Conference Information

Full Title:	Address(ing) (Pro)Nouns. Sociolinguistics and Grammar of Terms of Address

Location:	Berlin, Germany
Start Date:	30-May-2013 - 01-Jun-2013
Contact:	Horst Simon
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Meeting URL:	http://fu-berlin.de/geisteswissenschaften/we04/germanistik/faecher/historische_linguistik/addressing_pro_nouns
Meeting Description:	Address(ing) (Pro)Nouns. Sociolinguistics and Grammar of Terms of Address Workshop at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany 30 May - 1 June 2013 Organizer: Horst Simon Organizing team: Tanja Ackermann, Edgar Baumgärtner, Christian Forche, Christian Zimmer In recent years, it has become difficult to follow the multitude of projects and approaches in the field of address term research. Now it is time to bring together researchers studying different languages and working in different frameworks, such as sociolinguistics, pragmatics and grammatical description. In general, the main question to be answered is: Who uses which form of address when, and why? While older approaches often assumed rather static and wholesale systems of address terms, it seems to become clear that models capturing the dynamicity of address systems are more appropriate to describe the linguistic facts. The following colleagues have agreed to present papers: John Hajek (Melbourne) Bettina Kluge (Bielefeld) Heinz L. Kretzenbacher (Melbourne) Hanna Lappalainen (Helsinki) & Johanna Isosävi (Helsinki) Célia Lopes (Rio de Janeiro) Catrin Norrby (Stockholm) & Doris Schüpbach (Melbourne) Catrin Norrby et al. (Stockholm et al.) Renate Pajusalu (Tartu) Johanna Tanner (Helsinki) Roel Vismans (Sheffield)
Linguistic Subfield:	Historical Linguistics; Morphology; Pragmatics; Sociolinguistics; Translation
LL Issue:	24.2089


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