33.2629, Calls: Pragmatics/Belgium

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LINGUIST List: Vol-33-2629. Sun Aug 28 2022. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 33.2629, Calls: Pragmatics/Belgium

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Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2022 22:56:44
From: Chiara Meluzzi [chiara.meluzzi at unimi.it]
Subject: Panel - Performing compliments in a variationist perspective

 
Full Title: Panel - Performing compliments in a variationist perspective 

Date: 09-Jul-2023 - 14-Jul-2023
Location: Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium 
Contact Person: Chiara Meluzzi
Meeting Email: chiara.meluzzi at unimi.it
Web Site: https://pragmatics.international/page/Program2023 

Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics 

Call Deadline: 01-Nov-2022 

Meeting Description:

Language communities of native speakers are not homogeneous wholes and some
pragmatics phenomena are particularly sensitive to variation: the linguistic
act of compliment is one of them.
The literature on compliments has often presumed the uniformity of
communicative strategies by speakers belonging to the same linguistic
community (e.g. US or Chinese cultures, conceived as a whole). Conversely, a
different theoretical and methodological approach is represented by
variational pragmatics (Schneider & Barron 2008).
To date, few studies have been dedicated to the pragmatic variation of
compliments (Lin et al. 2012, Mulo Farenkia 2012, Placencia & Fuentes 2013),
and almost none on regional varieties within a specific language, apart from
the pioneering work of Schlieben-Lange & Weydt (1978) and, more recently,
Castagneto & Ravetto (2015). Scholars’ attention has instead addressed social
variability of compliments and compliment use on social media (e.g.
Maíz-Arévalo 2013, Placencia & Eslami 2020).

Our panel aims at bringing together scholars working on compliments’
variability across: 
- national varieties of specific pluricentric languages, or regional varieties
of one language;
- social varieties of one language, depending on one or more macro-social
factors (social class, ethnicity, gender, age);
- styles and social media (e.g. Facebook, Instagram).

References
Castagneto, M. & Ravetto, M. (2015) The variability of compliment responses:
Italian and German data, in S. Gesuato, F. Bianchi & W. Cheng (eds.) Teaching,
learning and investigating pragmatics: principles, methods and practices,
Cambridge, CUP: 387-413.
Castagneto, M.; Sidraschi, D. (2020) “Paese che vai, complimento che trovi. La
variazione diatopica del complimento in Italia”, in: A. De Meo, F. M. Dovetto
(eds.), La comunicazione parlata, Canterano (RM), Aracne, pp. 91-110.
Lin, Ch.Y.; Woodfield, H. & Ren, W. (2012) Compliments in Taiwan and Mainland
Chinese: The influence of region and compliment topic, “Journal of Pragmatics”
44(11): 1486-1502.
Maíz-Arévalo, C. (2013) “Just click ‘Like”’: Computer-mediated responses to
Spanish compliments, “Journal of Pragmatics” 51: 47-67.
Mulo Farenkia, B. (2012) Compliment strategies and regional variation in
French: Evidence from Cameroon


Call for Papers:

We encourage the submission of abstracts from scholars working or interested
in compliments and compliment responses, especially from a variationist
perspective. Possible topics include but are not limited to 
- the interaction of macro- and micro-social factors (power/solidarity, social
distance/intimacy) in compliment management;
- socio-pragmatic variation in compliments’ forms and routines;
- compliments’ variability across data types: naturally-occurring discourse,
social media, elicited data.

Abstracts should be of max. 500 words (references included) and they should be
uploaded on the IPrA website by November 1, 2022. To upload your abstract,
please follow the following process:
1) Go to the webpage https://ipra2023.exordo.com/submissions/new (in case you
don’t have an account, you’ll be required to create one)
2) Click on “New Submission”
3) At Step 4 “Topic”, please select our panel “Performing compliments in a
variationist perspective” (Note: you can only select one topic)
4) Click on “Done” to save your submission

Please note the IPrA membership is required both to send the abstract and then
to present at the conference.
The selected communication will be later published in a journal special
issued. Further details will be provided to the panel participants during the
meeting.

For further inquiries or problems with the uploading procedure, you can email
the panel organizers: Marina Castagneto (University of Molise),
marina.castagneto at unimol.it; Chiara Meluzzi (University of Milan),
chiara.meluzzi at unimi.it. 

Further information about IPrA and the conference could be found at
https://pragmatics.international/general/custom.asp?page=Brussels2023




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