[ecrea] CfP for ROLSi theme issue on "Orders of interaction in mediated settings"

Research on Language and Social Interaction (ROLSI)
Call for papers for a theme issue on
"ORDERS OF INTERACTION IN MEDIATED SETTINGS"


Mediated interaction has always been part and parcel of the study of
conversation since the first pioneer research on telephone calls.
Nowadays, it is increasingly common. Interactions, encounters, and
collaborations are supported by a wide range of information and
communication technologies, and occur in settings that are shaped by
the organizational resources these technologies offer. This theme
issues focuses specifically on the way in which interaction is
organized when it occurs in settings that are supported by information
and communication technology. We believe the systematic analysis of
interaction in a mediated setting, as well as the comparison of
different mediated and natural settings "under the auspices and with
the resources of CA" (Schegloff, 2009, p. 377) will broaden our
understanding of new activity formats and provide a contribution to CA
and related approaches.

Issues addressed include, but are not limited to, the following:
-       the intertwining of mediated and natural interaction;
-       known conversational phenomena/practices (the turn-taking
system, repairs, overlaps, adjacency pairs, expansions, etc.) in new
environments;
-       new interactional phenomena in mediated environments;
-       interactional practices and medium affordances;
-       the process through which new practices emerge and are
established in new media (including prototypes);
-       the interplay between verbal and nonverbal resources in
mediated multimodal interaction.

We are looking for a collection of data-driven papers that produce a
genuine advancement in the study of interaction. Therefore papers will
be selected on the basis of the relevance, originality and cogency of
the way in which they address the topics listed above. In particular,
we are looking for papers that examine how interaction is organized in
mediated settings and that do so by accounting for such organization
by adopting both internal and comparative perspectives. Regarding this
latter requisite, we encourage on one side, to describe the structure
of a certain mode of mediated interaction in its own terms for the
sequential and interactional consequences an observed practice has on
the rest of the interaction for its participants in that environment.
On the other side, we encourage to avoid the treatment of mediated
settings as a secluded, independent locus of interaction; the
structure of mediated interaction is related to the bulk of practices
and organizational issues already unveiled in other conversational
settings that represent a relevant alternative for the participant.

A multimodal approach is also welcome, addressing both verbal and
non-verbal composition of activities to provide a full view of action
and interaction. This approach becomes all the more salient in the
analysis of mediated settings where unprecedented communication cues,
spatio-temporal coordinates, and interactional features are available.

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Guest editors (in alphabetical order)
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Ilkka Arminen (University of Helsinki, Finland)
Christian Licoppe (Telecom ParisTech, France)
Anna Spagnolli (University of Padova, Italy)

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Important dates
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Submission of full papers: 30 November 2014
Pre-screening outcome: 20 December 2014
Decision notification after review: 31 March 2015
Revised manuscripts: 30 June 2015

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Submission guidelines
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Submissions must be sent to (mediatedsettings /at/ gmail.com).

Full papers submissions can be of maximum 8,500 words (including
transcripts and references) and must adhere to the journal's
guidelines (http://rolsi.lboro.ac.uk/contributorinfo.html). Any
material identifying authors should be removed from the body of the
text and from the references; named individuals or identifiable
workshops, symposia and so on, must be anonymized in any
acknowledgements.

All submissions received by the deadline will be pre-screened by the
editors for suitability to the special issue. Authors will be notified
of the results of the pre-screening. Order of submission will not
affect the outcome of the pre-screening. All submissions selected by
the editors for review will be subject to the journal's standard
reviewing procedures. Passing the pre-screening will not imply
acceptance of the full paper. It is possible that some of the
submissions will be considered for an ordinary issue of ROLSI.

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About ROLSI
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Research on Language and Social Interaction (ROLSI, ISSN 0835-1813,
http://rolsi.lboro.ac.uk/ROLSIhome.html) publishes the highest quality
empirical and theoretical research bearing on language as it is used
in interaction (2013 Thomson Reuters Impact Factor: 2.421, ranked 2/74
in Communication, 3/169 in Linguistics).

It is published by Taylor and Francis and is Abstracted or Indexed in:
PsychlNFO/Psychological Abstracts; Current Index to Journals in
Education/Educational Resources Information Center; ComIndex; ISI:
Current Contents/Social & Behavioral Sciences; Social Sciences
Citation Index, Research Alert, Social SciSearch, Focus On: Social &
Personality Psychology; Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts;
Sociological Abstracts; Linguistics Abstracts; ComAbstracts; EBSCOhost
Products.
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