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Laure SARDA<br>
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Linguistic and Psycholinguistic Approaches to Text Structuring (LPTS
2009), September 21-23 2009, Ecole Normale Supérieure, 45 rue d’Ulm,
75005 Paris, France<br>
1st call for papers<br><br>
The aim of the conference is to provide an interdisciplinary forum to
present and discuss recent work on markers of discourse structure:
adverbials, connectives, discourse particles, etc. How can we categorize
these markers? What kind of relations do they express? Can they combine
several functions at the sentence level and/ or at the discourse level
and, if so, which ones? What impact do discourse structure markers have
on comprehension? When and how are they acquired? From what age are
children able to master their use in oral and written discourse?<br>
The goal of the conference is more specifically to advance research into
the relationship between the position of the markers concerned and their
ability to play a role in discourse organization. Do these markers have a
privileged position? We know that sentence initial position is a
strategic position in terms of information structuring/packaging and
memory. But can these factors override the word order constraints of each
language? Are there also observable variations between discourse genres
and between written and oral modes? <br>
We invite papers using cognitive and functional approaches, based on
corpora in different languages at different stages of their evolution, as
well as papers that report on psycholinguistic approaches based on
behavioural data.<br><br>
TOPICS MAY INCLUDE, BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO, THE FOLLOWING:<br>
- Segmentation and linearization<br>
- Initial positioning<br>
- Saliency and Information Structure<br>
- Grammaticalization and evolution of structure markers <br>
- Typological approach to structure markers <br>
- Spatial and temporal discourse structure<br>
- Effects of discourse organization markers on comprehension<br>
- Acquisition and mastery of their use in discourse production <br>
- Role of text structuring devices in acquiring knowledge<br><br>
INVITED SPEAKERS:<br>
- Peter Crompton (American University of Sharjah, United Arab
Emirates)<br>
- Tuomas Huumo (University of Turku, Finland)<br>
- Tuija Virtanen (Åbo Akademi University Department Of English,
Finland)<br>
- Isabelle Tapiéro (University of Lyon 2 – EMC, France)<br>
- Yves Bestgen (FNRS - UCL, Belgium – on behalf of the psycholinguistic
group of the project Spatial Framing Adverbials)<br><br>
SUBMISSION INFORMATION<br>
Abstracts will be submitted to a double, blind review. They should be
fully anonymous and not exceed 1000 words (references excluded). To be
sent via email as attachment (MS-WORD doc, rtf, or PDF) to:
LPTSO9@ens.fr<br>
Please put in the subject line: “LPTS09_submission”. In the body of the
mail, please specify:<br>
author(s); title; affiliation of author(s); presentation or poster; 3 - 5
keywords<br><br>
IMPORTANT DATES <br>
Submission deadline: May 15th 2009<br>
Notification of acceptance: June 15th 2009<br>
Early registration deadline: July 10th 2009<br>
Conference: September 21-23, 2009.<br><br>
REGISTRATION <br>
Details about the registration procedure will be posted on the conference
web site as soon as they become available.<br><br>
REGISTRATION FEES <br>
Regular fee (participants/audience) : 80 euros / late registration
100euros (after July 10, 2009). <br>
Students : 40 euros Students / late registration 60 euros (after July 10,
2009). <br><br>
OFFICIAL LANGUAGES : English, French<br><br>
CONFERENCE WEB SITE:
<a href="http://www.lattice.cnrs.fr/Linguistic-and-Psycholinguistic?lang=en" eudora="autourl">
http://www.lattice.cnrs.fr/Linguistic-and-Psycholinguistic?lang=en<br><br>
</a>ORGANISING COMMITTEE:<br>
Laure Sarda, Jeanne Aptekman, Benjamin Fagard (LATTICE, UMR 8094 CNRS
& ENS)<br>
Shirley Carter Thomas (Institut Télécom (Paris Sud), LATTICE, UMR 8094
CNRS & ENS)<br>
Michel Charolles (Université Paris 3, LATTICE, UMR 8094 CNRS &
ENS)<br><br>
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE<br>
David Banks, University of 'Bretagne Occidentale', France <br>
Bergljot Behrens, University of Oslo, Norway<br>
Yves Bestgen, Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research, UCL,
Belgium<br>
Andrée Borillo, University of Toulouse Le Mirail (CLLE-ERSS), France<br>
Bernard Combettes, University of Nancy 2 (ATILF), France<br>
Francis Cornish, University of Toulouse Le Mirail (CLLE-ERSS),
France<br>
Trine Dahl, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration
(NHH), Norway<br>
Liesbeth Degand, Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research, UCL
(CETIS), Belgium<br>
Catherine Fabricius-Hansen, University of Oslo, Norway<br>
Kjersti Flottum, University of Bergen, Norway<br>
Catherine Fuchs, CNRS & ENS (LATTICE), France<br>
Claude Guimier, University of Caen (CRISCO), France<br>
Mervi Helkkula, University of Helsinki, Finland<br>
Agata Jackiewicz ,University of Paris 4-La Sobornne, France<br>
Béatrice Lamiroy, KULeuven, Belgium<br>
Anne Le Draoulec, CNRS & University of Toulouse Le Mirail
(CLLE-ERSS), France<br>
Lita Lundquist, Copenhagen Business School, Danemark<br>
Christiane Marchello-Nizia, ENS Lyon (ICAR), France<br>
Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen, Univesity of Manchester, United Kingdom<br>
Franck Neveu, University of Caen (CRISCO), France<br>
Henning Nølke, University of Aarhus, Danemark<br>
Marie-Paule Péry-Woodley, University of Toulouse Le Mirail (CLLE-ERSS),
France<br>
Paola Pietrandrea, University of Roma tre, Italie<br>
Sophie Prévost, CNRS & ENS (LATTICE), France<br>
Laurent Rouveyrol, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, France<br>
Elizabeth Rowley-Jolivet, University of Orléans, France<br>
Ted Sanders, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands.<br>
Catherine Schnedecker, University Strasbourg II, France<br>
Wilbert Spooren, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.<br>
Denis Vigier, University of Lyon 2 (ICAR), France<br><br>
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Laure Sarda<br>
Chargé de Recherches au CNRS<br>
LATTICE UMR 8094 CNRS & ENS<br>
1 rue Maurice Arnoux<br>
F-92120 Montrouge<br><br>
tel. 00 33 (0)1 58 07 66 21<br>
fax. 00 33 (0)1 58 07 66 29<br>
mail. laure.sarda@ens.fr<br>
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http://www.lattice.cnrs.fr/Laure-Sarda,153<br><br>
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