31.2441, Calls: Disc Analys, Phonology, Pragmatics, Syntax, Text/Corpus Ling/Switzerland

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Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2020 13:20:55
From: Elisabeth Reber [elisabeth.reber at uni-wuerzburg.de]
Subject: Diachronic Pragmatics

 
Full Title: Diachronic Pragmatics 

Date: 27-Jun-2021 - 02-Jul-2021
Location: Winterthur, Switzerland 
Contact Person: Elisabeth Reber
Meeting Email: elisabeth.reber at uni-wuerzburg.de

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Phonology; Pragmatics; Syntax; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Call Deadline: 25-Oct-2020 

Meeting Description:

Diachronic pragmatics: New perspectives on spoken English from the twentieth
century to today

Elisabeth Reber (University of Würzburg)
Andreas H. Jucker (University of Zurich)

Until recently, diachronic pragmatics had to rely on written data to explore
changes of usage patterns across time. But in the meantime, new tools have
become available to make it possible to trace language change and the
development of usage patterns on the basis of actual spoken language at least
for the relatively recent past. These tools include archives of audio and
video recordings going back to the middle of the twentieth century
(parliamentary discourse, audio and video broadcasts of chat shows,
presidential press conferences and the like) and various corpora containing
transcriptions of actual spoken language going back several decades (e.g.
Corpus of Contemporary American English – Spoken, 1990-2019; The TV Corpus,
1950-2018; The Movie Corpus, 1930-2018). All these tools offer new and
exciting research perspectives for diachronic pragmatics. This panel,
therefore, invites contributions that combine a diachronic pragmatic
perspective with an interest in spoken English and its recent changes, and by
doing so explores the potential of these new tools. Possible research areas
include (but are not restricted to):
 - Recent changes in discourse conventions and action formation
 - Recent changes in interpersonal interaction (patterns of im/politeness)
 - Recent changes in patterns of linguistic structure, bodily movements, and
patterns of interaction
 - Recent changes in discourse marker usage, interjections and hesitation
phenomena

All these investigations should also include a careful assessment and critique
of the new tools. To what extent can they deliver what they promise, and how
can we cooperate to combine these resources in order to get a better
understanding of recent developments of spoken language?


Call for Papers: 

We are pleased to invite talk proposals for a panel “Diachronic pragmatics:
New perspectives on spoken English from the twentieth century to today” at the
17th International Pragmatics Conference, Winterthur, Switzerland, 27 June - 2
July 2021.

Please submit your paper abstract through the conference website by 25 October
2020. Cf. https://pragmatics.international/page/CfP for further instructions.
Submitted abstracts will be reviewed as part of the official review process.
Please note that you will have to become a member of the International
Pragmatics Association to submit a paper abstract to the conference.

We would appreciate it if you sent a note of interest to
elisabeth.reber at uni-wuerzburg.de but this is not a condition for acceptance.




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