31.2416, Calls: Hist Ling, Pragmatics, Socioling/Switzerland

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LINGUIST List: Vol-31-2416. Wed Jul 29 2020. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 31.2416, Calls: Hist Ling, Pragmatics, Socioling/Switzerland

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Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2020 11:24:41
From: Sofia Rüdiger [sofia.ruediger at uni-bayreuth.de]
Subject: Historical Perspectives on Aggression and Rapport in English Speech Acts

 
Full Title: Historical Perspectives on Aggression and Rapport in English Speech Acts 

Date: 27-Jun-2021 - 02-Jul-2021
Location: Winterthur, Switzerland 
Contact Person: Sofia Rüdiger
Meeting Email: sofia.ruediger at uni-bayreuth.de

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Pragmatics; Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 25-Oct-2020 

Meeting Description:

Starting with Austin’s seminal work (1962), the idea that using language
primarily means acting, i.e. ‘doing something’, has become generally accepted
in linguistic research. Pragmatic researchers have typically investigated
‘acting through speaking’ on the basis of face-to-face conversation (Levinson
2017:202). However, while this is relatively unproblematic when looking at
Modern English, analyses of speech acts in other periods of English are faced
with a lack of comparable data. In order to solve this problem, historical
pragmatics has produced a significant body of research drawing on text types
considered ‘speech-like’, ‘speech-based’, or ‘speech-purposed’ (Culpeper &
Kytö 2010:17): letters (e.g. Fludernik 2007), plays (e.g. Culpeper & Archer
2008), dialogue in other fictional texts (e.g. Fitzmaurice 2007), and court
proceedings (e.g. Claridge & Kytö 2014). Still, despite this great interest,
many questions remain unanswered in the field of historical pragmatics,
particularly at the “level of politeness and impoliteness” (Jucker 2020:3).
This panel seeks to redress this situation by placing emphasis on speech acts
which are either used to create rapport or which can be considered a form of
aggression.

As there is generally no one-to-one correspondence between form and function,
the illocutionary forces of speech acts typically remain vague or ambiguous
(see Jucker & Taavitsainen 2000:69). This problem is reinforced substantially
in their historical analysis, where the determination of the perlocutionary
force (the effect/reaction) is complicated by the fact that researchers have
“no direct access to the speakers and original contexts of production [and
reception]” (Taavitsainen & Fitzmaurice 2007:11). Nevertheless, “[w]hile
historical context may not be completely recoverable, it may be approximated
and reconstructed” (Arnovick 1999:12) and thus enables us to study speech acts
historically.

This panel will involve a series of presenters whose work addresses the
interrelational aspects of speech acts from a historical perspective and with
a particular focus on aggression and rapport. We are looking for studies based
on different (historical) genres, e.g. courtroom discourse, pamphlets,
literary texts, sermons, etc. and which deal with speech acts which are either
predominantly associated with their perlocutionary effect (i.e. as being
particularly (un)pleasant for the hearer) or which are typically perceived as
particularly (un)pleasant for the speaker themselves. We are especially
interested in speech acts and speech act types which have been neglected in
previous studies of historical pragmatics, for example, threats, refusals, or
complaints (direct and indirect). The focus will be on empirical studies of
speech acts and their role in the management of interpersonal dynamics and
hierarchies as well as on diachronic processes related to them (such as
aspects of pragmaticalization (cf. Claridge & Arnovick 2010) or attenuation
(Jucker 2019)). The aim of this panel is to open up the discussion of
conceptualizing aggression and rapport in a historical framework and relate
this to the notion of diachronic speech act research. The panel will conclude
with a discussion section led by Claudia Claridge.


Call for Papers: 

Abstracts of 250-500 words (including references) should be submitted via
IPrA’s submission system at https://ipra2021.exordo.com/ before 25 October
2020. Make sure to select the “Historical Perspectives on Aggression and
Rapport in English Speech Acts” panel when submitting your abstract. For
further instructions, see https://pragmatics.international/page/CfP

Panel organizers:
Theresa Neumaier (University of Regensburg)
Sofia Rüdiger (University of Bayreuth)




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