23.2183, Calls: Text/Corpus Ling, Socioling, Discourse Analysis, General Ling/Finland

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Subject: 23.2183, Calls: Text/Corpus Ling, Socioling, Discourse Analysis, General Ling/Finland

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Date: Sun, 06 May 2012 14:55:47
From: Pekka Posio [pekka.posio at helsinki.fi]
Subject: Grammar and Genre: Interfaces and Influences

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Full Title: Grammar and Genre: Interfaces and Influences 

Date: 24-Oct-2012 - 26-Oct-2012
Location: Turku, Finland 
Contact Person: Meri Larjavaara
Meeting Email: gram-genre at helsinki.fi
Web Site: https://www.confitur.net/grammar-and-genre 

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; General Linguistics; Sociolinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 21-May-2012 

Meeting Description:

Grammar and Genre:  Interfaces and Influences
October 24-26, 2012
Turku, Finland

The Linguistic Association of Finland (in collaboration with the Faculty of Humanities of Åbo Akademi University)

Variation is one of the key themes in modern grammatical studies, and its investigation highlights the role of contextual factors in the structure of language. These factors can be on many levels and of many different types. The mere genre to which a text belongs potentially dictates a variety of linguistic structures. (For studies about genre see e.g. Bakhtin 1986 to begin with, and more recently Martin & Rose 2008, Biber & Conrad 2009, and Dorgeloh & Wanner 2010.)

This symposium aims to study the interfaces between grammar and genre: the purpose is to investigate how genre affects grammatical choices. How are genre distinctions reflected in grammar, be it for example literary vs. media genres, or distinctions such as argumentative, informative, persuasive, expressive, or narrative genres? Is a specific genre belonging to a particular domain, e.g. sport news vs. economy news, characterized by certain grammatical choices? Possible genre distinctions are various, and both empirical questions related to the theme and more theoretical implications and reflections thereof are welcome.

We would like to bring together linguists from different fields: linguists studying languages with a small number of speakers, linguists whose data come from languages with millions of speakers and a wide variety of institutionalized genres, theoretically oriented linguists to discuss the implications, as well as linguists with more empirical concerns.

Invited Plenary Speakers:

Maarten Mous, Leiden University
Maria Vilkuna, Institute for the Languages of Finland
Tuija Virtanen-Ulfhielm, Åbo Akademi University
Anja Wanner, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Organizing Committee:

Meri Larjavaara
Sonja Dahlgren
Arja Hamari
Leena Maria Heikkola
Lotta Jalava
Santra Jantunen
Pekka Posio
Ilona Rauhala
Erika Sandman
Maija Sirola
Elina Tapio
Mikko Virtanen
Katja Västi
Milja Väänänen

Activities:

Presentations by the invited speakers
Presentations by other participants
Posters
Workshops

References:

Bakhtin, M. 1986: Speech genres and other late essays. Translated by Vern W. McGee. Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press.
Biber, D. & S. Conrad 2009: Register, genre and style. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Dorgeloh, H. & A. Wanner (eds) 2010: Syntactic variation and genre, Berlin/New York:  De Gruyter Mouton.
Martin, J. R. & D. Rose 2008: Genre relations. Mapping culture. London: Equinox.

For more information please visit the webpage of the symposium at:

https://www.confitur.net/en/conferences/grammar-and-genre 

Final Call for Papers:

Extended deadline for abstract submission: May 21, 2012

We warmly welcome papers related to these questions. Possible topics for talks include, but, as usual, are not restricted to, the following: 

- How does the grammarian take into account the belonging of the data to a certain genre? If the available data is restricted to a particular genre, how does this affect the results? How does the field worker react to this? 
- How does the linguist identify the genre in question? 
- Why do some grammatical constructions appear only in a specific genre? 
- Is grammar one and only for a given language? How do we account for Coseriu's distinction sistema - norma social/individual - hablar concreto in empirical, data-driven linguistics? 
- How can we use the outcomes of stylistics in modern grammatical studies (cf. Bally's stylistics a century ago), that is not only in the literary sense but to explore variation in grammar? What is the relationship between genre and style? 
- How does the speaker manipulate grammar to create a genre? 
- The concept of genre and language learning 
- Genre in different domains 
- Genre and language evolution 
- Genre and language contacts: Does genre play a role in code switching? 

Abstract Submission: 

Please send your abstract no later than May 21, 2012 (see https://www.confitur.net/en/conferences/grammar-and-genre for instructions). The length of abstracts should not exceed 500 words (excluding data and references). Abstracts will be evaluated by the members of the scientific committee and also by the organizing committee. Letters of acceptance will be sent by June 15, 2012. 

Key Dates: 

Deadline for abstract submission: May 21, 2012 
Notification of acceptance: June 15, 2012 

Scientific Committee: 

Heidrun Dorgeloh 
Kjersti Fløttum 
Jyrki Kalliokoski 
Ritva Laury 
Jan Nuyts 
María José Serrano 
Susanna Shore 
Anna Solin 
Geoff Thompson






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