26.1477, Calls: Portuguese, Spanish, General Ling, Historical Ling, Pragmatics, Socioling/Austria

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Subject: 26.1477, Calls: Portuguese, Spanish, General Ling, Historical Ling, Pragmatics, Socioling/Austria

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Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2015 11:41:12
From: Katharina Gerhalter [katharina.gerhalter at uni-graz.at]
Subject: II Congress “Formas y Fórmulas de Tratamiento en el Mundo Hispánico y Luso-Brasileño''

Full Title: II Congress “Formas y Fórmulas de Tratamiento en el Mundo Hispánico y Luso-Brasileño” 
Short Title: CFFT2016 

Date: 09-Jun-2016 - 11-Jun-2016
Location: Graz, Austria 
Contact Person: Martin Hummel
Meeting Email: cfft2016 at uni-graz.at
Web Site: http://congreso-formas-de-tratamiento-2016.uni-graz.at/en 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Pragmatics; Sociolinguistics 

Subject Language(s): Portuguese (por)
                     Spanish (spa)

Call Deadline: 30-Sep-2015 

Meeting Description:

The volume Formas y Fórmulas de Tratamiento en el Mundo Hispánico, published by Martin Hummel, Bettina Kluge, María Eugenia Vázquez Laslop (2010), has offered a tentative state of the art and stimulated the scientific discussion in this area of research. However, this has only partly been achieved, the domains of history and diachrony having been neglected. Moreover, the results of research should be placed in an intercultural context since innovations and trends are not restricted to single languages or nations. The weakening of Spanish vos and the rise of usted(es) in Spanish are better understood if we take into account the development of Portugal vós and você(s). The same holds for the expansion of informal T-forms in many countries. From a variationist point of view, innovative trends coexist with conservative ones, especially when social identity plays a role, e.g., vos in Argentina or usted in Mérida (Venezuela), which comes close to the generalized você in Brazil. Met
 hodologically, synchronic variation may help us reconstruct diachrony, e.g., when present-day variants can be related with sporadic documentation in the written sources used in diachronic research, providing additional relevance.

The Congress mirrors the methodological interest of the complementary approaches outlined above:

- The comparative analysis of forms of address in the luso-brazilian and Spanish world
- The historical and diachronic analysis of forms of address in Portuguese and Spanish
- The diachronic reconstruction of forms and systems of address from synchronic variation

The Congress is a joint initiative of Célia dos Santos Lopes (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro) and Martin Hummel (University of Graz). It is intended that a second congress would follow, to be held probably in Rio de Janeiro.

The Congress aims at preserving the democratic and liberal spirit of the previous meeting held in Graz. Therefore, no invited speakers or other figureheads are planned. This allows us to provide financial support to the participants who need it. A scientific committee shall evaluate the abstracts in order to select the papers for inclusion, based on criteria of quality. Our intention is to create a lively and ongoing network of communication between those interested by joining us.

Time and Place:

9-11 June 2016
University of Graz, Department of Romance Studies

Call for Papers:

Abstracts must not exceed 700 words plus references. They must thematically respect the “complementary perspectives” (as outlined above). Anonymous submission is not required since this procedure often excludes the knowledge of the authors’ previous research. It is important to point out the relevance and the goals of the research, as well as the data analyzed, the method, and the expected results. These criteria do not apply to theoretical papers or syntheses (states of the art), which are also welcome.

Languages of Presentation: Portuguese, Spanish, English

Time of Presentation: 20 + 10 minutes

Deadline for Abstract Submission: September 30, 2015

Certification of Admission: December 15, 2015

Please submit your abstract on easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cfft2016

Registration fees and further details have still to be determined.

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