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font-size: 12px;" lang="x-unicode">Call for Papers <br>
Theme Session: Corpus-based Approaches to Semantics and
Pragmatics <br>
at the 47th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea
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11 – 14 September 2014, Poznań, Poland
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://sle2014.eu/">http://sle2014.eu/</a>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="http://www.dsglynn.univ-paris8.fr/corpus_semantics.html">www.dsglynn.univ-paris8.fr/corpus_semantics.html</a>
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Description: <br>
This theme session brings together research employing
corpus-based methods in the study of semantics and pragmatics.
The focus will be methodological and restricted to
corpus-driven, as opposed to corpus-illustrated, research. Small
sample research and qualitative studies in gesture, discourse
and conversation analysis are also welcome. <br>
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The last 25 years have seen a dramatic growth in
observation-based studies in semantics and pragmatics. Indeed,
with technological advances in corpus methods, in both Cognitive
and Functional Linguistics, the use of such methods can
currently be seen as one of the principle approaches to meaning
structure. In Cognitive and Functional circles, Dirven et al
(1982), Schmid (1993, 2000), Geeraerts et al. (1994, 1999),
Scheibman (2002), Kärkkäinen (2003), Gries (2003), Gries &
Stefanowitsch (2006) Szmrecsanyi (2006), Bednarek (2006),
Cornillie (2007), Englebretson (2007) Hilpert (2008), Gilquin
(2009), and Glynn & Fischer (2010), Breban (2010), Divjak
(2010) Dziwirek & Lewandowska (2010) are just a few of the
large number of works representation this trend. What ties these
diverse studies together is the systematic use of contextualised
observational data to understand the conceptual and functional
motivations behind language structure. <br>
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Two corpus-driven approaches emerge across these traditions. The
first is formal, based on collocations of lexemes and lexemes
and constructions. This method examines formal patterns in
observational data and interprets this as indicative of
semantico-pragmatic structures. Being based on formal
co-occurrence, the approach is methodological related to latent
semantic analysis and vector space modelling in computational
linguistics. The second approach includes profile-based analysis
or multifactorial feature analysis and is based on the close
manual annotation of semantico-pragmatic features of a language
sample. This second approach is closely related to sentiment
analysis in the computational tradition. The theme session will
bring together researchers interested in developing methods,
such as these and others, for the analysis of semantics and
pragmatics. <br>
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Methods / keywords: <br>
Conversation, discourse and gesture analysis <br>
Collocations, collostructions, concordances <br>
Multifactorial feature analysis <br>
(profile-based approach / sentiment analysis / content analysis)
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Latent semantic analysis and vector space modelling <br>
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For further information <br>
Dylan Glynn (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:dglynn@univ-paris8.fr">dglynn@univ-paris8.fr</a>)
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Guillaume Desagulier (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:gdesagulier@univ-paris8.fr">gdesagulier@univ-paris8.fr</a>)
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Abstracts: <br>
Abstracts must be submitted twice. <br>
First a short abstract (300 words) will be submitted to the
theme session convenors and second a longer abstract (500 words)
will be submitted to the conference itself. <br>
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It is essential that the abstracts follow strict guideless for
structure. <br>
1. Introduce briefly the problem and question / hypothesis. <br>
2. Summarise briefly the method and data employed to answer
question / test hypothesis. <br>
3. Summarise briefly the results or expected results. <br>
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Please submit abstracts in a modifiable file format such as
.rft, .doc, .docx or .odt <br>
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Submit abstracts to the convenors: <br>
Dylan Glynn: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:dglynn@univ-paris8.fr">dglynn@univ-paris8.fr</a>
<br>
Guillaume Desagulier: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:gdesagulier@univ-paris8.fr">gdesagulier@univ-paris8.fr</a>
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Dates: <br>
Short Abstract for theme session: 20th Nov. 2013 <br>
Acceptance to theme session: 25th Nov. 2013 <br>
Longer abstract for SLE: 15th Jan 2014 <br>
Acceptance to SLE: 31st March 2014 <br>
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References: <br>
Bednarek, M. 2006. Evaluation in Media Discourse. Continuum:
London. <br>
Breban, T. 2010. English Adjectives of Comparison. Mouton:
Berlin. <br>
Cornillie, B. 2007. Evidentiality and Epistemic Modality in
Spanish. Mouton: Berlin. <br>
Dirven, R. et al. 1982. Scene of Linguistic Action and its
Perspectivization. Benjamins: Amsterdam. <br>
Divjak, D. 2010. Structuring the Lexicon. Mouton: Berlin. <br>
Dziwirek, K. & Lewandowska, B. 2010. Complex Emotions and
Grammatical Mismatches. Mouton: Berlin. <br>
Englebretson, R. 2007. Stancetaking in Discourse. Benjamins:
Amsterdam. <br>
Geeraerts et al. 1994. Structure of Lexical Variation. Mouton:
Berlin. <br>
Geeraerts et al. 1999. Convergentie en Divergentie in de
Nederlandse Woordenschat. Meertens: Amsterdam. <br>
Gilquin, G. 2010. Corpus, Cognition and Causative Constructions.
Benjamins: Amsterdam. <br>
Glynn, D. & Fischer, K. 2010. Quantitative Methods in
Cognitive Semantics. Mouton: Berlin. <br>
Gries, St. Th. & Stefanowitsch, A. 2006. Corpora in
Cognitive Linguistics. Mouton: Berlin. <br>
Gries, St. Th. 2003. Multifactorial Analysis in Corpus
Linguistics. Continuum: London. <br>
Hilpert, M. 2008. Germanic Future Constructions. Benjamins:
Amsterdam. <br>
Kärkkäinen, E. 2003. Epistemic Stance in English Conversation.
Benjamins: Amsterdam. <br>
Scheibman, J. 2002. Point of View and Grammar. Benjamins:
Amsterdam. <br>
Schmid, H. J. 2000. English Abstract Nouns as Conceptual Shells.
Mouton: Berlin. <br>
Schmid, H. J. 1993. Kategorisierung als Grundprinzip einer
differenzierten Bedeutungsbeschreibung. Niemeyer: Tübingen. <br>
Szmrecsanyi, B. 2006. Morphosyntactic Persistence in Spoken
English. Mouton: Berlin. <br>
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