37.2382, Confs: Panel at IPC20: Building Bridges Across Artistic Cultures (Finland)

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Date: 14-Jul-2026
From: Cecilia Lazzeretti [cecilia.lazzeretti at unibz.it]
Subject: Panel at IPC20: Building Bridges Across Artistic Cultures


Panel at IPC20: Building Bridges Across Artistic Cultures
Short Title: IPC20
Theme: Pragmatic and Discourse-Analytic Approaches to Meaning and
Value in the Arts

Date: 27-Jun-2027 - 02-Jul-2027
Location: Helsinki, Finland
Contact: Cecilia Lazzeretti
Contact Email: cecilia.lazzeretti at gmail.com
Meeting URL: https://pragmatics.international/page/CfP2027

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

Submission Deadline: 15-Oct-2026

Artistic practice is conceptualised, communicated, and legitimised
through culturally specific discourses. When these discourses are not
recognised, institutions risk imposing external frameworks of value
onto culturally distinct practices, thereby misrepresenting how such
practices are understood, what motivates them, and how meaning is
produced within their own cultural contexts (Baumann, 2007; Bourdieu,
1984). Building bridges across artistic cultures therefore requires
close attention to the discursive and pragmatic processes through
which artistic value is negotiated, so that artistic practice can be
interpreted on terms meaningful within its own cultural setting,
rather than judged through externally imposed frameworks.
This panel explores how bridges can be built across artistic,
linguistic, and cultural worlds through the study of discourse,
communication, multimodality, and meaning in the arts (Hocking, 2025),
and more broadly in culturally situated forms of creativity (Jones,
2014). In line with the conference theme, we are especially interested
in how pragmatic and discourse-oriented approaches can illuminate the
negotiation of artistic legitimacy, cultural identity, and value
across different contexts, including those marked by asymmetry,
misunderstanding, contestation, or polarisation.
The panel adopts a broad understanding of the arts, encompassing
visual, performative, literary, applied, and AI-generated or
AI-supported forms. Attention is also given to the role of digital
media, including websites, social media, and multimedia platforms
(Bou-Franch & Blitvich, 2019), as key sites in which discourse about
the arts is produced, circulated, and contested. In these online
environments, artistic identities may be constructed, challenged, and
recontextualised across geographic and cultural boundaries, shaping
how audiences interpret and evaluate artistic work. At the same time,
these environments may enable both dialogue and division.
Against this backdrop, we welcome papers that explore how texts and
practices construct, negotiate, and transform understandings of
artistic practice and value across diverse linguistic and cultural
settings. Contributions may draw on a range of methodological and
theoretical approaches, including corpus linguistics, multimodal
analysis, ethnography, genre analysis, and related interdisciplinary
perspectives. We particularly welcome work that connects pragmatics
with neighbouring fields and examines how communicative practices in
and around the arts may foster, or hinder, mutual understanding across
cultural difference.
Submission deadline - 15 October 2026
Submissions should be made through the conference submission platform.
https://ipra2027.exordo.com/
Contact:
Cecilia Lazzeretti
cecilia.lazzeretti at unibz.it
cecilia.lazzeretti at gmail.com
Darryl Hocking
darryl.hocking at aut.ac.nz
References:
Baumann, S. (2007). A general theory of artistic legitimation: How art
worlds are like social movements. Poetics, 35(1), 47–65.
Bou-Franch, P., & Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. (Eds.). (2019).
Analysing digital discourse: New insights and future directions.
Palgrave Macmillan.
Bourdieu, P. (1984). Distinction: A social critique of the judgement
of taste (R. Nice, Trans.). Harvard University Press. (Original work
published 1979).
Hocking, D. (Ed.). (2025). The language of art and artists. Springer
Nature.
Jones, R. (Ed.). (2014). Discourse and creativity. Routledge.
General Submission Guidelines:
Abstracts for lectures and posters (min. 250 and max. 500 words)
should be submitted before 15 October 2026. It is the individual
submitter’s choice to submit for oral presentation (lecture) or a
poster. Oral presentations are for (nearly) completed research, for
which 30-minute slots will be available, including discussion time and
time for moving between sessions. Posters are suitable for work in
progress and/or work that requires personal feedback, and these will
be up for the whole week. During one of the conference days, there is
a poster period during which all other conference activities are
blocked so that attention goes exclusively to looking at and
discussing posters. IPrA actively encourages the submission of
posters; experience tells us that this format can generate serious
interaction and result in lasting and fruitful contacts.
More information available on the conference website.
https://pragmatics.international/page/CfP2027



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