Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft Leibniz-Gemeinschaft

Social Meaning

Start of event 29.08.2017, 10.00 o'clock
End of event 29.08.2017, 18.00 o'clock
Venue ZAS, Trajekte-Raum, 3rd Floor

Program (preliminary)

10:00-11:00
Heather Burnett & Olivier Bonami (CNRS/Paris Diderot) -- Variation in French grammatical gender: Vagueness, non-transitivity and gender ideology

11:15-12:15
Andrea Beltrama (Konstanz) -- Iconicity and (im)precision: How pragmatic variation can convey social qualities

12:15-14:00 LUNCH 14:00-15:00

Uli Sauerland (ZAS) – Towards a typology of register phenomena

15:15-16:15
Diana Mazzarella (ISC Lyon) -- "Some people hated your talk": Speaker's meaning and listener's belief

16:30-17:30
Eric McCready (Aoyama Gakuin University) – Japanese honorifics