Call for papers
Socio-cultural factors in style
The Research
Group in Stylistics at
The
conference is aimed primarily at functional cognitive
linguists with an
interest in stylistics. Its central topic is the functions of
socio-cultural
factors in style. Functional cognitive linguistics produces
complex usage-based
descriptions, foregrounding the motivations behind specific
construals of
meaning in intersubjective usage events. Fundamental factors
of a functionally
oriented description of dynamic semantics and grammar include
discourse, speech
situation, conceptualizer perspective and the dynamic relation
between schema
and instantiation. The present conference focuses on the
stylistic components
of linguistic variability.
From a
functional cognitive perspective, style is an aspect of
discursive meaning
derived from particular modes of construal and symbolization.
Style can be
studied from multiple vantage points and at varying levels of
abstraction.
Besides the stylistic potential of language and the stylistic
structure of
particular discourses or discourse types, socio-cultural
factors can be
explored with a view to the more or less conventionalized
social functions of
linguistic expressions in a speech community. Looked at in
this way, style is a
function of the norms of socially based interpersonal
relations, and it is
attributed to linguistic expressions in specific usage events.
Socio-cultural
factors of style include the domains of attitude, situation,
value (value
saturation vs. deprivation), time (archaism vs. neologism),
and language
varieties.
The conference
focuses on three
large, closely related issues:
1) the
functional cognitive theory and methodology of the study of
style,
2) the
general features of socio-cultural factors in the functional
system of style;
linguistic variability and stylistic variables based on
socio-cultural factors,
3)
socio-cultural variables of style as instantiated in
particular discourses.
The conference
aims to reinterpret
basic issues and raise new questions in stylistic research,
with special regard
to the following:
1)
developing an integrated theory and methodology for studying
the cognitive and
socio-cultural underpinnings of language, to be applied to
stylistic research,
2)
exploring the implications of cognitive semantics and
pragmatics for the study
of style,
3)
harmonizing the style-related concepts and results of
sociolinguistics and
cognitive linguistics,
4)
investigating the language- and culture-specific features of
style in the
theoretical and methodological framework of cognitive
linguistics.
The language of
the conference is English.
Confirmed keynote
speakers:
Willie van Peer
Gábor Tolcsvai
Nagy
The
deadline for submission of abstracts (in English; max one page
including data
and references) is December 12, 2013. Please submit your
abstract as attached
message (in both .pdf and .doc formats) by e-mail to the
address of the
organizing committee: stylistics@btk.elte.hu. The abstracts will be evaluated by the
organizing
committee. Participants will be notified about acceptance by
December 28, 2013.
The registration fee is EUR 80,00 payable by bank
transfer.
The body of the
e-mail should
include the following information (preferably in this order):
1) Name
of the participant
2) Title of presentation
3) Affiliation
4) E-mail address
The book of abstracts will be published on the conference website, at stylistics.elte.hu.
The orgainzers at
Gábor Tolcsvai
Nagy
Szilárd Tátrai
Réka Sólyom