LINGUIST List 33.2429
Sat Aug 06 2022
FYI: Call for Papers: Panel at the 18th IPrA, the Cross-Cultural Pragmatic Study of Intercultural Encounters: (Strictly!) Language-Anchored Inquiries
Editor for this issue: Everett Green <everettlinguistlist.org>
Date: 30-Jul-2022
From: Puyu Ning <ning.puyu
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Subject: Call for Papers: Panel at the 18th IPrA, the Cross-Cultural Pragmatic Study of Intercultural Encounters: (Strictly!) Language-Anchored Inquiries
E-mail this message to a friend Colleagues are warmly welcome to submit abstracts for the panel described below, to be held at the next IPrA conferences in Brussels, Belgium, 9-14 July 2023 (
https://pragmatics.international/page/Brussels2023).
Authors with interest should send their abstracts, formatted according to IPrA guidelines, to Daniel Kadar by email at dannier
dlufl.edu.cn. The deadline for abstract submission 1 October 2022.
The Cross-Cultural Pragmatic Study of Intercultural Encounters: (Strictly!) Language-Anchored Inquiries
Organised by Juliane House and Dániel Z. Kádár
Discussant: Meredith Marra
The aim of this panel is to bring together research dedicated to the cross-cultural pragmatic investigation of intercultural encounters. As the organisers of this panel argued in two recent books (House and Kádár 2021; Edmondson et al. 2022), a key strength of cross-cultural pragmatic research is that it allows us to investigate intercultural encounters in strictly language-anchored and bottom-up ways. Cross-cultural pragmatics offers rigorous and replicable methods to study intercultural encounters with the aid of language-based evidence only, and without relying on non-linguistic analytic concepts such as ‘values’ and ‘ideology’. As such, cross-cultural pragmatic research also neatly complements intercultural pragmatics because it utilises a very different methodological and ontological universe than the latter.
Notwithstanding the potential of cross-cultural pragmatic research in advancing the analysis of intercultural encounters, to the best of our knowledge little attempt has been made to bring together cross-cultural pragmaticians to systematically study intercultural encounters from a strictly language-anchored point of view. This panel aims to fill this knowledge gap. We will request panelists to devote particular attention to aspects of cross-cultural pragmatic methodology with relevance for the study of intercultural encounters. In particular, we encourage panelists to focus on the problem of how it is possible to interconnect instances of pragmatic misunderstanding which emerge in intercultural interaction with linguaculturally embedded conventions that trigger such instances of misunderstanding.
The proposed panel is open to experts of any language and culture. All talks are expected to be delivered within 18 minutes, which will allow us to involve Meredith Marra as a Discussant to reflect on the talks after each session. A selection of the studies presented in the panel will be published as a journal special issue.
Speakers who confirmed participation in the panel include the following colleagues:
- Karin Aijmer
- Nicole Baumgarten
- Rong Chen
- Janet Holmes & Meredith Marra
- Juliane House & Dániel Z. Kádár
- Johanna Isosävi
- Rosina Marquez-Reiter
- Christiane von Stutterheim
- Dimitra Vladimirou
Reference
Edmondson, Willis, Juliane House, and Dániel Z. Kádár. 2022. Expressions, Speech Acts and Discourse: A Pedagogic Interactional Grammar of English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
House, Juliane, and Dániel Z. Kádár. 2021. Cross-Cultural Pragmatics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics
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