28.2418, Calls: Cog Sci, Discourse Analysis, Lang Acquisition, Pragmatics, Psycholing/France

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Subject: 28.2418, Calls: Cog Sci, Discourse Analysis, Lang Acquisition, Pragmatics, Psycholing/France

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Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2017 11:14:28
From: Benjamin Fagard [benjamin.fagard at ens.fr]
Subject: Linguistics and Psycholinguistic Approaches to Text Structuring

 
Full Title: Linguistics and Psycholinguistic Approaches to Text Structuring 
Short Title: LPTS 2018 

Date: 18-Jan-2018 - 20-Jan-2018
Location: Paris, France 
Contact Person: Benjamin Fagard
Meeting Email: lpts2018 at ens.fr
Web Site: http://lattice.cnrs.fr/lpts/appel.html 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Discourse Analysis; Language Acquisition; Pragmatics; Psycholinguistics 

Call Deadline: 15-Sep-2017 

Meeting Description:

The aim of the conference, in line with previous editions of the series, is to
provide an interdisciplinary forum to present and discuss recent work on
discourse structure.

January 18th-20th, 2018

Ecole Normale Supérieure, 45 rue d’Ulm, 75005 Paris
France

The aim of the conference, in line with previous editions of the series, is to
provide an interdisciplinary forum to present and discuss recent work on
discourse structure. From a linguistic viewpoint, the focus is often on
discourse markers, such as adverbials, connectives, and discourse particles.
How can we categorize them? What kind of relations do they express? Can they
combine several functions at the sentence level and/or at the discourse level
and, if so, which ones? From a psycholinguistic viewpoint, important questions
include what impact discourse structure markers have on comprehension. For
instance, are we capable of identifying topic continuity and predicting topic
changes on the basis of discourse cues? What does a topic (or theme) of
discourse correspond to cognitively? From an acquisitional viewpoint, when and
how are discourse markers acquired? From what age are children able to master
their use in oral and written discourse? 

Invited Speakers:
Elizabeth Traugott (Stanford University)
Fernanda Ferreira (UCDavis)

For further details, check our website http://lattice.cnrs.fr/lpts  or contact
us at lpts2018 at ens.fr


Call for Papers:

This edition will focus on the issue of discourse management, and more
specifically on topic orientation markers. As noted for example by Schourup
(1999), one major issue is the question of the universality of DMs (“To what
extent do all languages share a basic set of DMs with the same core pragmatic
meaning?”, cf. Fraser, 1990: 395), and a possible degree of universality
depending on the type of DM involved: “Fraser suggests it is likely that all
languages will have DMs like and, so, and now, but he questions whether this
is the case for markers like notwithstanding, well, and anyway.” (Schourup
1999: 261). In this new edition of the LPTS conference, we thus propose a
reflection on the general theme of markers and discourse coherence, and
particularly on one type of DM, viz. topic shifters. 

Papers may for instance address the question of the existence and
translatability of digressive markers, a subtype or possibly a use-type of
topic shifters (Lenk 1998, Pons Bordería & Estellés Arguedas 2009), or topic
orientation markers (a subtype of discourse management markers, cf. Fraser
2009). 

We welcome papers using cognitive, functional and psycholinguistic approaches,
based on corpora in various languages at different stages of their evolution,
as well as papers that report on approaches based on behavioral data. The
objective is to encourage discussion and collaboration between the approaches.
 
Topics may include, but are not limited to, the following: 

- Topic shifts, Topic orientation, Digression
- Grammaticalization and evolution of discourse markers
- Typological approaches to discourse markers
- Effects of discourse structure on comprehension
- Acquisition and mastery of discourse production
- Segmentation and linearization
- Saliency and Information Structure
- Role of text structuring devices in acquiring knowledge
- Disfluency and ‘normal’ vs ‘pathological’ discourse




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