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