LINGUIST List 21.3874 Sun Oct 03 2010 Calls: Disc Analysis, Pragmatics, Semantics/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.    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 Full Title: The Pragmatics of Quoting in (New) Media Short Title: PragofQuo Date: 03-Jul-2011 - 08-Jul-2011 Location: Manchester, United Kingdom Contact Person: Christian Hoffmann Meeting Email: Christian.Hoffmannphil.uni-augsburg.de Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Pragmatics; Semantics Call Deadline: 15-Oct-2010 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. Call For Papers Abstracts are invited for 30-minute talks (20 minutes presentations plus 10 minutes for discussion). Abstracts should be anonymous and confined to one page (including examples and references) with 1-inch margins and a font no smaller than 11 point. Please send a pdf-file to christian.hoffmann(at)phil.uni-augsburg.de. The subject of the message should specify 'IPRA abstract', and the body of the message should include author name(s), affiliation(s) and contact information (including email address), and the title of the abstract. The language of the conference session is English, and abstracts should be written in the language of presentation. Important dates October 15th 2010: Deadline for submission of abstracts October 25th 2010: Notification of acceptance July 3-8, 2011: IPRA Conference (Manchester) 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.