25.1381, Calls: Historical Linguistics, Pragmatics, Sociolinguistics, Typology/Italy

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Subject: 25.1381, Calls: Historical Linguistics, Pragmatics, Sociolinguistics, Typology/Italy

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Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 13:45:32
From: Andrea Sansò [asanso at gmail.com]
Subject: Pragmatic Markers, Discourse Markers and Modal Particle

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Full Title: Pragmatic Markers, Discourse Markers and Modal Particles 
Short Title: PragmaComo 

Date: 16-Oct-2014 - 17-Oct-2014
Location: Como, Italy 
Contact Person: Andrea Sansò
Meeting Email: workshopcomo at gmail.com
Web Site: http://sites.google.com/site/pragmaworkshopcomo/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Pragmatics; Sociolinguistics; Typology 

Call Deadline: 30-May-2014 

Meeting Description:

Pragmatic Markers, Discourse Markers and Modal Particles: What do we know
and where do we go from here?

Università dell'Insubria, Como (Italy), 16-17 October 2014

Description:

The workshop aims to contribute to the discussion on the emergence and use
of pragmatic markers (PMs), discourse markers (DMs) and modal particles
(MPs). Although classifications diverge in this field, PMs can be broadly
defined as markers of functions belonging to the domains of social cohesion
(the H-S relationship; e.g. please, danke, etc.), DMs as strategies
ensuring textual cohesion (discourse managing; e.g. utterance initial
usages of but, anyway, etc.), and MPs as signals of personal stance (the
speaker’s perspective towards the discourse and the interlocutor; e.g.
German ja, eben etc.). PMs, DMs, and MPs have been the object of extensive
investigation. However, their heterogeneous character – i.e. the fact that
they derive from many different sources, and that they are multifunctional
– has resulted in fragmentary descriptions that fit well the facts of a
given language, but may be seriously challenged when one extends the
analysis to other languages.

Call for Papers:

The workshop, organized as part of the Italian National Research Program
“Linguistic Representations of Identity. Sociolinguistic Models and
Historical Linguistics” (www.mediling.eu), welcomes papers providing new
insights into classical issues such as the categorization of PMs/DMs/MPs,
as well as papers exploring other crucial (but less discussed) issues, such
as the sociolinguistics of PMs, DMs and MPs. Particularly encouraged are
studies that take into account the languages of the Mediterranean, which
are the focus of the Research Program, but contributions on other languages
(especially less described ones) are also welcome. The 
following is a list of relevant questions, clustering around a few thematic
foci: 

(i) Universality vs. language-specificity: are PMs, DMs and MPs universal
or language-specific categories? If they are universal, which are the
criteria for distinguishing them? If they are not, which approach to
grammar is the most suitable to model their behavior? 

(ii) PMs, DMs and MPs and their functional equivalents: some of these
categories are easy to recognize in some languages (e.g. MPs in German). In
other languages, it is more difficult to single out a class of MPs, DMs or
PMs. How do these languages perform the functions carried out by MPs, DMs
and PMs in other languages? 

(iii) The sources of PMs, DMs and MPs: which are their most frequent
sources? Are there any regularities across languages in the processes
leading from definable sets of sources to specific PMs/DMs/MPs? Are their
paths of development parallel, or do they display divergences? Are there
any ‘pragmatic cycles’, comparable to Jespersen’s cycles, accounting for
their renewal? 

(iv) PMs, DMs and MPs in contact: how do these markers behave in contact
situations? Are there any borrowability hierarchies among these types of
markers? Are more hearer-sided markers (e.g. PMs vs. MPs) more prone to be
borrowed in contact situations? 

(v) PMs, DMs and MPs as markers of sociolinguistic identity and
subjectivity: to what extent do these markers function as signals of
sociolinguistic identity? Is there any other type of social significance
attached to them within a given community? How do they function to express
the speaker’s perspective towards the content s/he’s conveying, the
interlocutor, or the communicative situation?

Abstract Submission:

Authors are invited to submit a one-page abstract (with one additional page
for examples), keeping in mind that the slot for their communication will
last 30 min. including discussion. 

Abstracts should be anonymous and should be sent as attachments in PDF
format to: workshopcomo at gmail.com 

Author(s) name(s) and affiliation should be indicated in the body of the
e-mail. The abstracts will be anonymously reviewed by two members of the
Scientific Committee. 

The publication of a selection of the papers as a book or a special issue
of an international journal is envisaged. 

Important Dates:

30 May 2014: Deadline for abstract submission
30 June 2014: Notification of acceptance; (free) registration starts
9 October 2014: Registration ends
16-17 October 2014: Workshop

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