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Subject: 22.2713, Calls: English, Pragmatics/Austria

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Date: 30-Jun-2011
From: Reinhard Heuberger [Reinhard.Heuberger at uibk.ac.at]
Subject: Pragmatics of Aspect in Varieties of English
 

	
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Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 11:22:40
From: Reinhard Heuberger [Reinhard.Heuberger at uibk.ac.at]
Subject: Pragmatics of Aspect in Varieties of English

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Full Title: Pragmatics of Aspect in Varieties of English 

Date: 16-Apr-2012 - 17-Apr-2012
Location: Innsbruck, Austria 
Contact Person: Gabriella Mazzon
Meeting Email: Gabriella.Mazzon at uibk.ac.at
Web Site: http://www.uibk.ac.at/anglistik/symposium2012.html 

Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics 

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Call Deadline: 15-Sep-2011 

Meeting Description:

Aspect is one of the linguistic categories in which varieties of English seem to differ to a great extent; this concerns certainly the formal elements involved and their strictly aspectual values, but also the possible overtones conveying stance, attitude, and other pragmatically significant values, as in paradigmatic cases like the 'irritation/impatience' overtone of 'You're always complaining', where the apparent incompatibility between the progressive aspect and the habitual/iterative value of always is overrun precisely to convey this subjective element of attitude.

The often-mentioned, but rarely investigated in detail, 'over-extension' of the progressive aspect to stative verbs in many varieties of English could be linked to this phenomenon, as could other expressions combining specific tense-aspect reference with specific subjective values, such as the hot-news perfect of Irish English.

Keynote Speakers:

Bernd Kortmann, University of Freiburg (title to be announced)
Raymond Hickey, University of Duisburg Essen (title to be announced)

The conference will take place in the historic main building of the University of Innsbruck. On the evening of the 16th, there will be a conference dinner at a typical Austrian restaurant (at a price of about 45€ per person). Information on travel arrangements and accommodation can be obtained here.
 
Convenor: Gabriella Mazzon, Full Professor for English Linguistics, Institut für Anglistik, Leopold-Franzens Universität Innsbruck (Gabriella.Mazzon at uibk.ac.at) 

Call for Papers:

Papers are invited around this theme, including explorations on:

- Synchronic and diachronic dialects of English
- Extra-territorial varieties
- Specific text- and discourse-types
- Specific acquisitional phenomena
- Intercultural pragmatics

The conference should aim at gaining new insight into, among others:

- The semantics/pragmatics interface of the forms involved
- Conservation/innovation in varieties of English
- Moot or debatable concepts such as progressive/continuous/durative, etc., in relation to the occurrence of specific forms in actual samples or corpora.

Abstracts of around 300 words (references excluded) should be sent to the convenor by 15th September 2011. Notification of acceptance will be sent by the 10th of October.







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