Dear colleagues,<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_quote"><div style="text-align:center"><div style="text-align:left"><font size="2"><br>Please find below the call for papers for <i>Experimental and empirical approaches to politeness and impoliteness</i>,
the third installment in the Linguistic Impoliteness and Rudeness
(LIAR) series of conferences, which will take place at the University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in August 2012. The abstract submission
deadline is January 31, 2012. <br>
<br>Please share this information with your students and colleagues. It will be great to see many of you in Illinois next August!<br><br>Best regards,<br><br>Marina Terkourafi<br>=====<br><b><br></b></font></div><font size="4"><b>Experimental and Empirical Approaches to Politeness and Impoliteness (LIAR III)</b></font><br>
August 29-31, 2012<br>Urbana IL<br></div><br>Among the most exciting
developments of the past couple of years in im/politeness research is
the explicit link with cognitive science made in ongoing research on
reasoning within experimental and game-theoretic pragmatics. The
importance of this research is being increasingly recognized, with
social and emotive factors in utterance production and interpretation
emerging as a new focus in several areas of language study.<br>
<br>'Experimental and Empirical Approaches to Politeness and
Impoliteness' is the third in a series of international conferences
dedicated to Linguistic Impoliteness and Rudeness (LIAR III) and the
first in a series of im/politeness symposia organized annually since
2005 to be held outside Europe.<br>
<br>The specific goals of the conference are:<br><br>- To provide a
platform for the presentation of the latest findings in im/politeness
research, with an emphasis on innovative approaches that build on the
methods of the sciences;<br>
- To promote dialogue between scholars based in different parts of the world who are carrying out im/politeness research;<br>-
To help identify areas of high priority within im/politeness research
and help forge new international collaborations between linguists,
social psychologists and cognitive scientists that will address these
areas;<br>
- To heighten the profile of im/politeness research among scholars and
graduate students in the United States, and the Midwest in particular,
by showcasing its theoretical and methodological reach, and potential
for cross-disciplinary engagement.<br>
<br>The conference will take place from August 29-31, 2012, at the Levis
Faculty center of the Urbana-Champaign campus of the University of
Illinois.<br><br>Call for Papers:<br><br>Researchers in Linguistics,
Cognitive Science, Social Psychology, Anthropology, and Communication
are invited to submit abstracts of no more than 400 words (excluding
references) for oral or poster presentation by January 31, 2012. Information about abstract submission will soon be available via the conference website:<br>
<br><a href="http://www.linguistics.illinois.edu/research/conferences/liariii/" target="_blank">http://www.linguistics.illinois.edu/research/conferences/liariii/</a><br><br>The
conference is open to any topic in the areas of linguistic politeness
and impoliteness. Papers on the following themes are especially welcome:<br>
<br>- Experimental investigations of face and im/politeness<br>- Individual differences in communicating im/politeness<br>- Prosody and im/politeness<br>- Im/politeness, language policy, and the role of the media<br>- Language-contact and heritage im/politeness<br>
- Tu/Vous address systems in the era of globalization<br><br>Invited Speakers:<br><br>Jean-François Bonnefon (CNRS, Toulouse)<br>Holly Cashman (University of New Hampshire)<br>Jonathan Culpeper (Lancaster University)<br>
Bruce Fraser (Boston University)<br>
Thomas Holtgraves (Ball State University)<br>
<br>
The conference is generously supported by: the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences,
the College of Education, the Illinois Program for Research in the
Humanities, the School of Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics, the
Department of Linguistics, the Beckman Institute Cognitive Science /
Artificial Intelligence Committee, the Department of Educational
Psychology, and the Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.<br>
<br>
Conference organizing committee:<br>
<br>
Marina Terkourafi (Chair)<br>
Kiel Christianson (co-Chair)<br>
Andrea Golato (co-Chair)<br>
Rakesh Bhatt<br>
Anna Maria Escobar<br>
Zsuzsanna Fagyal<br>
Tania Ionin<br>
Michele Koven<br>
Adrienne Lo<br>
Rajeshwari Pandharipande<br>
Duane Watson<br>
</div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Marina Terkourafi<div><br>Assistant Professor & Director for Modern Greek Studies<br>Associate Editor, <i>International Review of Pragmatics</i><br></div>Series Editor, <i>Empirical Foundations of Theoretical Pragmatics</i><div>
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<br>Department of Linguistics<br>University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign<br>4080 Foreign Languages Building<br>707 S Mathews Avenue, MC-168<br>Urbana, IL 61801<br><br>Telephone: <a href="tel:%2B1%20%28217%29%20244-3061" value="+12172443061" target="_blank">+1 (217) 244-3061</a><br>
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</div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Marina Terkourafi<br>Assistant Professor & Director for Modern Greek Studies<br>Associate Editor, <i>International Review of Pragmatics</i><br>Series Editor, <i>Empirical Foundations of Theoretical Pragmatics</i><br>
<br>Department of Linguistics<br>University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign<br>4080 Foreign Languages Building<br>707 S Mathews Avenue, MC-168<br>Urbana, IL 61801<br><br>Telephone: <a href="tel:%2B1%20%28217%29%20244-3061" value="+12172443061" target="_blank">+1 (217) 244-3061</a><br>
Fax: <a href="tel:%2B1%20%28217%29%20244-8430" value="+12172448430" target="_blank">+1 (217) 244-8430</a><br>
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</div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Marina Terkourafi<br>Assistant Professor & Director for Modern Greek Studies<br>Associate Editor, <i>International Review of Pragmatics</i><br>Series Editor, <i>Empirical Foundations of Theoretical Pragmatics</i><br>
<br>Department of Linguistics<br>University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign<br>4080 Foreign Languages Building<br>707 S Mathews Avenue, MC-168<br>Urbana, IL 61801<br><br>Telephone: +1 (217) 244-3061<br>Fax: +1 (217) 244-8430<br>
<br><a href="http://faculty.las.illinois.edu/mt217/" target="_blank">http://faculty.las.illinois.edu/mt217/</a><br><br>NEW BOOK SERIES: <a href="http://www.brill.nl/eftp" target="_blank">www.brill.nl/eftp</a><br>