LINGUIST List 21.3784 Mon Sep 27 2010 Calls: Pragmatics/United Kingdom Editor for this issue: Di Wdzenczny <dilinguistlist.org> LINGUIST is pleased to announce the launch of an exciting new feature: Easy Abstracts! Easy Abs is a free abstract submission and review facility designed to help conference organizers and reviewers accept and process abstracts online. Just go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/confcustom, and begin your conference customization process today! With Easy Abstracts, submission and review will be as easy as 1-2-3! Directory         1.    Cornelia Gerhardt, Participation Framework Revisited: (new) Media and their audiences/users Message 1: Participation Framework Revisited: (new) Media and their audiences/users Date: 24-Sep-2010 From: Cornelia Gerhardt <c.gerhardtmx.uni-saarland.de> Subject: Participation Framework Revisited: (new) Media and their audiences/users E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: Participation Framework Revisited: (new) Media and their audiences/users Date: 03-Jul-2011 - 08-Jul-2011 Location: Manchester, United Kingdom Contact Person: Cornelia Gerhardt Meeting Email: c.gerhardtmx.uni-saarland.de Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics Call Deadline: 04-Oct-2010 Meeting Description: Participation framework revisited: (new) media and their audiences/users A dyadic model of communication with a speaker and a hearer has long been replaced by such concepts as production format and participation framework with different roles which individuals may display in relation to a given utterance. (Goffman 1981, Levinson 1988) Going beyond interpersonal dyadic face-to-face talk-in-interaction, the application of these notions, however, remains unsatisfactory. So, for instance, regarding classic mass media, there are still ongoing discussions about the status of the television audience as overhearers. Also, in studies on CMC (computer- mediated communication) often a rather superficial notion of reader-authors or wreaders is posited, albeit the genuine interactivity of the web 2.0 seems to provide fruitful ground for an analysis in these terms. Because of these ongoing debates and unexplored fields, we find it timely to revisit the notion of participation framework and describe how different reception roles are inscribed in different media or forms of communication, or, in other words, how different production formats position their users or audiences. Since later developments do not only differ from their foregoers, but must also be seen in continuity with them, we decided not to limit our scope to recent formats. Instead, the talks will range from accounts of classic mass media like the television to web 2.0 trends. Furthermore, as a common underlying question of all talks, the panel will also revisit the theoretical status of Goffman's notions. In how far is the dichotomy with production formats on the one hand and reception frameworks on the other challenged in mediated contexts? Also, how do the notions of addressivity and ratification emerge in the light of mediated forms of communication? In order to address these theoretical issues, however, some of the following questions will have to be answered empirically through minute descriptions of different media settings or forms of communication. Hence, research questions that will be addressed include: How does a given technological, multimodal media environment constrain or fuel certain kinds of participation? How can we account for the production/reception roles in classic mass media as well as all kinds of internet-based forms of communication, such as weblogs, social networks sites, discussion fora, etc.? How are split audiences aligned to? How do audiences/users exploit the different potentials of bi- and unidirectionality? Can these technological environments be conceived as authors in this framework? Also, which linguistic means are used for these different purposes? Call For Papers We welcome submissions to the our panel on 'Participation framework revisited: (new) media and their audiences/users' at the next IPrA conference in Manchester. If you are interested, please send a short note to c.gerhardtmx.uni-saarland.de asap. Abstracts for internal reviewing will be due Oct. 4th. Thank you, Cornelia Gerhardt Maximiliane Frobenius Volker Eisenlauer Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 27-Sep-2010       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.