31.2955, Calls: Pragmatics/Switzerland

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Subject: 31.2955, Calls: Pragmatics/Switzerland

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Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2020 12:42:26
From: Vahid Parvaresh [VPARVARESH at GMAIL.COM]
Subject: Impoliteness in Intercultural Encounters

 
Full Title: Impoliteness in Intercultural Encounters 

Date: 27-Jun-2021 - 02-Jul-2021
Location: Winterthur, Switzerland 
Contact Person: Vahid Parvaresh
Meeting Email: Vahid.Parvaresh at aru.ac.uk

Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics 

Call Deadline: 25-Oct-2020 

Meeting Description:

Panel Organisers: 
Vahid Parvaresh (Anglia Ruskin University)
Daniel Z. Kádár (Dalian University of Foreign Languages & Hungarian Academy of
Sciences)

While impoliteness has long been a major topic of interest in the field of
pragmatics, in our view further research is due to investigate its operation
in intercultural encounters. There are various reasons why such an endeavour
is timely, including the following: 

(a) As an academic concept, 'culture' has recently undergone some significant
developments, and it is fundamental to revisit intercultural impoliteness in
light of such developments. For instance,  it has been recently argued that
culture encompasses ''practices mediated by symbolic systems of various kinds
across various social and historical contexts'' (Kramsch & Zhu, 2020, p. 1).
(b) With the increasing dominance of social media and the drastic changes that
this dominance has introduced, we have been witnessing a dramatic increase in
''incompatibility, conflict, aggression and even harassment'' (Parvaresh,
2019, p. 79). It is particularly intriguing to consider the ways in which such
changes influence impoliteness behaviour in intercultural encounters.
(c) The rise in people's movement across borders has not necessarily always
resulted in more harmony but rather in an increase in some forms of derogatory
and discriminatory language (Musolff, 2019). Thus, in the current geopolitical
context, it is very important to devote more attention to impoliteness in
intercultural interactions.

The organisers of the proposed panel would like to invite contributions that
address, in one way or another, instances of impoliteness and language
aggression in intercultural settings, either in face-to-face encounters or in
more virtual and Internet-based forms of communication. We are particularly
interested in contributions whose focus is on offering insight into both
culturally informed 'products and practices' as well as culturally informed
'perspectives'. While the former are ''the visible or directly observable
components of culture'', the latter ''are hidden and need to be inferred''
(Spencer-Oatey & Kádár, 2016, p. 85). 


Call for Papers: 

Vahid Parvaresh and Daniel Kádár would like to invite contributions that
elucidate how clashes between different cultures and cultural groups could
lead to different forms of conflict, impoliteness and language aggression.

To submit to this panel, please visit IPRA Website and follow the
instructions:
https://pragmatics.international/page/Winterthur2021

If you have any queries about the panel, please contact Dr Vahid Parvaresh
(Vahid.Parvaresh at aru.ac.uk) or Prof Daniel Kádár (daniel.kadar at aru.ac.uk).

References:
Kramsch, C., & Zhu, H. (2020). Translating culture in global times: An
introduction. Applied Linguistics, 41(1), 1-9.
Musolff, A. (Ed.). (2019). Language aggression in public debates on
immigration. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Parvaresh, V. (2019). Moral impoliteness. Journal of Language Aggression and
Conflict, 7(1), 79-104.
Spencer-Oatey, H., & Kádár, D. Z. (2016). The bases of (im) politeness
evaluations: Culture, the moral order and the East-West debate. East Asian
Pragmatics, 1(1), 73-106.




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