33.2495, Confs: Pragmatics/Belgium

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LINGUIST List: Vol-33-2495. Tue Aug 16 2022. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 33.2495, Confs: Pragmatics/Belgium

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Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2022 01:11:43
From: Anne Bezuidenhout [anne1 at sc.edu]
Subject: Experimental and corpus perspectives on (socio)pragmatics

 
Experimental and corpus perspectives on (socio)pragmatics 

Date: 09-Jul-2023 - 14-Jul-2023 
Location: Brussels, Belgium 
Contact: Anne Bezuidenhout 
Contact Email: anne1 at sc.edu 
Meeting URL: https://pragmatics.international/page/Brussels2023 

Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics 

Meeting Description: 

Linguists interested in pragmatic variation use a variety of methods to
investigate the social and cultural factors influencing the language choices
made by conversationalists in verbal communication, including observational,
experimental and corpus-based methods. In this panel we focus in particular on
recent developments in the experimental and in the corpus-based methods. On
the experimental side, the traditional methods of discourse completion tasks
and role plays have seen significant modifications and improvements over
recent years, and they have been supplemented by a range of methods from
experimental psychology, including both production and comprehension tasks
with a shift away from an exclusive focus on the speaker to a broader
appreciation of the interaction between conversationalists and a more careful
analysis of not only the production but also the perception of language.
Corpus pragmatics has seen an equally significant development of tools and
methods driven by the unprecedented growth of the availability of new corpora
and their sizes. Corpora that have recently become available include
specialized corpora of texts drawn from social media sources, corpora
containing several decades of spoken language or corpora that include
pragmatically tagged units. These exciting developments offer a broad range of
possibilities for innovative research questions and new insights into the use
of language across different social contexts, different cultures, and
different time periods. In this panel, we hope to showcase the application of
such newly developed experimental and corpus-based methods in the study of
socio-pragmatic topics, such as im/politeness, social identity-construction,
race and gender, hate speech, and so on.
 






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