Conference: 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?

Conference from 11 to 14 October 2021

Organization:
Prof. Dr. Nikola Roßbach, Kassel
Prof. Dr. Angela Schrott, Kassel

Venue:
Evangelische Tagungsstätte Hofgeismar
Gesundbrunnen 8
34369 Hofgeismar