35.2217, Calls: IPrA 2025 Panel: "(Im)politeness: Regional variation"

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Subject: 35.2217, Calls: IPrA 2025 Panel: "(Im)politeness: Regional variation"

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Date: 07-Aug-2024
From: Mathew Gillings [mathew.gillings at wu.ac.at]
Subject: IPrA 2025 Panel: "(Im)politeness: Regional variation"


Full Title: IPrA 2025 Panel: "(Im)politeness: Regional variation"
Short Title: IPrA 2025

Date: 22-Jun-2025 - 27-Jun-2025
Location: Brisbane, Australia
Contact Person: Mathew Gillings
Meeting Email: mathew.gillings at wu.ac.at
Web Site: https://pragmatics.international/page/CfP2025

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Discourse Analysis;
Pragmatics

Call Deadline: 01-Nov-2024

Meeting Description:

19th International Pragmatics Conference

Call for Papers:

(Im)politeness: Regional variation (organized by Jonathan Culpeper,
Mathew Gillings, Isolde van Dorst)

A relatively recent development within pragmatics has been the
evolution of a new subfield known as “variational pragmatics”.
Stemming from Schneider and Barron (2008), the field operates at the
intersection of pragmatics and dialectology and aims to examine how
different pragmatic features vary according to a range of different
social variables. This work has typically focused on intra-lingual
variation, examining pragmatic features in pluricentric languages such
as English and Spanish across different nations (e.g.
Britain/Ireland/USA).

Our proposed panel is distinct with respect to its combination of two
features. First is the focus on (im)politeness specifically, rather
than all pragmatic phenomena; second is the focus on variation within
one language and one nation. In other words, the panel is
characterised by both intra-lingual and intra-national variation.
Sociological factors might include any aspect that shapes regional
cultures and communities – population density, socioeconomic aspects,
age profile, and so forth.
There has already been some work along these lines. Regarding
politeness, Culpeper and Gillings (2018) used synchronic spoken
British English corpus data to examine whether there were differing
levels of solidarity, tentativeness, and deference politeness formulae
across the north and south of England. The UK did indeed have a
general affinity for negative politeness, yet it found some preference
for more formal politeness formulae in the south, and more informal
formulae in the north. Furthermore, van Dorst et al. (2024) further
revealed, amongst other things, that speakers from rural areas of
Britain tended to use more deference and tentativeness formulae.
Regarding impoliteness, Dress et al. (2008) designed tasks to measure
the use of sarcasm, and compared college students in New York and
Tennessee. The key findings include that Northern participants
generated more sarcastic completions and chose more direct ironic
statements than their Southern counterparts did and the Northerners
defined sarcasm as involving more humour than the Southerners.

In this panel, we would like to encourage further work in this
sub-field. Contributions should examine both intra-lingual and
intra-national variation on (im)politeness in present-day (or recent)
data. Contributions focussing on variation in languages other than
English (and in countries other than those that are primarily
English-speaking) are welcome. As for methods, we encourage diversity
and creativity.

More details can be found on the IPrA 2025 website:
https://pragmatics.international/page/CfP2025



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