CfP: Cognitive-Pragmatic Aspects of Information Structure and Information Flow (ICLC-13)

[Wei-lun Lu]

*Call for Papers for the Theme Session for ICLC-13*

*“Cognitive-Pragmatic Aspects of Information Structure and Information
Flow”*



Since the pioneering contributions of Vilém Mathesius (e.g. 1929) and other
Prague School scholars, the study of Information Structure has generally
been considered an inseparable part of research into language
communication. Representing a concept which goes beyond the bounds of a
sentence (clause) structure, it is not surprising that this topic has been
considered a promising area of study even for cognitive linguists, as
suggested for example by Sperber-Wilson (1995). Nevertheless, the latest
contributions to the field of Cognitive Linguistics, as evidenced for
example in Croft-Cruse (2004) or Geeraerts-Cuyckens (2007), seem to have
left the topic largely untouched. We thus propose a theme session which
would (re)-establish the connection between the study of information
structure and cognitive-pragmatic aspects of language communication.

This theme session is open to researchers applying various approaches to
the cognitive and pragmatic aspects of Information Structure and
Information Flow, for example the approaches developed by Wallace   L.
Chafe, František Daneš, Jan Firbas, Eva Hajičová and Petr Sgall, Janet K.
Gundel, Michael A. K. Halliday, Knud Lambrecht, Ellen F. Prince, and Enric
Vallduví, among others.

We welcome proposals for presentations of approximately 250 words excluding
references. Please send your proposal to us at cog_is at phil.muni.cz by 10
September. Notification of acceptance will be sent by 15 September. Please
note that accepted authors will still need to follow up with a full
abstract for review as a general policy of the conference (
https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/news-events/events/2015/07/iclc-13-the-13th-international-cognitive-linguistics-conference/call-for-papers/
).



Organizers:

Jana Chamonikolasová

Martin Drápela

Wei-lun Lu





References

Chafe, W. L. (1994) *Discourse, consciousness, and time*, Chicago: The
University of Chicago Press.

Croft, W. and D. Alan Cruse (2004) *Cognitive Linguistics*, Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press.

Daneš, F. (1974) “Functional sentence perspective and the organization of
the text” IN F. Daneš (Ed.): *Papers on Functional Sentence Perspective*,
Prague: Academia, pp. 106-128.

Firbas, J. (1992) *Functional Sentence Perspective in Written and Spoken
Communication*, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Geeraerts, D. and H. Cuyckens (eds.) (2007) *The Oxford Handbook of
Cognitive Linguistics*, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Gundel, J. (2003) “Information Structure and Referential Givenness/Newness:
How Much Belongs in the Grammar?” IN S. Müller (Ed.): *Proceedings of the
10th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar*,
Stanford: CSLI Publications,  pp. 122-142.

Halliday, M. A. K. (1994) *An Introduction to Functional Grammar*, London:
Edward Arnold.

Lambrecht, K. (1994) *Information Structure and Sentence Form: Topic, Focus
and the Mental Representation of Discourse Referents*, Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press.

Langacker, R. W. (2009) *Investigations in Cognitive Grammar*, Berlin/New
York: Walter de Gruyter.

Mathesius V. (1929) “Zur Satzperspektive im modernen Englisch”, *Archiv für
das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen* 84, pp. 202-210.

Mathesius, V. (1964) “On linguistic characterology with illustrations from
Modern English” IN J. Vachek (Ed.): *A Prague School Reader in Linguistic*s,
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, pp. 59-67.

Prince, E. F. (1981) “Towards a taxonomy of given-new information” IN P.
Cole (Ed.): *Radical Pragmatics*, New York: Academic Press, pp. 223-255.

Sgall, P., E. Hajičová and J. Panevová (1986) *The Meaning of the Sentence
in Its Semantic and Pragmatic Aspects*, Prague/Dordrecht: Academia/Reidel.

Sperber, D. and D. Wilson (1995) *Relevance*, Oxford: Blackwell.

Vallduví, E. (1992) *The Informational Component*, New York: Garland.

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Wei-lun LU
Postdoc Research Fellow in Cognitive Linguistics
Masaryk University
Gorkeho 7/Arna Novaka 1, 60200 Brno, Czech Public
Phone: +420 549 49 6824
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