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GeoContrast 2025

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Call für Papers:
CfP_GeoContrast2025.pdf

Geographical Contrast in Variational Pragmatics (GeoContrast 2025)

Date: July 30 - August 01, 2025
Location: Bielefeld (Germany)

At GeoContrast 2025, jointly hosted by the PraProNE and VariPrag project team, we will discuss the various ways in which geographical location or distance comes into play regarding pragmatic variation, comprising both national and regional differences, as well as social and cultural differences related to geographical location.

Call for Papers

The call for papers is now open, you can find the full document here: CfP_GeoContrast2025.pdf

We invite contributions dealing with multi-standard languages as well as sub-national varieties of a language. We especially encourage contributions dealing with lesser-studied languages and varieties. Topics to be explored include, but are not restricted to:

  • Cross-varietal comparisons of pragmatic variables
  • The importance of the national, sub-national, or local level in pragmatics
  • The social, cultural and ethnic dimension of geographical contrast in pragmatics
  • Measures of linguistic mobility in pragmatics
  • The influence of (local) linguistic and cultural ecologies on pragmatic preferences
  • The perception (or construction) of geographical variation on a metapragmatic level
  • Methodological approaches and challenges in variational pragmatics

We invite abstracts for 25-minute talks (+ 15 minutes discussion). Abstracts should be anonymous and approximately 500 words in length, plus references. Please send your abstracts to vari.ling@uni-bielefeld.de, and include your name, affiliation, and the title of the abstract in the body of the e-mail.

Deadline for submission of abstracts: January 15, 2025

Notification of acceptance: February 2025
 

Invited Speakers:

  • Jonathan Culpeper (Lancaster University)
  • J. César Félix-Brasdefer (Indiana University)
  • Jenny Nilsson (Institute for Language and Folklore)


Discussants:

  • Antje Dammel (University of Münster)
  • Christa Dürscheid (University of Zurich)
  • Stephan Elspaß (University of Salzburg)
  • Ulrike Gut (University of Münster)
  • Eva Ogiermann (King's College London)
  • Klaus P. Schneider (University of Bonn)


Organisers:

Tanja Ackermann, Henrik Discher, Anne Schröder, Pawel Sickinger, Horst Simon, Janel Zoske

The workshop is jointly organised by PraProNe and VariPrag.

For further information please contact: vari.ling@uni-bielefeld.de

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