17.1660, Calls: General Ling/Brazil;Discourse Analysis/Portugal

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Subject: 17.1660, Calls: General Ling/Brazil;Discourse Analysis/Portugal

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1)
Date: 31-May-2006
From: Roberta Pires de Oliveira < pires at cce.ufsc.br >
Subject: 6th Workshop on Formal Linguistics 

2)
Date: 30-May-2006
From: Benjamim Moreira < abelha at nortenet.pt >
Subject: Conectives and Discourse Markers 

	
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Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2006 14:26:22
From: Roberta Pires de Oliveira < pires at cce.ufsc.br >
Subject: 6th Workshop on Formal Linguistics 
 


Full Title: 6th Workshop on Formal Linguistics 
Short Title: 6 WFL 

Date: 28-Aug-2006 - 30-Aug-2006
Location: Florianopolis - Santa Catarina, Brazil 
Contact Person: Roberta Pires de Oliveira
Meeting Email: workshop at cce.ufsc.br
Web Site: http://6workshop.ufsc.br 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 14-Aug-2006 

Meeting Description:

Formal approaches to natural languages. 

Please submit an anonymous abstract (of 1 page, 500 words) to workshop at cce.ufsc.br. The body of the message should include the title of the paper, the name of the author(s), his (their) affiliation(s) and whether the abstract is to be considered as paper, as poster or both. 

There will be a registration fee of R$ 20,00. 

Presentations will be allotted twenty minutes with ten minutes for discussion. 

There will be a poster session also opened to undergraduate students that participate in Iniciação Científica program


	
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Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2006 14:26:28
From: Benjamim Moreira < abelha at nortenet.pt >
Subject: Conectives and Discourse Markers 

	

Full Title: Conectives and Discourse Markers 

Date: 02-Nov-2006 - 03-Nov-2006
Location: Lisbon, Portugal 
Contact Person: Benjamim Moreira
Meeting Email: abelha at nortenet.pt
Web Site: http://www.fcsh.unl.pt/clunl/linhas_de_investigacao/LINHA_3/cdm.html 

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Pragmatics; Semantics; Syntax 

Call Deadline: 15-Jul-2006 

Meeting Description:

The main purpose of this conference is to bring together descriptive and formal approaches (quantitative or qualitative, synchronic or diachronic) to connectives and discourse markers. It is concerned with some theoretical issues on syntactic, semantic and pragmatical analysis, especially six main topics, primarily in Portuguese but also in contrast with other languages. 

The sub-unit 3 'Semantics', project Grammar and Enunciation, of the Centro de Linguística da Universidade Nova de Lisboa (www.fcsh.unl.pt/clunl) is organising an international conference on ''CONECTIVES AND DISCOURSE MARKERS'' on the 2nd and 3rd November 2006 at the Linguistic  Studies Department (Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa - FCSH-UNL), 26C avenida de Berna,  1069-061 Lisboa (Portugal).

The main purpose of this conference is to bring together descriptive and formal approaches (quantitative or qualitative, synchronic or diachronic) to connectives and discourse markers. It is concerned with some theoretical issues on syntactic, semantic and pragmatical analysis, especially six main topics, primarily in Portuguese but also in contrast with other languages. Those topics are the following: 

(1) The contribution of connectives and discourse markers to utterance interpretation 

(2) Characterisation of the semantic identity (core meaning) of a unit and description of the variation in relation to its distribution 

(3) The scope, the position and the prosody of a discourse particle

(4) The role (The semantic contribution) of discourse connectives and discourse markers in text or discourse structuring

(5) The polysemy and multifunctionality of a unit (e.g. ''mal'' in Portuguese, as a qualitative or a quantitative adverb, as a discourse or a connective marker) 

(6) The meaning and the functions of a unit based on a comparative linguistic study of translation (or its equivalents in two or more languages)

Guest Speakers:

Antoine Culioli (Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France)
Mário Eduardo Martellota (UFRJ, Brazil)
João Sàágua (Institute of Philosophy of Language, UNL)
Salvador Pons Bordería (Univ. Valencia, Spain)
Antónia Coutinho (FCSH-UNL)
Jean-Jacques Franckel (Univ. Paris X)
João Costa (FCSH-UNL)
 



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