29.5090, Calls: Philosophy of Lang, Phonetics, Pragmatics, Semantics, Socioling/Germany

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Subject: 29.5090, Calls: Philosophy of Lang, Phonetics, Pragmatics, Semantics, Socioling/Germany

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Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2018 23:54:33
From: Stephanie Solt [solt at leibniz-zas.de]
Subject: Social Meaning Berlin 2019

 
Full Title: Social Meaning Berlin 2019 
Short Title: SM2019 

Date: 20-Mar-2019 - 21-Mar-2019
Location: Berlin, Germany 
Contact Person: Stephanie Solt
Meeting Email: solt at leibniz-zas.de

Linguistic Field(s): Philosophy of Language; Phonetics; Pragmatics; Semantics; Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 03-Feb-2019 

Meeting Description:

The Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics (ZAS) is pleased to announce the
workshop Social Meaning 2019, which will take place in Berlin Germany on March
20-21, 2019.

The social meaning of a linguistic form is the set of speaker properties,
identities, ideologies, attitudes and stances that it communicates or indexes.
One of the current central goals of sociolinguistics is the exploration of how
social structures are reflected, constructed, and transmitted through language
use and how interpretations and social meanings come about through ideological
dispositions of language users. The perceptual salience of a variant surfaces
in those cases where it is linked to ideological schemes and therefore
noticeable and interpretable. Eckert (1989, 2008, 2012; Eckert & Labov 2017)
has laid the ground work on individual stylistic variation and social meaning
within the third wave of variation. Levon explores the role of stereotypes on
perceptual processing and how variation comes to be associated with social
meaning (Levon & Fox 2014), and the impact on language change, giving us
insights into the mechanisms of social cognition. With her work in
sociophonetics and articulatory work on social accents and language change,
Stuart-Smith (McCarthy & Stuart-Smith 2013) adds yet another perspective on
the issue.

Recently, it has been increasingly recognized by scholars in semantics,
pragmatics and the philosophy of language that social meaning is not separate
from the sorts of meaning traditionally studied in those disciplines, but
rather overlaps with and interacts with such content. Potts & Kawahara (2004)
and McCready (2014) approach honorifics and politeness markers as a variety of
expressive language, demonstrating that their semantic contribution can be
analyzed compositionally via the same sort of formal frameworks applied to
other sorts of expressive content. Burnett (2017, in press) shows that the
social meaning carried by the choice of a variant of a variable (e.g. -in vs
-ing) can be productively modelled using the tools of game-theoretic
pragmatics.  Other relevant topics that have been fruitfully studied from the
perspective of semantics/pragmatics/philosophy of language include the social
meaning of determiners (Acton & Potts 2014), intensification (Beltrama 2016)
and especially slurs (e.g. Anderson & Lepore 2013; Jeshion 2013; Popa-Wyatt
2016).

The objective of this workshop is to bring together researchers from these
very diverse disciplines to discuss our common interests around the topic of
social meaning.  What can we learn from one another? What questions do we have
in common? And where do our interests, assumptions and goals diverge?

We are very pleased to announce the following invited speakers at the
workshop:

- Heather Burnett (CNRS, Université Paris 7-Denis Diderot)
- Penny Eckert (Stanford University)
- Erez Levon (Queen Mary University London)
- Elin McCready (Aoyama Gakuin University)
- Mihaela Popa-Wyatt (University of Birmingham)
- Jane Stuart-Smith (University of Glasgow)

Key Dates:

Abstract submissions due: February 3, 2019
Notification of acceptance: February 18, 2019

Location: Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics (ZAS), Berlin Germany

Organizers: Stefanie Jannedy, Stephanie Solt & Manfred Krifka


Call for Papers:

We invite abstract submissions for talks and poster presentations on topics
relating to social meaning from any theoretical perspective and methodological
approach, including (but not limited to) formal, experimental, phonetic,
sociolinguistic, semantic and/or pragmatic. 

Abstracts should be a maximum of one (1) A4 page in length (12-point type,
1-inch margins), with examples, data, figures and/or references on a second
page, and must be anonymous. Early-stage work and research in progress is
welcome.  

Abstracts may be submitted via EasyChair at the following link: 

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sm2019




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