Recent Trends and Developments in Historical Im/Politeness Research,
July 2024

Date: 10-Jul-2024 – 10-Jul-2024
Location: Online only via Teams, United Kingdom
Contact Person: Kim Ridealgh
Meeting Email: historicalpoliteness@gmail.com
Web Site: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScWBDLzIsmZGtrDFuIPfOOdR3iweJulgiZz2iO44LbmiXxPUQ/viewform?usp=sf_link

Call Deadline: 29-Feb-2024

Meeting Description:

In view of the ever-growing interest in the phenomena of (im)politeness in historical lingua-cultures and of the recent theoretical developments in this expanding field, the Historical Politeness Network for Ancient Languages (HPNAC) is organizing the online conference “Recent trends and developments in Historical Im/Politeness Research”.
The aim of this meeting is to bring together new and engaged contributions on (im)politeness phenomena – verbal or non-verbal – and interpersonal pragmatic dynamics in historical linguacultures, from Antiquity up to the 19th century AD. Thus, we would like to foster the dialogue between scholars dealing with distant historical languages and cultures but confronted with similar methodological and theoretical issues. It is also our goal to offer a picture of the latest research on historical (im)politeness.
The Historical Politeness Network for Ancient Languages (https://historicalpoliteness.net/) has existed since 2014 and since then we have organized a previous conference, we have run four online lecture series, we have offered two courses for early career researchers, and we have published two special issues of the Journal of Politeness Research and the Journal of Historical Pragmatics. We are now delighted to organize a new online conference to further showcase our interdisciplinary work.

Call for Papers:

If you would like to register to attend the conference, please click this link to the registration form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScWBDLzIsmZGtrDFuIPfOOdR3iweJulgiZz2iO44LbmiXxPUQ/viewform?usp=sf_link
Please use the same link to submit an abstract, which should be no more than 350 words plus 5 keywords. Abstracts should be submitted no later than the 29th February. The acceptance of the proposal will be communicated the 29th of March.