Appel a com : "Linguistic Impoliteness and Rudeness in Communication and Society"

[Madeleine L.]

Linguistic Impoliteness & Rudeness

in Communication and Society




Université Jean Moulin – Lyon 3

Centre d’Etudes Linguistiques – EA 1663

Groupe de Recherche en Linguistique Anglaise



With the support of

The Société Française de Stylistique Anglaise

http://stylistique-anglaise.org/

The Association des Linguistes Anglicistes de l’Enseignement Supérieur

http://www.alaes.sup.fr

Les 26, 27 et 28 juin 2011

Organisers: Dr. Denis Jamet & Dr. Manuel Jobert



This conference is the follow-up of the 3-day conference on euphemism held in Lyon – France (Université Jean Moulin – Lyon 3) in 2008 (Jamet & Jobert (eds.) 2010, L’Harmattan, Empreintes de l’euphémisme. Tours et détours). It will focus on language that could be described as ‘impolite’, ‘rude’ or ‘face-threatening’, etc.

Following the workshop held in Lyon in April 2010 – to be published in Lexis (Jamet & Jobert (eds.) 2010) – the conference aims to bring together a wide range of theoretical and methodological approaches exploring the notion of impoliteness and the usage of impoliteness phenomena in language and discourse per se, instead of simply considering impoliteness as “politeness that has gone wrong”.

Papers from researchers working in the fields of linguistics, sociology, literary studies, discourse analysis and stylistics are particularly welcome. Both semantic (absolute) impoliteness and pragmatic (relative) impoliteness will be tackled in the hope of extending the field of politeness studies. Presentations on topics such as the following are welcome:



- Impoliteness and political discourse

- Impoliteness and the Internet

- Grammatical and/or lexical expressions of impoliteness

- Impolite interactions in fiction

- Impoliteness in advertising

- Gender and impoliteness

- Language and power

- Sarcasm and verbal abuse

- Impoliteness and humour

etc.



Abstracts of no more than 200 words are invited on any topic relating to linguistic impoliteness from any theoretical perspective. The abstracts must be in English. The deadline for receipt of abstracts is 31st July 2010. Please send abstracts to colloque-impolitesse@univ-lyon3.fr. All submissions will be peer-reviewed. Authors will be notified of acceptance by 30th September 2010. Selected papers will be considered for publication. The presentations / articles may be in English or in French.





Some references



> Bousfield, D. 2008. Impoliteness in Interaction. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

> Brown, P. & Levinson, S. 1978. Politeness. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

> Culpeper, Jonathan (in press) Impoliteness: Using Language to Cause Offence, Cambridge University Press.

> Hickey, L & Stewart, M. 2005. Politeness in Europe. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.

> Kerbrat-Orecchioni, C. 2005. Le Discours en interaction. Paris : Armand Colin.

> McEnery, T. 2006. Swearing in English: Bad Language, Purity and Power from 1586 to the Present, London: Routledge.

> Mills, S. 2003. Gender and Politeness. Cambridge: C.U.P.

> Simpson, Paul & Mayr Andrea. 2010. Language and Power. London, Routledge.

> Watts, R. 2003. Politeness. Cambridge: C.U.P.





Scientific Committee



Keith Allan (University of Monash – New Zealand))

Luc Benoît à la Guillaume (Université de Paris Ouest - France)

Derek Bousfield (University of Huddersfield – United Kingdom)

Kate Burridge (University of Monash – New Zealand)

Jonathan Culpeper (University of Lancaster – United Kingdom)

Monique de Mattia (Université de Provence - France)

Geneviève Girard (Université de Paris 3 - France)

Denis Jamet (Université Jean Moulin – Lyon 3 - France)

Manuel Jobert (Université Jean Moulin – Lyon 3 - France)

Catherine Kerbrat-Orecchioni (Université Lumière – Lyon 2 – Institut Universitaire de France – France)

Linda Pillière (Université de Provence - France)

Graham Ranger (Université d’Avignon - France)

Simone Rinzler (Université de Paris Ouest - France)

Nathalie Vincent-Arnaud (Université de Toulouse le Mirail - France)