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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Dear list
members,<o:p></o:p></SPAN></DIV>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">This is a call for
abstracts for a panel on “Pragmatic aspects of discourse coherence” which will
be organized during the 12<SUP>th</SUP> International Pragmatics conference in
Manchester (July, 3<SUP>rd</SUP> – 8<SUP>th</SUP>, 2011) by Helmut Gruber
(Vienna) and Gisela Redeker (Groningen):<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 17pt">Pragmatic aspects
of discourse coherence<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Organizers: Helmut
Gruber (Vienna) & Gisela Redeker (Groningen)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Investigations of
discourse coherence have played an important role in discourse research for at
least the last three decades. Within this research tradition, the investigation
of coherence relations has lead to the proposal of various coherence models
which view coherence as the result of an interplay between textual clues,
(analysts' assumptions of) writers'/ speakers' intentions, cognitive,
situational, rhetorical and/ or generic constraints etc. (Asher &
Lascarides, 2003; Spooren & Sanders, 2008; Taboada & Mann, 2006a,
2006b). <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">
Despite the long tradition of coherence research, there is still disagreement
concerning basic questions such the relationship between generic structures and
coherence structures (to which extent do they depend on each other or are they
independent of each other?), the relation between signals of surface cohesion
(e.g. theme-rheme structures, lexical cohesion) and "underlying" coherence
structures, the signaling of coherence structures on different text/ discourse
levels (global vs. local coherence), etc. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">In addition, the
emergence of new genres in the new media and the possibility of combining
different semiotic modes in hypertexts calls for new approaches that also take
into account coherence relations between different modes of discourse such as
coherence between visual and verbal elements of texts (see Bateman, 2008) or
coherence between sound, film sequences, and verbal and textual elements
(Huemer, 2010). <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">
The proposed panel aims at bringing together researchers from different
approaches to relational coherence, in order to present and discuss their recent
research. We envisage two 90-minute sessions with three presentations each and
room for discussion. One of the sessions will focus specifically on
multimodality.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Presentations are
invited on the following topics:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P
style="TEXT-INDENT: -18pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 19.6pt; VERTICAL-ALIGN: middle; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1"
class=MsoNormal><![if !supportLists]><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; FONT-SIZE: 10pt" lang=DE><SPAN
style="mso-list: Ignore">·<SPAN
style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><![endif]><SPAN lang=DE>coherence, cohesion, and
genre</SPAN><SPAN lang=DE><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P
style="TEXT-INDENT: -18pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 19.6pt; VERTICAL-ALIGN: middle; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1"
class=MsoNormal><![if !supportLists]><SPAN
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style="mso-list: Ignore">·<SPAN
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</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><![endif]>signalling of coherence relations<o:p></o:p></P>
<P
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class=MsoNormal><![if !supportLists]><SPAN
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style="mso-list: Ignore">·<SPAN
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</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><![endif]><SPAN lang=DE>coherence in multimodal
discourse<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1.6pt; VERTICAL-ALIGN: middle"
class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1.6pt; VERTICAL-ALIGN: middle" class=MsoNormal>Important
dates:<o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1.6pt; VERTICAL-ALIGN: middle" class=MsoNormal>Sept. 1,
2010 send abstracts (500 words) to <A
href="mailto:helmut.k.gruber@univie.ac.at">Helmut Gruber</A><o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1.6pt; VERTICAL-ALIGN: middle" class=MsoNormal>Oct. 1,
2010 notification of
acceptance/rejection<o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1.6pt; VERTICAL-ALIGN: middle" class=MsoNormal>Oct. 29,
2010 authors must have submitted their abstracts
to IPrA (n.b.: IPrA membership required!)<o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1.6pt; VERTICAL-ALIGN: middle" class=MsoNormal>July 3-8,
2011 IPrA Conference, Manchester<o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1.6pt; VERTICAL-ALIGN: middle"
class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><B>References</B><B><o:p></o:p></B></P>
<P style="TEXT-INDENT: -36pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt" class=MsoNormal>Asher,
Nicholas, & Lascarides, Alex (2003). <I>Logics of conversation</I>.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.<I><o:p></o:p></I></P>
<P style="TEXT-INDENT: -36pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt" class=MsoNormal>Bateman, John
A. (2008). <I>Multimodality and Genre: a foundation for the systematic analysis
of multimodal documents</I>. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.<o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="TEXT-INDENT: -36pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
lang=DE>Huemer, Birgit (2010). <I>Semiotik der digitalen Medienkunst: Eine
funktionale Kunstbetrachtung.</I> </SPAN>Unpublished PhD, Vienna University,
Vienna.<o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="TEXT-INDENT: -36pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt" class=MsoNormal>Spooren, W.,
& Sanders, T. (2008). The acquisition order of coherence relations: On
cognitive complexity in discourse. <I>Journal of Pragmatics, 40</I>(12),
2003-2026.<o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="TEXT-INDENT: -36pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt" class=MsoNormal>Taboada, Maite,
& Mann, William (2006a). Applications of Rhetorical Structure Theory.
<I>Discourse Studies, 8</I>, 567-588 <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="TEXT-INDENT: -36pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt" class=MsoNormal>Taboada, Maite,
& Mann, William (2006b). Rhetorical Structure Theory: looking back and
moving ahead. <I><SPAN lang=DE>Discourse Studies, 8</SPAN></I><SPAN lang=DE>,
429-459.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN lang=DE><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN lang=DE>Best regards,<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN lang=DE>Helmut Gruber<SPAN
class=953240613-12072010><FONT size=2 face=Arial> & Gisela
Redeker </FONT></SPAN></SPAN><o:p> </o:p></P></DIV></BODY></HTML>