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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>Apologies for cross-posting <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";text-transform:uppercase'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";text-transform:uppercase'>Call for papers<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Discourse-Pragmatic Variation & Change (DiPVaC 2012)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>University of Salford, UK <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>18-21 April 2012<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>http://www.salford.ac.uk/events/details/1581</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>Early quantitative sociolinguistics and quantitative corpus linguistics tended to neglect discourse-pragmatic features, i.e., linguistic items or expressions such as pragmatic particles, discourse markers, quotatives, intensifiers, general extenders, tag questions, etc. which are related by virtue of operating in the interpersonal and/or textual domains. It is only in recent decades that quantitative paradigms have witnessed a limited expansion</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> in the study of these features. Amongst other things, these studies have demonstrated that the distribution of discourse-pragmatic features in the linguistic system is far from random, that changes in their usage and distribution are structured and principled, that many of their synchronic properties derive from the processes constituting grammaticalization, and that the social embedding of variation and change in their use may diverge from that of phonological or morpho-syntactic variables (see, for example, Aijmer 2002; Andersen 2001; Cheshire et al. 2005; D’Arcy 2005; Macaulay 2005; Tagliamonte & D’Arcy 2009). Yet despite the moderate upsurge in the quantitative study of discourse-pragmatic features, it is fair to say that discourse variation analysis is still at an embryonic stage (Macaulay 2002). There is little consensus in terms of methodology; analyses tend to focus on a few languages, a limited selection of variables as well as external constraints on variation; and quantitative studies of discourse-pragmatic change are often hampered by the shallow time-depth of synchronic corpora. These factors impede significant advancements and the formulation of a holistic theory of how discourse-pragmatic features vary and change. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The purpose of DiPVaC 2012 is to bring together scholars interested in the quantitative analysis of discourse-pragmatic features from any language variety, with the aims of: <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>1.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span dir=LTR></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>discussing methodological, empirical and theoretical issues in the quantitative analysis of discourse-pragmatic features;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>2.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span dir=LTR></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>assessing the current state of the field and exploring new directions of enquiry; <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>3.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span dir=LTR></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>promoting the quantitative analysis of discourse-pragmatic features within and beyond (variationist and corpus) linguistics; and<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>4.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span dir=LTR></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>launching an international network of scholars working on discourse-pragmatic variation and change and providing a framework for future collaborations between participants.</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>We welcome papers dealing with, but not restricted to, the following topics <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo4'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span dir=LTR></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>methods in the quantitative analysis of discourse-pragmatic features <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo4'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span dir=LTR></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>sociolinguistic patterns of discourse-pragmatic variation and change <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo4'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span dir=LTR></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>social and geographical diffusion patterns of innovative discourse features <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo4'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span dir=LTR></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>(language-internal) patterns of geographical variation in discourse-pragmatics <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo4'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span dir=LTR></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>the role of discourse-pragmatic features in the construction and negotiation of social identities <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo4'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span dir=LTR></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>discourse-pragmatic variation and change in contexts of language contact <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo4'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span dir=LTR></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>contrastive/cross-linguistic studies of discourse-pragmatic variation and change <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo4'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span dir=LTR></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>the acquisition of discourse-pragmatic variation by children and second language learners <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo4'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span dir=LTR></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>socio-perceptual studies of discourse-pragmatic variation <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo4'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span dir=LTR></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>discourse-pragmatic variation across interactional, situational and technological settings<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo4'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span dir=LTR></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>implications & applications of discourse variation analysis within and beyond linguistic theory <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Confirmed plenary speakers include</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Kate Beeching (University of West of England, UK) <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Alexandra D’Arcy (Victoria University, Canada) <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Andreas H. Jucker (University of Zurich, Switzerland) <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Confirmed pre-conference workshop leaders include</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Alexandra D’Arcy (Victoria University, Canada) <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Sue Fox (Queen Mary’s, University of London, UK)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Andreas H. Jucker (University of Zurich, Switzerland) <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Heike Pichler (University of Salford, UK) <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>DECTE team (Newcastle University, UK) <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Abstract submission</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black;background:white'>We accept abstracts for both paper and poster presentations. Abstracts of up to 300 words excluding title and references should be submitted by e-mail attachment (.doc, .docx, .pdf) to </span><a href="mailto:dipvac2012@gmail.com"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;background:white'>dipvac2012@gmail.com</span></a><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";background:white'> <b>no later than 20 November 2011</b><span style='color:black'>. Please give the title of your paper but do not include your name or other identifying information in the abstract. The title of the paper as well as name, affiliation and contact details of author(s) should be included in the body</span></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> of your e-mail message. Abstracts will be refereed anonymously by members of the scientific committee, and authors will be notified of acceptance at the beginning of January 2012. Papers will be 20 minutes each, plus 10 minutes for questions. Posters will be displayed for the duration of the event and there will be a special poster session. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Important dates</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Deadline for submission of abstracts: 20 November 2011 <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Notification of acceptance: at the beginning of January 2012 <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Pre-conference workshops: 18 April 2012<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Conference: 18-20 April 2012 <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Local organising committee</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Heike Pichler – main organiser </span><a href="mailto:h.pichler@salford.ac.uk"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>h.pichler@salford.ac.uk</span></a><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Gerry Howley – conference assistant </span><a href="mailto:g.m.howley@edu.salford.ac.uk"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>g.m.howley@edu.salford.ac.uk</span></a><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Contact</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Please direct all enquiries to </span><a href="mailto:dipvac2012@gmail.com"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>dipvac2012@gmail.com</span></a><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><><><><><><><><><><><><><><<o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Dr Heike Pichler<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Lecturer in Sociolinguistics<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>University of Salford <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>School of Humanities, Languages & Social Sciences<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Centre for Linguistics and Applied Linguistics<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Maxwell Building, Room 815<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Salford M5 4WT <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>UK <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Tel: +44 (0)161 295 4575<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Fax: +44 (0)161 295 5335<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>e-mail: h.pichler@salford.ac.uk<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>http://heikepichler.weebly.com <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>