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Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2014 19:41:39
From: Dominique Legallois [dominique.legallois at unicaen.fr]
Subject: Grammar of Genres and Styles: Which Approaches to Prefer?

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Full Title: Grammar of Genres and Styles: Which Approaches to Prefer? 

Date: 16-Jan-2015 - 16-Jan-2015
Location: Paris, France 
Contact Person: Dominique Legallois
Meeting Email: dominique.legallois at unicaen.fr

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

Call Deadline: 01-Nov-2014 

Meeting Description:

This Conscila Study day devoted to the study of grammar and stylistics of discourse genre, aims to bring together researchers in linguistics or NLP whose work focuses on the identification of lexico- grammatical textual features.

Thierry Charnois (University of Paris 13, LIPN), Sascha Diwersy (Universität zu Köln), Meri Larjavaara (Åbo Akademi), Dominique Legallois (University of Caen, Crisco)

Meeting email: dominique.legallois at unicaen.fr 

In recent years, automatic text analysis has enabled a more accurate identification of lexical and grammatical features of texts and genres. There are two main approaches, the first being more widespread than the second :

1. The paradigmatic approach rests upon the quantification of morpho-syntactic categories. For instance, in his work on oral discourse in the academic community, Biber 2006 uncovers the over-usage (in comparison with written discourse) of first person pronouns, of evaluative expressions ('mental' verbs, modal adverbs, etc.), of WH- questions, etc. By means of factorisation, it is possible to determine a set of properties particular to a specific genre.

2. The syntagmatic approach focuses on the combination of lexical units, the identification of preferred, or dispreferred, syntagmatic segments by genre. To give an illustration of this,  consider the lexico-grammatical structure named 'pattern' or motif in Quiniou et al, ce N si ADJ et si ADJ (lit : That N so ADJ and so ADJ). This semantico-evaluative pattern is specific to the 19th century genre of Memoirs, in comparison with Travel narrative, Novels, Correspondence, Essays of the same period :

Oh ! Tant mieux, tant mieux de n' être pas bornés par 'ce temps si court et si triste' ! (lit : that time so short and so sad)   E. de Guérin, Journal (1834-1840)

Call for Papers:

Papers submitted must take into account the constraints of comprehensiveness : we will not focus on one type of form, but on a maximum of genre-specific elements. The following issues will be discussed:

- Techniques for the identification of generic properties
- The complementarity or competitivity between paradigmatic or syntagmatic approaches
- Data interpretation

Proposals should therefore focus on the characterization of discourse genre (literary or otherwise) or style, in a comprehensive perspective ; methods can be discussed, without neglecting  linguistic  description.  Also of interest is the comparison between authors, the focus on registers, discourse practices, and textual units (narrative, argumentative, descriptive, etc.).

Studies may include any language, and both oral and written genres are welcome. We also welcome a variety of perspectives, including: computing, stylistics, discourse study, syntax...

Communications may be presented in French or in English. 

Ref : 

Biber D. (2006)  University language:  A corpus-based study of spoken and written registers.  Amsterdam:  John Benjamins

Larjavaara M et Legallois D. (en prép.) « Les genres discursifs et leur grammaire »

Quiniou S., Cellier P.,  Charnois Th. et Legallois D. (2012)«  What About Sequential Data Mining Techniques to Identify Linguistic Patterns for Stylistics ? » in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Vol. 7181,  pp 166-177







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