Repetition and Variation. Repetitive Patterns in Early Modern Conversations

Repetition is a basic cultural activity that occurs in all areas of human life and activity, including communication. This interdisciplinary conference explores the creativity of repetitive patterns of conversation in the early modern period.
Experts from history, linguistics, and literature will examine the tension between the apparent identity of repetition and its potential to creatively generate differences in various texts from the Middle Ages and the early modern period in German, Spanish, French, and English language and literature.
The fundamental linguistic and cultural functional contexts of this interrelationship of repetition and variation will be explored:
Are repetitive conversational patterns community-building or do they sharpen opposites? Is repetition an orienting principle of composition or does it have a destabilizing effect on speech constellations qua variation? Does it stand for continuity and consolidation of linguistic forms of expression or for the possibility of creative renewal?

We are very much looking forward to being able to engage in scientific exchange in a present, three-dimensional, genuine & in color.

Organizers: Prof. Dr. Nikola Roßbach and Prof. Dr. Angela Schrott

If you are interested in participating, please contact Nikola Roßbach by email: n.rossbach[at]uni-kassel[dot]de. Due to Corona regulations, the number of guests is unfortunately limited, even in the largest room of the conference venue.