21.2901, Calls: Cog Sci, Disc Analysis, Socioling/United Kingdom

[linguist at LINGUISTLIST.ORG]

LINGUIST List: Vol-21-2901. Tue Jul 13 2010. ISSN: 1068 - 4875.

Subject: 21.2901, Calls: Cog Sci, Disc Analysis, Socioling/United Kingdom

Moderators: Anthony Aristar, Eastern Michigan U <aristar at linguistlist.org>
            Helen Aristar-Dry, Eastern Michigan U <hdry at linguistlist.org>
 
Reviews: Monica Macaulay, U of Wisconsin-Madison  
Eric Raimy, U of Wisconsin-Madison  
Joseph Salmons, U of Wisconsin-Madison  
Anja Wanner, U of Wisconsin-Madison  
       <reviews at linguistlist.org> 

Homepage: http://linguistlist.org/

The LINGUIST List is funded by Eastern Michigan University, 
and donations from subscribers and publishers.

Editor for this issue: Di Wdzenczny <di at linguistlist.org>
================================================================  

LINGUIST is pleased to announce the launch of an exciting new feature:  
Easy Abstracts! Easy Abs is a free abstract submission and review facility 
designed to help conference organizers and reviewers accept and process 
abstracts online.  Just go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/confcustom, 
and begin your conference customization process today! With Easy Abstracts, 
submission and review will be as easy as 1-2-3!

===========================Directory==============================  

1)
Date: 12-Jul-2010
From: Helmut Gruber < helmut.k.gruber at univie.ac.at >
Subject: Pragmatic Aspects of Discourse Coherence IPrA Panel
 

	
-------------------------Message 1 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 18:44:10
From: Helmut Gruber [helmut.k.gruber at univie.ac.at]
Subject: Pragmatic Aspects of Discourse Coherence IPrA Panel

E-mail this message to a friend:
http://linguistlist.org/issues/emailmessage/verification.cfm?iss=21-2901.html&submissionid=2640874&topicid=3&msgnumber=1
  

Full Title: Pragmatic Aspects of Discourse Coherence IPrA Panel 

Date: 03-Jul-2011 - 08-Jul-2011
Location: Manchester, United Kingdom 
Contact Person: Helmut Gruber
Meeting Email: helmut.k.gruber at univie.ac.at

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Discourse Analysis; Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 01-Sep-2010 

Meeting Description:

Investigations of discourse coherence have played an important role in 
discourse research for at least the last three decades. Within this research 
tradition, the investigation of coherence relations has lead to the proposal of 
various coherence models which view coherence as the result of an 
interplay between textual clues, (analysts' assumptions of) writers'/ 
speakers' intentions, cognitive, situational, rhetorical and/ or generic 
constraints etc. (Asher & Lascarides, 2003; Spooren & Sanders, 2008; 
Taboada & Mann, 2006a, 2006b). 

Despite the long tradition of coherence research, there is still
disagreement concerning basic questions such the relationship between 
generic structures and coherence structures (to which extent do they 
depend on each other or are they independent of each other?), the relation 
between signals of surface cohesion (e.g. theme-rheme structures, lexical 
cohesion) and 'underlying' coherence structures, the signaling of coherence 
structures on different text/ discourse levels (global vs. local coherence), 
etc. In addition, the emergence of new genres in the new media and the 
possibility of combining different semiotic modes in hypertexts calls for new 
approaches that also take into account coherence relations between 
different modes of discourse such as coherence between visual and verbal 
elements of texts (see Bateman, 2008) or coherence between sound, film 
sequences, and verbal and textual elements (Huemer, 2010). 

The proposed panel aims at bringing together researchers from different
approaches to relational coherence, in order to present and discuss their 
recent research. We envisage two 90-minute sessions with three 
presentations each and room for discussion. One of the sessions will focus 
specifically on multimodality.

Presentations are invited on the following topics:
-coherence, cohesion, and genre
-signalling of coherence relations
-coherence in multimodal discourse 

Call For Papers

Please send your abstract (not longer than 500 words) to Helmut Gruber
(helmut.k.gruber at univie.ac.at) before September, 1st, 2010. Notifications 
of acceptance/ rejection will take place at the beginning of October. Please 
note that after this notification it will also be necessary to submit your 
abstract at the IPrA website and that IPrA membership will be necessary for 
this submission process.





-----------------------------------------------------------
LINGUIST List: Vol-21-2901