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Due to the continuing uncertainties and travel restrictions in connection with the corona situation, the symposium will take place in an online format on Zoom. Access details will be emailed to all registered participants shortly before the conference.
October 23, 2020
Organized by Iris Hübscher and Andreas H. Jucker
The URPP Language and Space of the University of Zurich is pleased to announce the Symposium on Multimodal Im/politeness: Gesture, Sign and Spatial Configurations.
In face-to-face interaction communication is intrinsically multimodal. While im/politeness for many years has been studied in a unilinear fashion, recent years have seen the emergence of a vibrant interest in multimodal components of im/politeness, such as prosody, gesture and bodily signals and also non-manual features in sign language. The goal of this symposium is to bring together researchers whose work focuses on multimodal aspects of im/politeness and who work in the areas of pragmatics in general, pragmatic development, gesture and multimodality, sign language, social psychology, language and space, and language and cognition. It will be an opportunity to share the latest research on multimodal aspects of im/politeness and to advance new insights in the field of im/politeness studies.
This symposium welcomes submissions related to:
Especially welcome are contributions concerning usually more marginalized groups in im/politeness research such as young and old people, as well as non-WEIRD populations in order to gain a more diverse understanding of im/politeness-related behaviors in interaction.
Talks will be 20 minutes plus 10 minutes for questions and discussion. There will also be a poster session.
| 09.00 | Opening | |
| 09.15 | Plenary 1 | Lucien Brown: (Im)politeness and Gesture |
| 09.55 | 3 Presentations |
Farbod Farahandouz and Shima Moallemi: Multimodal manifestation of « ta’ârof » in Persian
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| 11.10 | Coffee break | |
| 11.30 | 3 Presentations |
Ester Iyanga-Mambo: Affective communication in live
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| 12.45 | Lunch break | |
| 14.00 |
Plenary 2 interpreted into international sign language |
Rachel Mapson: Exploring cross-cultural affinities in the expression of im/politeness in signed and spoken language modalities |
| 14.40 |
3 Presentations interpreted into international sign language |
Penny Boyes Braem, Katja Tissi and Donna Jo Napoli:
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| 15.55 | Coffee break | |
| 16.10 | 2 Presentations |
Omnia Ibrahim, Iris Hübscher and Elisa Pellegrino:
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| 17.00 | Plenary 3 | Takaaki Sochi: Acquisition of multimodal politeness expressions in Japanese |
| 17.40 | Final discussion | |
| 18.00 | End |
The workshop is open and free of charge. Please send abstracts of max. 300 words (excluding references), no later than April 10, 2020, to:
Participation without giving a paper will also be possible, but please register by sending an email to the email addresses above.
Contact persons: Iris Hübscher, iriscarmela.huebscher@uzh.ch Andreas H. Jucker, ahjucker@es.uzh.ch
