37.2861, Confs: Panel at IPC20: Multimodal Speech Acts across Interactional and Digital Contexts (Finland)

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Date: 07-Sep-2026
From: Xianming Fang [xianming.fang at fzu.edu.cn]
Subject: Panel at IPC20: Multimodal Speech Acts across Interactional and Digital Contexts


Panel at IPC20: Multimodal Speech Acts across Interactional and
Digital Contexts
Short Title: IPC20
Theme: Multimodal Speech Acts across Interactional and Digital
Contexts

Date: 27-Jun-2027 - 02-Jul-2027
Location: Helsinki, Finland
Contact: Dr. Xianming Fang
Contact Email: xianming.fang at fzu.edu.cn
Meeting URL: https://pragmatics.international/page/CfP2027

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

Submission Deadline: 15-Oct-2026

We are pleased to invite submissions for a panel on the theme of
Multimodal Speech Acts across Interactional and Digital Contexts.
Speech acts are not accomplished through words alone. In both
face-to-face and digital interaction, individuals rely not only on
verbal forms, but also on a range of embodied, vocal, and semiotic
resources, including gestures, gazes, facial expressions, postures,
prosody, emojis, stickers, and other platform-specific affordances.
These resources may reinforce, mitigate, or even partly constitute the
action being performed. Hence, a request, refusal, apology, complaint,
compliment, or disagreement is not simply a matter of lexical or
grammatical choice, but is often produced and interpreted through the
coordination of multiple modes. Despite the importance of multimodal
resources in speech acts, research in this area has tended to
privilege verbal realizations, paying comparatively limited attention
to the multimodal organization of action (Jucker, 2024).
This panel seeks to foreground the multimodal nature of speech acts
and to bring together scholars interested in how social actions are
produced, perceived, and negotiated across different communicative
settings. We invite contributions that examine how embodied, vocal,
and other semiotic resources shape the performance and interpretation
of speech acts, and how these resources interact with verbal meaning
in context. Particularly welcome are studies that investigate how
multimodal cues influence the force, meaning, politeness,
appropriateness, and relational implications of speech acts in
naturally occurring or elicited interaction. We also welcome work on
digitally mediated communication, where speech acts are frequently
accomplished through combinations of written language and visual or
graphic resources.
The panel is intended as a forum for theoretical, methodological, and
empirical work. Relevant topics may include, but are not limited to,
the role of gestures, gazes, facial expressions, postures, prosody,
and voice quality in speech act production and perception; multimodal
(im)politeness in speech acts; comparisons between face-to-face and
digitally mediated interaction; and methodological issues involved in
identifying and analyzing speech acts across modalities. We welcome a
range of methodological approaches, including conversation analysis,
multimodal interaction analysis, experimental pragmatics, corpus‑based
methods, and mixed‑methods designs that combine quantitative
perception measures with qualitative analysis of multimodal resources.
By bringing together research on both face-to-face and digitally
mediated interaction, this panel aims to contribute to a broader
rethinking of speech acts as multimodal phenomena. More broadly, it
seeks to encourage dialogue among speech act theory, multimodal
interaction research, pragmatics, and digital discourse studies, and
to advance a more comprehensive understanding of how social actions
are accomplished across multiple semiotic resources.



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