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Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2016 15:05:46
From: Cristina Grisot [cristina.grisot at rom.unibe.ch]
Subject: Empirical Testing of Discourse Relations and Connectives

 Full Title: Empirical Testing of Discourse Relations and Connectives 

Date: 10-Sep-2017 - 13-Sep-2017
Location: Zurich, Switzerland 
Contact Person: Cristina Grisot
Meeting Email: cristina.grisot at rom.unibe.ch

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; General Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 21-Nov-2016 

Meeting Description:

Workshop 'Empirical testing of discourse relations and connectives'
Organisers: Grisot Cristina and Zufferey Sandrine
University of Bern, Switzerland

Since Halliday and Hassan's (1976) seminal work on cohesion in English,
implicit and explicit discourse relations have extensively been studied in the
last forty years from various perspectives, such as the automatic recognition
of mainly explicit discourse relations expressed through connectives (Mann and
Thompson 1987; Prasad et al. 2004; Lapata & Lascarides 2004; Meyer &
Popescu-Belis 2012; Meyer 2014), and the formulation of cognitively plausible
taxonomies of discourse relations (Hovy 1990; Sanders et al. 1992, 1993; Knott
& Dale 1994; Knott & Sanders 1998; Sanders 2005; Prasad et al. 2008; Roze et
al. 2010). 

An extensive body of literature in linguistics and pragmatics targeted the
meaning of connectives and the human annotation of their senses (Blakemore
1987, 2000; Blass 1990; Carston 1993; Moeschler 1989, 2002; Rouchota 1998;
Zufferey 2007, 2012; Zufferey & Cartoni 2012), and their role for cognitive
processing of utterances (Sanders and Noordman 2000; Canestrelli et al. 2013;
Zufferey 2014; Grisot & Blochowiak 2015; Zufferey and Gygax 2016). 
These studies have shown that connectives encode procedures that guide the
hearer in the comprehension process. This was linked to a facilitation effect
for processing the segment following the connective when the meaning of the
connective correlates to the meaning of the discourse segment processed (e.g.
Traxler et al. 1997; Canestrelli et al. 2013; Zufferey 2014). On the contrary,
when the meaning of the connective does not correspond to the implicit
discourse relation no effect of facilitation is found (Cain & Nash 2011;
Grisot & Blochowiak 2015). Furthermore, the erroneous use of a connective
leads to a regression effect measured with eye tracking techniques at the end
of the sentence when there is a mismatch between the meaning of the connective
and the meaning of the discourse segment (Canestrelli et al. 2013; Zufferey et
al. 2015).


Call for Papers:

This workshop will gather researchers presenting empirical and experimental
work assessing the cognitive processing discourse relations and connectives:

- On-line processing of discourse relations and connectives (including L2 and
acquisition data)
- Offline experiments (judgement tasks, sentence continuation tasks, cloze
tests, etc.)
- Annotation experiments

Abstracts should be submitted as email attachments to
cristina.grisot at rom.unibe.ch by 21 November 2016. Abstracts should be 300
words, excluding references.

Important Dates:

21 November 2016: Deadline for submission 300 word abstracts to the workshop
organisers (submission contact: cristina.grisot at rom.unibe.ch)
23 November 2016: Notification of initial acceptance by the workshop
organisers
25 November 2016: Submission of the workshop proposal to the SLE
15 December 2016: Notification of acceptance of workshop proposals from SLE
organizers to workshop organizers
15 January 2017: Deadline for submission of full abstracts to SLE
31 March 2017: Notification of paper acceptance
10-13 September 2017: SLE conference



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