16.3617, Calls: Discourse Analysis/Denmark;Typology/UK

Mon Dec 19 21:09:33 UTC 2005

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Subject: 16.3617, Calls: Discourse Analysis/Denmark;Typology/UK

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1)
Date: 18-Dec-2005
From: Bente Vestergaard < bentev at hum.aau.dk >
Subject: Rhetoric in Society 

2)
Date: 18-Dec-2005
From: Willem Hollmann < w.hollmann at lancaster.ac.uk >
Subject: 2nd Conference on the Syntax of the World's Languages 

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Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 16:07:02
From: Bente Vestergaard < bentev at hum.aau.dk >
Subject: Rhetoric in Society 

Full Title: Rhetoric in Society 

Date: 21-Nov-2006 - 24-Nov-2006
Location: Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark 
Contact Person: Jeanne Strunck
Meeting Email: i12js at hum.aau.dk
Web Site: http://diskurs.hum.aau.dk/rhetorics2006/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis 

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Call Deadline: 15-Apr-2006 

Meeting Description:

Plenary Speakers:
- Paul Chilton
- Max Atkinson
- Catherine Kerbrat-Orecchioni

With communication and mediation playing an increasingly important role in post modern society, rhetoric has gained in influence and importance. Historically, the role of rhetoric was to enable the speaker to convince (and persuade) the listener. Nowadays, in a society of ever increasing amounts of information, the significance of rhetoric as a tool for helping communicators appeal to listeners or readers in a credible, understandable and convincing way is being acknowledged. 

This recognition has resulted in a vast body of theoretical discussions on the relation between rhetoric, argumentation and discourse as well as in the emergence of several approaches to the three disciplines for the analysis of different kinds of empirical material, from public relations texts and advertisements to political discourse, mediated discourse and scientific texts. 

Regarded as a discipline as well as a tool for analysis, rhetoric is often associated with related disciplines such as discourse analysis, text linguistics, cognition as well as communication and information theory. In other words, rhetoric is engaged in building up communication, its constituent parts and genres while at the same time playing an important role for the ways in which we perceive contextual aspects, including culture and the relations between interactants.

 The conference Rhetoric in Society aims at presenting and discussing different approaches to rhetoric and the applications of rhetoric. The conference welcomes contributions within a wide range of approaches to rhetoric, from the historical, traditional approach to new rhetoric and rhetorical criticism.

 The conference is arranged within the areas of: 

Rhetoric in Political Discourse 

Rhetoric in Organisational Discourse 

Rhetoric in Journalistic Discourse 

We welcome contributions on the role of rhetoric in written and oral discourse and genres, on topics such as:

Public deliberation, controversies, decision-making, spin, social change, political campaigning, social movements, public relations, publicity, advertising, management, corporate internal communication, computer-mediated communication, public media discourse, etc.

 Contributions are accepted in English only.

-------------------------Message 2 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 16:07:09
From: Willem Hollmann < w.hollmann at lancaster.ac.uk >
Subject: 2nd Conference on the Syntax of the World's Languages 

Full Title: 2nd Conference on the Syntax of the World's Languages 
Short Title: SWL2 

Date: 14-Sep-2006 - 17-Sep-2006
Location: Lancaster, Lancashire, United Kingdom 
Contact Person: Maria Papastathi
Meeting Email: M.Papastathi at lancaster.ac.uk
Web Site: http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/staff/hollmann/swl2.htm 

Linguistic Field(s): Typology 

Call Deadline: 05-Jan-2006 

Meeting Description:

SWL2 will bring together researchers working on the syntactic structure of less widely studied languages from a variety of theoretical perspectives. Contributions should be based on first-hand data of individual languages or to adopt a broadly comparative perspective. 

2nd Conference on the Syntax of the World's Languages  

Second Call for Papers  

Call Deadline: 05-Jan-2006  
SYNTAX OF THE WORLD'S LANGUAGES (SWL 2) 

Lancaster University, Lancaster (United Kingdom), 14-17 September 2006 

Conference Description 

Building on the success of SWL1 (Leipzig, 5-8 August 2004), we are organising SWL2 in Lancaster (UK) on 14-17 September 2006. This conference, like the previous one, will bring together researchers working on the syntactic structure of less widely studied languages from a variety of perspectives. Contributions are expected to be based on first-hand data of individual languages or to adopt a broadly comparative perspective. All major theoretical frameworks are equally welcome, as is work done in analytical frameworks developed in typology or field linguistics. 

Papers that adopt a diachronic/historical-comparative perspective or that discuss language-contact effects are also welcome, as are papers dealing with morphological or semantic issues, as long as syntactic issues also play a major role. 

Invited speakers: 

Zygmunt Frajzyngier (University of Colorado, Boulder) 
Martin Haspelmath (MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig) 
Robert D. Van Valin Jr (State University of New York, Buffalo) 

Local organizers: Willem Hollmann & Anna Siewierska (Lancaster University) 

Conference Coordinator: Maria Papastathi 

Further members of the Abstract-reading Committee: 

Balthasar Bickel (University of Leipzig) 
Bernard Comrie (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig) 
Donna Gerdts (Simon Fraser University, Vancouver) 
William McGregor (Aarhus University) 
Johanna Nichols (University of California, Berkeley) 
Stéphane Robert (LLACAN, Paris) 

The time allotted for presentation and discussion is 35 minutes per paper. Participants may be involved in two abstracts, but only one of these may be single-authored. English is the preferred language at the conference. 
Please send abstracts of no longer than 300 words to Maria Papastathi (M.Papastathi at lancaster.ac.uk) by 5 January 2006. Notification of acceptance of papers will be issued on 28 February 2006.

Accommodation on campus will be arranged, although participants will also have the opportunity to make alternative arrangements themselves. Information about local accommodation can be found here:

http://www.lancs.ac.uk/visitor/accom_local.htm

The following pages contain further information about the University, how to get there, and the general area:
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/travel/travel.htm
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/lancuni/uni.htm

More information about the event will be uploaded to the conference webpage (http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/staff/hollmann/swl2.htm) in due course.

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