LINGUIST List 21.3871 Sun Oct 03 2010 Confs: Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis, Semantics/UK Editor for this issue: Amy Brunett <brunettlinguistlist.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.    Christian Hoffmann, The Pragmatics of Quoting in (New) Media Message 1: The Pragmatics of Quoting in (New) Media Date: 01-Oct-2010 From: Christian Hoffmann <Christian.Hoffmannphil.uni-augsburg.de> Subject: The Pragmatics of Quoting in (New) Media E-mail this message to a friend The Pragmatics of Quoting in (New) Media Short Title: PragofQuo Date: 03-Jul-2011 - 08-Jul-2011 Location: Manchester, United Kingdom Contact: Christian Hoffmann Contact Email: Christian.Hoffmannphil.uni-augsburg.de Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Pragmatics; Semantics Meeting Description: The pragmatics of quoting in (new) media 12th IPrA Manchester 2011 Wolfram Bublitz and Christian Hoffmann This panel addresses the pragmatics of quoting as a metacommunicative act in (old and) new media. Surprisingly, there is still little linguistic research on this intriguing topic even though quoting is doubtless one of the most peculiar and also most frequent features in discourse; what is more, excessive quoting seems to be characteristic of several forms of CMC. With Internet-based forms of CMC we refer to websites, weblogs, discussion fora and message boards, chats, emails, social networking sites (and others). They stand in between the medium, i.e. Internet-compatible network of computers and/or mobile devices, and the text, i.e. the sign-related discourse. Though not tangible like a computer or a book, forms of communication originate in information technology and emerge in the contextual embedding of the text. We adopt the established reading of quoting as the act of transferring a source text of an author A1 from its context to another (temporally and locally shifted) context by a quoter (A1 or A2) as a target text (quotation); to this we append the medium-induced amendment that the quoter can be non-human software (and quoting accordingly a process rather than an act). With the advent of CMC, quoting has undergone a metamorphosis as to its forms, socio-technological potential of textual reproduction and manipulation, functional range and, in general, as to its pragmatics. We therefore invite contributions which focus on the pragmatics of quoting in 'new' and/or 'old' media (books, newspapers, letters etc.). Leading questions are: -In which way is quoting achieved (i.e., what means, devices, strategies are employed)? -To what end is quoting used (i.e., what are the motives and functions behind quoting)? -Who is the quoting agent (i.e., is quoting actively and intentionally performed by a human user or executed automatically by non-human software)? In particular, we wish to encourage the discussion of verbal, kinesic, pictorial or filmic quotation signals which evoke and indicate pragmatic functions of quotations in new media contexts (e.g. stylistic embellishment, authentification, alignment and affiliation, topical coherence, dialogicity, etc.) - and the kind and degree of technological reproductivity (automatization), intentionality and authorship in quotes of different Internet-based text genres, ranging from manual citations and copy-paste procedures (in chats and weblogs) to semi-automatic quotes (in emails or message boards) and fully automatic reproductions (in social network sites); Since the panel explores the pragmatic power of quotations at the interface of different media (remediation), different texts (intertextuality), different contexts (relevancy) and different modes (multimodality), we believe that it fits perfectly the topical orientation of the conference. Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 03-Oct-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.