Dear colleagues,
<br><br>this is the reminder for the conference on Discourse cohesive means in
acquisition (DICMA, <a href="http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/workshop_dicma.html" target="_blank">http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/workshop_dicma.html</a>) in
march 2012 (11. - 13.03) at ZAS, Berlin.<br> Abstracts should be sent by the
19th of September 2011.
<br>
Below you´ll find our call.
<br><br>Best,
Dagmar Bittner&Nadja Kühn
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br><span style="" lang="EN-GB"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br><span style="" lang="EN-GB"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="" lang="EN-GB"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-GB"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">Full Title: Discourse cohesive means in
acquisition </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">Location: Centre for General Linguistics, Berlin, Germany </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">Start Date: 11.-13.3.2012</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><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" style="text-align:justify"><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>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">Meeting Description: </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><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" style="text-align:justify"><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" style="text-align:justify"><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-align:justify;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-align:justify;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-align:justify;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-align:justify;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-align:justify;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-align:justify;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-align:justify;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-align:justify;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" style="text-align:justify"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">Invited speakers:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">Jacqueline Evers-Vermeul</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">Juhani Järvikivi</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">Tom Roeper</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><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" style="text-align:justify"><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>
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