37.2669, Confs: Panel at IPC20: Multimodal Practices and Actions Across Settings and Languages (Finland)

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Date: 13-Aug-2026
From: Xiaoyun Wang [xiaoyun at ualberta.ca]
Subject: Panel at IPC20: Multimodal Practices and Actions Across Settings and Languages


Panel at IPC20: Multimodal Practices and Actions Across Settings and
Languages
Short Title: IPC20

Date: 27-Jun-2027 - 02-Jul-2027
Location: Helsinki, Finland
Meeting URL: https://pragmatics.international/page/CfP2027

Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics

Submission Deadline: 15-Oct-2026

The panel "Multimodal Practices and Actions Across Settings and
Languages", to be held at the 20th International Pragmatics Conference
in Helsinki, Finland, from 27 June to 2 July 2027, invites submissions
for panel contributions.
Background:
Adopting conversation analytic (CA), interactional linguistics (IL),
and multimodal analysis, this panel examines how social actions are
accomplished through multimodal practices including grammatical,
prosodic, bodily-visual practices and material resources in
interactions across a variety of settings and languages. It engages
with the notion of practices (Schegloff, 1996, 1997), action formation
(Levinson, 2013; Enfield & Sidnell, 2017) and social action formats
(Fox, 2000, 2007), and extends it to multimodal formation of social
actions (Rauniomaa & Keisanen, 2012; Enfield, 2009; Goodwin, 2018;
Mondada, 2018).
In addition, cross-linguistic and cross-cultural data offer a
particularly productive site for the exploration of multimodal action
formation. Typological difference across languages shapes how actions
are designed, recognized, and responded to in situated interaction,
making visible the limits of accounts that treat linguistic form as a
sufficient or universal cue to action. The referential indeterminacy
associated with zero pronouns in Mandarin, for instance, renders
action recognition heavily dependent on sequential position,
interactional context, and embodied conduct (Li, forthcoming): a
finding that invites comparison with how speakers of other languages
mobilize multimodal resources to accomplish similar interactional
work. By comparing data from multiple languages and settings, the
panel investigates the contextual and positional sensitivity of
multimodal action formation across languages and interactional
contexts.
The contributions currently confirmed for the panel examine a range of
social actions, including directives, assessments, repair, and
instructional actions, across diverse interactional settings. The data
include naturalistic conversation, adult second language classroom
interaction, child heritage language classroom interaction,
doctor-patient consultations, and joint activities, drawing on
video-recorded interaction in varieties of Chinese, English, Japanese,
and Swedish.
We welcome additional contributions that examine the multimodal
practices for social action across a wide range of languages, action
types, and interactional settings. The contributions aim to
demonstrate how participants themselves orient to the relevance of
specific multimodal practices in accomplishing actions (Couper-Kuhlen
& Selting, 2018), and to advance a multimodal account of action
formation across languages and contexts.
If you would like to submit a contribution to this panel, please
submit an abstract of 250-500 words via the conference submission
website: https://ipra2027.exordo.com/
The submission deadline is 15 October 2026.
In Step 4 ("Topics") of the submission process, please select the
panel "Multimodal Practices and Actions Across Settings and
Languages."



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