***UNCHECKED*** 31.2929, Calls: Hist Ling, Pragmatics, Socioling, Text/Corpus Ling/Switzerland

[The LINGUIST List]

LINGUIST List: Vol-31-2929. Mon Sep 28 2020. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 31.2929, Calls: Hist Ling, Pragmatics, Socioling, Text/Corpus Ling/Switzerland

Moderator: Malgorzata E. Cavar (linguist at linguistlist.org)
Student Moderator: Jeremy Coburn
Managing Editor: Becca Morris
Team: Helen Aristar-Dry, Everett Green, Sarah Robinson, Lauren Perkins, Nils Hjortnaes, Yiwen Zhang, Joshua Sims
Jobs: jobs at linguistlist.org | Conferences: callconf at linguistlist.org | Pubs: pubs at linguistlist.org

Homepage: http://linguistlist.org

Please support the LL editors and operation with a donation at:
           https://funddrive.linguistlist.org/donate/

Editor for this issue: Lauren Perkins <lauren at linguistlist.org>
================================================================


Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2020 20:12:59
From: Giulia Mazzola [giulia.mazzola at kuleuven.be]
Subject: The discourse grammar of communicative distance

 
Full Title: The discourse grammar of communicative distance 

Date: 27-Jun-2021 - 02-Jul-2021
Location: Winterthur, Switzerland 
Contact Person: Giulia Mazzola
Meeting Email: giulia.mazzola at kuleuven.be

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Pragmatics; Sociolinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 25-Oct-2020 

Meeting Description:

Panel Organizers: 
Bert Cornillie (KU Leuven)
Giulia Mazzola (KU Leuven)
Lola Pons Rodríguez (Universidad de Sevilla)
Álvaro Octavio de Toledo y Huerta (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)

Over the last decades, the continuum between communicative immediacy and
communicative distance has been a much-debated topic in Romance linguistics
(Koch & Oesterreicher 1990; Kabatek 2005; López Serena 2020). Moreover,
research on the various discourse traditions along this continuum has led to a
more refined description of the anchoring of linguistic subsystems in certain
communicative and sociolinguistic contexts. Whereas the bulk of
pragmatic-linguistic research has focussed on discourse settings of the
communicative immediacy, accounts of the grammar and pragmatics of
communicative distance are scarcer. The role of normative models emerging in
the communicative distance should not be underestimated, in that they often
yield lasting innovations in the linguistic system. Therefore, the proposed
thematic panel aims to discuss the grammar and pragmatics of linguistic
variants typical of the communicative distance from several perspectives:
language change, historical sociolinguistics, and scripturalness.

Language change. Recently, research has shown that the poles of communicative
immediacy and distance both foster language change. As for the former,
linguistic changes have often been addressed in terms of inference-invited
semantic change (Traugott & Dasher 2007; Traugott 2018). However, change from
distance settings turns out to be common too (Cornillie & Octavio de Toledo y
Huerta 2015; Cornillie 2019; Pons Rodríguez 2020). Several aspects are still
unresolved:
 - What are the most common models of inspiration for the grammar of distance?
 - In the case of new expressions based on prestigious languages (e.g. Latin,
French, English), via which discourse traditions do they typically actualize?
 - How does a grammar of distance emerge? Which processes of selection and
innovation characterize this domain?

Historical sociolinguistics and audience design. Usage patterns may also vary
depending on the intended audience of texts (Bell 2001; Octavio de Toledo y
Huerta 2011) and social (a)symmetries between writer and audience lead to the
selection of marked variants (cf. Mazzola et al. 2020). Yet, the limits of
variation within the communicative distance is a matter of discussion. The
following issues need to be addressed:
 - How can a typology of intended audiences of texts be determined? 
 - How does the writer-addressee relationship shape style-shifting within the
texts of communicative distance?
 - What types of morphosyntactic and pragmatic markers are used to signal
audience-induced style-shifting?

Scripturalness as language elaboration. The enduring prestige of linguistic
forms usually depends on their relation to the written language. Many
vernacular expressions that appear both in the immediacy and the distance
originated in spoken interaction and shifted to the written communication,
acquiring a higher degree of scripturalness. Various questions require further
investigation: 
 - What are the mechanisms behind advanced written language elaboration? Is it
due to competition between layering forms? 
 - What role do canonized writers play in previous stages of a language? Is
there a methodologically sound way of measuring their impact on the language
of the past? 
 - Does the reverse process also occur? Do linguistic forms that used to be
restricted to the communicative distance shift to the language of immediacy?
What can we learn from the (mutual) diachronic exchange between the two poles?


Call for Papers: 

We are pleased to invite talk proposals for a panel “The discourse grammar of
communicative distance” at the 17th International Pragmatics Conference,
Winterthur, Switzerland, 27 June - 2 July 2021.

Submitted abstracts should take the form of a brief abstract (min. 250 and
max. 500 words, excluding references). 

Please submit your paper abstract through the conference website
(https://ipra2021.exordo.com/login) by 25 October 2020. When submitting your
abstract to the conference website, make sure to select “The discourse grammar
of communicative distance” as the panel for your submission. For full
submission instructions, please see:
https://pragmatics.international/page/CfP. Please note that you will have to
become a member of the International Pragmatics Association in order to submit
a paper abstract to the conference. For further information contact the
organizers.

References: 
Bell, Allan. 2001. Back in style: Reworking audience design. In Penelope
Eckert & John R. Rickford (eds.), Style and sociolinguistic variation,
139–169. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
https://0-doi-org.serlib0.essex.ac.uk/10.1017/CBO9780511613258.
Cornillie, Bert. 2019. On Grammatical Change and Discourse Environments. In
Paloma Núñez Pertejo, María José López-Couso, Belén Méndez-Naya & Javier
Pérez-Guerra (eds.), Crossing linguistic boundaries: systemic, synchronic and
diachronic variation in English, 105–125. London : New York, NY: Bloomsbury
Academic.
Cornillie, Bert & Álvaro Octavio de Toledo y Huerta. 2015. The diachrony of
subjective amenazar ‘threaten’. On Latin-induced grammaticalization in
Spanish. In Andrew DM Smith, Graeme Trousdale & Richard Waltereit (eds.), New
Directions in Grammaticalization Research, vol. 166, 187–208. John Benjamins;
Amsterdam - Philadelphia.
Kabatek, Johannes. 2005. Tradiciones discursivas y cambio lingüístico. Lexis:
Revista de lingüística y literatura 29(2). 151–177.
Koch, Peter & Wulf Oesterreicher. 1990. Gesprochene Sprache in der Romania:
Französisch, Italienisch, Spanisch (Romanistische Arbeitshefte 31). Tübingen:
Niemeyer.
López Serena, Araceli. 2020. Algunas cuestiones pendientes en el modelo
distancia vs. inmediatez. Los parámetros situacionales que determinan las
formas de la variación concepcional. In Teresa Gruber, Klaus Grübl, Katharina
Jakob, Thomas Scharinger & Narr Francke Attempto Verlag GmbH & Co. KG (eds.),
Was bleibt von kommunikativer Nähe und Distanz? Mediale und konzeptionelle
Aspekte von Diskurstraditionen und sprachlichem Wandel.
Mazzola, Giulia, Bert Cornillie, Malte Rosemeyer & Stefano De Pascale. 2020.
Socio-stylistic aspects of syntactic variation: the case of Spanish asyndetic
complementation between the 15th and the 18th century. Conference presented at
the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea.
https://osf.io/fe6tc/.
Octavio de Toledo y Huerta, Alvaro. 2011. Santa Teresa y la mano visible.
Sobre las variantes sintácticas del Camino de perfección. In Mónica Castillo
Lluch & Lola Pons Rodríguez (eds.), Así se van las lenguas variando: nuevas
tendencias en la investigacíon del cambio lingüistico en español (Fondo
Hispánico de Lingüística y Filología v. 5), 241–304. Bern ; New York: Peter
Lang.
Pons Rodríguez, Lola. 2020. In substance, they came from above. On the
acquisition of discourse particles in Medieval Spanish. In Jorge Fernandez
Jaen & Herminia Provencio Garrigós (eds.), Changes in Meaning and Function,
222–235. John Benjamins Publishing Company.
http://benjamins.com/catalog/ivitra.25 (29 June, 2020).
Traugott, Elizabeth Closs. 2018. Rethinking the Role of Invited Inferencing in
Change from the Perspective of Interactional Texts. Open Linguistics. De
Gruyter 4(1). 19–34. https://doi.org/10.1515/opli-2018-0002.
Traugott, Elizabeth Closs & Richard B. Dasher. 2007. Regularity in semantic
change (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics 97). Digital print. Cambridge:
university press.




------------------------------------------------------------------------------

***************************    LINGUIST List Support    ***************************
 The 2020 Fund Drive is under way! Please visit https://funddrive.linguistlist.org
  to find out how to donate and check how your university, country or discipline
     ranks in the fund drive challenges. Or go directly to the donation site:
                   https://crowdfunding.iu.edu/the-linguist-list

                        Let's make this a short fund drive!
                Please feel free to share the link to our campaign:
                    https://funddrive.linguistlist.org/donate/
 


----------------------------------------------------------
LINGUIST List: Vol-31-2929	
----------------------------------------------------------