28.519, Calls: Historical Ling, Ling & Lit, Psycholing, Semantics, Translation/Italy

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Subject: 28.519, Calls: Historical Ling, Ling & Lit, Psycholing, Semantics, Translation/Italy

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Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2017 18:20:35
From: Alfonsina Buoniconto [alfonsinabuoniconto at gmail.com]
Subject: Graduate Conference 2017 Dipsum Unisa

 
Full Title: Graduate Conference 2017 Dipsum Unisa 

Date: 06-Jul-2017 - 07-Jul-2017
Location: Salerno, Italy 
Contact Person: GC Organizing Committee DipSUm
Meeting Email: gradconfdipsum at unisa.it
Web Site: http://www.unisa.it/dipartimenti/dip_studi_umanistici/ricerca/dottorati/studilettlingsto/convegni/index 

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Lexicography; Psycholinguistics; Semantics; Translation 

Call Deadline: 30-Mar-2017 

Meeting Description:

Blank Spaces. A Survey on Absence. 

This Conference proposes an interweaving investigation on this topic,
involving different scientific fields (literature, linguistics, philology,
history of art and media, anthropology, etc.) and resorting to either newer or
well-established methodological perspectives. The aim is that of outlining a
meaningful frame of the topic proposed in the context of an interdisciplinary
dialogue. 

As for the linguistic section, particular focus will be placed on the
following issues: 
 
- Untranslatability
- Absence of forms, absence of meanings
- Ellipsis, reticence, inferences, euphemisms, presuppositions
- Aphasia and other speech disorders
- Linguistic erosion and phenomena of phonetic, morphosyntactic and semantic
loss
- The non-place of standards: dialects, regionalisms and subtractive
bilingualism
- Absence of words: verbal, non-verbal, paraverbal language


Call for Papers:

Lacuna is the term which conventionally refers to the void generated, within a
text, by the loss of some elements: letters, words or even sentences. It is a
cavity collecting a writing suspension able to compromise the whole discourse
meaning. However, the lack of words is not always identifiable as a space of
incongruence or philological desperatio. Rather, it can emerge as a
representational criterion and be defined as the result of external
contingencies or as a voluntary or unaware communication forswearing. The
blank space caused by word loss, omission or negation thus becomes a concrete
representation of the unexpressed and a metaphorical principle for a
reflection on absence.

The Graduate Conference Dipsum proposes an interweaving investigation on this
topic, involving different scientific fields (literature, linguistics,
philology, history of art and media, anthropology, etc.) and resorting to
either newer or well-established methodological perspectives. The aim is that
of outlining a meaningful frame of the topic proposed in the context of an
interdisciplinary dialogue.

Some of the focal points of the Conference are reported below:

1. Discoursive Absence:

- Textual lacunae: ecdotic problems and exegetic implications
- Censorship, self-censorship and other forms of repression
- Absence of forms, absence of meanings
- Allegoric and symbolic writing
- Untranslatability

2. Linguistic and Expressive Voids:

- Ellipsis, reticence, inferences, euphemisms, presuppositions
- Aphasia and other speech disorders
- Linguistic erosion and phenomena of phonetic, morphosyntactic and semantic
loss
- The non-place of standards: dialects, regionalisms and subtractive
bilingualism
- Absence of words: verbal, non-verbal, paraverbal language

3. The Spaces of Absence:

-The invisible space: para-world, fictional space and creative places
- The aesthetics of absence: the representation of grief, loss and lack
- Repressed memory in chronicles, historiography, biography and autobiography
- Horror vacui or dissimulated absence
- Uprooting and alterity

Please, note that the topics listed above have a merely indicative function.
Conveniently reasoned suggestions, which might point out further related
issues or topics intermingling with the ones mentioned, will be very welcome.

All PhD students and doctors interested are asked to send in an abstract in
both .doc and .pdf formats of 300-500 words, title and possible references
excluded, to gradconfdipsum at unisa.it by 30 March 2017. Abstracts should also
include: applicant's name and surname, e-mail address, affiliation, position,
and reference to the thematic area of the contribution. The organizing
committee will send notification of acceptance not later than 30 April 2017.

Accepted speakers will have 15-20 minutes to present their contribution, which
will subsequently have to be submitted for the Conference Proceedings
publication. Both talks and essays can be presented in all the languages of
the PhD programme (Italian, English, French, German, Spanish).

All expenses will have to be covered by participants. For further information,
please, visit the dedicated page on the university website
(http://www.unisa.it/dipartimenti/dip_studi_umanistici/ricerca/dottorati/studi
lettlingsto/convegni/index) or send an email to the Committee
(gradconfdipsum at unisa.it).

The Organizing Committee:

Alfonsina Buoniconto
Raffaele Cesaro
Francesca D'Angelo
Ljubica Leone
Eriberto Russo
Gerardo Salvati




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