About the Conference

(Im)politeness has been a topic of extensive research over the past few decades. Consequently, researchers working in the field have over the years proposed, developed and adopted a wide range of theoretical, analytical and methodological approaches to (im)politeness in human interaction. Due to the popularity of (im)politeness as an academic area, it is of utmost importance to encourage further synergies between researchers who do research on this topic with a view to proposing new agendas, directions and avenues for research. This endeavour requires researchers to examine, with a fresh eye, how mainstream approaches to (im)politeness can be brought together with less mainstream uptakes. Organised under the aegis of the Linguistic Politeness Research Group, and around the theme of "WITHIN AND BEYOND MAINSTREAM APPROACHES TO (IM)POLITENESS", the 12th International Conference on (Im)politeness will be held at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge (17 -19 July 2019), to continue the tradition and success of previous Politeness and Impoliteness symposia.

Conference Website

www.sympol12.wixsite.com/conference

Submission Guidelines

Full papers: Abstracts for regular papers 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.  

[DEADLINE EXTENDED: NEW DATE 22 FEB 2019]

Panels: 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. 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. 

[DEADLINE EXTENDED: NEW DATE 22 FEB 2019]

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.

List of Topics

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 may be considered as particularly relevant to the theme of this event. However, in line with the tradition of previous conferences, papers on any area related to (im)politeness research are warmly welcome:

• (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 

•         Dawn Archer, Manchester Metropolitan University 
•         Haruko Cook, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
•         Pilar G.C. Blitvich, UNC Charlotte 
•         Bethan Davies, University of Leeds 
•         Lucia Fernandez-Amaya, Pablo de Olavide University 
•         Sage Graham, University of Memphis
•         Karen Grainger, Sheffield Hallam University
•         Claire Hardaker, Lancaster University 
•         Michael Haugh, University of Queensland 
•         Mervyn Horgan, University of Guelph
•         Sofia Koutlaki, Independent Researcher 
•         Miriam Locher, University of Basel
•         Rosina Marquez Reiter, University of Surrey
•         Sara Mills, Sheffield Hallam University
•         Andrew Merrison, York St John University
•         James Murphy, UWE Bristol
•         Jim O’Driscoll, University of Huddersfield
•         Eva Ogiermann, King's College London
•         Barbara Pizziconi, SOAS University of London
•         Kim Ridealgh, University of East Anglia
•         Maria Sifianou, University of Athens
•         Marina Terkourafi, Leiden University 
•         Peter Bull, University of York 

Organizing Committee

•         Dr. Bettina Beinhoff Anglia Ruskin University
•         Dr. Vahid Parvaresh Anglia Ruskin University
•         Dr. Sebastian Rasinger Anglia Ruskin University
•         Prof. Guido Rings Anglia Ruskin University
•         Dr. Michelle Sheehan Anglia Ruskin University

Invited Speakers

• Professor Jonathan Culpeper
• Professor Andreas H. Jucker
• Professor Juliane House
• Professor Daniel Z. Kádár

Venue

The conference will be held in the new Science Centre situated on the Cambridge Campus, Anglia Ruskin University. 

Our main address is East Road, Cambridge CB1 1PT. We are a twenty-minute walk from the train station and a ten-minute walk from the centre of Cambridge and its landmarks. 

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to sympol12@gmail.com