27.245, Calls: Cognitive Science; Pragmatics; Semantics/ Revue de Sémantique et Pragmatique (Jrnl)

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Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2016 12:56:42
From: Richard Faure [rfaure at unice.fr]
Subject: Cognitive Science; Pragmatics; Semantics/ Revue de Sémantique et Pragmatique (Jrnl)

 
Full Title: Revue de Sémantique et Pragmatique 


Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Pragmatics; Semantics 

Call Deadline: 31-May-2016 

The peer-reviewed journal Revue de Sémantique et de Pragmatique (Journal of
Semantics and Pragmatics) is planning a special issue on ''Exclamation and
intersubjectivity''. Details available at
http://bcl.cnrs.fr/IMG/pdf/special_issue_rsp_exclamation.pdf

Exclamations are often characterised as linguistic reactions (even if minimal
ones) to unexpected events or words (Martin 1987; Rett 2011). They are
triggered by emotions such as surprise, fear or anger, which makes them a
phenomenon of the socalled “expressive function of language” (Jakobson
1963-1973; Paulin 2007). They are often associated with specific properties in
the areas of syntax (they are said to display incomplete structures or
wh-clauses, i.e. ‘gap’-clauses), semantics (high degree is often involved),
intonation, information structure and even punctuation (no matter how
ambivalent an exclamation mark can be) (see Faure 2012, Michaelis 2001, Milner
1978; Morel in Danon-Boileau et Morel 1995; d’Avis 2001; Zanuttini and Portner
2003; Rett 2011). 

Still, such approaches focus on the speaker’s point of view, while too often
leaving aside the role of the hearer/addressee. Even in interactional models,
the interactive dimension is not tackled as such (Vanderveken 1990, Kerbrat
2001). This special issue aims at questioning the idea that exclamations can
be studied in isolation or that they are only speaker-oriented. On the
contrary, they often appear in verbal interactions and dialogues, in relation
with their emotive/expressive part that tend to trigger reactions. This raises
the question as to whether there might exist conventional exclamation
triggers, hence their ability to function as rejoinders to certain speech
acts. Moreover, exclamations could be involved in interactions where a
reaction is expected from the hearer (acceptance, confirmation, as in
Chernilovskaya 2014, but also denial or mimicry of the speaker’s attitude by
the hearer). Some linguists argue that exclamations have a “context change
potential” based on their expressive force (Castroviejo Miró 2008,
Chernilovskaya 2014). But to what extent can an exclamative utterance really
influence the hearer’s position? Exclamative clauses also seem to play an
important role in the way the speaker presents the linguistic message to the
hearer in that they mark steps in this argumentation (when the topic shifts,
for example, Gaubert 2001). For the linguists that treat exclamation as an
independent Speech Act, that could mean including an intersubjective part in
the felicity conditions. Finally, the hearer’s point of view can contribute to
the semantic/pragmatic debate regarding the nature of the factivity attributed
to exclamations be it presupposition or conventional implicature (Zanuttini
and Portner 2003; Beyssade 2009; Abels 2010, whose tests are mostly based on
embedded clauses, as evidenced by Chernilovskaya 2014). 

Schedule

Call deadline: May 31 2016
Notification of acceptance: September 30 2016
Publication: December 15 2016




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