International Association for Dialogue Analysis | IADA aims to promote and undertake research focusing on a dialogic view of language use. IADA therefore sponsors and organizes international conferences as well as national meetings and discussions and supports the publication of substantial pieces of work periodically and otherwise.

The Communication of Certainty and Uncertainty: linguistic, psychological, philosophical aspects

3 – 5 October 2012
University of Macerata (Italy)

The Certainty or Uncertainty of a piece of information communicated by a speaker plays a significant role both in building knowledge or beliefs in the interlocutor’s mind and in choosing the appropriate linguistic and non-linguistic behaviour during and after verbal interactions.

The Conference focuses on how interlocutors express their individual degrees of Certainty or Uncertainty towards the piece of information they are giving hearers/readers during the communicative process, i.e. at the time when (= Now) and in the place where (= Here) communication occurs. This topic may be related, more or less directly, to what in the linguistic literature is called epistemicity and evidentiality.

The Conference topic can be approached from different perspectives and in different – European and non European – languages.

Proposals are invited for papers mainly on linguistic, psychological and philosophical aspects of the communication of Certainty and Uncertainty. The Conference aims to be interdisciplinary and therefore welcomes proposals from scholars from different areas.

We are particularly interested in studying the communication of Certainty and Uncertainty in dialogue; we are interested in how it evolves during the interactional sequences between at least two interlocutors, how an interlocutor switches from Certainty to Uncertainty and vice-versa, how a content communicated as Certain or Uncertain is disrupted or argued, negotiated and co-constructed by the interlocutors. This may also be approached from a non-verbal communication standpoint.

Deadline for abstract submission : 30 April 2012

Notification of acceptance: 15 June 2012

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2013 Conference – Dialogue in Multilingual Communities of Practice

2013 Conference will be held in Austin, Texas, USA, hosted by Dale Koike, Zsuzsanna Abrams, Carl Blyth & Jürgen Streeck

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14th conference of the International Association for Dialogue Analysis [EXTENDED]

DIALOGUE ANALYSIS : LITERATURE AS DIALOGUE

THE 14^th CONFERENCE OF

THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR DIALOGUE ANALYSIS

April 2nd – 4th , 2012 in Turku, Finland

PLEASE NOTE THE EXTENDED DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS: NOVEMBER 30TH, 2011

Convener Roger D. Sell
H.W. Donner Research Professor of Literary Communication

The 14th Conference of The International Association for Dialogue Analysis will be hosted by the Literary Communication Project of Åbo Akademi University from April 2nd to 4th, 2012.

Proposals are invited for papers on all aspects of Dialogue Analysis. In addition, the Conference will have a thematic focus on the issue of Literature as Dialogue.

It is expected that this thematic focus will bring together linguists, literary scholars, and scholars interested in human communication of every kind, including the literary. Part of the background is the increasing emphasis among linguists on the dialogicality of all language use. Equally, the Conference relates to moves by literary critics and theoreticians towards an ethics of writing and reception which sees literary community-making as a process which involves a comparing of notes from what may be widely differing points of view.

Invited plenary papers will be delivered by Professor Dame Gillian Beer (Cambridge University), Professor Leona Toker (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Professor Pamela M. King (University of Bristol) and Professor Franz Hundsnurscher (Westphalian Wilhelm University of Münster).

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Note : Exceptionally, election for the IADA standing committee will be held in Åbo.

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Volume 1/10 Polyphony and Intertextuality in Dialogue

The 12th Conference on Dialogue Analysis was held in Barcelona, at the University Pompeu Fabra in September 2009. Around 150 participants from all over the world explored the general dialogisation in dialogue, under the title “Polyphony and intertextuality in dialogue”. This topic allowed the participants to gain an insight into the complex ways in which utterances are related each others, not only in conversational genres but in all uses of language. Some articles in English and French are collected from these proceedings, where several aspects of dialogism and several areas of discourse are explored. Following these aspects, the proceedings are divided into three parts.

These articles unfold various forms and functions of dialogism in different discursive genres and life situations. They show that, beyond the alternative change of the interlocutors in a face to face conversation, ‘dialogism’ designates the complex and multifarious interrelations among words, utterances, points of view and languages.