29.363, Calls: Historical Ling, Pragmatics, Socioling/Germany

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Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2018 15:00:58
From: Linda Gennies [linda.gennies at fu-berlin.de]
Subject: Politeness Crossing Times and Spaces

 
Full Title: Politeness Crossing Times and Spaces 

Date: 11-Jun-2018 - 12-Jun-2018
Location: Freie Universität Berlin, Germany 
Contact Person: Linda Gennies
Meeting Email: linda.gennies at fu-berlin.de
Web Site: http://www.sfb-episteme.de/veranstaltungen/Vorschau/2018/C08_politeness.html 

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

Call Deadline: 25-Feb-2018 

Meeting Description:

In modern-day Humanities, questions of verbal and nonverbal politeness have
been explored from many different perspectives. However, the vast majority of
existing studies are restricted to the synchronic analysis of relatively
stable norms of polite behaviour in historical or modern speech communities,
whereas changes in politeness are only rarely looked at. 

With our interdisciplinary workshop ''Politeness Crossing Times and Spaces''
we aim at filling this void by bringing into focus the so far rather neglected
dynamic nature of politeness in the pre-modern world, which can be observed on
at least two levels:

On the vertical level, norms of politeness are affected by changes in society.
We want to examine how different hierarchical structures of pre-modern
societies and changes thereof affect the forms and functions of politeness;
and how new forms of polite behaviour retroact on a society. 
On the horizontal level, different concepts of politeness interact with each
other in situations of cultural and linguistic contact. Contact situations not
only allow for the simple transfer of patterns from one speech community to
another, but also for the emergence of entirely new forms, as transfer
processes always carry a certain creative potential in them. 

The objective of the workshop is to shed light on these two dimensions of
politeness change from an interdisciplinary perspective; we hope to address
some of the following questions: 

- What sources are useful for the study of historical politeness? How are
these different sources interrelated and how do they interact with each other?
- Who are the agents establishing and promoting politeness? What are the
respective roles of teachers, diplomats, interpreters and travellers? Do
authors reflect change and variation - especially in situations of cultural
contact? How do they negotiate accommodation processes in cases of conflicting
norms? How do they express and substantiate their claims of validity when
postulating certain norms? 
- How are claims of (cultural) superiority conveyed and negotiated through
politeness? In what way do, e.g., eurocentrism and orientalism already surface
in pre-modern times? 
- How do the transmission and dissemination of changing norms throughout
society function?
- What are the actual linguistic properties of politeness that are at stake?
What concrete forms are relevant? 

Invited speakers

Eleanor Dickey (University of Reading)
Andreas Jucker (University of Zurich)
Dániel Z. Kádár (Hungarian Academy of Sciences & Guangdong University of
Foreign Studies)
Francesco Mari (Freie Universität Berlin)
Annick Paternoster (Università della Svizzera italiana)
Kim Ridealgh (University of East Anglia)
Birgit Tremml-Werner (University of Zurich)

Organisers

Linda Gennies, Julia Hübner, Horst Simon 
(Collaborative Research Center 980 “Episteme in Motion. Knowledge Transfer
from the Ancient World to the Early Modern Period”)

For more information, please contact linda.gennies at fu-berlin.de
or visit
http://www.sfb-episteme.de/veranstaltungen/Vorschau/2018/C08_politeness.html.


Call for Papers:

We welcome contributions from researchers in a range of disciplinary
backgrounds, whose work focuses on politeness in pre-modern societies. 

Papers should be 30 minutes + 15 minutes for discussions. Abstracts of max.
300 words (references excluded) can be sent to histling at zedat.fu-berlin.de.
The deadline for abstract submission is 25 February 2018. Notification of
acceptance will be sent in early March 2018.

For all workshop participants, the CRC 980 will pay an appropriate travel
allowance and provide accommodation and meals for the duration of the
workshop.




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