32.4003, Confs: Cog Sci; Discourse Analysis; Ling Theories; Pragmatics/Germany

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Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2021 16:10:03
From: Markus Egg [markus.egg at hu-berlin.de]
Subject: Metaphors and stance markers in register variation (MeStaR)

 
Metaphors and stance markers in register variation (MeStaR) 

Date: 16-Jun-2022 - 17-Jun-2022 
Location: Berlin, Germany 
Contact: Markus Egg 
Contact Email: markus.egg at hu-berlin.de 
Meeting URL: https://sfb1412.hu-berlin.de/de/events/workshops/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Discourse Analysis; Linguistic Theories; Pragmatics 

Meeting Description: 

Interlocutors and their social relations constitute a central part of
register, which is reflected e.g. in the ‘tenor’ feature in Systemic
Functional Linguistics (SFL) (Halliday & Hasan, 1985) or in Biber’s (2006b)
dimension ‘involved vs. informational production’. Metadiscourse elements
address this feature or dimension, allowing speakers or writers to interact
with their audience in order to manage their mutual relation and to guide the
audience in processing the discourse. These elements are constitutive for
register and must be used appropriately in a specific constellation of
interlocutors; at the same time, they allow the classification of discourse in
terms of a specific register. 

The workshop intends to deepen our understanding of such elements, focussing
on two phenomena that are crucial for tenor, viz., metaphors and stance
markers. 

For metaphors, their relation to tenor was discussed in Goatly (1994, 2011),
who correlates functions of metaphors with SFL features, e.g., if the
interlocutors are of equal status and close, metaphors tend to be attitudinal
and emotive. Also, Steen et al. (2010) attribute differences of metaphors to
their respective registers (for news, conversation, fiction, and academic
discourse). For instance, the informational registers use metaphor to express
content to a much larger extent than conversation. There is also work on
metaphor in specific registers, e.g., newspapers (Krennmayr, 2011), academic
discourse (Beger, 2015; Herrmann, 2015), or fiction (Dorst, 2015). 

Stance markers subsume different types of linguistic means, ranging from
specific lexical items such as first and second person pronouns or epistemic
adverbs and particles over inflectional and derivational morphology (e.g.
diminutives) to syntactic constructions such as imperatives and questions
(Biber, 2006a; Hyland, 2005). Research on the distribution of stance markers
across registers provides evidence not only for their salience in
conversational discourses as a means of indicating speaker’s involvement and
fostering addressee’s engagement (Goulart et al., 2020; Qin & Uccelli, 2019).
Speakers and writers also use these markers to create interactional identities
according to the communicative purposes in contexts with varying degrees of
formality (Barbieri, 2015). In written informational discourses, these markers
allow writers to convey a credible picture of themselves as members of
professional and scientific communities and to develop and manage the social
and epistemic common ground with their audiences (Hyland, 2010).
 

We are interested in the way these two phenomena serve to create and modulate
register dimensions, for instance, degrees of conceptual orality and literacy
and social relations between the interlocutors. For both types of phenomena,
their influence on register is closely tied to their semantic contribution,
hence, we expect their comparison to yield further insights into
metalinguistic strategies of register administration.

Questions include, but are not restricted to the following:
- How do metaphors and/or stance markers contribute to establishing and
signalling specific registers (including academic language and languages for
specific purposes)?
- How are metaphors and/or stance markers as register markers acquired and how
do they change over time?
- What is the relation between metaphors and stance markers in the field of
register? 
- Do metaphors and/or stance markers play a different role in register across
languages?
We especially welcome empirical studies, experimental as well as corpus-based
ones. 

Due the pandemic, the workshop will take place as a hybrid event: on-site and
online via Zoom.  Talks will be given 30-minute slots excluding discussion. 

View the full CfP and references online:
https://sfb1412.hu-berlin.de/event/metaphors-and-stance-markers-in-register-va
riation-mestar/

Authors should submit anonymous abstracts of max. 500 words (excluding figures
and references) to mestar22 at lists.hu-berlin.de. Deadline for submissions is
02/18/2022. References should be formatted according to the APA 7th
guidelines. Abstracts will be peer reviewed. Notification of acceptance:
03/30/2022.





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