<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">Full Title:
Discourse cohesive means in acquisition </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">Location:
Centre for General Linguistics,
Berlin, Germany
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">Start Date:
11.-13.3.2012</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">Contact:
Dagmar Bittner, Nadja Kuehn<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>(<a href="mailto:dicma@zas.gwz-berlin.de">dicma@zas.gwz-berlin.de</a>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">Meeting
Website: <a href="http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/workshop_dicma.html">http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/workshop_dicma.html</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">Meeting
Description: </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">Telling
others about complex events, impressions, and thoughts in a coherent manner is
a very demanding task for children up to their teenage years, and, though less
obvious, understanding complex texts produced by others is just as demanding.
The richness, diversity, and complexity of the pragmatic and linguistic devices
that have to be followed in order to produce and comprehend a coherent
discourse make this arguably one of the most challenging tasks in language
acquisition. Children have to figure out the structure and content of the
macro-parts, i.e. who is acting where and when, what happened and what follows
from what happened. In addition, there is a broad range of linguistic means of
discourse cohesion which are, at least partially, interacting with each other.
Most of them are linked to pragmatic interpretations and to the internal
non-linguistic knowledge and emotional states of the communication
partner(s).<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">The
conference will address the micro-level of discourse structure and present
current research on the acquisition of the various phenomena that ensure
coherence in discourse. In order to open our eyes to the complexity of the
domain and the possible interactions between the diverse phenomena, we invite papers
investigating children’s development into discourse coherence from all angles
and perspectives. Currently, the main body of research focuses on referential
expressions with respect to e.g. the introduction and maintenance of referents,
topic-sensitivity, and anaphoric capacity. More recently, the role of coherence
relations expressed by different types of connectors and the impact of verb
semantics in discourse continuation have become of interest. However, apart
from the early studies from the 1980s, not much work has been done on time
reference and tense/aspect chains in discourse. Little is known about the
influence of epistemic, modal, and several other types of expressions. The same
holds for the influence of context information, the impact of prosodic
information, and the treatment of focus. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">The
conference provides the opportunity to discuss the broad range of discourse
cohesive means and the methods of their investigation from different
theoretical perspectives. We especially encourage the presentation of papers
focusing on the following aspects:<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:8.5pt;text-indent:-8.5pt"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">- correlations and interactions
between different types of discourse cohesive means</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:8.5pt;text-indent:-8.5pt"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">- correlations between discourse
cohesive means and non-linguistic phenomena such as emotional states, discourse
context, etc. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:8.5pt;text-indent:-8.5pt"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">- the role of theory of mind </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:8.5pt;text-indent:-8.5pt"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">- the acquisition of pragmatic
implicatures in the use of discourse cohesive means</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:8.5pt;text-indent:-8.5pt"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">- acquisitional milestones and paths
in the development of discourse abilities</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:8.5pt;text-indent:-8.5pt"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">- processing of discourse cohesive
means</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:8.5pt;text-indent:-8.5pt"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">- the interaction of discourse
cohesive means with parameters of information structure</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:8.5pt;text-indent:-8.5pt"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">- acquisition in mono- and bilingual
children as well as in SLI children</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">Invited
speakers:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">Jacqueline
Evers-Vermeul</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">Juhani
Järvikivi</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">Tom Roeper</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">Abstracts
of max. 500 words (not including references) should be sent as a pdf-file by
the 19<sup>th</sup> of September 2011 to: <a href="mailto:dicma@zas.gwz-berlin.de">dicma@zas.gwz-berlin.de</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">Please
provide name(s) of author(s) and affiliation(s) in the text of the email and do
not mention it in the abstract file.</span></p>
<p></p>
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