29.2106, Confs: Historical Linguistics, Pragmatics, Sociolinguistics/Germany
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Date: Tue, 15 May 2018 12:42:39
From: Linda Gennies [linda.gennies at fu-berlin.de]
Subject: Politeness Crossing Times and Spaces
Politeness Crossing Times and Spaces
Date: 11-Jun-2018 - 12-Jun-2018
Location: Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Contact: Linda Gennies
Contact Email: linda.gennies at fu-berlin.de
Meeting URL: http://www.sfb-episteme.de/veranstaltungen/Vorschau/2018/C08_politeness.html
Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Pragmatics; Sociolinguistics
Meeting Description:
In modern-day Humanities, questions of verbal and nonverbal politeness have
been explored from many different perspectives. However, the vast majority of
existing studies are restricted to the synchronic analysis of relatively
stable norms of polite behaviour in historical or modern speech communities,
whereas changes in politeness are only rarely looked at.
With our interdisciplinary workshop ''Politeness Crossing Times and Spaces''
we aim at filling this void by bringing into focus the so far rather neglected
dynamic nature of politeness in the pre-modern world, which can be observed on
at least two levels:
On the vertical level, norms of politeness are affected by changes in society.
We want to examine how different hierarchical structures of pre-modern
societies and changes thereof affect the forms and functions of politeness;
and how new forms of polite behaviour retroact on a society.
On the horizontal level, different concepts of politeness interact with each
other in situations of cultural and linguistic contact. Contact situations not
only allow for the simple transfer of patterns from one speech community to
another, but also for the emergence of entirely new forms, as transfer
processes always carry a certain creative potential in them.
The objective of the workshop is to shed light on these two dimensions of
politeness change from an interdisciplinary perspective; we hope to address
some of the following questions:
- What sources are useful for the study of historical politeness? How are
these different sources interrelated and how do they interact with each other?
- Who are the agents establishing and promoting politeness? What are the
respective roles of teachers, diplomats, interpreters and travellers? Do
authors reflect change and variation - especially in situations of cultural
contact? How do they negotiate accommodation processes in cases of conflicting
norms? How do they express and substantiate their claims of validity when
postulating certain norms?
- How are claims of (cultural) superiority conveyed and negotiated through
politeness? In what way do, e.g., eurocentrism and orientalism already surface
in pre-modern times?
- How do the transmission and dissemination of changing norms throughout
society function?
- What are the actual linguistic properties of politeness that are at stake?
What concrete forms are relevant?
Invited speakers:
Eleanor Dickey (University of Reading)
Andreas Jucker (University of Zurich)
Dániel Z. Kádár (Hungarian Academy of Sciences & Guangdong University of
Foreign Studies)
Francesco Mari (Freie Universität Berlin)
Annick Paternoster (Università della Svizzera italiana)
Kim Ridealgh (University of East Anglia)
Birgit Tremml-Werner (University of Zurich)
Organisers:
Linda Gennies, Julia Hübner, Horst Simon
(Collaborative Research Center 980 “Episteme in Motion. Knowledge Transfer
from the Ancient World to the Early Modern Period”)
For more information, please contact linda.gennies at fu-berlin.de
or visit
http://www.sfb-episteme.de/veranstaltungen/Vorschau/2018/C08_politeness.html.
Program:
Monday, 11 June 2018
from 9:30:
Arrival
10:00 - 10:15:
Opening Remarks
10:15 - 11:00:
Francesco Mari (Freie Universität Berlin)
The Quest for an Ancient Greek Politeness Manual
11:00 - 11:30: Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:15:
Giovanna Alfonzetti (Università degli Studi di Catania)
Conversation in Italian galatei: from Della Casa's Galateo (1558) to today's
dictionaries of manners
12:15 - 13:00:
Annick Paternoster (Università della Svizzera italiana)
Requests in Nineteenth-Century Italian Conduct Books: on the Resilience of
Ancien Regime-Style Deference
13:00 - 14:30: Lunch Break
14:30 - 15:15:
Thomas Scharinger (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
Some remarks on the influence of Italian models on verbal politeness in
16th-century France
15:15 - 16:00:
Linda Gennies (Freie Universität Berlin)
Politeness Crossing Social and Linguistic Spaces in Early Modern Europe
16:00 - 16:30: Coffee Break
16:30 - 17:15:
Birgit Tremml-Werner (Universität Zürich)
Japanese and European attitudes towards politeness in the early seventeenth
century
17:15 - 18:00:
Horst Simon (Freie Universität Berlin)
Re-presenting power and prestige in the 16th century: The Portuguese on their
way to India
19:00: Conference Dinner („Alter Krug'', near U-Bahn Dahlem Dorf)
Tuesday, 12 June 2018
9:30 - 10:15:
Eleanor Dickey (University of Reading)
How does politeness reflect social structure? Explaining diachronic changes in
Ancient Greek politeness
10:15 - 11:00:
Chiara Ghezzi (Università degli Studi di Bergamo)
Genealogical and contact relationships in politeness development: address
forms from Latin to Italian
11:00 - 11:30: Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:15:
Vanessa Martins do Monte (Universidade de São Paulo)
The new politeness in Portuguese America: the emergence of vossa mercê
12:15 - 13:00:
Andreas H. Jucker (Universität Zürich)
Im/politeness in Medieval Britain and the discursive turn in politeness theory
13:00-14:30: Lunch Break
14:30 - 15:15:
Luke Fleming (Université de Montréal)
Restricted honorifics and T-V systems: Societal scale, social institution, and
sociolinguistic pattern
15:15 - 16:00:
Kim Ridealgh (University of East Anglia)
Polite like an Egyptian? The problem of 'politeness' in ancient languages
16:00-16:30: Coffee Break
16:30 - 17:15:
Dániel Z. Kádár (Hungarian Academy of Sciences & Guangdong University of
Foreign Studies)
Understanding 'Historical' in Politeness Research
17:15 - 18:00:
Summary, Final Discussion & Concluding Remarks
18:30: Beer Garden („Maria & Josef'', near S-Bahn Lichterfelde West)
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