26.4979, Calls: Ancient Greek, Latin, Discourse Analysis, Ling Theories, Pragmatics, Socioling, Text/Corpus Ling/UK

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Subject: 26.4979, Calls: Ancient Greek, Latin, Discourse Analysis, Ling Theories, Pragmatics, Socioling, Text/Corpus Ling/UK

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Date: Mon, 09 Nov 2015 11:55:10
From: Tzu-i Liao [languageinstyle at gmail.com]
Subject: Language in Style. Linguistic Variation in Greek and Latin from Lexis to Register

 
Full Title: Language in Style. Linguistic Variation in Greek and Latin from Lexis to Register 

Date: 18-May-2016 - 20-May-2016
Location: Oxford, United Kingdom 
Contact Person: Tzu-i Liao
Meeting Email: languageinstyle at gmail.com

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Linguistic Theories; Pragmatics; Sociolinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Subject Language(s): Greek, Ancient (grc)
                     Latin (lat)

Language Family(ies): Indo-European; Latin Subgroup 

Call Deadline: 18-Jan-2016 

Meeting Description:

Language in Style. 
Linguistic Variation in Greek and Latin from Lexis to Register.
18–20 May 2016, Wolfson College, Oxford

While stylistics has a very long tradition in the classical studies, ‘styles’ have not often been 
defined in terms of communicative functions and priorities, even though these relate 
naturally to linguistic variation. The present conference intends to stimulate research and 
debate in this perspective by looking into both the ancient texts and the rhetorical tradition. 
The conference is convened by Alessandro Vatri (Oxford) and Tzu-I Liao (UCL), and its 
aim is to rethink the traditional notion of ‘style’ in Greek and Latin in theoretical and 
practical terms from the perspective of language use and communication—an approach 
that profits especially from the tools and methods of contemporary linguistics (e.g. 
sociolinguistics, corpus linguistics, discourse analysis).

Keynote speaker: Andreas Willi (Oxford)

Confirmed speakers include: Rutger Allan (Free Univ. Amsterdam), Victor Bers (Yale), 
Anna Bonifazi (Heidelberg), Casper de Jonge (Leiden), Jesús de la Villa (U. A. Madrid), 
Wolfgang de Melo (Oxford), Coulter George (Virginia), Luuk Huitink (Heidelberg), Caroline 
Kroon (Amsterdam), David Langslow (Manchester).

Call for Papers:

Papers would be warmly received on the following themes, though other topics will be 
considered:

– Can we define styles/registers in Greek and Latin in a rigorous way by identifying 
communicative properties and their linguistic correlates? Can so-defined styles/registers be 
put in relation to one another on the basis of shared functions?

– Is it possible to identify the communicative function(s) of linguistic devices as they occur 
in combination with other linguistic features in the classical texts? Does thinking in terms of 
styles/registers add to our understanding of the function(s) of individual linguistic devices?

– What features of the linguistic usage of an author can be ascribed to genuine idiolectal 
variation as opposed to situational variation? Do genre and authorship play a primary role 
in determining linguistic variation? To what extent are these categories effective at this 
level of linguistic analysis?

– Does ancient stylistics provide useful guidance in the identification of well-defined 
linguistic functions and varieties? Can we substantiate ancient taxonomies of styles in 
Greek and Latin with sound linguistic analysis? The idea that styles are characterised by 
combinations of communicative properties is not alien to the ancient rhetoricians (e.g. 
Hermogenes’ ‘ideas of style’). Can the ancient stylistic categories be defined rigorously in 
linguistic terms? To what extent? Do the patterns of linguistic features that they describe 
actually occur in ancient texts?

We invite submissions of abstracts for papers suitable for a 20 minute presentation. 
Proposals should be approx. 300 words in length (excluding references) and must be 
submitted as a PDF attachment by 18 January 2016. Proposals and contributions are 
expected to be in English. Please send all abstracts and inquiries to 
languageinstyle at gmail.com




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