35.1677, Calls: DGfS workshop "The role of language modality in variation and change"

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Date: 04-Jun-2024
From: Barthe Bloom [bloom at uni-potsdam.de]
Subject: DGfS workshop "The role of language modality in variation and change"


Full Title: DGfS workshop "The role of language modality in variation
and change"

Date: 04-Mar-2025 - 07-Jun-2024
Location: Mainz, Germany
Contact Person: Barthe Bloom
Meeting Email: modalitydgfs at gmail.com

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; General Linguistics;
Historical Linguistics; Sociolinguistics

Call Deadline: 31-Jul-2024

Meeting Description:

‟The role of language modality in variation and change” will be a
workshop (Kurz-AG) in the frame of the DGfS Jahrestagung, which takes
place from March 4th to 7th, 2025, in Mainz, Germany.

Variation within a language comprises, among others, variation across
modalities of communication —written, spoken, and signed—and is
thereby realized in different channels—textual, auditory, and visual.
The central topic is here the ways in which modality impacts the
pathways of change.

Spoken and signed modalities are thought to be innovative as compared
to written language, except for developments regarding syntactic
complexity (Koch & Oesterreicher 1996). Factors that may motivate the
varying openness to different types of change are, for example, the
spontaneity of the communication and the spatio-temporal proximity of
the interlocutors and consequentially the expressive means available
(Ágel & Hennig 2006). Furthermore, the spoken and signed modalities
are directly affected by the demands of online production on
processing capacity. The time pressure governing spontaneous
production may, for example, lead to less integrated and more
fragmentary utterances than seen with planned and reflected language.
Conversely, written language is more strongly affected by the aim to
conform to overt linguistic norms and highly dependent on the target
audience.

References:
Ágel, Vilmos & Mathilde, Hennig. 2006. Überlegungen zur Theorie und
Praxis des Nähe- und Distanzsprechens. In Vilmos Ágel & Mathilde
Hennig (eds.), Zugänge zur Grammatik der gesprochenen Sprache (Reihe
Germanistische Linguistik 269), 179–214. Tübingen: Niemeyer.
Koch, Peter & Wulf Oesterreicher. 1996. Sprachwandel und expressive
Mündlichkeit. Zeitschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik
26(102). 64–97

Call for Papers:

We kindly invite papers dealing with the role of modality in language
variation and change. In particular, we welcome empirical studies
related to any of the following questions:

 - In which ways do the different modalities vary regarding the
realization of innovation and diffusion? Think e.g. of the different
paths of change depending on socio-linguistic factors, the effect of
prestige, and the amount of intra- vs. inter-group communication.
 - What is the impact of one modality on another and how does their
interaction affect change and variation? For example, in relation to
models of standardization.
 - How does genre/register interact with modality and how does this
result in variation?
 - How can language change in the different modalities be tackled
empirically?

Abstracts of max. one page (excl. references) for 20-minutes
presentations (plus 10 minutes for discussion) should be emailed as a
PDF-file to modalitydgfs at gmail.com by July 31st, 2024.



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