IPC20: Official Parliamentary Transcripts and Video
Recordings as Research Data in Pragmatics
Short Title: Panel at IPC20
Theme: Official Parliamentary Transcripts and Video Recordings as
Research Data in Pragmatics

Date: 27-Jun-2027 - 02-Jul-2027
Location: Helsinki, Finland
Contact: Jenni Räikkönen
Contact Email: jenni.m.raikkonen at helsinki.fi
Meeting URL: https://pragmatics.international/page/CfP2027

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

Submission Deadline: 15-Oct-2026

We would like to draw your attention to the panel that we are
organising as part of the 20th International Pragmatics Conference
(IPC20), which will take place at the University of Helsinki in June
2027:
Official parliamentary transcripts and video recordings as research
data in pragmatics
 
During the past few decades, there has been increasing interest in the
research on parliamentary debates from pragmatic and discourse
perspectives. Most past studies on the pragmatics of parliamentary
debates have been based on official parliamentary transcripts prepared
in parliaments. However, using official parliamentary transcripts as
data can pose certain challenges in pragmatics and other linguistic
analyses. For instance, transcription and editorial practices vary
from one parliament to the next, making cross-linguistic and
cross-cultural comparisons difficult. Moreover, post-editing of
contributions in the reports raises questions about whether such
analyses provide insight into the language used in the parliamentary
sittings themselves or rather the language of the reports (see e.g.,
Slembrouck 1992; Mollin 2007; Hiltunen, Räikkönen, & Tyrkkö 2020;
Tyrkkö & Kotze 2023; Voutilainen 2023). The official video recordings,
on the other hand, also follow a certain tradition of portraying
parliamentary sessions, which might prove limiting in some research
traditions.
 
The goal of this panel is to bring together linguists who utilise
official video recordings or transcripts of parliamentary sittings in
their research. We welcome individual researchers and research teams
interested in parliamentary discourse and rhetoric, representing
diverse research traditions and methodological approaches to present
their work, share experiences and discuss different ways of using
these data in linguistic studies. Presentations may focus on video
recordings or reports of sittings in any parliament. They can also be
multi- or interdisciplinary. Here are some examples of possible
topics:
 
 - What kinds of pragmatic phenomena can be studied using
parliamentary transcripts or video recordings from parliamentary
sittings as data?
 - What types of methodological approaches are suitable for studying
pragmatic phenomena in different types of parliamentary corpora?
 - What types of challenges do transcription traditions pose for
studies in pragmatics?
 - What differences exist between official parliamentary transcripts
of different countries and between transcripts produced in different
time periods?
Please submit your abstract (250–500 words) via the conference website
(https://ipra2027.exordo.com/) by 15 October. In step 4 (‘Topics’) of
the submission process, select the panel ‘Official parliamentary
transcripts and video recordings as research data in pragmatics’.



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