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<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=880532217-23102003>For
your information</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=880532217-23102003></SPAN></FONT>Apologies for multiple
postings<BR><BR>International colloquium <B>PRAGMATIC
INTERFACES</B><BR>University of Geneva, February 12-14, 2004<BR><BR>Conference
announcement<BR><BR><U>AIM<BR></U><BR>The colloquium aims at addressing a range
of issues relating to the possible and impossible relations between current and
competing approaches in pragmatics and discourse analysis.<BR><BR><U>SCIENTIFIC
COORDINATION</U><BR><BR>Louis de Saussure & Peter Schulz<BR>University of
Geneva / University of Lugano<BR><BR><U>SPEAKERS<BR></DIV></U>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Lucida Sans'; FONT-SIZE: 9pt">Nicholas <B>ALLOTT</B>
(London)<BR>Nicholas <B>ASHER</B> (Austin)<BR>Antoine <B>AUCHLIN</B>
(Geneva)<BR>Alain <B>BERRENDONNER</B> (Fribourg)<BR>Diane <B>BLAKEMORE</B>
(Salford)<BR>Robyn <B>CARSTON</B> (London)<BR>Paul <B>CHILTON</B>
(Norwich)<BR>Paul <B>DANLER</B> (Innsbruck)<BR>Marc <B>DOMINICY</B>
(Brussels)<BR>Laurent <B>FILLIETTAZ</B> (Geneva)<BR>Hans <B>KAMP</B>
(Stuttgart)<BR>Jacques <B>MOESCHLER</B> (Geneva)<BR>Andrea <B>ROCCI</B>
(Lugano)<BR>Louis de <B>SAUSSURE</B> (Geneva)<BR>Peter <B>SCHULZ</B>
(Lugano)<BR>Frans <B>VAN EEMEREN</B> (Amsterdam / New York)<BR>Daniel
<B>VANDERVEKEN</B> (Québec)<BR>Deirdre <B>WILSON</B> (London)</SPAN><SPAN
lang=EN-GB style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Lucida Sans'; FONT-SIZE: 9pt"><BR>Ruth
<B>WODAK</B> (Vienna)</SPAN><BR></P><U>TOPICS<BR><BR></U>Pragmatic theories,
although they all focus on language in use, don't only oppose each-other through
methodology and epistemology, but also through their domain of study.<BR>Some
describe social interaction and consider discourse as a document for that task.
Others tackle the cognitive process of interpretation in context. Others discuss
semantic issues in discourse, argumentative processes, symbolic or semiotic
aspects of discourse, or various other psychological aspects of linguistic
practice.<BR>These oppositions result from profound epistemological
discrepancies that show how much the sciences of language are situated at the
crossroads of materialistic naturalistic methodologies and methods in social
sciences (which in turn are all but homogeneous, see the difference between
psychosocial approaches to speech acts and ethnomethodological conversational
pragmatics for example).<BR>It's crucial for the development of pragmatics that
researchers focus on these differences, but also on potential converging lines,
and, of course, to exploit them in the future. Here resides the main objective
of the colloquium.<BR>The main issues addressed by the colloquium are, among
others, the following:<BR>- Is an interface possible between any radical
pragmatic theory and any discourse analysis theory?<BR>- To what extent
macro-discursive phenomena can be tackled by radical pragmatics, in particular
discourse organisation, dialogue / interaction, and literature?<BR>- To what
degree of granularity meaning and reasoning integrate into models in discourse
analysis? And what kind of theory of meaning is (potentially) used by theories
in discourse analysis?<BR>- Is there a path towards an interplay between
theories that consider cognition as individual and approaches that assume facts
of "collective" cognition?<BR>- Is it necessary to posit strict limits for each
kind of approach, or should we consider that they are competing on a unique and
exclusive domain?<BR>- What are the view of scholars in related fields such as
syntax, semantics, philosophy of language and psychology?<BR><BR>The colloquium
will be held in English and French.<BR><FONT color=#000000><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="COLOR: rgb(0,51,0); FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 9pt"><BR></SPAN></FONT><U>PRACTICAL
INFORMATION</U><BR><BR>- The conference will take place in auditorium S 160,
campus Uni-Mail, Boulevard Carl-Vogt, Geneva.<BR>- Conference website: <A
class=moz-txt-link-freetext
href="http://www.unige.ch/lettres/latl/interfaces/index.html">http://www.unige.ch/lettres/latl/interfaces/index.html</A><BR>-
Free admission<BR>- Contact person: <A class=moz-txt-link-abbreviated
href="mailto:Mihaela.Popa@lettres.unige.ch">Mihaela.Popa@lettres.unige.ch</A><BR><BR>The
program of the colloquium will be available on the website in due
time.<BR><BR>Louis de Saussure & Peter Schulz<BR><A
class=moz-txt-link-abbreviated
href="mailto:Louis.deSaussure@lettres.unige.ch">Louis.deSaussure@lettres.unige.ch</A>
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