Situations, settings, and social action

A conversation analysis workshop concluding the PECII/NoRM-aL project

18-19 September 2024

Augustacarree (AC/01), Augustaanlage 32, 68165 Mannheim

Wednesday 18th

10.30              Coffee and welcome

11-11.15         Laurenz Kornfeld (IDS Mannheim)
                       Doing field work for PECII

11.15-12.15    Silke Reineke & Siegwalt Lindenfelser (IDS Mannheim)
                       The PECII-Corpus in the Archive of Spoken German: Adjustment of workflows and annotations for a multilingual corpus and tools for conversation analytical and interactional linguistic research

12.15-13.00   Christina Mack (IDS Mannheim)
                       Establishing the deontic: participants‘ orientation to the social acceptability of projected actions and the business of avoiding social ‚clashes‘

13.00-14.45   lunch break

14.45-15.45   Michal Marmorstein (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
                      Inviting review and requesting elaboration: Minimal and expanded ken? (‘yes’?’) formats in Hebrew conversation

15.45-16.30   Laurenz Kornfeld (IDS Mannheim)
                      Participants’ perspective on agency in social sanctionings

16.30-17.00   Salla Kurhila (University of Helsinki)
                      L2 speaker’s developing participation in workplace interaction

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7PM – Tapas at La Loba

Thursday 19th

9.30-10.30     Alex Gubina (IDS Mannheim)
                      Deontic infinitives in German talk-in-interaction

10.30 – 11    Pawel Urbanik (NTNU)
                     Claiming control of the normative basis of action: Polish infinitive turn constructions

11-11.30       coffee break

11.30-12.30  Giovanni Rossi (UCLA)
                     A pragmatic typology of imperatives in the context of recruiting assistance

12.30-14.30  Snacks & Data session

                     Uwe Küttner & Jörg Zinken (IDS Mannheim).
                      Using PECII for comparative research: The art of the deal in ‘Catan’

The workshop marks the conclusion of the NoRM-aL project (‘Norms, rules and morality across languages’), which ran from 2020-2024, funded by the Leibniz Association and the Leibniz-Institute for the German Language.

The project had two goals. The first was to create a novel ressource for comparative social interaction research: The Parallel European Corpus of Informal Interaction (PECII), a parallel video corpus of comparable social events across four European languages: British English, German, Italian and Polish. This corpus will become available to the academic public in the foreseeable future via the AGD infrastructure at the Leibniz-IDS.

The second goal was to use this corpus for comparative examinations (across settings and across languages) of how the normativities supporting diverse activities are invoked and produced in social interaction. Slowly but steadily, reports about our project work are beginning to appear (see below).

If you would like to join us for the workshop, please get in touch with Jörg Zinken (zinken(at)ids-mannheim.de).

Some of the results emerging from the NoRM-aL project:

Kornfeld, L. (in press). Giving space for self-direction: Trouble-flagging declaratives in sanctioning problem behavior. Interactional Linguistics.

Kornfeld, L., Küttner, U.‑A., & Zinken, J. (2023). Ein Korpus für die vergleichende Interaktionsforschung. In A. Deppermann, C. Fandrych, M. Kupietz, & T. Schmidt (Eds.), Jahrbuch des Instituts für Deutsche Sprache: Vol. 2022. Korpora in der germanistischen Sprachwissenschaft: Mündlich, schriftlich, multimedial (pp. 103–128). de Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111085708-006

Kornfeld, L., & Rossi, G. (2023). Enforcing rules during play: Knowledge, agency, and the design of instructions and reminders. Research on Language & Social Interaction, 56(1), 42–64. https://doi.org/10.1080/08351813.2023.2170637

Küttner, U.‑A., Kornfeld, L., Mack, C., Mondada, L., Rogowska, J., Rossi, G., Sorjonen, M.‑L., Weidner, M., & Zinken, J. (2024). Introducing the “Parallel European Corpus of Informal Interaction” (PECII): A novel resource for exploring cross-situational and cross-linguistic variability in social interaction. In M. Selting & D. Barth-Weingarten (Eds.), Studies in language and social interaction: volume 36. New perspectives in interactional linguistic research (pp. 132–160). John Benjamins Publishing Company.

Küttner, U.‑A., Kornfeld, L., & Zinken, J. (2023). A coding scheme for (dis)approval-relevant events involving the direct social sanctioning of problematic behavior in informal social interaction. IDSopen, 5. https://doi.org/10.21248/idsopen.5.2023.8

Küttner, U.‑A., Vatanen, A., & Zinken, J. (2022). Invoking rules in everyday family interactions: A method for appealing to practical reason. Human Studies, 45(4), 793–823. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10746-022-09648-0

Zinken, J., Kaiser, J., Weidner, M., Mondada, L., Rossi, G., & Sorjonen, M.‑L. (2021). Rule talk: Instructing proper play with impersonal deontic statements. Frontiers in Communication, 6, Article 660394. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2021.660394

Zinken, J., & Mack, C. (in press). Sequence, gaze, and modal semantics: Modal verb selection in German permission inquiries. Linguistics.