27.1096, Confs: Cog Sci, Morphology, Semantics, Syntax/Brazil

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LINGUIST List: Vol-27-1096. Tue Mar 01 2016. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 27.1096, Confs: Cog Sci, Morphology, Semantics, Syntax/Brazil

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Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2016 15:02:08
From: Tiago Torrent [tiago.torrent at ufjf.edu.br]
Subject: Constructions, Usage and Intersubjectivity

Constructions, Usage and Intersubjectivity 

Date: 05-Oct-2016 - 07-Oct-2016 
Location: Juiz de Fora - Minas Gerais, Brazil 
Contact: Lílian Ferrari 
Contact Email: lilianferrari at uol.com.br 
Meeting URL: http://www.ufjf.br/iccg9/home/theme-sessions/constructions-usage-and-intersubjectivity/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Morphology; Semantics; Syntax 

Meeting Description: 

This theme session reflects current trends in cognitive linguistics and
usage-based approaches to language, centering on the relations between
grammatical constructions, usage and intersubjectivity. Recent studies have
shown the existence of a wide range of constructions marking
intersubjectivity, from lower-level constructions, such as negation markers
and personal pronouns, to syntactic-level constructions, such as conditionals
and complementation constructions (Verhagen 2005; Zlatev et. al. 2015). Beyond
textual data, gesture and various multimodal combinations (e.g. comics) have
also been studied as constructions which play intersubjective functions in
usage events (Sweetser 2007, Steen and Turner, 2013).

According to usage-based models, structure emerges when chunks of speech are
identified by repeated occurrence and get entrenched in the speaker’s mind as
units of language (Langacker, 1988, 1999; Kemmer & Barlow 1999; Tomasello
1999, 2003; Bybee 2006, 2010). Drawing on this body of research, this theme
section aims at taking a step further and investigating how frequency of use
and communicative needs are intertwined in shaping constructions. In this
vein, it is claimed that even if frequency can be seen as a shaping factor, it
may well not be a determining cause, but the effect of interactional needs,
such as intersubjective alignment (Verhagen, 2005). Given that
intersubjectivity, defined as mutual management of cognitive states, has been
shown to be a basic component of human cognition (Tomasello, 1999), it should
be expected that it is also a basic component of grammar. Following this line
of reasoning, this theme session will focus on different kinds of
constructions, exploring the relations between frequency of use, degree of
entrenchment and intersubjectivity.

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