35.3322, Calls: Conventionalisation, Specialisation, Institutionalisation: Exploring communicative practices and genre developments in letter writing (and beyond) (46th ICAME Conference Workshop)

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Date: 21-Nov-2024
From: Lisa Lehnen [lisa.lehnen at uni-wuerzburg.de]
Subject: Conventionalisation, Specialisation, Institutionalisation: Exploring communicative practices and genre developments in letter writing (and beyond) (46th ICAME Conference Workshop)


Full Title: Conventionalisation, Specialisation, Institutionalisation:
Exploring communicative practices and genre developments in letter
writing (and beyond) (46th ICAME Conference Workshop)

Date: 17-Jun-2025 - 17-Jun-2025
Location: Vilnius, Lithuania
Contact Person: Lisa Lehnen
Meeting Email: lisa.lehnen at uni-wuerzburg.de

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Historical
Linguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics
Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Call Deadline: 26-Nov-2024

Meeting Description:

The workshop that we are proposing for ICAME46 in Vilnius next year
(17-21 June 2025) is titled “Conventionalisation, specialisation,
institutionalisation: Exploring communicative practices and genre
developments in letter writing (and beyond)” and aims at bringing
together researchers who explore correspondence from a diachronic
perspective. With this, we want to initiate a discussion about new
approaches to tracing and theorising genre developments and the
complexities involved therein. Key issues we would like to address
include:

Conventionalisation: What language practices have become typical in
correspondence over time? To what extent are these sensitive to
cultural setting, politeness norms/conventions, influences from other
media etc.?
Specialisation: What (sub)genres have emerged (for instance business
letters, threatening letters, etc.)? To what extent has the genre
diversified? What influences between specialised subgenres and beyond
genre boundaries can be identified?
Institutionalisation: What role does correspondence have in different
domains? Which practices have become part of institutional discourses?
Which groups have been included in and excluded from these practices?

While our own research relies on historical data and (handwritten)
letters, we are open to include all types of media and modes involved
in correspondence, and welcome contributions regarding newer
developments, for instance in relation to social media and
communication via collaboration platforms, such as Teams etc.
Furthermore, we invite research on correspondence in all varieties of
English, particularly as varieties of the Outer and Expanding Circle
have often been neglected by previous research in this field.

Organisers: Theresa Neumaier (theresa.neumaier at tu-dortmund.de), Ninja
Schulz (ninja.schulz at uni-wuerzburg.de), Lisa Lehnen
(lisa.lehnen at uni-wuerzburg.de)

Call for Papers:

Please send a working title and short expression of interest (1-2
sentences on the project you intend to present) to
lisa.lehnen at uni-wuerzburg.de until 26 November 2024. If our workshop
proposal is accepted, we will require a full abstract (400-500 words,
excluding references) until 10 January 2025. The workshop itself would
be held as a pre-conference workshop on 17 June 2025 and we plan on
transforming it into a publication (e.g. a special issue) afterwards.



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