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Date: 24-Oct-2023
From: Stephanie Solt [solt at leibniz-zas.de]
Subject: Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics (ZAS), Berlin

Social Meaning Berlin 2023

Date: 14-Nov-2023 - 15-Nov-2023
Location: Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics (ZAS), Berlin, Germany
Contact: Stephanie Solt
Contact Email: socialmeaning2023 at leibniz-zas.de

Linguistic Field(s): Phonetics; Pragmatics; Semantics;
Sociolinguistics; Syntax

Meeting Description:

The Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics (ZAS) and the
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin are pleased to announce the workshop
Social Meaning 2023, which will take place in Berlin, Germany on
November 14-15, 2023. The workshop is an event of Collaborative
Research Center 1412 ‘Register’.

The social meaning of a linguistic form is the set of socially
relevant properties, identities, ideologies, attitudes and stances
that it communicates about the speaker, the hearer or the utterance
situation itself. Social meaning has long been a prominent topic of
study in sociolinguistics, which has as one of its central goals the
exploration of how social structures are reflected, constructed, and
transmitted through language use, and how interpretations and social
meanings come about through ideological dispositions of language
users. Foundational work in the third wave of variation research
(Eckert 1989, 2008, 2012) laid the groundwork for the study of social
meaning and individual stylistic variation. Within this tradition,
indexical meanings associated with phonological variation have been
studied especially intensively (e.g. Campbell-Kibler 2007, Levon 2014,
Podesva et al. 2015, Zhang 2005); but social meaning has been found to
attach to variation at all linguistic levels, including syntax (Levon
& Buchstaller 2015, Moore 2021, Robinson 2022), semantics/pragmatics
(Beltrama & Casasanto 2017), language choice (Blom & Gumperz 1972,
Kheir 2023) as well as nonverbal communication (Hess 2023).

Recently, there has been an upsurge in interest in social meaning also
among scholars working in other subdisciplines of linguistics beyond
sociolinguistics and sociophonetics. Within semantics and pragmatics
in particular, it has been increasingly recognized that social meaning
is not entirely separate from the sorts of meaning traditionally
studied in those disciplines, but rather overlaps with and interacts
with such content (see e.g. Acton 2019 on the definite determiner;
Beltrama 2018 on intensification; Beltrama, Solt & Burnett 2022 on
imprecision; Glass 2015 on necessity modals; Liu, Schwab & Hess 2023
on emotive markers and facial expressions; McCready 2014 on
honorification). Furthermore, social meanings can be analyzed using
the same formal tools applied to other semantic/pragmatic phenomena,
an example being the Social Meaning Games framework of Burnett (2017,
2019). From the point of view of morphosyntax, an open question is the
role social meanings play in variation, given the abstract nature of
syntactic and morphological features. A widely held view is that
variation in such features is qualitatively different from lexical,
phonetic and phonological variation in that it is less subject to
social evaluation (Labov 2001, i.a.) and more easily explainable in
terms of grammar-internal dynamics (Adger 2006). However, other work
suggests that abstract morphosyntactic variables do carry social
meanings in a way that is similar to other kinds of variation, with
implications for the way morphosyntactic patterns are represented in
grammar (Paolillo 2000, Bender 2007).

The objective of the present workshop is to bring together researchers
from these very diverse disciplines to discuss our common interests
around the topic of social meaning.  What can we learn from one
another? What questions do we have in common? And where do our
interests, assumptions and goals diverge?

We are very pleased to announce the following invited speakers at the
workshop:

- Eric Acton (Eastern Michigan University)
- David Adger (Queen Mary University of London)
- Ursula Hess (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
- Norma Mendoza-Denton (UCLA)
- Melanie Weirich (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena)

Organizers: Stefanie Jannedy (ZAS), Mingya Liu (HU), Antonio Machicao
y Priemer (HU)), Stephanie Rotter (HU), Stephanie Solt (ZAS), Giuseppe
Varaschin (HU)

The program for the workshop as well as venue information can be found
here:

https://leibnizzas-my.sharepoint.com/:b:/g/personal/solt_leibniz-zas_d
e/EY5mhzH1bG9EmOyep3ON_VoB1qqUayFycpw8A3pEFGfjgw?e=v1vZx5

If you would like to attend the workshop, we ask you to register via
the following link by October 31:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeKR6Wi9dkxQMZ6-V84q6VYFPs1D8
TgGoDqqSTGfZif7qzJNg/viewform?vc=0&c=0&w=1&flr=0

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