26.820, FYI: Call for Papers: Postcolonial Pragmatics - Linguistics and Literature

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Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2015 12:15:40
From: Christoph Schubert [christoph.schubert at uni-vechta.de]
Subject: Call for Papers: Postcolonial Pragmatics - Linguistics and Literature

 
Call for Papers for a volume on

Pragmatic Perspectives on Postcolonial Discourse: Linguistics and Literature

edited by Christoph Schubert and Laurenz Volkmann
to be published by Cambridge Scholars

Sociolinguistic research on global varieties of English so far has mainly
concentrated on the levels of phonology, grammar, and vocabulary. By contrast,
little has been published on pragmatic, discursive or intercultural issues of
global Englishes. It comes as no surprise, therefore, that scholars such as
Anchimbe and Janney (2011) have stressed the necessity to establish the field
of “postcolonial pragmatics”. Accordingly, the projected volume intends to
further develop this new subdiscipline, which is still in its infancy, and to
point out emerging trends as well as new directions in research.

The project will carry out an integrative investigation, particularly probing
the interstices between linguistic methodologies and literary text analysis.
It intends to show in which ways hybrid communicative situations based on
ethnic, cultural, and linguistic diversity result in similarly hybrid
communicative and social practices. Along these lines, the volume will deal
with the issue of how postcolonial varieties of English around the world (e.g.
India, Nigeria, South Africa, Australia, Canada, or the Caribbean) have
produced different pragmatic conventions in a complex interplay of
culture-specific and global linguistic discourses.

The literary texts under discussion are conceptualized as media both
reflecting and creating reality, so that they provide valuable insights into
discourse phenomena that can be analysed by a joint venture of linguistics and
literary studies. We invite contributions approaching the topic from both
theoretical and empirical perspectives, as exemplified by the following
pragmatic paradigms:
- communicative conventions concerning politeness, indirectness, humour,
conversational maxims or the variational use of speech acts
- code-switching/code-mixing and strategic language choices
- construction of identities as well as social/ethnic roles and techniques of
“othering” through language
- interlingual accommodation and interethnic appropriation
- postcolonial uses of institutionalized discourse markers and conversational
routines
- cross- and intercultural communication regarding the negotiation of common
ground and practices of inclusion/exclusion

Please submit an abstract of 300-400 words (excluding references) to the two
editors of the volume by March 6, 2015:
christoph.schubert at uni-vechta.de
l.volk at uni-jena.de

The document should contain your name and the title of the article as well as
your affiliation. In the abstract, please introduce your research question,
give an outline your method and data, provide a summary of the most important
findings, and briefly explain in which way your paper matches the objectives
of the volume. The length of the finished papers will be about 6,000-8,000
words (excluding references and appendices). The anticipated submission date
for the final papers will be September 30, 2015.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis
                     Pragmatics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)





 






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