30.4893, Calls: English; Applied Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Lexicography, Pragmatics/France

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Subject: 30.4893, Calls: English; Applied Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Lexicography, Pragmatics/France

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Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2019 19:02:19
From: Miguel Angel Campos Pardillos [[email protected]]
Subject: English for Specialised Purposes (ESP) & Humour (ESSE Panel)

 
Full Title: English for Specialised Purposes (ESP) & Humour (ESSE Panel) 

Date: 31-Aug-2020 - 04-Sep-2020
Location: Lyon, France 
Contact Person: Miguel Angel Campos-Pardllos
Meeting Email: [email protected]

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Lexicography; Pragmatics 

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Call Deadline: 15-Jan-2020 

Meeting Description:

Panel on English for Specific Purposes and Humour at the European Society for
the Study of English Conference in Lyon (France)


Call for Papers:

English for Specialised Purposes (ESP) & Humour 

Convenors:

Shaeda Isani (University Grenoble-Alpes, France) 
Miguel Angel Campos Pardillos (University of Alicante, Spain)
Katia Peruzzo (University of Trieste, Italy)
Michel Van der Yeught (University Aix-Marseille, France)

Although humour and language is a well-researched area of study (Attardo 2017
), it is not a strong line of enquiry in ESP studies. Despite the paucity of
ESP-related humour studies, and precluding unintentional semantic humour, the
potential of humour analysis is strong, as evidenced by the well-known forms
of humour associated with specialised domains like medicine (gallows humour),
law (lawyer jokes), journalism ('headlinese'). Even the dismal science lays
claim to humour if only in the person of Yoram Bauman, ''the world's first and
only stand-up economist'' , while in the field of AI, robots are being endowed
with a sense of humour, thus validating French Nobel scientist Pierre-Gilles
de Gennes’ belief that science is “une histoire d’humour”  .

With regard to specialised domains of application, humour is a major concern
in translation studies (the challenges inherent to the translation of humour,
e.g. specialised puns). Likewise, corpus linguistics, notably with regard to
the branch of computational humour, tussles with the problem of detecting and
identifying humour. Didactics or ESP teaching is another rich field of
analysis in this respect and, although much has been written about humour as
an EGP pedagogic tool, little has been done so with regard to ESP contexts. On
the linguistic level, analysis of metaphors, metonymy, irony, sarcasm,
innuendos, and even laughter, as applied to specialised domains and varieties
of English is a fertile field of analysis. In the area of fictional
representations, whether novels, films or TV series, the use of humour to
depict the highly diversified professional and/or specialised environments
related to ESP studies is a strong line of enquiry, including and beyond Ricky
Gervais and The Office. 

The three principal theoretical axes of analysis defined by humour studies –
incongruity/cognitive; superiority/social; relief/psychological – also serve
as guidelines to analysing the complexity behind the very need for humour in
the workplace. In this context, the all-important notion of “forum” that all
humour needs to exist invites reflection regarding the addresser/addressee
parameters involved and the question of whether the “insiderness” of
specialised humour makes it an exclusively inclusionary/exclusionary
phenomenon or whether specialised humour may also be seen as a means of
integrating outsiders and of popularisation.

And finally, from a more critical stance, another manifest line of enquiry
concerns the ethics of humour as applied to ESP contexts and the correlated
notion of acceptability. The question invites reflection on the complex notion
of appropriateness analysed in terms of the classic when, where, who and how
quartet. If specialised humour is recognised as a means of bonding and
stress-reduction, the asymmetrical nature of professional encounters with its
underlying undertones of dominance, sexism, harassment, bullying,
disparagement and even racism are not alien to our field of specialisation
whether at teaching, disciplinary or workplace levels. 

Proposals related to the above considerations – and other related questions –
are welcomed. The deadline for submission of 300-word abstracts: 15 January
2020. Please send submissions to all four convenors simultaneously:

[email protected]
[email protected]
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