29.5134, Calls: Applied Ling, Comp Ling, Disc Analysis, Neuroling, Pragmatics/Italy

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Subject: 29.5134, Calls: Applied Ling, Comp Ling, Disc Analysis, Neuroling, Pragmatics/Italy

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Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2018 22:55:18
From: Viviana Masia [viviana.masia at gmail.com]
Subject: Implicitness and Persuasion in Language

 
Full Title: Implicitness and Persuasion in Language 

Date: 19-Sep-2019 - 21-Sep-2019
Location: Como, Italy 
Contact Person: Viviana Masia
Meeting Email: viviana.masia at gmail.com

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Computational Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Neurolinguistics; Pragmatics 

Call Deadline: 20-Feb-2019 

Meeting Description:

The workshop aims to gather contributions on implicit communication and its
persuasive power in any context of language use. Research threads from current
theory-driven, computational and experimental approaches are welcomed.


Call for Papers:

Location: Como, Italy
Date: 19-21 September 2019

The literature in philosophy and linguistics has shed light on a number of
communicative devices aimed at leaving part of a sentence’s meaning not fully
expressed (Frege, 1892; Ducrot, 1972; Kerbrat-Orecchioni, 1986; Rigotti, 1988;
Sbisà, 2007; Lombardi Vallauri, 2009; Domaneschi & Penco, 2016). Furthermore,
it is known that implicit communication is an effective means of persuasion
(Sbisà, 2007; Lombardi Vallauri, 2009; Reboul 2011; De Saussure, 2013).
Contemporary pragmatic views (Lombardi Vallauri 2016; Lombardi Vallauri &
Masia, 2016, among others) have characterized presuppositions and
implicatures, but also topicalizations, figurative language and
semantic/syntactic vagueness as means for under-encoding meanings in a
message. Research on corpus-based pragmatics (Lombardi Vallauri & Masia, 2014;
Brocca et al. 2016) has sought to quantify the impact of the above-mentioned
discourse phenomena on the processes by which addressees compute the meanings
of utterances and texts. These quantitative approaches have proved suitable
for measuring and comparing the impact of implicit communication in texts
belonging to different genres and targeted at different types of audiences,
although political discourses epitomize a fertile ground for delving into both
the functions and uses of implicit communicative strategies. Moreover, recent
approaches in experimental pragmatics have unveiled the impact that different
categories of implicit communication have on the human brain.

The workshop will tackle (but will not be limited to) the following topics:

- Manipulative and persuasive communication: boundaries and working
definitions;
- Pragmatic strategies of implicit communication;
- Quantitative methods: measurement of implicit communication in persuasive
texts;
- Processing implicit communication;
- Implicitness and attention diversion strategies;
- Developments and projects on theory-driven and empirical perspectives on
implicit communication.

Invited Speaker: Marina Sbisà (University of Trieste)

Submission of Proposals:

Proposals, not exceeding 1.000 words (references excluded), should be sent to
the following email address: info at oppp.it by 20 February 2019.

Scientific Committee:

Laura Baranzini, Doriana Cimmino, Federica Cominetti, Claudia Coppola, Davide
Garassino, Edoardo Lombardi Vallauri, Giorgia Mannaioli, Viviana Masia,
Alessandro Panunzi.




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