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Directory         1.    Elwys De Stefani, Names in Interaction Message 1: Names in Interaction Date: 06-Oct-2010 From: Elwys De Stefani <destefanirom.unibe.ch> Subject: Names in Interaction E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: Names in Interaction Date: 03-Jul-2011 - 08-Jul-2011 Location: Manchester, United Kingdom Contact Person: Elwys De Stefani Meeting Email: destefanirom.unibe.ch Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Sociolinguistics Call Deadline: 20-Oct-2010 Meeting Description: Proper names constitute a well established object of research at least in two branches of linguistic investigation, namely in onomastics (adopting predominantly a historical perspective) and in language philosophy, debating on the 'properhood' (Coates 2006) of names. While these two fields of study have developed a considerable amount of literature, scholars have granted surprisingly little attention to the ways speakers actually use names in their everyday conversation. With few exceptions, the pragmatic approach to the analysis of names is indebted to the language philosophical (and essentially theoretical) tradition. In contrast, onomastic approaches interested in name usage usually turn to interview data (for instance within socio-onomastics; see Pablé 2009). Yet work focussing on names as they are used in naturally occurring interaction is scarce. Conversation Analysis (CA) has developed an early interest in names, considering chiefly their referential dimension: on the one hand, Schegloff 1972 has analysed place names as a particular kind of place descriptions, pointing out the reflexive interrelationship between place terms, the localisation of the speakers, the current topic of the conversation and the speakers' membership categorisation. On the other hand, the research on person reference has produced a considerable amount of CA literature (Sacks & Schegloff 1979, Downing 1996, Schegloff 1996, Enfield & Stivers 2007), showing that person name usage is a recipient designed action and analysing referential practices established through pronouns as opposed to person name reference. The aim of this panel is to go beyond the strictly referential view on names. A first set of questions will be concerned with the interactional tasks that participants carry out by using names and with recurrent interactional phenomena involving names - such as name repair, name repetition, assessment (see Goodwin 2003) etc. A second set of questions relates to the methods that participants employ when treating a language unit as being a (proper) name. How is properhood interactionally displayed and taken into account by the participants? How is the category proper name made relevant (see Hopper 1990)? References Coates, R. 2006: Properhood. Language, 82, 356-382. Downing, P. 1996: Proper names as a referential option in English conversation. In: B. A. Fox (ed.), Studies in anaphora. Amsterdam/Philadelphia, Benjamins: 95-143. Enfield, N. J. & Stivers, T. 2007 (eds.): Person reference in interaction. Linguistic, cultural, and social perspectives. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. Goodwin, C. 2003: Recognizing Assessable Names. In: P. J. Glenn et al. (eds.), Studies in Language and Social Interaction. Mahwah, Erlbaum: 151- 161. Hopper, P. 1990: The emergence of the category 'proper name' in discourse. In: G. D. Hayley & T. J. Taylor (eds.), Redefining linguistics. New York, Routledge: 149-162. Pablé, A. 2009: The ?dialect myth' and socio-onomastics. The names of the castles of Bellinzona in an integrational perspective. Language and Communication, 29/2, 152-165. Sacks, H. & Schegloff, E. A. (1979): Two Preferences in the Organization of Reference to Persons in Conversation and Their Interaction. In: G. Psathas (Hg.): Everyday Language.Studies in Ethnomethodology. New York, Irvington Publishers: 15-21. Schegloff, E. A. 1972: Notes on a Conversational Practice. Formulating Place. In: D. Sudnow (ed.), Studies in Social Interaction. New York, The Free Press: 75-119. Schegloff, E. A. 1996: Some Practices for Referring to Persons in Talk-in- Interaction: A Partial Sketch of a Systematics. In B. A. Fox (ed.), Studies in Anaphora. Amsterdam/Philadelphia, Benjamins: 437-485. Call For Papers Abstracts focusing on the use of (proper) names in interaction and analysing empirical data are welcome. They should not exceed 400 words and have to be sent to the panel conveners by October 20, 2010. Elwys De Stefani (destefanirom.unibe.ch) Anna Claudia Ticca (ticcarom.unibe.ch) The conveners will send out a notification of acceptance/refusal by October 27. The participants will then have to officially submit their abstracts to the organisers of the IPrA conference (by October 29). 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