LINGUIST List 25.2961
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Jul 18 2014
Calls: Pragmatics,
Sociolinguistics/Belgium
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Date: 17-Jul-2014
From: Valeria Sinkeviciute
<valerija.sinkeviciute
yahoo.com>
Subject: The Pragmatics of
Conversational Humour
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Full Title: The Pragmatics of Conversational
Humour
Date: 26-Jul-2015 - 31-Jul-2015
Location: Antwerp, Belgium
Contact Person: Valeria Sinkeviciute
Meeting Email:
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Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics;
Sociolinguistics
Call Deadline: 15-Sep-2014
Meeting Description:
Panel Organisers:
Valeria Sinkeviciute (IPrA Research Center,
University of Antwerp)
Marta Dynel (Department of Pragmatics,
University of Lodz)
Conversational humour that encompasses various
subtypes, such as teasing, banter, deprecating
humour, or figures of speech used for humorous
purposes (e.g. humorous irony) (Dynel 2009) has
been studied in diverse discourse genres,
written or spoken, private or mass-mediated,
face-to-face or computer-mediated, such as:
everyday talk collated in corpora, messenger
exchanges, or conversations in reality
programmes, talk shows, or television series,
each of which offers fertile ground for
humour.
The proposed panel is devoted to the pragmatics
of conversational humour and aims at exploring
humour in relation to cognitive, social and
cultural phenomena. Taking many forms and
guises, conversational humour serves multiple
communicative purposes and performs diverse
interpersonal functions, for example, bonding
and solidarity building, or, by contrast,
promoting animosity and hostility. This
explains why conversational humour can be
examined with the methodological apparatus
developed in (im)politeness studies (Dynel
2013; Haugh and Bousfield 2012; Sinkeviciute
2013). Furthermore, humour's capacity to convey
non-humorous meanings outside the humorous
frame and the nature of the speaker's
intentions underlying the production of a
humorous message have been another major focus
in humour research. Alongside intentionality,
the negotiability of meaning (during the
interaction or evolving through metatalk) is a
key aspect in the interpretation of
conversational humour. Finally, both the
production and interpretation of humour highly
depend on a cultural context in which it
occurs. Cultural attitudes, values and
proscriptions are subconscious 'rules' that
guide the speakers in their language use and
can easily influence one's understanding of
(non-) humorous interactions (e.g. Holmes and
Hay 1997; Goddard 2006, 2009; Sinkeviciute
2014).
Call for Papers:
We invite pragmatically-orientated papers, both
theoretical and empirical, on the following
issues:
- Humour in diverse forms of interactions
- Functions of conversational humour
- Humour and (im)politeness frameworks
- Humorous key and humorous intention
- Metatalk on humour
- Intercultural factors: norms and values
Abstracts (250 - 500 words, not including
references and data) should be sent to Valeria
Sinkeviciute (valerija.sinkeviciute
yahoo.com) and Marta Dynel
(marta.dynel
yahoo.com) by 15 September 2014
(after internal reviewing, the panel
contributions will have to be submitted
electronically via the IPrA system).
Do not hesitate to email us if you have any
questions about the conference, membership, our
panel or the process of contribution.
We look forward to welcoming you in
Antwerp!
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