28.3579, Calls: Historical Linguistics, Pragmatics/Italy

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Subject: 28.3579, Calls: Historical Linguistics, Pragmatics/Italy

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Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2017 15:14:40
From: Sara Gesuato [sara.gesuato at unipd.it]
Subject: Language Use across Time: What you didn’t know you’ve always wanted to know about historical pragmatics

 
Full Title: Language Use across Time: What you didn’t know you’ve always wanted to know about historical pragmatics 
Short Title: LUAC 

Date: 16-Feb-2018 - 17-Feb-2018
Location: Padova, Italy 
Contact Person: Sara Gesuato
Meeting Email: sara.gesuato at unipd.it
Web Site: http://www.historicalpragmatics2018.it/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Pragmatics 

Call Deadline: 15-Sep-2017 

Meeting Description:

The Department of Linguistic and Literary Studies of the University of Padua
will be hosting the following conference 

Language Use across Time:
What you didn’t know you’ve always wanted to know about historical pragmatics

This conference is to be held in Padua in Palazzo Maldura
(http://www.disll.unipd.it/content/dipartimento/sedi-ed-aule) on February
16-17, 2018. 

The diachronic evolution of languages is a crucial part of a social being’s
historical situatedness, given that it is mainly through language that we
develop social interactions, build relationships and project our identities.
The account of this evolution has traditionally focused on formal aspects of
language. More recently, however, attention has broadened to include
functional aspects of language use – e.g. strategies and conventions of
communicative practices over time – which has given rise to the field of
historical pragmatics.

The aim of the conference is to bring together historical linguists and
pragmaticians interested in exploring diachronic communicative practices
within and across languages with a view to shedding light on, among other
things: how present-day communicative practices have been informed and shaped
by earlier communicative options, constraints, goals and needs; to what extent
and in what ways present communicative practices differ from earlier
communicative practices; how past communicative practices differed across
social groups.

Invited speakers: Andreas Jucker (University of Zurich) and Irma Taavitsainen
(University of Helsinki) co-editors of the Handbook of Historical Pragmatics)

For more information visit http://www.historicalpragmatics2018.it/ .

We look forward to welcoming you here!

Sara Gesuato & Cecilia Poletto
Conference Organisers


Call for Papers:

The Department of English and Literary Studies of the University of Padua
(www.disll.unipd.it) is organising a conference entitled “Language use across
time: what you didn’t know you’ve always wanted to know about historical
pragmatics” to be held in Padua on February 16-17, 2018.

We welcome contributions relevant, but not limited, to the following topics:

- Comparative-contrastive historical pragmatics
- Research methods in historical pragmatics
- Corpus-informed approaches to historical pragmatics
- Challenges of historical pragmatics
- Variational historical pragmatics
- Evolution of discursive practices in given genres
- Sociopragmatic and pragmalinguistic aspects of earlier communicative
practices
- Conventions of means and conventions of forms in speech acts in different
time periods
- Temporal relativity of appropriateness of forms and practices
- Reasons for changes in the understanding of politeness and impoliteness
- Reasons for changes in the encoding of pragmatic behaviour
- Pragmatic features of earlier texts as clues to understanding present-day
interactional practices
- Social deixis in different time periods
- Metapragmatic descriptions in texts from different time periods
- Lexico-grammatical reflexes of changes in interactional practices over time

To submit an abstract follow the indications specified here:
http://www.historicalpragmatics2018.it/call-for-abstracts-and-abstract-submiss
ion/. The submission deadline is 15 September 2017.




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