PANEL ON SINCERITY AND EPISTOLARITY
Reproducimos a continuación la convocatoria de comunicaciones para un panel sobre sinceridad y escritura epistolar que se celebrará en el marco del 15th International Pragmatics Conference (Belfast, Northern Ireland, 16-21 de julio de 2017). Se admiten propuestas de comunicaciones hasta el día quince de octubre de 2016.
Panel on Sincerity and Epistolarity
This panel seeks to explore the role of sincerity in the epistolary construction and inference of speaker subjectivity and intersubjectivity. Regardless of the specific period of composition, the letter genre holds enduring interest for linguists, literary critics, historians and pragmaticians alike as a medium that has the capacity to convey the attitude of the inscribed ego towards the self and the addressee, as well as events, objects and external agents, for example. I suggest that one way to investigate the impact of the letter as self-expression or subjectivity might be to examine the role that the notion of sincerity plays in persuading readers that the letter serves as a direct and trustworthy representation of the speaker (or writer).
Contributors will be asked to define, operationalize and problematize the notion of sincerity and discuss its salience in reading letters of their choice. They will be encouraged to examine metalinguistic, discursive and pragmatic levels in their analysis and interrogate the ways in which the context of production may condition the reading of sincerity. In English letters, the writer’s attitude has been ostensibly inscribed and, over time, conventionalized in the salutations that open and close letters. In particular, the signatory encodes the relationship that the writer shares with the addressee with terms such as sincerely, faithfully, etc.
Scholars working on letters in languages other than English, from all historical periods, will be invited to contribute to this panel in exploring ways to measure the distance between the epistolary act and its ascription as ‘sincere’. To do this, we will examine ‘sincerity’ from a semasiological as well as an onomasiological perspective. In so doing, we will explore the relationship between the linguistic instantiation of ‘sincerity’ and the range of possible interpretations over time, from the ‘avowal of feeling’, ‘honesty’, to ‘genuineness of feeling’. The overarching question for panelists is thus: what is the role of sincerity in the construction of epistolarity in different languages over time.
Contacto: Susan Fitzmaurice
Professor and Chair of English Language
School of English
University of Sheffield
1 Upper Hanover Street
Sheffield S3 7RA
United Kingdom
http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/english/people/sfizmaurice
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