28.1728, Calls: Historical Linguistics, Pragmatics/Italy

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LINGUIST List: Vol-28-1728. Sat Apr 08 2017. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 28.1728, Calls: Historical Linguistics, Pragmatics/Italy

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Date: Sat, 08 Apr 2017 16:22:18
From: Sara Gesuato [sara.gesuato at unipd.it]
Subject: Language Use across Time: What you didn’t know you’ve always wanted to know about historical pragmatics

Full Title: Language Use across Time: What you didn’t know you’ve always wanted to know about historical pragmatics 
Short Title: LUAC 

Date: 16-Feb-2018 - 17-Feb-2018
Location: Padova, Italy 
Contact Person: Sara Gesuato
Meeting Email: sara.gesuato at unipd.it

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Pragmatics 

Call Deadline: 15-Sep-2017 

Meeting Description:

The Department of Linguistic and Literary Studies of the University of Padua
will be hosting the following conference 

Language Use across Time:
What you didn’t know you’ve always wanted to know about historical pragmatics

This conference is to be held in Padua in Palazzo Maldura
(http://www.disll.unipd.it/content/dipartimento/sedi-ed-aule) on February
16-17, 2018. 

The diachronic evolution of languages is a crucial part of a social being’s
historical situatedness, given that it is mainly through language that we
develop social interactions, build relationships and project our identities.
The account of this evolution has traditionally focused on formal aspects of
language. More recently, however, attention has broadened to include
functional aspects of language use – e.g. strategies and conventions of
communicative practices over time – which has given rise to the field of
historical pragmatics.

The aim of the conference is to bring together historical linguists and
pragmaticians interested in exploring diachronic communicative practices
within and across languages with a view to shedding light on, among other
things: how present-day communicative practices have been informed and shaped
by earlier communicative options, constraints, goals and needs; to what extent
and in what ways present communicative practices differ from earlier
communicative practices; how past communicative practices differed across
social groups.

Invited speakers: Andreas Jucker (University of Zurich) and Irma Taavitsainen
(University of Helsinki) co-editors of the Handbook of Historical Pragmatics)

We look forward to welcoming you here!

Sara Gesuato & Cecilia Poletto
Conference Organisers

Call for Papers:

Language use across time:
what you didn’t know you’ve always wanted to know about historical pragmatics 

The aim of the conference is to bring together historical linguists and
pragmaticians interested in exploring diachronic communicative practices
within and across languages with a view to shedding light on, among other
things: how present-day communicative practices have been informed and shaped
by earlier communicative options, constraints, goals and needs; to what extent
and in what ways present communicative practices differ from earlier
communicative practices; how past communicative practices differed across
social groups.

We welcome contributions relevant, but not limited, to the following topics:

Comparative-contrastive historical pragmatics
Research methods in historical pragmatics 
Corpus-informed approaches to historical pragmatics
Challenges of historical pragmatics
Variational historical pragmatics 
Evolution of discursive practices in given genres 
Sociopragmatic and pragmalinguistic aspects of earlier communicative practices
Conventions of means and conventions of forms in speech acts in different time
periods 
Temporal relativity of appropriateness of forms and practices 
Reasons for changes in the understanding of politeness and impoliteness 
Reasons for changes in the encoding of pragmatic behaviour
Pragmatic features of earlier texts as clues to understanding present-day
interactional practices 
Social deixis in different time periods
Metapragmatic descriptions in texts from different time periods 
Lexico-grammatical reflexes of changes in interactional practices over time

If interested in participating, we invite you to submit an abstract for
consideration (500-1000 words, including: 3-to-5 keywords, the general topic,
type of contribution [e.g. poster]) and a separate file with your personal
details (Family name, Given name, affiliation, email, address for
correspondence). Send the two files with your abstract and personal details in
Word format as email attachments to sara.gesuato at unipd.it, writing “Historical
Pragmatics Conference Abstract” in your subject heading. The submission
deadline is 15 September 2018. You may submit a maximum of two abstracts if at
least one of these is co-authored.

Notifications of acceptance will be sent out by early November 2018.

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