Mémoires de la Société Néophilologique de Helsinki XCIII, 2015
Preface
Dialogic Language Use 3: Miscommunication and Verbal Violence was the third international... more Preface Dialogic Language Use 3: Miscommunication and Verbal Violence was the third international, multilingual symposium in a series related to dialogic language use and its phenomena. The symposium was organized by the Modern Language Society which celebrated its 125th anniversary on the occasion, and approximately 100 participants attended the event at the House of Science and Letters in Helsinki on 15–17 August, 2012. This third conference addressed the darker side of dialogic language use: misunderstanding, disagreement, swearing, insults, slander, and various forms of verbal abuse. These everyday dialogic phenomena form a part of our reality just like the less threatening, less negative aspects of communication, and the study of verbal aggression is currently a dynamic sphere of linguistic research. Though the phenomenon of verbal aggression is not new, the emergence of new media has possibly facilitated aggressive communication in the public sphere. Computer-mediated communication may allow participants to remain anonymous, which may then lower the threshold for attacks and provocations.
Miscommunication and verbal violence have been investigated in a range of texts in this volume: plays, literature, communication on different levels of the education system, the media, social media, politics and historical texts. Perspectives of several research traditions and approaches have been applied, such as those of sociolinguistics, translation studies, pragmatics, conversation analysis and discourse analysis. Modern technology is strongly represented in these studies. The thematic division of the volume reflects the variation and diversity in the research frameworks and perspectives and the data that were used. The volume consists of three sections. The first section includes linguistic studies of the media and new technology, the second section focuses on diachronic approaches, and the third section includes a selection of papers connected by their focus on different types of discourse in society.
Plenary lectures were given at the symposium by Professor Ruth Amossy (Tel-Aviv), Professor Derek Bousfield (Central Lancashire), Professor Arnulf Deppermann (Mannheim), Professor Tony McEnery (Lancaster), Professor Claudine Moïse (Grenoble 3) and Professor Monika Schwarz-Friesel (Berlin). The papers of Depperman and Amossy are published in this volume, and we thank the plenary speakers for accepting our invitation to speak at the symposium. The contributions are available on the web page of the Modern Language Society (www.helsinki.fi/jarj/ufy) and on the conference web page (http://blogs.helsinki.fi/dialog3).
We would like to thank the following people for their invaluable help: Maria Paloheimo, the secretary of the organizing committee who was largely responsible for the practical aspects of conference organization; Tuuli Holttinen, who assisted in conference organization and in the publication process of this volume; Marja Ursin, the editorial secretary of the Modern Language Society who designed the layout of the volume; and all the student assistants who made sure that the conference ran smoothly. We would also like to express our gratitude to the Emil Öhmann Foundation, the University of Helsinki, the city of Helsinki, the French Institute of Finland and the Federation of Finnish Learned Societies, without whose support this conference could not have been organized.
Helsinki, 10 June 2015 Ulla Tuomarla Juhani Härmä Liisa Tiittula Anni Sairio Maria Paloheimo Johanna Isosävi
Mémoires de la Société Néophilologique de Helsinki XCIII, 2015
Preface
Dialogic Language Use 3: Miscommunication and Verbal Violence was the third international... more Preface Dialogic Language Use 3: Miscommunication and Verbal Violence was the third international, multilingual symposium in a series related to dialogic language use and its phenomena. The symposium was organized by the Modern Language Society which celebrated its 125th anniversary on the occasion, and approximately 100 participants attended the event at the House of Science and Letters in Helsinki on 15–17 August, 2012. This third conference addressed the darker side of dialogic language use: misunderstanding, disagreement, swearing, insults, slander, and various forms of verbal abuse. These everyday dialogic phenomena form a part of our reality just like the less threatening, less negative aspects of communication, and the study of verbal aggression is currently a dynamic sphere of linguistic research. Though the phenomenon of verbal aggression is not new, the emergence of new media has possibly facilitated aggressive communication in the public sphere. Computer-mediated communication may allow participants to remain anonymous, which may then lower the threshold for attacks and provocations.
Miscommunication and verbal violence have been investigated in a range of texts in this volume: plays, literature, communication on different levels of the education system, the media, social media, politics and historical texts. Perspectives of several research traditions and approaches have been applied, such as those of sociolinguistics, translation studies, pragmatics, conversation analysis and discourse analysis. Modern technology is strongly represented in these studies. The thematic division of the volume reflects the variation and diversity in the research frameworks and perspectives and the data that were used. The volume consists of three sections. The first section includes linguistic studies of the media and new technology, the second section focuses on diachronic approaches, and the third section includes a selection of papers connected by their focus on different types of discourse in society.
Plenary lectures were given at the symposium by Professor Ruth Amossy (Tel-Aviv), Professor Derek Bousfield (Central Lancashire), Professor Arnulf Deppermann (Mannheim), Professor Tony McEnery (Lancaster), Professor Claudine Moïse (Grenoble 3) and Professor Monika Schwarz-Friesel (Berlin). The papers of Depperman and Amossy are published in this volume, and we thank the plenary speakers for accepting our invitation to speak at the symposium. The contributions are available on the web page of the Modern Language Society (www.helsinki.fi/jarj/ufy) and on the conference web page (http://blogs.helsinki.fi/dialog3).
We would like to thank the following people for their invaluable help: Maria Paloheimo, the secretary of the organizing committee who was largely responsible for the practical aspects of conference organization; Tuuli Holttinen, who assisted in conference organization and in the publication process of this volume; Marja Ursin, the editorial secretary of the Modern Language Society who designed the layout of the volume; and all the student assistants who made sure that the conference ran smoothly. We would also like to express our gratitude to the Emil Öhmann Foundation, the University of Helsinki, the city of Helsinki, the French Institute of Finland and the Federation of Finnish Learned Societies, without whose support this conference could not have been organized.
Helsinki, 10 June 2015 Ulla Tuomarla Juhani Härmä Liisa Tiittula Anni Sairio Maria Paloheimo Johanna Isosävi
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Dialogic Language Use 3: Miscommunication and Verbal Violence was the third international, multilingual symposium in a series related to dialogic language use and its phenomena. The symposium was organized by the Modern Language Society which celebrated its 125th anniversary on the occasion, and approximately 100 participants attended the event at the House of Science and Letters in Helsinki
on 15–17 August, 2012. This third conference addressed the darker side of dialogic language use: misunderstanding, disagreement, swearing, insults, slander, and various forms of verbal abuse. These everyday dialogic phenomena form a part of our reality just like the less threatening, less negative aspects of communication, and the study of verbal aggression is currently a dynamic sphere of linguistic
research. Though the phenomenon of verbal aggression is not new, the emergence of new media has possibly facilitated aggressive communication in the public sphere. Computer-mediated communication may allow participants to remain anonymous, which may then lower the threshold for attacks and provocations.
Miscommunication and verbal violence have been investigated in a range of texts in this volume: plays, literature, communication on different levels of the education system, the media, social media, politics and historical texts. Perspectives of several research traditions and approaches have been applied, such as those of sociolinguistics, translation studies, pragmatics, conversation analysis and discourse analysis. Modern technology is strongly represented in these
studies. The thematic division of the volume reflects the variation and diversity in the research frameworks and perspectives and the data that were used. The volume consists of three sections. The first section includes linguistic studies of the media and new technology, the second section focuses on diachronic approaches, and the third section includes a selection of papers connected by their focus on different
types of discourse in society.
Plenary lectures were given at the symposium by Professor Ruth Amossy (Tel-Aviv), Professor Derek Bousfield (Central Lancashire), Professor Arnulf Deppermann (Mannheim), Professor Tony McEnery (Lancaster), Professor Claudine Moïse (Grenoble 3) and Professor Monika Schwarz-Friesel (Berlin). The papers of Depperman and Amossy are published in this volume, and we thank the plenary
speakers for accepting our invitation to speak at the symposium. The contributions are available on the web page of the Modern Language Society (www.helsinki.fi/jarj/ufy) and on the conference web page (http://blogs.helsinki.fi/dialog3).
We would like to thank the following people for their invaluable help: Maria Paloheimo, the secretary of the organizing committee who was largely responsible for the practical aspects of conference organization; Tuuli Holttinen, who assisted in conference organization and in the publication process of this volume; Marja Ursin, the editorial secretary of the Modern Language Society who designed
the layout of the volume; and all the student assistants who made sure that the conference ran smoothly. We would also like to express our gratitude to the Emil Öhmann Foundation, the University of Helsinki, the city of Helsinki, the French Institute of Finland and the Federation of Finnish Learned Societies, without whose support this conference could not have been organized.
Helsinki, 10 June 2015
Ulla Tuomarla
Juhani Härmä
Liisa Tiittula
Anni Sairio
Maria Paloheimo
Johanna Isosävi
Dialogic Language Use 3: Miscommunication and Verbal Violence was the third international, multilingual symposium in a series related to dialogic language use and its phenomena. The symposium was organized by the Modern Language Society which celebrated its 125th anniversary on the occasion, and approximately 100 participants attended the event at the House of Science and Letters in Helsinki
on 15–17 August, 2012. This third conference addressed the darker side of dialogic language use: misunderstanding, disagreement, swearing, insults, slander, and various forms of verbal abuse. These everyday dialogic phenomena form a part of our reality just like the less threatening, less negative aspects of communication, and the study of verbal aggression is currently a dynamic sphere of linguistic
research. Though the phenomenon of verbal aggression is not new, the emergence of new media has possibly facilitated aggressive communication in the public sphere. Computer-mediated communication may allow participants to remain anonymous, which may then lower the threshold for attacks and provocations.
Miscommunication and verbal violence have been investigated in a range of texts in this volume: plays, literature, communication on different levels of the education system, the media, social media, politics and historical texts. Perspectives of several research traditions and approaches have been applied, such as those of sociolinguistics, translation studies, pragmatics, conversation analysis and discourse analysis. Modern technology is strongly represented in these
studies. The thematic division of the volume reflects the variation and diversity in the research frameworks and perspectives and the data that were used. The volume consists of three sections. The first section includes linguistic studies of the media and new technology, the second section focuses on diachronic approaches, and the third section includes a selection of papers connected by their focus on different
types of discourse in society.
Plenary lectures were given at the symposium by Professor Ruth Amossy (Tel-Aviv), Professor Derek Bousfield (Central Lancashire), Professor Arnulf Deppermann (Mannheim), Professor Tony McEnery (Lancaster), Professor Claudine Moïse (Grenoble 3) and Professor Monika Schwarz-Friesel (Berlin). The papers of Depperman and Amossy are published in this volume, and we thank the plenary
speakers for accepting our invitation to speak at the symposium. The contributions are available on the web page of the Modern Language Society (www.helsinki.fi/jarj/ufy) and on the conference web page (http://blogs.helsinki.fi/dialog3).
We would like to thank the following people for their invaluable help: Maria Paloheimo, the secretary of the organizing committee who was largely responsible for the practical aspects of conference organization; Tuuli Holttinen, who assisted in conference organization and in the publication process of this volume; Marja Ursin, the editorial secretary of the Modern Language Society who designed
the layout of the volume; and all the student assistants who made sure that the conference ran smoothly. We would also like to express our gratitude to the Emil Öhmann Foundation, the University of Helsinki, the city of Helsinki, the French Institute of Finland and the Federation of Finnish Learned Societies, without whose support this conference could not have been organized.
Helsinki, 10 June 2015
Ulla Tuomarla
Juhani Härmä
Liisa Tiittula
Anni Sairio
Maria Paloheimo
Johanna Isosävi