33.2497, Calls: Pragmatics/Belgium

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Subject: 33.2497, Calls: Pragmatics/Belgium

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Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2022 01:50:15
From: Cesar Felix-Brasdefer [cfelixbr at indiana.edu]
Subject: Pragmatic Variation in Pluricentric Languages

 
Full Title: Pragmatic Variation in Pluricentric Languages 
Short Title: Pluricentric Languages 

Date: 09-Jul-2023 - 14-Jul-2023
Location: Brussels, Belgium 
Contact Person: Cesar Felix-Brasdefer
Meeting Email: cfelixbr at indiana.edu
Web Site: https://pragmatics.international/page/CfP 

Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics 

Call Deadline: 01-Nov-2022 

Meeting Description:

Panel Organizers: Klaus Schneider (University of Bonn) and César
Félix-Brasdefer (Indiana University, USA)

Theme and Purpose: 

Research on linguistic pluricentrism has received considerable attention among
national varieties of a language, as well as among dominant and non-dominant
varieties (Schneider & Félix-Brasdefer 2022). Pluricentric languages, such as
English, German, French, Swahili, Dutch, Chinese, Arabic, Portuguese, and
Spanish, have been generally defined as languages having different national
varieties, each with a standard codified register.  Intra-lingual pragmatic
variation is systematically studied in variational pragmatics (Schneider &
Barron 2008; Schneider 2020). This approach is focused on the intersection of
pragmatics and dialectology and examines differences which can be correlated
with macrosocial and microsocial factors that influence communicative language
use. Relevant macrosocial factors include region, gender, age, ethnicity, and
socioeconomic status, while microsocial factors include social distance/degree
of familiarity, social power, and situational variation. Region, whose impact
on language use has received more attention in research than any of the other
factors mentioned here, has been theorized as a multifaceted concept
pertaining to five levels in geographical space: supranational, national,
subnational, local, and sublocal (Schneider & Barron 2008). Region is,
therefore, not limited to the traditional understanding in dialectology, but
used here as “an umbrella term for a hierarchy of spatial entities” (Schneider
2010, p. 248). 

This panel examines pragmatic variation at the level of national varieties of
pluricentric languages, i.e., languages with several interacting centers and
norms of their own (Kloss, 1978; Clyne, 1992). We investigate and problematize
to what extent place plays a role in pragmatic variation. The panel will focus
on the analysis of language use at different levels of analysis such as
formal, actional, sequential, interactional, organizational, stylistic, and
prosodic. Some of the methods to be included are corpus linguistics,
elicitation methods, and ethnographic data. Methodological choices will be
discussed, specifically data types and data collection instruments (e.g., role
plays or corpus searches), and also methodological principles. 


Call for Papers:

We seek contributions that examine pragmatic variation in any of the following
pluricentric languages: varieties of Arabic, Chinese, Portuguese, Quechua, and
Urdu. Include an abstract with the following information: title, pluricentric
language and varieties to be analyzed, objective, level of pragmatic analysis,
method used to collect and analyze the data), and a summary of the findings.
See guidelines for abstracts in the IPrA call for papers.

If you have questions about your submission, feel free to contact the panel
organizers:
Klaus P. Schneider (k.schneider at uni-bonn.de)
Cesar Felix-Brasdefer (cfelixbr at indiana.edu) 

Note:
The acceptance of panel contribution entirely depends on its quality. IPrA
membership is required to submit an abstract and present during the
conference. For other details, please refer to:
https://pragmatics.international/page/Brussels2023

The Call for Papers page can be found here / guidelines for abstracts (Panel
contributions)
https://pragmatics.international/page/CfP




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