35.2768, Calls: The 3rd Workshop on Charting Honorific and Addressee Morphosyntactic Processes... to create a window into the syntax-pragmatics interface

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Date: 05-Oct-2024
From: Preeti Kumari [kumaripreeti.2293 at gmail.com]
Subject: The 3rd Workshop on Charting Honorific and Addressee Morphosyntactic Processes... to create a window into the syntax-pragmatics interface


Full Title: The 3rd Workshop on Charting Honorific and Addressee
Morphosyntactic Processes... to create a window into the
syntax-pragmatics interface
Short Title: CHAMP 3

Date: 28-Mar-2025 - 29-Mar-2025
Location: Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
Contact Person: Preeti Kumari
Meeting Email: champ3.upf at gmail.com
Web Site: https://sites.google.com/view/champ3upf/home

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Linguistic Theories;
Pragmatics; Syntax; Typology

Call Deadline: 15-Nov-2024

Meeting Description:

Many aspects of language are sensitive to properties of the addressee,
including gender, social status, or presumed knowledge. Some of these
addressee-related phenomena have figured prominently in pragmatic
studies of politeness, for example, but have received little attention
from a morphosyntactic point of view, as they were deemed to fall
outside of syntax.

However, over the past 20 years, there has been an emerging consensus
that properties of the speech-act participants are syntactically
represented. This led to an increased interest in the above-mentioned
phenomena, with new ways to analyze them. Much of the body of work in
this domain has focussed on questions like the following, which have
been at the core of CHAMP 1 & 2.

•       What is the range of variation regarding honorificity and
other addressee-sensitive phenomena?
•       Is a unified analysis of honorificity possible?
•       Is there a dedicated feature for honorificity [HON]?
•       What accounts for differences in embeddability of
addressee-sensitive phenomena?
•       Is the meaning of addressee-sensitive phenomena part of the
expressive dimension?

In CHAMP 3, we continue this tradition, in addition to extending the
empirical and analytical questions. Specifically, current
(morpho)syntactic analyses of addressee-sensitive phenomena rarely
take into consideration the insights and generalizations from the
existing socio-pragmatic scholarship. In CHAMP 3, we wish to bridge
this gap.

As a case in point, consider the use of honorifics and formal
pronouns. Most morphosyntactic accounts include a grammatical encoding
(e.g., via dedicated features) of the social relation between the
interlocutors and/or the formality of the situation. What is often
overlooked, however, is the fact that in classic politeness theory,
there are three major sociocultural variables that enter the
calculation of politeness: distance, power, and rank of Imposition.

What is relevant in the context of the exploration of honorifics and
their kin is the fact that languages differ as to whether they are
sensitive to any or all of these variables. For example, the T/V
distinction in French is not sensitive to rank of imposition while the
use of honorific marking in Japanese and Korean is. This raises the
question as to whether this variable should be included in grammatical
representations and if so, how. More generally, it raises the question
regarding the role of face in our grammatical knowledge.

To answer these questions, it is essential to have a firm grasp on the
empirical landscape and to explore the correlation between the
socio-cultural variables and the relevant morphosyntactic processes.
Are there language-wide generalizations or do different phenomena
within a given language differ in their sensitivity to these
variables?  Similar questions arise for other addressee-sensitive
phenomena that, at first sight, appear to be purely pragmatic.
Questions we hope to address include the following:

i)      Which of the socio-cultural variables that enter the
calculation of politeness are grammatically mediated? And how can we
tell?
ii)     Is the use of honorifics and their kin sensitive to the
presence of another person in the context of the interaction (i.e., is
there a bystander effect and if so, how can this be modelled)?
iii)    Is using indirect speech-acts for reasons of politeness
syntactically mediated?

Thus, one of the core goals of CHAMP 3 is to chart the honorific and
addressee morphosyntactic processes by considering classic
politeness-theoretic notions that dictate their use. We aim to bridge
the divide between approaching addressee-sensitive phenomena from a
purely socio-pragmatic perspective and approaching them from a purely
morphosyntactic perspective. In doing so, we hope to be able to
develop criteria that will allow researchers to determine whether a
given phenomenon should receive a purely pragmatic treatment or
whether a morphosyntactic treatment is called for.

Call for Papers:

The purpose of CHAMP 3 is to bring together researchers with different
backgrounds (both in terms of sub-discipline and theoretical stance)
to engage in a dialogue regarding the empirical landscape of
addressee-sensitive phenomena as well as their implications for our
understanding of the division of labour of morphosyntax and
pragmatics. We aim to create an inclusive, stimulating, and
constructive atmosphere where ideas can be discussed from a variety of
perspectives. To this end, the final afternoon will be dedicated to a
round-table discussion.
          We invite abstracts for 20-minute oral presentations, as
well as poster presentations, on any of the themes mentioned in the
workshop description. Submissions that address the interplay between
pragmatic politeness theory and their morphosyntactic expression are
particularly encouraged. Contributions of any theoretical stance are
welcome with the aim to promote a dialogue among different approaches
towards addressee-oriented phenomena.


Submission Guidelines:

 - Each author may submit no more than one single-authored and one
co-authored abstract.
 - Abstracts must be anonymous.
 - Abstracts should fit two A4 pages, including examples and
references.
 - Please use 1-inch margins on all sides and a 12-point font.
 - Submission link:
https://easyabs.linguistlist.org/conference/CHAMP3/


Important Dates:

 - Deadline for submission of abstracts: November 15, 2024
 - Notification of acceptance: December 30, 2024
 - Dates of the workshop: March 28-29, 2025



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