ISLP 99 SCHEDULE

Symposium Venue: Boromrajakumari Building

First Floor Registration

Seventh Floor Coffee & Tea Breaks; Lunches; Welcoming Reception

A Room 601 Paper Sessions
B Room 707 Paper Sessions
C Room 708 Paper Sessions
D Room 503 Plenary Sessions (Invited Lectures & Concluding Session)

Welcoming Reception: 7 Dec 199, 18.00-21.00

Symposium Dinner: 8 Dec 1999, 18.00-21.00

Early Registration : 6 Dec 1999, 14.00-17.00, at the first floor of Boromrajakumari Building (only for participants who have already paid the fees)

7 DECEMBER 1999

7.30-8.15    Registration
8.30-8.45    Report by the Dean of Faculty of Arts
8.45-9.15    Opening Address by the President of Chulalongkorn University
9.15-10.30   Invited Lecture
             Sachiko Ide, "How and why honorifics can signify dignity and/or grace:
                Indexicality and reflexivity of linguistic rituals"
10.30-11.00 Break
11.00-12.00 Parallel Sessions
             Session A1: Modals & Diminutives
             Peter Collins, "Modality and politeness in Australian English"
             Martha Mendoza, "Polite diminutives in Spanish: Is it a matter of size"
                 Session B1: Crossing Cultures (1)
             Chris Conlan, "Structuring politeness: Face threatening acts, primary
                face threatening acts, and the managing of discourse"
             Jonathan Leather, "Politeness in a non-native language: Constraints
                on acquisition and instruction"
             Session C1: Socio-cultural Notions
             Herman Hendriks, "Linguistic politeness and the civilizing process"
             Mark Le, "Privacy: Intercultural problems"
12.00-13.00 Lunch
13.00-14.30 Parallel Sessions
                 Session A2: Indirectness
             Alexandra Kallia, "Indirectness as a source of misunderstanding in the
                communication between Europeans: The case of requests and
                suggestions"
             Deeyu Srinarawat, "Indirectness as a communicative politeness
                strategy of Thai speakers"
             Nicola Schmidt-Renfree,"Politeness - The indirect expression of
                    social values through ritualization: Studies of thankers' and thankees'
                    verbal strategies"
                 Session B2: Novel Areas of Exploration
             Yibing Zhao, "Politeness in international business cooperation"
             Rudoft Reinelt, "Politeness and new communicative virtues in Japan"
                 Seamus Cooney, "Politeness in some English poems"
                 Session C2: Theoretical approaches
             Marina Terkourafi, "The expression of politeness in Cypriot Greek:
                An argument for a frame-based approach"
             Rome Chiranukrom, "Politeness, activity types and role-relation"
             Andre Wlodarczyk, "Towards an unified theory of person and respect"
14.30-15.00 Break
15.00-16.30 Parallel Sessions
             Session A3: Interactions in Thai Communities
             Thom Huebner, "Politeness forms and language maintenance in a Thai
                expatriate community"
             Isara Choosri, "One woman, many faces: Thai female's switching of
                self-reference as a politeness strategy"
             William Clark, "Face expectations in the Thai classroom"
             Session B3: Discursive Practices
             Chairat Permpikul & Chotiros Permpikul, "Doctors' politeness
                    strategies in breaking news"
                 Peansiri Vongvipanond, "I know it's my turn but you can speak anyway"
                 Session C3: Arguments on "Face"
             Leela Bilmes Goldstein, "Thai face: A challenge to Brown and
                Levinson"
             Yoshiko Matsumura & Kyoko Chinami, "Politeness in Japanese
                conversation between people with different social ranking: A
                discourse-based review of Brown and Levinson"
             Ken Turner, "Wx = D(S,H) + P(H,S) + Rx"
18.00-20.00 Welcoming Reception

8 DECEMBER 1999
9.15-10.30 Invited Lecture
             Bruce Fraser, "Pragmatics, politeness, and perlocutions"
10.30-11.00 Break
11.00-12.00 Session A4: On Thai "Face"
             Wilaiwan Khanittanan, "The changing 'faces' of Thai politeness"
                 Margaret Ukosakul, "The significance of 'face' in social interaction as
                    revealed through the analysis of Thai 'face' idioms"
                 Session B4: Making Requests
             Masako Tsuzuki, Kazuhiro Takahashi, Cathy Patchke, and Qin
                Zhang, "A cross-cultural look at requests benefiting the addressee: U.S.
                and China"
                Chayada Thanavisuth, "Making requests by native speakers of Thai"
                 Session C4: Theoretical Perspectives
             Alan Hyun-Oak Kim, Another face of Brown & Levinson's FACE:
                Some honorific principles in Japanese"
             Mayumi Usami, "On the notion of "discourse politeness": Based on
                the analyses of Japanese conversations"
12.00-13.00 Lunch
13.00-14.30 Parallel Sessions
             Session A5: Forms and Strategies in SEA Languages (1)
             Sophana Srichampa, "Vietnamese politeness"
             Suwilai Premsrirat, "Politeness in Khmu culture"
                 Jacqueline Huggins," Linguistic etiquette of confrontation and other
                    situations as practiced in the Philippines"
                 Session B5: Cyberpoliteness
             Chao-chih Liao, "Emailing politeness: Chinese, German and the USA
                discourse analysis"
             Robert Fouser, and Chungmin Lee, "Honorific usage in Korean
                computer-mediated communication: Toward a new definition of
                politeness"
             Krisadawan Hongladarom and Soraj Hongladarom, "Politeness
                ideology in computer-mediated communication: A look at pantip.com"
             Session C5: Cognition and Processing
             Sudaporn Luksaneeyanawin, "The cognition of politeness: A study of
                lexical concepts"
             Tamotsu Shirado, and Hitoshi Isahara, "A computational model for
                politeness: Changes in politeness by adding word endings"
14.30-15.00 Break
15.00-16.30 Parallel Sessions
             Session A6: Personal Reference
             Andrew Barke, and Satoshi Uehara, "Working on politeness:
                Strategies in the maintenance of politeness in Japanese second
                person reference"
             Stephen Nolan, "Lexically marked politeness in Standard Japanese
                personal referentials"
             Anders Ahlqvist, "Forms of address in Swedish and Irish"
             Session B6: Child Language
             Chotiros Permpikul, "Positive politeness in Thai preschoolers"
             Bella Leung, "Polite usage of terms of address versus personal
                    pronouns in bilingual children"
                 Harriet Dunbar, "A study of speech acts of "child" politeness"
                 Session C6: Cross-cultural Strategies
             Suraiya Mohd Ali, "Linguistic politeness in intercultural
                communication"
             Ekaterini Kouletaki, "Universality of politeness strategies: A
                comparison between male speakers of English and Greek, and female
                speakers of English and Greek"
             Anju Saxena, "Politeness in Kinnauri and cross-cultural translation"
18.00-21.00 Symposium Dinner

9 DECEMBER 1999
9.15-10.30 Invited Lecture
             Robin Lakoff, "Civility and its discontents"
10.30-11.00 Break
11.00-12.00 Parallel Sessions
                 Session A7: Particles in Tai
             Amara Prasithrathsint, "Syntactic distribution and communicative
                function of the /kh/ polite particles in Thai"
             Guihua Lu, and Margaret Milliken, "Politeness and sentence-final
                particles in Wuming Zhuang"
             Session B7: Forms and Strategies in SEA Languages (2)
             Lakhana Daoratanahong, "Linguistic and cultural politeness in Lisu"
             Trinh Sam, "Some remarks on polite manner in Vietnamese language"
             Session C7: The Thai Ways
             Nuttaporn Panpothong, "Thai ways of saying "no" to a request"
             Voravudhi Chirasombutti, "Refinement: One way of expressing
                    politeness - A case study of self-reference pronouns in Japanese and
                    Thai"
12.00-13.00 Lunch
13.00-14.30 Parallel Sessions
             Session A8: Formulaic Speech
             Chikako Sakurai, and Megumi Yoshida, "Japanese honorifics as a
                marker of sociocultural identity: A view from non-western
                perspectives"
             Therasa Savage, "The politeness of visiting in Japanese"
             Makiko Takekuro, "Formulaic speech and social conventions in
                linguistic politeness of Japanese
             Session B8: Rudeness
             Derek Bousfield and Jonathan Culpeper, "Putting impoliteness in
                context: Offensive and defensive phenomena in car parking disputes"
             Josef Szakos, "When rudeness means "You are welcome": Politeness in
                Tsou and other aboriginal languages of Taiwan"
             Bahaa-Edd M. Mazid, "Impolitely speaking: Insults in an upper
                Egyptian community"
             Session C8: Crossing Cultures (2)
             Robert K. Herbert, "Complimenting In Five Cultures: Form, Function
                And Frequency Of A Speech Event"
             Pranee Chokkajitsumpun, "Politeness strategies in Chinese greeting
                (Chinese & American cases)"
             Roger Everett, "Terms of address and face in a bilingual, multicultural
                educational environment"
15.00-16.30 Concluding Session