24.4539, Calls: Semantics, Pragmatics, Cognitive Science/Hungary

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Subject: 24.4539, Calls: Semantics, Pragmatics, Cognitive Science/Hungary

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Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2013 13:25:01
From: Mario Brdar [mbrdar at ffos.hr]
Subject: Socio-Cultural Factors in Style

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Full Title: Socio-Cultural Factors in Style 

Date: 05-Feb-2014 - 06-Feb-2014
Location: Budapest, Hungary 
Contact Person: Gábor Tolcsvai Nagy
Meeting Email: stylistics at btk.elte.hu

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Pragmatics; Semantics 

Call Deadline: 12-Dec-2013 

Meeting Description:

The Research Group in Stylistics at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest (stylistics.elte.hu) is inviting linguists to the international conference ‘Socio-cultural factors in style’, due to take place in Budapest, 5-6 February 2014.

The conference is aimed primarily at functional cognitive linguists with an interest in stylistics. Its central topic is the functions of socio-cultural factors in style. Functional cognitive linguistics produces complex usage-based descriptions, foregrounding the motivations behind specific construals of meaning in intersubjective usage events. Fundamental factors of a functionally oriented description of dynamic semantics and grammar include discourse, speech situation, conceptualizer perspective and the dynamic relation between schema and instantiation. The present conference focuses on the stylistic components of linguistic variability.

>From a functional cognitive perspective, style is an aspect of discursive meaning derived from particular modes of construal and symbolization. Style can be studied from multiple vantage points and at varying levels of abstraction. Besides the stylistic potential of language and the stylistic structure of particular discourses or discourse types, socio-cultural factors can be explored with a view to the more or less conventionalized social functions of linguistic expressions in a speech community. Looked at in this way, style is a function of the norms of socially based interpersonal relations, and it is attributed to linguistic expressions in specific usage events. Socio-cultural factors of style include the domains of attitude, situation, value (value saturation vs. deprivation), time (archaism vs. neologism), and language varieties.

The conference focuses on three large, closely related issues:

1) The functional cognitive theory and methodology of the study of style
2) The general features of socio-cultural factors in the functional system of style; linguistic variability and stylistic variables based on socio-cultural factors
3) Socio-cultural variables of style as instantiated in particular discourses

The conference aims to reinterpret basic issues and raise new questions in stylistic research, with special regard to the following:

1) Developing an integrated theory and methodology for studying the cognitive and socio-cultural underpinnings of language, to be applied to stylistic research
2) Exploring the implications of cognitive semantics and pragmatics for the study of style
3) Harmonizing the style-related concepts and results of sociolinguistics and cognitive linguistics
4) Investigating the language- and culture-specific features of style in the theoretical and methodological framework of cognitive linguistics

The language of the conference is English.

The registration fee is EUR 80,00 payable by bank transfer.

Confirmed Keynote Speakers:

Willie van Peer
Gábor Tolcsvai Nagy

Call for Papers:

The deadline for submission of abstracts (in English; max one page including data and references) is December 12, 2013. Please submit your abstract as attached message (in both .pdf and .doc formats) by email to the address of the organizing committee: stylistics at btk.elte.hu. The abstracts will be evaluated by the organizing committee. Participants will be notified about acceptance by December 28, 2013. 

Abstract Submission:

The body of the email should include the following information (preferably in this order): 

1) Name of the participant
2) Title of presentation
3) Affiliation
4) Email address

The book of abstracts will be published on the conference website, at stylistics.elte.hu. 

Organizers at Eötvös Loránd University:

Gábor Tolcsvai Nagy
Szilárd Tátrai
Réka Sólyom







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