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Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2016 16:15:02
From: Stanislaw Gozdz-Roszkowski [gozdz.roszkowski at gmail.com]
Subject: Evaluation, Emotions and Argument Dynamics in Discourse

Full Title: Evaluation, Emotions and Argument Dynamics in Discourse 
Short Title: EVARG 2017 

Date: 10-Sep-2017 - 13-Sep-2017
Location: Zurich, Switzerland 
Contact Person: Martin Hinton
Meeting Email: evarg2017 at gmail.com

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Discourse Analysis; Pragmatics; Psycholinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 13-Nov-2016 

Meeting Description:

Title: Evaluation, emotions and argument dynamics in discourse 

Covenors: 

Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk (State University of Applied Sciences in Konin)
Stanisław Goźdź-Roszkowski (University of Łódź)
Paul Wilson (University of Łódź)
Martin Hinton (University of Łódź)

The workshop seeks to illuminate and answer two basic research questions: (1)
how evaluative properties of utterances condition argumentation dynamics in
genres and discourses in different languages, and (2) to what extent textual
evaluative properties are influenced by the speakers’ emotional arousal and
involvement. 

The ways in which evaluative meaning is expressed are notoriously difficult to
pin down.  Evaluation may be ‘inscribed’ or ‘evoked’ raising the issue of
selecting an effective methodology to identify and analyse ‘evaluative
language’. The use of linguistic resources to signal evaluation may also vary
depending on factors such as genre, discourse type and culture. Thus, one
promising avenue for research is to examine the extent to which evaluation and
evaluative strategies are genre- and culture-specific. 

In argumentation it may appear that the use of emotive and evaluative language
leads to poor arguments, divorced from the structures of disinterested,
logical reasoning; in fact, words which carry with them value-judgements, can
help to condense arguments since they contain implicit definitions and
emotional responses which are themselves the logical result of certain beliefs
and values, and can, in turn, be assessed as defeasible arguments. At the same
time, there is certainly a danger of emotions being provoked in order to
manipulate an audience and arouse passions at the expense of reason
(Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk 2015). We invite contributions which will investigate
the interplay of these two roles of value-laden language from a
multi-disciplinary perspective. 

The relative importance of emotions vs. logic in argumentation is situated in
the wider debate concerning the relationship between cognition and emotion.
Following Zajonc’s (1980) observation regarding the independence of cognition
and emotion, more recent work has proposed the primacy of affective processing
over semantic processing and the automatic nature of affective processing (see
Storbeck & Clore, 2007). However, such a distinction between cognition and
emotion has been questioned by, for example, Duncan & Barrett (2007: 1202),
who argue that “affective experiences are not sequenced, discriminable
conscious events distinct from experiences that seem devoid of affect (i.e.,
perceptual or intellectual experiences)”. Despite the uncertainty regarding
the nature of the interplay between cognition and emotion, contributions are
invited that illuminate how this complex relationship underpins the role of
emotions and logic in argumentation.

Call for Papers:

We welcome contributions addressing issues of argument dynamics in various
types of genre and discourse, and their interaction with the evaluative and
emotional properties of speakers'.

We welcome contributions which address the issue of variation in the
evaluative patterns of discourse produced by different discourse or
professional communities, in different cultural settings, and the complex
interplay between the subjectivity inherent in any act of evaluation and the
need to align with a particular community or discipline by tapping into
culturally available, institutionally appropriate resources. 

Preliminary abstracts for regular conference papers (maximum 300 words) should
reach us not later than Sunday 13 November at the address evarg2017 at gmail.com

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