33.3375, Calls: General Linguistics/Greece

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Subject: 33.3375, Calls: General Linguistics/Greece

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Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2022 08:04:41
From: Daniel Van Olmen [d.vanolmen at lancaster.ac.uk]
Subject: The Grammar of Impoliteness

Full Title: The Grammar of Impoliteness 

Date: 29-Aug-2023 - 01-Sep-2023
Location: Athens, Greece 
Contact Person: Marta Andersson
Meeting Email: marta.andersson at umu.se
Web Site: https://sites.google.com/view/impolitenessgrammar/homepage 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 07-Nov-2022 

Meeting Description:

The Grammar of Impoliteness

ORGANIZERS

Marta Andersson, Riccardo Giomi & Daniel Van Olmen

KEYNOTE

Jonathan Culpeper

DESCRIPTION

See https://sites.google.com/view/impolitenessgrammar/homepage for a full
description!

This workshop focuses on the grammatical side of impoliteness, a pragmatic
notion involving negatively evaluated (linguistic) behaviors that have (often
intentional) offensive effects and encompassing phenomena such as insults,
threats and curses.

The dominant view in linguistics, especially since the “discursive turn” of
the research, is that (im)politeness is an essentially socio-pragmatic
phenomenon related to the negotiation of societal norms. It is seen as not
intrinsic to language but as arising from a situational assessment by the
speech participants. Still, scholars like Terkourafi (2005) and Culpeper
(2011) have argued that there do exist words as well as more complex
structures that are, to varying degrees, conventionally associated with
(im)politeness. In other words, (im)politeness also has a purely linguistic
component and perhaps even its own grammar. This position has been somewhat
overlooked in the literature.

The present workshop seeks to help redress this neglect, by inviting papers
dealing with the grammatical expression of impoliteness in particular. Our
focus is thus not on discursive aspects of impoliteness or on individual words
like Dutch ''eikel'' ‘dickhead’ or ready-made multi-word lexemes like English
''son of a bitch''. However, a structure such as French ''espèce de NP!''
(lit. ‘species of NP!’) would be of interest to us, since it appears to have
the potential to create novel insults (e.g. ''espèce de linguiste!'' ‘you
linguist!).

Much of the existing literature consists of isolated studies of specific
structures in individual (mostly European and East Asian) languages. Few
attempts have been made thus far to draw together the research for a more
comprehensive picture and bring it to bear on issues of wider/theoretical
significance. Giomi & Van Oers (2022) is a recent exception, with their
cross-linguistic survey of insultive structures and their conclusion that
several languages across the world distinguish insults as a separate clause
type. More such research is required. We therefore especially welcome
submissions that examine grammatical expressions of impoliteness in
under-documented languages or adopt a comparative/typological approach.

The more specific –and interrelated– aims of the workshop include but are not
limited to:
- how do we establish methodologically that a grammatical expression is
conventionalized for impoliteness?
- do (different types of) grammatical expressions of impoliteness have shared
formal features across languages and, if so, which ones and why?
- are there any recurrent grammatical and/or lexical sources for (different
types of) grammatical expressions of impoliteness?
- how do (different types of) grammatical expressions of impoliteness emerge
and develop over time?

We kindly invite papers that (directly or indirectly) address any of the above
questions and are also very interested in any research that looks at any of
these issues for multiple grammatical expressions of impoliteness in the same
language and their potential interactions.

2nd Call for Papers:

For a workshop at the 2023 Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica
Europaea, we are looking for papers dealing with grammatical expressions of
impoliteness. Of particular interest to us are submissions that take a
methodological, comparative and/or diachronic perspective on the topic. We
also especially welcome research that looks at under-documented languages,
adopts a typological approach and/or examines the relationships between
multiple grammatical expressions of impoliteness in a language. If you are
interested, please send an abstract of 300 words (not including references) as
a Word document to Marta Andersson (marta.andersson at umu.se) by no later than
November 7, 2022.

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