37.2456, Confs: Panel at IPC20: The Pragmatics of ‘doing Family’ in Everyday Life (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 Family’ in Everyday Life


Panel at IPC20: The Pragmatics of ‘doing Family’ in Everyday Life

Date: 25-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 Family’ in Everyday Life
Co-organisers:
Zhiyi Liu, Valeria Sinkeviciute, Andrea Rodriguez
The University of Queensland
Family discourse, including interaction between parents and children,
siblings and adult (extended) family members, is a complex social
phenomenon where social meanings are jointly constructed and
negotiated. For several decades now, various aspects of family talk
have been explored with a focus on cultural patterns and interactional
phenomena, examining the role of talk in shaping and invoking
familial, social and cultural dimensions of family life (e.g.
Blum-Kulka, 1997; Gordon, 2009; Goodwin & Cekaite, 2018), including
identity construction (e.g. Ochs & Taylor 1995; Tannen et al. 2007;
Butler & Fitzgerald 2010; Liu, 2023) and various aspects of the
development of children’s communicative competence (e.g., Blum-Kulka,
1997; Wingard, 2006; Sterponi, 2009; Kheirkhah & Cekaite, 2017; Nguyen
& Nguyen, 2017; Declerq, 2021; Endo, 2021), and language and pragmatic
socialisation (e.g. Zinken, 2016; Endo, 2021; Kim & Carlin, 2023). The
continuing changes in society also contribute to changes in family
situations, the way families interact, their norms, expectations and
behavioural appropriateness. This is particularly relevant in today’s
globalised world, where family members (e.g. parents who migrate with
their children) not only face the challenges of adapting to the
linguistic environment of the new home country, while working to
preserve their home languages, but also try finding ways in which to
create and accomplish ‘familial order’ that has undergone multiple
adaptations.
This panel aims to expand on the existing research on family discourse
with a focus on the pragmatics of ‘doing family’ in everyday life. In
other words, we invite contributions that explore various aspects
(e.g. normative behaviours, (im)politeness, language socialisation,
relationship management) of familial order and how those aspects are
negotiated by (extended) family members (parents, children,
grandparents) during their everyday routine activities. Using
different methods, ranging from interactional pragmatics,
interactional sociolinguistics to conversational analysis and
membership categorisation analysis, all the papers will approach the
doing of ‘family’ and its role in a broader society as a situated
phenomenon that manifests itself in different ways, illustrating
practices used in the management and negotiation of moral and
relational matters. We particularly encourage submissions that include
conversational data from various lingua-cultural contexts.
If you are interested in being part of the panel, please contact the
organisers at v.sinkeviciute at uq.edu.au, zhiyi.liu at uq.edu.au and
a.rodriguezortega at uq.edu.au by October 1, sending through your
presentation abstract.



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