forum on deixis: call for abstracts

[by way of BETH LEE SIMON <SIMON@cvax.ipfw.indiana.edu>]

                        CALL FOR ABSTRACTS/PROPOSALS

              DEIXIS: WORKING THE MARGINS OF PRAGMATICS AND SEMANTICS
                                a two-session forum
                for the Midwest Modern Language Association Meeting,
                Chicago, November 6-8, 1997, Ramada Congress Hotel

Submit abstracts/proposals "Studies in Deixis: Working the
Margins of Pragmatics and Semantics." The multidimensionality of
deixis, a linguistic phenomenon at the heart of communication,
remains one of the most intriguing aspects of human language. It is
impossible to imagine communication that functions without deixis.
Deictic elements such as pronouns, demonstrative adjectives, and
spatial or temporal adverbs, express a user-centered perspective on
time, place and person relationships in the social context of an
utterance; simultaneously, they denote formal grammatical functions
within an utterance. The aim of the forum is to bring together
scholars working on different aspects of deixis--from formal
linguistics to stylistics--to discuss the activity that occurs at
the intersection of language and reality/structure and function.
Publication of the proceedings is planned.

Abstracts/proposals should be a maximum of 150 words in length and
must be received by Friday, April 4, 1997.

Send abstracts (e-mail preferred) to:

Beth Lee Simon
Assistant Professor, Linguistics and English
Indiana University Purdue University
Fort Wayne, IN 46805
simon at cvax.ipfw.indiana.edu
fax:      219-481-6985

and/or

Anna Fellegy, Department of English, 207 Lind Hall, #185,
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis MN 55455
felle001 at maroon.tc.umn.edu