Call for Papers

The 12th International Conference on (Im)politeness serves to (i) identify and highlight innovative approaches to (im)politeness research; (ii) provide a platform for the presentation of the latest findings in the field; (iii) encourage further collaboration between researchers who examine this fascinating topic from different theoretical and analytical perspectives; and (iv) explore future directions and avenues for research in the field. We therefore warmly welcome proposals for individual lectures and panels that investigate (im)politeness with a view to bridging the gap between dominant and non-mainstream approaches. Papers on the following themes mayf be considered as particularly relevant to the theme of this event:

(Im)politeness and morality
(Im)politeness and language aggression
(Im)politeness and social media
(Im)politeness in the era of globalisation
Minority languages and (im)politeness
Experimental investigations of face and (im)politeness
(Im)politeness and taking of offence
Corpus-based approaches to (im)politeness
Critical approaches to face and (im)politeness
(Im)politeness and intercultural communication
(Im)politeness and cyberbullying
(Im)politeness and variational pragmatics
Cognitive approaches to (im)politeness
Experimental approaches to (im)politeness
Interdisciplinary approaches to (im)politeness
(Im)politeness and language teaching

However, in line with the tradition of previous conferences, papers on any area related to (im)politeness research are warmly welcome.

Deadline for abstract submission: 15th February 2019

Deadline for panel proposal submission: 15th February 2019

Submission Guidelines

Regular papers & poster presentations

Panels

Abstracts for regular papers and poster presentations should be approximately 250 words (excluding references) and should be submitted via Easychair not later than by 15 February 2019.

All abstracts will be reviewed by an international scientific committee and the decision will be emailed to the participants by the end of March, 2019. Participants may be the first author of only one presentation.

Individual presentations will be 20 minutes in length and will be followed by a 10 minute discussion.

Outlines for panels should be approximately 500 words (excluding references) and should be submitted via Easychair by 15 February 2019. Each panel should have minimum 4 and maximum 8 presentations.

Given the fact that panel proposals will be reviewed holistically, at this stage panel organisers will just need to submit, in one document, a proposal which includes (a) the aims and significance of the panel and (b) the title/topic of each contribution.

All abstracts for panels will be reviewed by an international scientific committee and the decision will be emailed to the panel organisers by the end of March, 2019. Prospective panel organisers can either invite their own participants or send out a call for papers and decide on the abstracts that they deem suitable for their panel.