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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:"Times
New Roman"">Abstracts
are invited for a panel on<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">
</b><b>“The
Pragmatic Role of Elements at Right Periphery”</b> to be
organized during IPra 13
in New Delhi, India, September 8-13, 2013.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Conveners</span></b><span
style="mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:"Times
New Roman"">Liesbeth
Degand (University of Louvain at Louvain-la-Neuve)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:"Times
New Roman"">Elizabeth
Closs Traugott (Stanford University)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In
recent years attention has begun to be paid to “right periphery”
(RP) phenomena,
as two threads of inquiry have developed: study of discourse
structure,
especially its pragmatics (starting with Schiffrin 1987), and
syntactic
cartography (starting with Cinque 1999). Compared to left
periphery (LP) phenomena,
right periphery phenomena have received little attention (but see
Van der
Wouden and Foolen 2011).</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The aim
of the panel is to build on and test proposals that LP and RP have
different
functions (Beeching and Detges In preparation), especially the
proposal that
the role of RP is to mark turn-yielding and that it is likely to
be
intersubjective and dialogic in the sense that the speaker
positions their
utterance against anticipated contributions of other speakers.
This raises the
question of what type of linguistic expressions and/or
constructions may occur
in right peripheral position.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The
focus of the panel will be the following set of questions:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:"Times
New Roman";
color:#0D0D0D">a) How can RP be defined? How should distinctions
be made
between elements within argument structure (e.g.
question-markers at RP, right
dislocations) and those “outside” it and often disjunct (e.g.
pragmatic markers,
comment clauses, tags)?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:"Times
New Roman";
color:#0D0D0D">b) What sorts of functions are expressed at RP?
Van der Wouden
and Foolen (2011) find modal, focus, some connective particles,
and repairs at
RP in Dutch. Is this set language-specific or
cross-linguistically robust for
elements at RP?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:"Times
New Roman";
color:#0D0D0D">c) Are any functions not expressable at LP (tags
in English, Dutch
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">hoor</i> ‘hear’ (warning
or reassuring),
French punctuating quoi ‘what’)? Are any LP functions not
expressable at RP?
What does this suggest about functions at LP and RP?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:"Times
New Roman"">d) What
generalizations can be made about how elements at RP arise
historically? Does
use of an expression at RP always entail subjectification (as
defined in Traugott
2010)?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We
welcome abstracts that address the questions posed for the panel
from a range
of theoretical perspectives, based on spoken and written data. We
are
particularly interested in receiving abstracts that provide
evidence from
languages of the Middle East and from the Indian and African
contents, in
addition to the east Asian and European languages that have been
the focus of
much recent research in pragmatics. Abstracts should be about 500
words long
plus data examples and references. They should specify which of
the questions
a) – d) will be addressed, what type of theoretical perspective
will be adopted
(e.g. discourse analytic, cartographical), and what kinds of data
will be used
(e.g., conversational (spoken), represented conversation
(written), synchronic,
diachronic).</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Consistent
with IPra requirements, abstracts should be sent to both panel
organizers (<a href="mailto:Liesbeth.Degand@uclouvain.be">Liesbeth.Degand@uclouvain.be</a>,
<a href="mailto:traugott@stanford.edu">traugott@stanford.edu</a>)
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">by October 15<sup>th</sup>
2012.</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:"Times
New Roman"">If
accepted by the convene<a name="_GoBack"></a>rs, they will need
to be submitted
on-line individually by <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">November
1<sup>st</sup>
2012</b>: “</span><span
style="mso-bidi-font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:
"Times New Roman"">Though it is the panel organizer(s)
who take(s) active
responsibility for the quality of the contributions to their
panel (i.e. they
decide what is accepted), abstracts should, for all <b><u>panel
contributions</u></b>, be
submitted <i>by the individual contributors separately</i> by
the <u>1
November 2012</u><span style="color:#FA00FF"> </span>deadline
that will be
handled for individual submissions (see below)” (<a
href="http://ipra.ua.ac.be/main.aspx?c=.CONFERENCE13&n=1443">http://ipra.ua.ac.be/main.aspx?c=.CONFERENCE13&n=1443</a>).</span><span
style="mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">
Presenters of papers at IPra 13
must be members of IPra.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">References</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Beeching,
Kate and Ulrich
Detges, eds. In preparation. Papers from IPra 12, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">Cinque,
Giulielmo. 1999. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Adverbs
and Functional
Heads: A Cross-Linguistic Perspective.</i> Oxford: OUP.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in;tab-stops:.5in"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Schiffrin,
Deborah. 1987. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Discourse
Markers</i>. Cambridge: CUP<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Traugott,
Elizabeth Closs. 2010.
Revisiting subjectification and intersubjectification. In
Kristin Davidse,
Lieven Vandelanotte & Hubert Cuyckens, eds., <i>Subjectification,
Intersubjectification
and Grammaticalization, </i>29-70. Berlin: De Gruyter
Mouton. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Van
der Wouden, Ton and Ad
Foolen. 2011. Dutch particles in the right periphery. </span><a
href="http://www.tonvanderwouden.nl/index_files/papers/fipa-2011-05b.pdf"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">http://www.tonvanderwouden.nl/index_files/papers/fipa-2011-05b.pdf</span></a>
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Liesbeth Degand
Head of Institute for Language and Communication
Université catholique de Louvain
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