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Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2016 15:44:09
From: Agnès Celle [agnes.celle at univ-paris-diderot.fr]
Subject: Modality in Interrogatives: Issues in the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface

 
Full Title: Modality in Interrogatives: Issues in the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface 

Date: 10-Sep-2017 - 13-Sep-2017
Location: Zurich, Switzerland 
Contact Person: Agnès Celle, Ilse Depraetere
Meeting Email: agnes.celle at univ-paris-diderot.fr

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Pragmatics; Semantics 

Call Deadline: 01-Nov-2016 

Meeting Description:

This workshop is focussed on specific types of interrogatives, namely those
that are said to express modal meaning.  While other markers of modality, such
as modal verbs, modal adjectives, modal adverbs or modal particles may be used
in interrogatives, there are constraints on their use. (Pietrandrea 2005) The
workshop will include empirical studies on the interaction of various types of
modal markers and interrogatives as well as theoretical papers addressing the
categorization of this form of modal meaning and what it teaches us about the
syntax-semantics-pragmatics interface. 

Empirical studies will analyse specific modal expressions in interrogatives
and can relate to issues such as the following:

- Modal and evidential meaning of specific types of interrogatives 
- Empirical (quantitative) overviews of the use of modals in interrogatives
- Analysis of meaning of specific modals in interrogatives (Celle and Lansari
2016)
- Modals, interrogatives and politeness 

Theoretical papers can address questions such as the following:

- Do all types of interrogatives mark modality? How do epistemic adverbs and
bias markers interact with interrogatives and questions)? How do modal verbs
and particles contribute to the evaluative function of rhetorical questions?
How do they relate to speaker's expectations and to common ground?
- What layers of modal meaning can be combined in questions and how should
they be represented? (e.g. combination of an interrogative and a modal verb or
a modal particle) 
- What is the scope of modality and more specifically epistemicity (cf. Boye
2012) in interrogatives and how does it interact with the scope of other modal
markers? How can the scope of modality be accounted for in the case of deontic
modals combined with negation (cf. Han 2002 on the contrast between the scope
of deontic modals over negation in ordinary questions, and the scope of
rhetorical negation over deontic modals)
- Assuming that epistemic modals are speech act modifiers (von Fintel and
Gillies 2007), what is their impact on the illocutionary force of questions?
- How should the meaning of modals in indirect speech acts be captured? 
- Are there syntactic, semantic or pragmatic restrictions to the use of modal
expressions in questions in certain conversational backgrounds?
- 'speech act modality' (Sweetser 1990) and interrogatives


Call for Papers:

If accepted, this workshop will be part of the 50th Annual Meeting of the
Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE) to be held in Zürich, 10-13 September
2017. We invite 300-word abstract submissions (excluding references) for 20+10
minute presentations. 

Abstracts should be emailed to both workshop convenors
(agnes.celle at univ-paris-diderot.fr and ilse.depraetere at univ-lille3.fr). If
selected, abstracts will be included in the workshop proposal submitted to the
SLE organisers. If the workshop proposal is accepted, abstracts should be
revised and expanded (500 words, excluding references) and resubmitted in
order to undergo the general SLE reviewing process.

Important Dates:

1 November 2016: Deadline for submission of 300-word abstracts to the workshop
convenors (agnes.celle at univ-paris-diderot.fr, and
ilse.depraetere at univ-lille3.fr). 
25 November 2016: Notification of acceptance by the workshop convenors and
submission of the workshop proposal to SLE
25 December 2016: Notification of acceptance of workshop proposals from SLE
organizers to workshop organizers
15 January 2017: Submission of full abstracts (500 words, excluding
references), taking into account any feedback from the reviewing procedure,
for review by SLE
31 March 2017: Notification of acceptance of individual workshop contributions
10-13 September 2017: SLE conference




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