Japanese Speech Style Shift Symposium, March 7-10, 2002, Tucson, AZ

日语语音风格转换研讨会将汇集来自语言学、社会学和人类学的约20位知名学者，他们在日语自然互动中的风格转换方面进行了开创性的工作。参与者来自美国和海外的多个顶尖机构，他们是该领域的知名研究人员和年轻学者的组合，他们可能在不久的将来对这一快速增长的领域产生重大影响。与会者将提交预先分发的文件。这将允许对每篇论文进行相对冗长和详细的讨论。还将举办一次讲习班，专门审查和讨论预先分发的一组数据。本次研讨会的具体目标是：1)确定哪些语言种类倾向于风格转换，以及风格转换现象的普遍程度；2)找出演讲风格转换的原因；3)提高我们对研讨会所代表的不同学科对风格转换研究的认识；4)探索演讲风格转换对我们理解语法、互动和社会组织的本质的影响；5)寻求我们对风格转换的理解对日语学习和教学的影响。研讨会的结果将以编辑过的卷的形式出版。

The Japanese Speech Style Shift Symposium will bring together approximately 20 leading scholars from linguistics, sociology, and anthropology who are doing groundbreaking work on in style 'shifting' in naturally occurring interactions in Japanese. The participants, who come from a variety of leading institutions in the United States and abroad, are a combination of prominent researchers in this area and younger scholars who are likely to have a major impact on this rapidly-growing field in the near future. The participants will present papers which have been pre-circulated. This will allow for a relatively lengthy and detailed discussion of each paper. There will also be a workshop devoted to examining and discussing a pre-circulated set of data. Specific goals for the symposium are 1) to determine what varieties of language tend to be used for style shifting and how pervasive the phenomenon of style shifting is, 2) to identify reasons for speech style shifts, 3) to improve our awareness of what the various disciplines represented at the symposium have to offer the study of style shifting, 4) to explore the implications speech style shifts have for our understanding of the nature of grammar, interaction, and social organization, and 5) to seek the implications our resulting understanding of style shifting has for the learning and teaching of the Japanese language. The results of the symposium will be published as an edited volume.