[Corpora-List] Workshop on "Crosslinguistic studies on Discourse and Multimodal Communication: Cognitive and Functional Perspectives"

Wed Nov 10 23:10:39 UTC 2010

Please, circulate among potentially interested colleagues.
Best,
J. Lavid

(apologies for multiple postings)

CALL FOR PAPERS

Cross-linguistic Studies on Discourse and Multimodal Communication: 
Cognitive and Functional Perspectives

Workshop Proposal

To be held within the 44th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica 
Europaea (SLE)
(University of La Rioja at Logroño –Spain, 8-11 September 2011) 
http://sle2011.cilap.es/

Convenors: 
Julia Lavid López & Juana Marín Arrese 			Erich Steiner 
Universidad Complutense de Madrid	    		Universität des Saarlandes

The aim of the workshop is to bring together corpus-based cross-
linguistic work on discourse and multimodal communication from 
cognitive and functional perspectives. Our purpose is to integrate and 
synthesize a number of theoretical, applied and methodological 
challenges arising from the cross-linguistic analysis of discourse, 
focusing mainly, but not exclusively, on the following topics:

•	Evidentiality and modality: discourse-pragmatic perspectives
The workshop welcomes recent cross-linguistic and corpus-based studies 
on evidentiality and modality, focusing on issues of pragmatics and 
discourse analysis. Epistemic modality pertains to speaker/writer’s 
knowledge concerning the event, and thus involves estimations of the 
likelihood of the realization of the event. Evidentiality pertains to 
the sources of knowledge whereby information is acquired, and may thus 
indicate speaker/writer’s attitude towards the validity of the 
communicated proposition (Chafe & Nichols 1986; van der Auwera and 
Plungian 1998; de Haan 1999; Dendale and Tasmowski 2001; Plungian 2001; 
Carretero 2004; Marín-Arrese 2004; Aikhenvald 2004, inter alia).

•	Evaluation and Stancetaking resources in discourse
The expression of beliefs, emotions, desires, or the way we align or 
disalign with particular positions or information advanced by others in 
social interaction has been studied under the various labels of stance, 
affect, assessment, evaluation, or attitude and engagement within 
Appraisal Theory (Ochs 1990, Biber and Finegan 1989; Thompson and 
Hunston 2000; Martin and White 2005, inter alia). This workshop aims to 
study the multifaceted nature of stance, focusing mainly on the 
phenomena of evaluation, subjectivity, and positioning in discourse 
(Martin and White 2005; Du Bois 2007; Englebretson 2007; Marín-Arrese 
2009).

•	Cohesion, staging and prominence in discourse
We welcome cross-linguistic studies showing a systematic variation 
between two or more languages in the area of cohesion (Halliday and 
Hasan 1976, Hansen-Schirra et al. 2007), staging (Grimes 1975) and 
other perspectivizing strategies (Langacker 1990), as well as in the 
behaviour of related categories such as Topic, Theme, Focus, Given & 
New Information (Hasselgård et al. 2002; Lavid 2010; Lavid, Arús and 
Moratón 2009; Lavid, Arús and Zamorano-Mansilla 2010; Hannay and 
Martinez Caro 2008; Steiner 2005, inter alia). 

•	Multimodal communication. 
Language rarely stands alone in written and spoken discourses, but it 
usually combines with other semiotic systems in the creation of 
multimodal documents (Bateman 2008; Ventola and Moya Guijarro 2009). We 
are interested in crosslinguistic studies which analyse and highlight 
the importance of cultural and social aspects in the use of 
multisemiotic resources in documents using methods drawn from cognitive 
and functional linguistics. 

Information and instructions:
- All presentations will be 20 minutes plus 10 minutes for questions. 
- Contributors interested in taking part in this workshop are kindly 
invited to contact Julia Lavid (lavid at filol.ucm.es), Juana Marín 
(juana at filol.ucm.es), and Erich Steiner (e.steiner at mx.uni-saarland.de), 
and send their name, affiliation and a provisional title by 12 November 
2010.
- If the present workshop proposal is accepted, abstracts should be 
submitted to SLE, via the conference website (http: //sle2011.cilap.
es/) by 15 January 2011.

Important Dates (Summary):
- Submission of provisional title: 12 November 2010.
- Notification of acceptance of workshop proposal: 15th December 2010.
- If the workshop proposal is accepted then all abstracts will need to 
be submitted to SLE by 15th January 2011, via the SLE conference 
website: http://sle2011.cliap.es
- Notification of acceptance: 31st March 2011
- Registration: From April 2011 onwards
- Conference: 8-11 September 2011

(apologies for multiple postings)

References:

Aikhenvald, A. (2004). Evidentiality. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Bateman, J. (2008). Multimodality and Genre: A Foundation for the 
Systematic Analysis of Multimodal Documents. Palgrave Macmillan.
Carretero, M. (2004). The role of evidentiality and epistemic modality 
in three English spoken texts from legal proceeedings. In: J. Marín 
Arrese (ed.) Perspectives on Evidentiality and Modality. Madrid: 
Editorial Complutense. 25-62.
Chafe, W. (1986). Evidentiality in English Conversation and Academic 
Writing. In: W. L. Chafe and Joanna Nichols (eds.) Evidentiality: the 
Linguistic Coding of Epistemology. Norwood, New Jersey: Ablex 
Publishing Corporation. 261-272.
Dendale, P. and L. Tasmowski (2001). Introduction: Evidentiality and 
related notions. Journal of Pragmatics 33: 339-348.
DuBois, J.W. (2007) The stance triangle. In: R. Englebretson (ed.) 
Stancetaking in Discourse. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 139-182.
Englebretson, R. (ed.) (2007). Stancetaking in Discourse. Amsterdam: 
John Benjamins.
Grimes, J. (1975). The Thread of Discourse. The Hague: Mouton. 
de Haan, F. (1999) Evidentiality and epistemic modality: Setting 
boundaries. Southwest Journal of Linguistics 18: 83-101.
Halliday, M.A.K. & Hasan, R. (1976). Cohesion in English. London, 
Longman.
Hannay M. & E. Martinez Caro (2008). Last things first: A FDG approach 
to clause-final focus constituents in Spanish and English. In Gómez 
González et al. (eds.), Languages and Cultures in Contrast and 
Comparison. John Benjamins. 33-68.
Hansen-Schirra, S., Neumann, S., and E. Steiner (2007).  “Cohesion 
and 
	Explicitation in an English-German Translation Corpus”, in:  
Languages in 	Contrast  7:2. 2007. pp. 241-265. 
Hasselgård, H. et al. (eds.) (2002). Information Structure in a Cross-
Linguistic Perspective. Rodopi.
Langacker, R. W. (1990). Subjectification. Cognitive Linguistics 1: 5-
38. Revised version as Chapter 12 (pp. 315.342) of Concept, Image, and 
Symbol: The Cognitive Basis of Grammar. Mouton de Gruyter.
Lavid, J. (2010). Contrasting choices in clause-initial position in 
English and Spanish: a corpus-based study. In Elizabeth Swain (ed.) 
Thresholds and Potentialities of Systemic Functional Linguistics: 
Multilingual, Multimodal and Other Specialised Discourses. Trieste: 
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Lavid, J., Arús, J and L. Moratón (2009). Comparison and Translation: 
Towards a Combined Methodology for Contrastive Corpus Studies. 
International Journal of English Studies (Special issue on Recent and 
Applied Corpus-Based Studies): 159-173. 
Lavid, J., Arús, J., and JR Zamorano-Mansilla (2010). Systemic-
functional grammar of Spanish: a contrastive study with English. 
London: Continuum. 
Marín Arrese, J. (2004). Evidential and epistemic qualifications in 
the discourse of fact and opinion: A comparable corpus study. In: J. 
Marín Arrese (ed.) Perspectives on Evidentiality and Modality. Madrid: 
Editorial Complutense. 153-184.
Marín Arrese, J. (2009). Effective vs. Epistemic Stance, and 
Subjectivity/ Intersubjectivity in Political Discourse. A Case Study. 
In: A. Tsangalidis and R. Facchinetti (eds.) Studies on English 
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Insights, Studies in Language and Communication, Vol. 111. Berlin: 
Peter Lang. 23-52.
Martin, J.R. and P.R. White (2005) The Language of Evaluation: 
Appraisal in English. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Ochs, E. and B. Schieffelin (1989) Language has a heart. In: E. Ochs 
(ed.) The Pragmatics of Affect, special issue of Text 9: 7-25.
Steiner, E.  2005. Some properties of texts in terms of ‘information 
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Plungian, V. (2001) The place of evidentiality within the universal 
grammatical space. Journal of Pragmatics 33: 349-357.
Thompson, G. and S. Hunston (2000) Evaluation: An Introduction. In: S. 
Hunston and G. Thompson (eds.) Evaluation in Text: Authorial Stance and 
the Construction of Discourse. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1-27.
van der Auwera, J. and V. Plungian (1998) Modality's semantic map. 
Linguistic Typology 2.1: 79-124.
Ventola, E. and Moya Guijarro (eds) (2009). The world told and the 
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