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<font face="Arial"><b style=""><span lang="EN-GB">Call for Papers:
Workshop on larger discourse units in (spoken) language,
Paris, March 21-22, 2024</span></b><br>
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<font face="Arial"><span style="line-height: 107%;" lang="EN-GB">The
choice of grammatical forms and constructions used for event
descriptions, such as voice, differential case marking, or the
realization of argument expressions, can be influenced by many
different factors. One such factor is the internal organization
of a text into what we call here “(larger) discourse units”. </span><br>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;" lang="EN-GB"><span
style="line-height: 107%;" lang="EN-GB">In the late 1970s and
early 1980s, a number of works on the internal structure of
discourse have been published (cf. Chafe 1980, Longacre 1979,
van Dijk 1981</span></span><span style="line-height: 107%;"
lang="EN-GB"><span style="line-height: 107%;" lang="EN-GB">)
that investigate the syntax and semantics of so-called
“paragraphs” or “episodes” in spoken and written language,
i.e. units characterized as “coherent sequences of sentences
of a discourse, linguistically marked for beginning and/or
end, and further defined in terms of some kind of 'thematic
unity' – for instance, in terms of identical participants,
time, location or global event or action” (van Dijk 1981:
177). While in written language, discourse units are usually
signalled graphically, in oral or signed speech such units are
much less easily recognizable.</span><br>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;" lang="EN-GB">The workshop is
based on a collaboration between the projects “Morphosyntax in
Discourse” of the LABEX <i style="">Empirical Foundations in
Language </i>in Paris (<a href="https://en.labex-efl.fr/"
target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" id="LPlnk752088"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://en.labex-efl.fr/</a>)
and “<span style="">Prominence-related structures in symmetrical
voice systems and Papuan languages” of the Collaborative
Research Centre <i style="">Prominence in Language</i> in
Cologne (</span><a href="https://sfb1252.uni-koeln.de/en/"
target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" id="LPlnk959772"><span
style="">https://sfb1252.uni-koeln.de/en/</span></a><span
style="">). </span>We hope to discover operationalizable
methods for identifying larger discourse units with the help of
semantic, lexical, grammatical and/or prosodic cues both in
well-studied and in more recently documented languages. We are
particularly interested in cues that so far have not been
considered as being discourse boundary related such as
differential case marking, specific voice constructions, etc.
The workshop is meant as an opportunity for researchers from
different theoretical backgrounds and with an expertise on
typologically distinct languages to make further progress in the
analysis of discourse data. <br>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;" lang="EN-GB">We invite abstracts
(max. 500 words plus abbreviation and reference list) on topics
including but not restricted to the following:</span></font><font
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<li><font face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB">cues for unit
boundaries</span></font></li>
<li><font face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB">cues for cohesion
within a unit</span></font></li>
<li><font face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB">discourse units in
different text genres </span></font></li>
<li><font face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB">units in monologic vs.
dialogic discourse</span></font></li>
<li><font face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB">discourse structuring
in spoken vs. written language </span></font></li>
<li><font face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB">the role of reported
speech for discourse structure</span></font></li>
<li><font face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB">…</span></font></li>
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<font face="Arial"><span style="line-height: 107%;" lang="EN-GB">For
more information, see attachment.</span></font><br>
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<font face="Arial"><b style=""><span lang="EN-GB">Keynote
speakers: </span></b></font><font face="Arial"><br>
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<font face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB">Jakob Egetenmeyer
(Universität zu Köln)</span></font><font face="Arial"><br>
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<font face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB">Tatiana Nikitina (CNRS,
Paris)</span><br>
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<font face="Arial"><b style=""><span lang="EN-GB">Dates: <span
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<font face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB">End of submissions: <span
style=""> </span>January 20<sup>th</sup>,
2024</span></font><font face="Arial"><br>
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<font face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB">Notification of acceptance:
<span style=""> </span>February 2<sup>nd</sup>, 2024</span></font><font
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<font face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB">Workshop dates: <span
style=""> </span>March 21<sup>st</sup>-22<sup>nd</sup>,
2024</span><br>
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<font face="Arial"><b style=""><span lang="EN-GB">Scientific
Committee: </span></b></font><font face="Arial"><br>
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<font face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB">Isabelle Bril</span></font><font
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<font face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB">Katharina Haude</span></font><font
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<font face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB">Nikolaus P. Himmelmann</span></font><font
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<font face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB">Sonja Riesberg</span></font><font
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<font face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB">Fahime Same</span><br>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;" lang="EN-GB">Best wishes</span></font><font
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<span style="line-height: 107%;" lang="EN-GB">Sonja</span></font><span
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