LINGUIST List 22.116 Fri Jan 07 2011 Confs: Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics, Sociolinguistics/Poland 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.     Magdalena Murawska , Narratives in Interaction Message 1: Narratives in Interaction Date: 07-Jan-2011 From: Magdalena Murawska <plmifa.amu.edu.pl> Subject: Narratives in Interaction E-mail this message to a friend Narratives in Interaction Date: 01-May-2011 - 03-May-2011 Location: Poznan, Poland Contact: Agnieszka Kie?kiewicz-Janowiak Contact Email: kagnieszifa.amu.edu.pl Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Pragmatics; Sociolinguistics Meeting Description: The workshop is meant to mark the 'narrative turn' in sociolinguistics. This new approach aims at exploring situated language use, 'employed by speakers/narrators to position a display of contextualized identities' (Bamberg and Georgakopoulou 2008: 379). Such a conceptualization of the narrative allows analysts to look into the processes of identities 'in-the- making' or 'coming-into-being' (Bamberg and Georgakopoulou 2008: 379). Accordingly, emphasis will be put on the contextualizing aspects of the narrative: in their narratives speakers construct their identities contextualised in the current topic, they also evaluate their experience and express attitudes towards others. The narrative is treated here as a practice within social interaction, in which participants take and negotiate their positions (cf. positioning theory). Therefore we would particularly like to invite papers in which narratives are talk, i.e. text-in-interaction (cf. Georgakopoulou 2007), observed (and recorded) as part of authentic exchanges in a speech community; they may be life stories, reminiscences, accounts of (intimate) personal experience, etc. These are often so-called 'small stories', i.e. fragmented, with multiple tellers, heavily embedded in their contexts (see Bamberg 2004; Georgakopoulou 2003, 2007; Ochs and Capps 2001). Nevertheless, the narratives under study may have also been collected in the interview setting (in clinical or everyday-like contexts). Ultimately, in the course of discussion, we hope to be able to compare narratives elicited in interviews with narratives which are talk-in-social-interaction. Special attention will be given to the analytical tools of 'narrative analysis' (e.g. Conversation Analysis, ethnomethodology) which allow for the fine- grained micro-analysis of the narrative as talk-in-social-interaction with the aim to capture the discursive process through which individuals make sense of themselves in the currently available contexts. Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 07-Jan-2011       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.