27.4168, Calls: Disc Analysis, Gen Ling, Pragmatics, Psycholing, Semantics/Switzerland

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Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2016 15:03:19
From: Eugenio Goria [eugenio.goria at gmail.com]
Subject: Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Online Construction of Reference

Full Title: Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Online Construction of Reference 

Date: 10-Sep-2017 - 13-Sep-2017
Location: Zürich, Switzerland 
Contact Person: Eugenio Goria
Meeting Email: eugenio.goria at gmail.com

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; General Linguistics; Pragmatics; Psycholinguistics; Semantics 

Call Deadline: 12-Nov-2016 

Meeting Description:

It is a commonplace in linguistics that while meaning of indexical expressions
like you, tomorrow, that, and so on is deeply rooted in the context where
these expressions occur, referential meaning is impervious to the effects of
context. Contrary to this view, Croft and Cruse (2004) have extensively argued
in favour of a theory where referential meaning is not regarded as an abstract
pre-existing notion that transcends the single interaction, but rather as the
result of a dynamic process. In particular, there are several pieces of
evidence from different fields of linguistics that show how reference (in the
sense of Leech 1974) is a psychological reality that is constructed online by
the participants in a conversation, through a dynamic step by-step process.
Central to this view is the presence of contextual clues whereby the speaker
directs the interpretation of the hearer, in order to achieve the desired
interpretation.

The phenomenon of online construction of reference, as observed in Mauri
(2016, to appear), is particularly evident in specific conversational actions
such as repairs (lines 6-14), with particular constructions, such as lists
(line 16), and often involves co-operation between speaker and hearer (see the
exchange at lines 16-20).

WG:
1: here in Gibraltar everybody lives (.) well
2: (0.36)
3: and here xxx
4: in which i don't know if you noticed
5: (0.37)
6: even the son of the person who is 
7: (0.42)
8: like i don't know é_que i don't want to
9: (0.35)
10: i don't want to categorise any profession or any xxx (.) for  example
11: (0.84)
12: someone who cleans the streets. street-cleaners
13: (2.29)
14: an electrician (.) i_mean (.) no sé
15: (0.51)
16: they've all got the latest clothes (.) the latest phone (.) the latest
television
17: (1.4)

EG:
18: they have a high standard of living

WG:
19: a high standard of living
20: which is something which i_think we xxx quite well

Online construction of reference can be thus seen in association with several
constructions and emergent constructions (Auer, Pfänder 2011), particular
prosodic patterns (Selting 2007), list constructions (Jefferson 1990, Bonvino
et al. 2009), reformulation, exemplification and other strategies used to
build ad hoc categories (Barsalou 1983; Mauri, to appear). However, many these
structures have been investigated mainly with respect to their pragmatic
properties, whereas their key-role in the construction of reference and
meaning has still to be investigated.

Call for Papers:

Contact Persons: Eugenio Goria (eugenio.goria at unibo.it) Caterina Mauri
(caterina.mauri at unibo.it) Ilaria Fiorentini (ilaria.fiorentini at unibo.it) 
Call Deadline (provisional 300-word abstracts): 12-Nov-2016

With this workshop we want to put together studies from different fields of
linguistics that share a common interest on:

- How reference is constructed online, 
- What constructions activate this process, 
- How speaker and hearer co-operate in the construction of reference 
- How is this process rooted in the real time dimension (see the discussion of
temporality in Auer, 2009; Günthner, Deppermann, 2015; Du Bois, 2014; Hopper,
2011 inter al.). 

Here is a (rather unexhaustive) list of possible topics that we would like to
discuss with the participants to this workshop. Empirical works will receive
particular attention, but also more theory-based contributions will be
regarded as eligible.

- Construction grammar and usage based approaches to the construction of
meaning
- Studies on Co-constructions
- Special uses of indexical referring expressions
- Repairs and reformulation
- The interaction between temporality and the creation of reference
- Prosodic patterns characterizing the online constructions of reference
- Psycholinguistic and experimental studies
- Conversation analysis and multimodal perspectives

Due to the strict deadline, we ask contributors to send a preliminary 300-word
version of their abstracts before November 12. Accepted contributions will be
attached to our workshop proposal and will be peer-reviewed by the SLE
committee.

References:

Auer, Peter, Stefan Pfänder (eds). 2011. Constructions: Emerging and Emergent.
Berlin, de Gruyter. 
Auer, Peter. 2009. Online Syntax: Thoughts on the Temporality of Spoken
Language. Language Sciences 31: 1-13. 
Barsalou, Lawrence. 1983. Ad hoc categories. Memory and Cognition 11(3):
211-227.
Bonvino, Elisabetta, Francesca Masini, Paola Pietrandrea. 2009. List
Constructions: a semantic network. Paper presented at the conference Grammars
in Construction(s) - 3rd International AFLiCo Conference. University Paris
Ouest - Nanterre - La Défense - May 27-29, 2009
Croft, William, Allan Cruse. 2004. Cognitive linguistics. Cambridge, CUP.
Deppermann, Arnulf, Suzanne Günthner. 2015. Temporality in interaction.
Amsterdam, Benjamins.
Du Bois, John. 2014. Towards a dialogic syntax. Cognitive linguistics 25(3):
359-410. 
Hopper, Paul. 2011. Emergent Grammar and Temporality in Interactional
Linguistics. In: Peter Auer and Stefan Pfänder (eds.) Constructions: Emerging
and Emergent. Berlin, de Gruyter: 22-44. 
Jefferson, Gail, 1990. List construction as a task and interactional resource.
In: Psathas, G. (Ed.), Interactional Competence. University Press of America,
New York: 63-92.
Leech, Geoffrey. 1974. Semantics. The study of meaning. Harmondsworth: Penguin
Books.
Mauri, Caterina. To appear. Building and interpreting ad hoc categories. A
linguistic analysis. To appear in: J. Blochowiak, C. Grisot, S. Durrleman-Tame
and C. Laenzlinger (eds.) Formal models in the study of language, Berlin:
Springer.
Selting, Margret. 2007. Lists as embedded structures and the prosody of list
construction as an interactional resource. Journal of Pragmatics 39: 483-526.

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