Experimental and Empirical Approaches to Im/Politeness (LIAR III)

Among the most exciting developments of the past couple of years in im/politeness research is the explicit link with cognitive science made in ongoing research on reasoning within experimental and game-theoretic pragmatics. The importance of this research is being increasingly recognized, with social and emotive factors in utterance
production and interpretation emerging as a new focus in several areas of language study.

'Empirical and Experimental Approaches to Politeness and Impoliteness' is the third in a series of international conferences dedicated to Linguistic Impoliteness and Rudeness (LIAR III) and the first in a series of im/politeness symposia organized annually since 2005 to be held outside Europe. The conference will be held from August 29-31, 2012, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Invited speakers and titles of talks

• Jean-François Bonnefon (CNRS, Toulouse): “Experiments on Politeness and Reasoning”
• Holly Cashman (University of New Hampshire): “Regulating the (Un)acceptable: Public Service Announcements, Insults and (Im)polite Society”
• Jonathan Culpeper (Lancaster University): “The Prosody of (Im)politeness”
• Thomas Holtgraves (Ball State University): “Face-Work and Utterance Interpretation”
• Invited discussant: Bruce Fraser (Boston University)

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