27.2485, Calls: General Ling/Germany

Mon Jun 6 14:46:47 UTC 2016

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Subject: 27.2485, Calls: General Ling/Germany

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Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2016 10:46:42
From: Aria Adli [register-dgfs2017 at uni-koeln.de]
Subject: 39th Annual Meeting of the DGfS (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft)

Full Title: 39th Annual Meeting of the DGfS (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft) 
Short Title: DGfS2017 

Date: 08-Mar-2017 - 10-Mar-2017
Location: Saarbrücken, Germany 
Contact Person: Ingo Reich
Meeting Email: dgfs2017 at uni-saarland.de
Web Site: http://dgfs2017.uni-saarland.de 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 31-Aug-2016 

Meeting Description:

The 39th Annual Meeting of the DGfS (Deutsche Gesellschaft für
Sprachwissenschaft) will be hosted by Saarland University (Saarbrücken,
Germany) from March 8- 10, 2017. 4 plenary talks and 12 parallel sessions on
all sorts of linguistic topics are scheduled for the conference as well as a
poster session organized by the DGfS Special Interest Group on Computational
Linguistics (see conference website). The general topic of the 39th Annual
Meeting of the DGfS is ''Information and Linguistic Encoding''.

Call for Papers:

This workshop deals with the variationist modelling of register variation. The
term register is used here to describe a variety of a language that is
associated with particular functional or situational features, thus describing
intra-speaker variation. Beginning with Labov's (1966) seminal study, a large
body of work on social, geographic, or historical variation exists, but
register remains an understudied dimension of variation. Yet, its study is
necessary to complement the notion of the (invariant) linguistic competence of
an idealized speaker/hearer, as speakers clearly vary their behavior
qualitatively and quantitatively in different circumstances.

This workshop adopts a variationist approach (Labov 1966) to the study of
register. Variation exists on each linguistic level (phonology, morphology,
syntax, lexicon, etc.). The essential idea of this method is that an abstract
variable (V) can be expressed by different concrete variants (a, b, c, d, ….),
e.g. one phoneme can be expressed by different allophones. Based on this
methodology, registers can be identified statistically in a bottom-up manner:
Their properties are reflected in the intercorrelation matrix with regard to a
previously defined set of functionally relevant linguistic variables (Biber
1995).

We welcome contributions that build on qualitative and quantitative analysis
of empirical data (corpora, elicitation, experiments, etc.) and that address
at least one of the following questions: (a) How do individuals vary their
linguistic behavior in different functional settings as speakers, and what
kind of variation do they expect as hearers? (b) Which factors influence which
aspects of this variation? (c) What do people know, implicitly and explicitly,
about how to behave linguistically in a given situation? (d) How is register
knowledge acquired? (e) How can register variation be modeled in linguistic
theory? (f) How does register variation lead to language change? (g) Are there
general principles underlying register variation across languages?

Invited speaker:
Benedikt Szmrecsanyi, Department of Linguistics, KU Leuven
Organizing Committee:
Anke Lüdeling, HU Berlin
Aria Adli, University of Cologne

Format:
Authors should submit 1 page abstracts (including references) in a 12 point
font (e.g. Times New Roman) to register-dgfs2017 at uni-koeln.de. References
should be formatted according to the APA guidelines. Talks will be given 30 or
60 minute slots including discussion, depending on the program. Please specify
your preferred length in your submission. The workshop language is English for
both abstracts and talks. According to DGfS regulations, speakers can only
present a paper in one workshop.

Important dates:
- Submission of abstracts: 31.08.2016
- Notification of acceptance: 10.09.2016
- Workshop: 07.-10.03.201

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