20.1917, Calls: Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics, Sociolinguistics/Poland

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Subject: 20.1917, Calls: Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics, Sociolinguistics/Poland

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Date: 19-May-2009
From: Marta Dynel < marta.dynel at yahoo.com >
Subject: Linguistic Approaches to Funniness, Amusement and Laugh
 

	
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Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 17:14:49
From: Marta Dynel [marta.dynel at yahoo.com]
Subject: Linguistic Approaches to Funniness, Amusement and Laugh

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Full Title: Linguistic Approaches to Funniness, Amusement and Laugh 
Short Title: LAFAL 

Date: 24-Mar-2010 - 26-Mar-2010
Location: Lodz, Poland 
Contact Person: Marta Dynel
Meeting Email: marta.dynel at yahoo.com
Web Site: http://ia.uni.lodz.pl/pragmatics/events/lafal 

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; General Linguistics; Pragmatics; Psycholinguistics; Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 01-Nov-2009 

Meeting Description:

Humour, inherently associated with funniness, amusement and laugher, has 
attracted scholarly interest for centuries. Over the past three decades, humour 
studies have been developing at full tilt, with innumerable insightful 
publications released each year.

The conference is convened to provide a forum for linguists interested in the 
area of humour research. The primary objectives will be to explore the nature 
of multifarious humorous phenomena and to enhance methodological tools used in 
humour studies across a variety of linguistic disciplines.

Organised by
Department of Pragmatics (http://ia.uni.lodz.pl/pragmatics/)
Head: Prof. Piotr Cap

Organising Committee
Dr Marta Dynel (Conference Chair)
Dr Monika Kopytowska

Honorary Committee
Prof. Delia Chiaro 
Prof. Giovannantonio Forabosco
Prof. Rachel Giora 
Prof. Graeme Ritchie 
Prof. Paul Simpson

Plenary Speakers
Prof. Delia Chiaro
Prof. Rachel Giora 
Prof. Graeme Ritchie 
Prof. Paul Simpson 

Call for Papers

We invite papers addressing all manner of manifestations of humour, funniness, 
amusement, and laughter, such as:
- Canned jokes
- One-liners
- Witticisms
- Anecdotes
- Teasing
- Banter
- Wordplay
- Rhetorical figures, e.g.  humorous irony or humorous metaphors
- Parody 
- Satire
- Laughter in discourse
- Non-verbal humour,

derived from any of the whole gamut of discourses, such as:
- Everyday interactions 
- Film dialogues 
- TV programmes
- Stand-up comedy
- Advertising
- Politics
- The Internet
- Literature
- Newspapers and magazines,

and analysed within any the infinite range of theoretical frameworks 
subscribing to linguistic disciplines, such as:
- Pragmatics
- Semantics
- Discourse analysis
- Translation
- Sociolinguistics
- Neurolinguistics
- Psycholinguistics
- Philosophy of language
- Computational linguistics.

The conference language is English and each presentation slot is 20 minutes 
followed by a 10-minute discussion. For each submission, please provide:
- Name, title, affiliation, email address
- Title of paper
- Abstract (200-300 words)

Please send abstracts as email attachments to: marta.dynel at yahoo.com

Submission deadline is 1st November 2009
Notification of acceptance will be sent by 10th November 200




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