LINGUIST List 25.3001
Tue
Jul 22 2014
Calls:
Pragmatics/Belgium
Editor for this issue:
Anna White <awhitelinguistlist.org>
Date: 17-Jul-2014
From: Charles Antaki
<c.antaki
Lboro.ac.uk>
Subject: Dealing with
Distress: Conversation Analysis
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Full Title: Dealing with Distress: Conversation
Analysis
Short Title: Distress
Date: 26-Jul-2015 - 31-Jul-2015
Location: Antwerp, Belgium
Contact Person: Charles Antaki
Meeting Email:
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Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics
Call Deadline: 31-Jul-2014
Meeting Description:
Some institutions (the police, social services,
the medical professions, helplines....)
regularly deal with the troubles of people who
are vulnerable in terms of their emotional
circumstances, their intellectual or bodily
abilities, their physical frailty, or other
challenges to their ability to cope. Such
troubles may elicit empathy; but institutions
vary greatly in the degree of empathy they
allow their front-line staff to provide. At one
extreme is the supportive helpline which gives
free rein to callers' expression of their
troubles; at the other extreme is the judicial
enquiry which must proceed on strictly factual
terms. There is a constant tension between
respecting the clients' accounts, feelings and
experiences on the one hand, and proceeding
with institutional objectives in the other.
The Conversation Analysis research that this
Panel reports reveals the commonalities (and
the differences) by which very various
institutional practitioners handle the tension
of their institutional requirements and deal
with the distress and confusion that their
clients often express.
Call for Paper Proposals:
Researchers in the Conversation Analysis
tradition are invited to contribute to a Panel
on ''Dealing with Distress'', to be presented
at the IPrA Conference in Antwerp, 2015.
Likely contributions will come from those who
research into professional interactions
involving practitioners - the police, medical
professionals, counsellors and therapists,
helpline call-takers, and so on - who deal with
various kinds of distress. The theme of the
Panel is an enquiry into how practitioners
manage the dilemma of on the one hand advancing
their institutional objectives, and on the
other hand empathising with, or at least
respecting, their client's trouble and
distress.
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