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wwu.edu>Announcement and Call for Papers 37th International Conference on Salish and Neighboring Languages Western Washington University and Northwest Indian College Bellingham, Washington August 14, 15, 16, 2002 This year's conference will be hosted by Western Washington University and Northwest Indian College and will take place at the Western Washington University campus in Bellingham, Washington on August 14-16. Papers on all aspects of the study, preservation, and teaching of Salish and neighboring languages are welcome. Papers for the ICSNL should be submitted by Friday, June 14, 2002, and will be printed and distributed prior to the conference by the University of British Columbia Working Papers in Linguistics, as was done last year. A style sheet will be available online soon http://www.arts.ubc.ca. Contact the editors at sunyohMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
NAU.EDU>Call for papers for the Workshop on Historical Pragmatics at ICEHL 12 Susan Fitzmaurice, Andreas H. Jucker, Irma Taavitsainen Glasgow, August 21-26, 2002. Abstracts for contributions to the workshop must be submitted before March 31, 2002 Background In her plenary address to the first meeting of the conference on Studies in the History of the English Language (SHEL-1) at UCLA in May 2000, Elizabeth Traugott drew particular attention to the changes in methodologies and approaches used to study the history of the English language over the past century. Her talk was entitled, From Etymology to historical pragmatics, a title that recalls Eve Sweetser's (1990) book, From Etymology to Pragmatics at the same time as inserting the historical into Pragmatics. On one local level, she demonstrated the extent to which processes of grammaticalization might be approached as semantic-pragmatic processes. On another more general level, she indicated the extent to which the new field of historical pragmatics promises to provide the source of more nuanced, fine-grained kinds of explanation for linguistic changes than have traditionally been offered. She also set a number of challenges and tasks for those working in English studies and the history of the English language; tasks that involve venturing across usual disciplinary and sub-disciplinary boundaries within English studies. Such challenges provide the context for the workshop at ICEHL 12 on historical pragmatics, which will focus on discourse features, stylistics or genre description. The aim of the workshop on Historical Pragmatics is to provide a setting in which participants begin to address some challenges posed by the work on the history of the English language that identifies itself as historical pragmatic in approach. The range of work that falls within the parameters of pragmatics has begun to exert considerable pressure on the designator 'pragmatic', to the extent that workers in the field really need to search for fresh terminology to convey a better sense of the more fine-grained analysis actually being conducted (Fitzmaurice, 2000). It seems timely to use this pressure as occasion for collective investigation in the forum of a research workshop. To this end, participants in the workshop may assess the body of research conducted on the history of the English language within what we might loosely identify as the framework of historical pragmatics. At the same time, it will provide the opportunity to explore some topics and questions of common interest to fields outside historical pragmatics. Increasingly, these questions have to do with the ways in which we approach the analysis of historical discourses, discourses that have their own cultural settings, historical codes, circumstances of production and transmission, and attendant language practices. The questions raised concern the ways in which we identify, read and account for rhetorical functions such as information, explication, persuasion, strategic interaction, and rhetorical force. Approaches that share the domain of historical discourse as a field of enquiry are historical stylistics, corpus linguistics and historical sociolinguistics. The concerns of historical pragmatics also overlap with those of disciplines that now lie outside the domain of language and linguistics studies, like rhetoric and literary history. This workshop will provide a forum for examining how the connections among such approaches or perspectives to some of the issues outlined above may be mutually enriching References: Fitzmaurice, Susan. 2000. 'Some remarks on the rhetoric of historical pragmatics'. Journal of Historical Pragmatics 1 (1):1-6. Sweetser, Eve V. 1990. From Etymology to Pragmatics: Metaphorical and Cultural Aspects of Semantic Structure. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Traugott, Elizabeth C. 2000. 'From etymology to historical pragmatics'. Plenary paper, presented at the conference on Studies in English Historical Linguistics, UCLA, May 27th, 2000. http://www.stanford.edu/~traugott/ect-papersonline.html Format of workshop The nature of the format and the associated procedures for the workshop are designed to ensure that scholars who have not hitherto considered their work relevant to historical pragmatics and those who may be new to the field have the opportunity to share their work with each other and with scholars who may be more well-established figures in the field. We invite scholars to submit proposals for papers that consider key topics and questions in the history of the English language from a perspective in English historical linguistics that chimes with or indeed competes with an account from the perspective of historical pragmatics, for example, studies in the role of politeness theory in the pragmatic (re)construction of meaning in letters between mistresses and servants in early modern English. Abstracts for contributions to the workshop may be submitted before March 31, 2002, to Susan Fitzmaurice. Two weeks after the deadline participants will be informed whether their paper has been accepted for the workshop, and the abstracts will be distributed among the participants. To ensure as much early collaboration as possible, participants are invited to send each other comments and suggestions through email; this way it should be possible to set up a discussion of topics relevant to the main subject of the workshop well beforehand. At the same time, participants will be requested to send titles of relevant publications to Susan Fitzmaurice, who will compile a bibliography and provide regular updates of this bibliography for mutual benefit by the workshop participants. Papers (max. length 15pp., line space 1.5) should be distributed among the participants before July 20, 2002, so that they can all be read in the month before the conference workshop. For discussion during the workshop, each author will be asked to compile a list of topics/questions for discussion based on one of the other papers submitted. These topics/questions will be collected by the first organizer and distributed well before the conference. During the workshop, the topics will be the focus of the discussion, which will be conducted against the background of the papers submitted and read by all participants. Organizers: Susan Fitzmaurice Department of English, Box 6032 Northern Arizona University Flagstaff AZ 86011-6032 USA T: (001) 928 523-9649, F: (001) 928 523-7074 Email: susan.fitzmauriceMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue