<div dir="ltr">From the LinguistList (apologies for cross-posting):<br><i><br clear="all">The Pragmatics of Place: (Post)colonial Perspectives </i><br><br> Date: 16-Jul-2017 - 21-Jul-2017 <br> Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom <br> Contact: Carsten Levisen <br> <br><br> Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Pragmatics; Semantics <br><br> <i>Meeting Description:</i><br><br> Carsten Levisen (Roskilde) & Eeva Sippola (Bremen) <br> <br>In
this panel, we explore the diversity of ways in which “place” is
construed and enacted in colonial and postcolonial discourse.
Universalist pragmatics has had little to say about place, let alone the
pragmatics of place across cultures and historical epochs. Within newer
post-universalist approaches to pragmatics, we can begin to study the
historicity and variability of “place discourses” constituted by words,
metaphors, grammars, narratives, memories, cosmologies, and linguistic
worldviews. The aim of this panel is to shed light on the cultural
models and knowledges that are at play in discourse and inscribed in
people and produced by them through socialization and recurrent
discursive enactments. <br> <br>We encourage contributions from a broad
range of diversity-oriented approaches to pragmatics, such as
Postcolonial Pragmatics (Anchimbe & Janney 2011; Schubert &
Volkmann in press), Ethnopragmatics (Goddard 2006), Discourse Analysis
(Carbough 2007, Warnke & Busse 2014), Historical Pragmatics
(Taavitsainen & Jucker 2015), Ritual Communication (Basso &
Senft 2009), and similar approaches and fields. Contributions may
address (but are not restricted to) the following topics: <br> <br>- Cultural scripts for thinking and talking about place <br>- Keywords of place enacted in cultural discourse <br>- Place-based grammatical features enacted in discourse <br>- Songs, rituals, and other discursive practices or genres associated with place <br>- Political discourses of place (e.g., in land rights movements) <br>- Place name research and onomastic pragmatics <br> <br>We
give priority to empirically and emically grounded contributions that
can help explore speech practices across cultures and epochs. The panel
understands pragmatics in broad terms as the study of meaning-making in
cultural, historical, and situational contexts. We seek papers that can
help explore place-specific knowledges, conceptualizations of place, or
codes associated with people in specific places. A place, in this
context, can be highly localized (busses, beaches), ethnogeographical
(cities, nations), virtual (internet forums), or symbolic/mythical
(terra australis, paradise). Our focus on (post)colonial means that we
are interested in papers that can shed new light on (1) conceptions of
place as associated with colonial-era discourse and contemporary
postcolonial discourse across the globe, and/or (2) papers that can help
deconstruct the Anglocentrism (and Eurocentrism) of universalist
pragmatics through comparative studies. <br> <br>References: <br> <br>Anchimbe, E. & Janney, P. 2011. Postcolonial pragmatics: An introduction. Journal of Pragmatics 43:6, 1451-1459. <br>Carbaugh,
D. 2007. Cultural discourse analysis: Communication practices and
intercultural encounters. Journal of Intercultural Communication
research 36:3, 167-182. <br>Goddard, C. (ed). 2006. Ethnopragmatics: Understanding discourse in cultural context. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. <br>Senft, G. & Basso, E. (eds.). 2009. Ritual Communication. Oxford/ New York: Berg. <br>Schubert,
C & Volkmann, L. (eds.) In press. Pragmatic Perspectives on
Postcolonial Discourse. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars. <br>Taavitsainen,
I. & Jucker, A. H. 2015. Twenty years of historical pragmatics:
origins, developments and changing thought styles. Journal of Historical
Pragmatics 16:1, 1–24. <br>Warnke, I. H. & Busse, B. (eds.). 2014. Place-Making in urbanen Diskursen. Berlin: De Gruyter. <br><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Catherine Lee<br><br></div>Department of Linguistics<br>University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa<br>
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Honolulu, HI 96822 USA<br></div></div>
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