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

日本演讲风格转变研讨会将汇集来自语言学，社会学和人类学的大约20位领先学者，他们正在对日语中自然发生的互动中的风格“转变”进行开创性的工作。参与者来自美国和国外的各种领先机构，是该领域的杰出研究人员和年轻学者的结合，他们可能在不久的将来对这个快速发展的领域产生重大影响。与会者将提交预先分发的文件。这样就可以对每一份文件进行较长时间的详细讨论。还将举办一个讲习班，专门审查和讨论预先分发的一套数据。研讨会的具体目标是：1）确定哪些语言变体倾向于用于风格转换，以及风格转换现象的普遍程度，2）确定演讲风格转换的原因，3）提高我们对研讨会上所代表的各个学科提供风格转换研究的认识，（4）探讨言语风格的变化对理解语法、互动和社会组织的本质的意义;（5）探讨由此理解的风格变化对日语学习和教学的意义。专题讨论会的结果将作为编辑成册出版。

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.