AILA Review | Call for Papers

Linguistic recycling:
The process of quoting in increasingly mediatized settings
Editors: Lauri Haapanen, University of Jyväskylä, & Daniel Perrin, Zurich University of Applied Sciences

The 2020 Issue of AILA Review will focus on practices of quoting. By quoting, we understand thediscursive and translingual process of embedding
extracts of formerly produced communicational
offers in new, emerging communicational offers(Haapanen&Perrin, forth.), be it within or acrossdomains and mediatized institutional settings.
Given its wide range of functions, the situatedactivity of quoting influences and is influenced bysocial structures from micro to macro levels andtheir interplay in human interaction. Thus, quoting and its linguistic result, the quotes, can beseen as rich points in the multimodal construction of society.
In practical terms, the analyses provided by thearticles in this volume are meant to shed light on
the interplay of domains, settings, and genres in,e.g., journalism and editorial conferences; lawand court interrogations; politics and campaigning; academia and review processes; interpretingand doctor-patient-interaction.
We welcome original articles based on empirically-grounded analyses that focus on the (i) forms,(ii) functions, and/or (iii) processes of quoting inincreasingly mediatized discourse and complex,
dynamic contexts. By doing so, we expect thecontributions to provide data-based answers to
linguistically relevant questions such as:i) What are the domain-specific conventions,forms, and characteristics to distinguish quoted
language from its surrounding text?
ii) With what aim do language users attribute
their words to someone else and alternate between various functions and their marking conventions, e.g., between direct [D] and indirect
quoting [ID] in forensic interviews (Example 1)?
Ex. 1(ID) Leif is asked how he knew that thecompany was for sale and (D) says “I knowhim.” Data from Byrman 2017iii) How and why does the process of quoting
unfold throughout intertextual chains in institutional and public discourse, across language users, workplaces, organizations, and domains?
In particular, we welcome papers that include
analyses of the metadiscourse of quoting – discourse about the process of embedding others’
language. Practitioners’ concurrent or retrospective verbalizations of their quoting practices (as inExample 2, from journalism) can significantly add
to our understanding of why quoting happens theway it does.
Ex. 2

A journalist commenting on her own quoting in a cue-based retrospective verbal protocol: “I was kind of stunned myself when I
realized that these [quotes] have been edited this much.” (Data from Haapanen 2017)

Finally, a majority of the contributions to thespecial issue are meant to explain changes inquoting practices related to contextual changes
such the fast development of social media as wellas increasing mobility, which can be regarded as
global drivers of language recycling (Haapanen&Perrin 2018; Johansson forth.; Matsushita
2015; Puschmann 2015.)
Besides providing empirically sound analyses, all
the authors of papers in the SI are expected toreview and briefly discuss the general state ofresearch on quoting in the chosen domain andresearch line. The introduction to the issue willpropose an innovative framework to contextualize and systematize these research lines.
As a result, the 2020 AILA Review is meant tooffer a systematic and multiperspective approachto a linguistic rich point: the omni-present andincreasingly mediatized practice of recycling (andup-cycling) language across micro shifts of contextual change.

Roadmap
Deadline for 300-word abstracts: July 1st, 2018
Notification of acceptance: August 1st, 2018
Deadline for completed articles: June 1st, 2019 (max. 10,000 words; followed by peer-review)
Preliminary publication date: Spring 2020
Contact
Please e-mail your abstract to both the guest editors’ and the project accounts:
lauri.m.haapanen@jyu.fi
daniel.perrin@zhaw.chreview_quoting@aila.info

References
Byrman, Ylva. 2017. Så fångas de misstänktas ord. Förhör och dokumentationspraktiker på Skattebrottsenheten. Gothenburg: Gothenburg University.
Haapanen, Lauri. 2017. Directly from interview to quotations? Quoting practices in written journalism. In R.
Laury, M. Etelämäki and E. Couper-Kuhlen (Eds), Combining clauses and actions in social interaction. Helsinki: Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 201-239.
Haapanen, Lauri, & Perrin, Daniel. Forthcoming. Translingual Quoting in Journalism: Behind the Scenes of
Swiss Television Newsrooms. In Lucile Davier ja Kyle Conway (Eds), Journalism and Translation in the Era ofConvergence.
Haapanen, Lauri, & Perrin, Daniel. 2018. Media and quoting. In Colleen Cotter & Daniel Perrin (Eds), Handbook of language and media. London: Routledge.
Johansson, Marjut. Forthcoming. Tweets and videos as digital quotations in news texts. In P. Bou-Franchand P. Garcés-Conejos Blitivich (Eds), Analysing digital discourse: New insights and future directions. London: Palgrave-Macmillan.
Matsushita, Kayo. 2015. Risk Management in the Decision-Making Process of English-Japanese News Translation. Graduate School of Intercultural Communication, Rikkyo University.
Puschmann, Cornelius. 2015. The Form and Function of Quoting in Digital Media. Discourse, Context & Media 7, 28–36.