Politeness: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Language and Culture
Saturday 12th March 2005
This one-day conference hosted by the Linguistic Politeness Research Group aims to investigate and encourage multidisciplinary approaches to researching politeness, language and culture. Researchers and postgraduates working on politeness in the disciplines of language, linguistics, literary linguistics, sociology, psychology, philosophy, communication studies, organisational studies and social theory in particular are encouraged to attend. The conference will consist of plenary sessions, panel discussions and the presentation of posters. The focus on the plenary and panel sessions will be on conceptualisations of face, theoretical and methodological approaches to analysing politeness in institutions, and approaches to examining politeness in literature. Poster submissions are encouraged in any area of politeness research.
The Journal of Politeness Research: Language, Behaviour, Culture, published by Mouton de Gruyter, will be launched at this event.
Bob Arundale, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, USA:
‘Face as relational and interactional: Communication approaches to examining face as culture-general and culture-specific'
Jonathan Culpeper, Lancaster University, UK:
‘Creativity and impoliteness in literature and real life conversation'
Panel I: ‘Face': Francesca Bargiela (NTU), Helen Spencer-Oatey (Cambridge),
Barbara Pizziconi (SOAS)
Panel II: ‘Politeness in Institutions': Sandra Harris (NTU), Jennifer Coates (Roehampton),
Louise Mullany (Nottingham)
Conference Programme
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Poster Presentations
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Conference fees and registration
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The conference will take place on the first floor of the Portland Building, in the East and West Concourse Lounges, on the University of Nottingham's University Park campus.
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Parking
Visitor car parking will be available on the day. The main Visitor's Car Park is behind the Ecomonics and Geography Building (now known as the Clive Granger Building). This is in square D4 of the campus map (highlight parking in the options box at the top of this web page). If you enter the University via the South or the West Entrance you can ask for directions at the barrier when you enter. This Visitor's Car Park is approximately a 5 minute walk to the Portland Building. Visitor Car Parking is Pay and Display.
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The sponsoring universities and colleges of the conference (Leeds, Loughbourgh, Nottingham, Nottingham Trent, Sheffield Hallam and York St. John) have organised a free conference meal which will take place at the University of Nottingham on the evening of the conferrence, beginning at 7pm. All registered delegates will receive an official rsvp email invitation to the dinner shortly.
If you have any further questions or queries about the conference, please contact the Conference Organiser, Louise Mullany :
Email: louise.mullany@nottingham.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0)115 846 7181