27.836, Calls: Greek, Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics, Sociolinguistics/Greece

Mon Feb 15 16:16:25 UTC 2016

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Subject: 27.836, Calls: Greek, Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics, Sociolinguistics/Greece

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Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2016 11:16:17
From: Theodossia-Soula Pavlidou [pavlidou at lit.auth.gr]
Subject: Questions-answers in Greek Talk-in-interaction

Full Title: Questions-answers in Greek Talk-in-interaction 

Date: 13-Oct-2016 - 14-Oct-2016
Location: Thessaloniki, Greece 
Contact Person: Theodossia-Soula Pavlidou
Meeting Email: GR-TiI_ins at phil.auth.gr
Web Site: http://ins.web.auth.gr/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=82&Itemid=263&lang=en 

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Pragmatics; Sociolinguistics 

Subject Language(s): Greek, Modern (ell)

Call Deadline: 15-May-2016 

Meeting Description:

The Institute of Modern Greek Studies [Manolis Triandaphyllidis Foundation],
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, is pleased to announce its 2nd Symposium
on the Greek Language in Spoken Communication, to be held in Thessaloniki on
13-14 October 2016. The Symposium is organized as part of the Institute’s
activities on spoken Greek and in the context of the research project Greek
Talk-in-interaction and Conversation Analysis.

This year’s Symposium will focus on ‘Questions-answers in Greek
Talk-in-interaction’ and the aim is to examine systematically aspects of such
sequences in Greek ordinary conversation and in more institutional settings.
Moreover, this year’s Symposium will host a session on questions-answers in
other languages, so that discussion of the Greek data can be set in the
cross-linguistic perspective of talk-in-interaction. The keynote speaker of
the Symposium will be Professor Marja-Leena Sorjonen (University of Helsinki),
Director of the Center of Excellence in Intersubjectivity and Interaction.

Call for Papers:

The aim of the Symposium is to examine systematically aspects of the nuclear
sequence question-answer in Greek talk-in-interaction both in everyday
conversations and in more institutional settings. Moreover, this year’s
Symposium will host a session on questions-answers in other languages, so that
discussion of the Greek data can be set in the cross-linguistic perspective of
talk-in-interaction.

The following topics (not exclusive) will be of interest:

- Form/structure of questions/answers 
- Functions associated with particular forms/structures 
- Formal features (morpho-syntactic, prosodic, etc.) of questions and their
impact on answers 
- Preference organization in the question-answer sequence
- The design of questions/answers and the acts accomplished 
- Distribution of epistemic rights and kinds of acts 
- Stances (perspective, subjectivity, etc.) indexed by particular forms of
questions/answers
- The multimodality of the question-answer sequence (gestures, nods, gaze,
etc.) 
- The impact of the broader context (e.g., everyday conversation, research
interview, etc. vs. TV-discussion or -interview) on the design of the
question-answer sequence 
- Interpersonal issues (politeness, impoliteness, face threats, etc.) 

All theoretical approaches to the study of talk-in-interaction are welcome;
however, due to the specific frame of the Symposium, priority will be given to
papers adopting a Conversation Analysis perspective. In any case, the basic
requirement for paper acceptance is that the analysis and findings be grounded
on empirical data drawn from tape-/video-recordings of naturally occurring
talk. 

Those who wish to participate in the Symposium with a paper are invited to
submit two copies of their abstracts (one signed and one anonymous) as MS Word
attachments to GR-TiI_ins at phil.auth.gr by 15 May 2016. Notification of
acceptance will be communicated by 15 June 2016. 

Submitted abstracts should specify – in addition to the aim of the paper – the
type of data used, the methodology employed and the main findings of the
paper. 

Submissions should be in the following format:
Length: 300-400 words (including references) 
Font: Times New Roman 12pt
Space: single 
Margins: 3 cm all sides
For the signed copy: title, author(s), affiliation, email address (centered)
For the anonymous copy: title (centered). Reference to the author(s) of the
paper in the anonymous copy should only be included in the following form:
AUTHOR(S). publication date. 

Participation Fees (to be paid on the day of registration)
Standard: 30 €; Student fee: 10 €

For further information please contact the Secretariat of the Institute of
Modern Greek Studies, Room 418, Faculty of Philosophy, New Building, Aristotle
University of Thessaloniki. 
E-mail: GR-TiI_ins at phil.auth.gr
Tel.: ++30 2310 997128

Organizing Committee:
Th.-S. Pavlidou, Professor Emerita (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) and
member of the Institute’s Board of Directors (Director of the Greek
Talk-in-interaction and Conversation Analysis research project)
Chr. Tzitzilis, Professor of Historical and Balkan Linguistics (Aristotle
University of Thessaloniki) and member of the Institute’s Board of Directors
G. Papanastassiou, Associate Professor of Historical Linguistics (Aristotle
University of Thessaloniki) and Director of the Institute 

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