LINGUIST List 33.2639
Tue Aug 30 2022
Calls: Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics/Belgium
Editor for this issue: Everett Green <everettlinguistlist.org>
Date: 28-Aug-2022
From: Valeria Sinkeviciute <v.sinkeviciute
uq.edu.au>
Subject: Membership categorisation and interpersonal relationships in social interaction
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Date: 09-Jul-2023 - 14-Jul-2023
Location: Brussels, Belgium
Contact Person: Valeria Sinkeviciute
Meeting Email:
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Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Pragmatics
Call Deadline: 01-Nov-2022
Meeting Description:
Panel organisers
Valeria Sinkeviciute & Andrea Rodriguez
The University of Queensland
Interpersonal relations are at the core of social interaction and crucial to how we construct meaning. By examining interactional management of relationship categories that become visible through (embodied) actions, we can observe how members of society organise their social knowledge and orient to social orderliness (Hester & Francis 2004). Membership categorisation analysis (MCA) (Sacks 1992; Hester & Eglin 1997) offers analytical tools to explore such phenomena, as it studies “the commonsense routine workings of society” (Fitzgerald et al. 2009:47), how members of society “proffer their category work as common, cultural knowledge” (Stokoe 2012:283, emphasis original) and in what ways categories “make sense in their [members’] everyday lives and social interaction” (Idevall Hagren 2000).
Call for Papers:
Panel organisers
Valeria Sinkeviciute & Andrea Rodriguez
The University of Queensland
The purpose of this panel is to explore, using Membership Categorisation Analysis (MCA), how social categories and relationships are co-constructed by members of society in their interactional practices. This panel aims to address the following key questions:
- How do members show the normative and moral character of categories and the recognisability of category-implicative actions?
- In what ways do members reflect or deviate from the obligations, rights and motives regarded as appropriate for the relationship categories of which they are incumbents?
- In what contexts and in what ways do relationship categories invoke accountability and remedial action?
- How do members orient to multiple layers of categorization work?
We would like to bring together researchers that use Membership Categorisation Analysis (MCA) to examine various aspects of social interaction – casual and institutional, face-to-face or digitally-mediated – in their analysis of interpersonal relationship categories. The topics of interest include (but are not limited to)
- Action ascription
- Accountability
- Epistemics
- Identity
- Morality
- (Im)politeness
- Socialisation
Abstract should be submitted via the IPrA website, choosing the panel contribution in your submission:
https://pragmatics.international/page/CfP If you have questions, please email us at v.sinkeviciute
uq.edu.au and a.rodriguezortega
uq.edu.au
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