21.2450, Calls: Semantics, Text/Corpus Ling/Germany

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Date: 02-Jun-2010
From: Renate Musan < Renate.Musan at uni-osnabrueck.de >
Subject: Relational Text Coherence and Text Comprehension
 

	
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Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2010 09:31:29
From: Renate Musan [Renate.Musan at uni-osnabrueck.de]
Subject: Relational Text Coherence and Text Comprehension

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Full Title: Relational Text Coherence and Text Comprehension 

Date: 23-Feb-2011 - 25-Feb-2011
Location: Göttingen, Germany 
Contact Person: Renate Musan
Meeting Email: Renate.Musan at uni-osnabrueck.de

Linguistic Field(s): Semantics; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 15-Aug-2010 

Meeting Description:

Relational coherence is a core property of texts and is rendered by means 
of relations (e.g. causal, temporal, adversative) that hold between its parts.
Relations can either remain implicit or be marked in explicit terms by
connectors such as but, because, therefore. Whether implicit or otherwise,
intended relations that make a text coherent must be established by the
recipient during text comprehension in order to generate a 'correct' and
'in-depth' representation of text meaning that can be viewed as adequate.
The focus of the workshop is placed on text comprehension and relations 
that create coherence, taken from a semantic, text-linguistic and 
psycholinguistic viewpoint. Areas of interest include 
-semantic questions that relate to preferred readings of the means used in
marking cohesion, both with respect to their scope as well as the factors
underlying observed reading preferences;  
-empirical findings and methods of analysis in text comprehension studies 
that concern contrasts between implicit versus explicit markers of 
comprehension, the role of factors such as background knowledge or the 
complexity of the text; 
-the application of findings in contexts such as the improvement of school 
text books, as well as the development of comprehension with regard to 
coherence relations in both first and second language acquisition.
 
The workshop will be of interest to scholars working in the area of 
semantics, text linguistics as well as text comprehension. It is part of the 
33rd annual meeting of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft 
(DGfS). 

Call For Papers

Submission of abstracts:
Please send your anonymous one-page abstract to both of the following 
emails:
renate.musan at uni-osnabrueck.de, angelika.becker at uni-osnabrueck.de.
The abstract should be in plain text or in PDF format, and it should be in
English only. Please include the following information in the body of the
email: author's name(s), affiliation, email address, title of the abstract. The 
normal time alotted for presentation is 20 minutes plus 10 minutes for 
discussion. Please note if you would be interested in a longer time-slot.

Important dates:
Deadline for abstract submission: 15 August 2010
Notification of acceptance: 15 September 2010
Provisional program: 15 December 2010
DGfS Conference: 23-25 February 2011





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