21.4150, Calls: Historical Ling, Socioling, English/Italy

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Subject: 21.4150, Calls: Historical Ling, Socioling, English/Italy

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Date: 18-Oct-2010
From: Gabriella Mazzon [gabrina9004 at alice.it]
Subject: 15th Conference of Italian Studies in the History of English
 

	
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Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 12:01:58
From: Gabriella Mazzon [gabrina9004 at alice.it]
Subject: 15th Conference of Italian Studies in the History of English

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Full Title: 15th Conference of Italian Studies in the History of English 
Short Title: SLIN 15 

Date: 26-May-2011 - 28-May-2011
Location: Cagliari, Italy 
Contact Person: Gabriella Mazzon
Meeting Email: gabrina9004 at alice.it
Web Site: http://www.slin15.it 

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Sociolinguistics 

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Call Deadline: 30-Nov-2010 

Meeting Description:

A regular event since 1988, the Conference of the Italian group of historians 
of the English Language has this year the theme: Dialogic Forms in One 
Thousand Years of English Texts - From Old English to Late Modern 
English. It will be held in Cagliari, Sardinia, in late May 2011, and includes 
three invited speakers on issues of diachronic studies of dialogue and 
historical pragmatics. 

Call For Papers

The conference welcomes diachronic studies or historical studies having to 
do with: Politeness, Speech Acts, Dynamics of Dialogue, Address forms, 
Social Networks, Conversational Roles, Interactivity in different Text Types, 
Dialogue Genre(s)

as well as more specific studies on:
Audience design, evaluative elements (e.g. commentary adverbs), the 
expression of phatic and conative functions, modality- and discourse-
markers, persuasion and rhetoric, mimesis of dialogue (drama, fiction, 
instructive dialogues, scientific dialogues)

Invited speakers and their titles:

Jonathan Culpeper, University of Lancaster  
The dialogue of plays in a historical pragmatics perspective 

Andreas H. Jucker, University of Zurich
Politeness in Early Modern English Dialogues

Irma Taavitsainen, University of Helsinki
Dialogue in Textbooks 1500-1800

Session papers:
Papers should be 20 mins in length, with around 5 to 10 mins allotted for
discussion. Abstracts of no more than 300 words in .doc or .pdf or .rtf format 
are to be sent to BOTH local representatives of the scientific committee, 
whose email addresses are provided below.  The deadline for abstracts is 
the 30th of November 2010, acceptance will be notified by the 15th of 
January 2011.

Scientific committee
Gabriella Mazzon (Cagliari)(gabrina9004 at alice.it)
Luisanna Fodde (Cagliari)(fodde at unica.it)
Gabriella Del Lungo (Firenze)
Marina Dossena (Bergamo)
Maurizio Gotti (Bergamo)
Giovanni Iamartino (Milano)
Nicola Pantaleo (Bari)





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