37.2455, Confs: Panel at IPC20: The Pragmatics of Doing ‘being Siblings’ in Talk-in-interaction (Finland)

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Date: 22-Jul-2026
From: Valeria Sinkeviciute [v.sinkeviciute at uq.edu.au]
Subject: Panel at IPC20: The Pragmatics of Doing ‘being Siblings’ in Talk-in-interaction


Panel at IPC20: The Pragmatics of Doing ‘being Siblings’ in
Talk-in-interaction

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

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Pragmatics; Sociolinguistics

Submission Deadline: 15-Oct-2026

This is a panel at the 20th International Pragmatics Conference
(IPrA2027)
The Pragmatics of Doing ‘being Siblings’ in Talk-in-interaction
Valeria Sinkeviciute
The University of Queensland
In interactional studies, it has been observed that, in and through
family conversations, children are socialised into and show their
understanding of the social order through their enactment of pragmatic
and normative behaviours as members of society (e.g. Minks, 2010; see
also overviews in Cekaite, 2013; Kyratzis and Cook-Gumperz, 2015;
Keel, 2016). Apart from the focus on linguistic and pragmatic
resources, more recently, multimodal interaction studies have
emphasised the role of embodied actions such as gaze, posture,
gestures, emotional displays in children’s accomplishment of
interactional and relational goals (e.g. Cekaite, 2010; Goodwin et al.
2012; Goodwin and Cekaite, 2018; Morita, 2021; Goico, 2025).
In terms of children communication with each other, while considerable
attention over decades has been paid to children in peer talk and peer
pretend play (e.g. Maynard, 1985b; Goodwin, 1990; Goodwin and Goodwin,
1990; Zadunaisky Ehrlich and Blum-Kulka 2010; Church 2016; Church and
Bateman, 2022; Gunnarsdottir & Bateman, 2022; Anatoli Smith and
Cekaite, 2025; Burdelski, 2025), noticeably, to date, fewer studies
(see e.g. Hester and Hester, 2010, 2012; Busch, 2012; Morita, 2021;
Declercq, 2021; Liu, 2023; Goico, 2025; Sinkeviciute, 2026) have
explored the co-construction and ongoing unfolding of
talk-in-interaction among siblings. Since peer and sibling
interactions vary because of different social relations between
children in terms of family hierarchical roles, age, power, interests,
etc. (see Goodwin, 2017), sibling interactions can be considered as a
distinct interactional and relational context, where local social and
moral orders are accomplished and negotiated.
This panel aims to focus on this under-explored type of interactions,
thus advancing the exploration of how siblings (whether children or
adults) communicate in family and institutional settings and how their
(multimodal) conversations contribute to their relationship
development. With a focus on a range of methodological approaches,
including interactional pragmatics, interactional sociolinguistics,
conversation analysis and membership categorisation analysis, the
panel invites contributions that explore various ways in which doing
‘being siblings’ is interactionally accomplished across different
activities and languages.
If you are interested in being part of this panel, please contact the
organiser at v.sinkeviciute at uq.edu.au by October 1, sending through
your presentation abstract.



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