<div dir="ltr">Indexicality and Social Meanings of Honorifics <br><br> Full Title: Indexicality and Social Meanings of Honorifics <br>
<br> Date: 26-Jul-2015 - 31-Jul-2015 <br> Location: Antwerp, Belgium <br> Contact Person: Kiri Lee<br> Meeting Email: <a>< click here to access email > </a><br>
<br> Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics<br><br> Call Deadline: 15-Oct-2014 <br><br> Meeting Description:<br><br>
How we humans situate ourselves in relation to others, how we address
others, speak of them, and interact with them is linguistically
transparent in any language, though not always superficially obvious.
Linguistic forms across all human languages provide resources for such
ways of speaking and interacting, e.g., (im)politely, with or without
deference, signaling distance or solidarity or power, affiliation or
disaffiliation and so forth. This panel focuses on the use of honorifics
in relation to their intended meanings and the honorifics systems in a
number of the world's languages. It is widely accepted that the use of
honorifics, especially in languages which have a grammatically encoded
system, is generally dictated by macro social factors such as age,
socioeconomic status, gender and so forth (Brown and Gilman 1960, Sohn
1999, Kim-Renaud 2009, Kuno 1987, Shibatani 1990). Recently, however,
researchers have seriously questioned whether the use of honorifics is
wholly dependent on the relative status, or some other factors (social,
psychological, register- and genre-dependent, etc.) play a crucial role
in the selection process (Cook 1996, Strauss and Eun 2005, Dunn 2005,
Brown 2011, Lee and Cho 2013). These studies are mostly based on the
framework of ''indexicality'' proposed by Silverstein (1976), where he
claims that there are various ''indexical-orders'' that work either at
''Micro'' level or at ''Macro'' level. While some studies, especially in
Japanese honorifics, have dismissed the distinction between ''Micro''
and ''Macro'' levels and claim that functions of honorifics such as
'formal', 'public', and 'polite' are one of meanings the honorific form
indexes directly (Cook 1999), other studies argue that ''Macro''
Indexing is clearly at work, based on the observation that Korean
adheres more rigidly to socially prescribed honorific forms both in
terms of address as well as in honorific language than Japanese (e.g.,
Lee and Cho 2013). These studies, however, have tended to look at
Japanese honorifics and Korean honorifics in isolation. To further
investigate how ''indexical-orders'' actually operate and what various
social meanings of honorifics are, this panel calls for a
cross-linguistic perspective where, not only Japanese and Korean, but
also languages such as French, Spanish, and Persian (Aliakbari 2008) are
systematically compared to uncover ''social meanings'' such as the
speaker's social characteristics, stance, attributes, and identities. <br> <br>The aim of this panel is three-folds: <br> <br>i) To identify social meanings indexed by honorifics in both public and private discourse data from several languages <br>
ii)
To investigate if the distinction between ''Macro'' and ''Micro''
Indexicality is universally relevant to the use of honorifics, and <br>iii)
To reveal hitherto unknown interactions between different honorific
systems within a language (e.g., subject honorification vs. addressee
honorification as these constructs apply in Korean, Japanese, Spanish,
French, and Persian.)<br><br> Call for Papers: <br> <br>Please find the information about how to submit your abstract in <a href="http://ipra.ua.ac.be/main.aspx?c=.CONFERENCE14&n=1473">http://ipra.ua.ac.be/main.aspx?c=.CONFERENCE14&n=1473</a>. <br>
<br>Deadline is October 15, 2014<br><br><a href="http://linguistlist.org/issues/25/25-3326.html">http://linguistlist.org/issues/25/25-3326.html</a><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>**************************************<br>N.b.: Listing on the lgpolicy-list is merely intended as a service to its members<br>
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