29.1137, Calls: Pragmatics, Psycholing, Semantics, Text/Corpus Ling/Germany

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Subject: 29.1137, Calls: Pragmatics, Psycholing, Semantics, Text/Corpus Ling/Germany

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Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2018 23:16:20
From: Torgrim Solstad [solstad at leibniz-zas.de]
Subject: Implicit and Explicit Marking of Discourse Relations: Causals vs. Conditionals

 
Full Title: Implicit and Explicit Marking of Discourse Relations: Causals vs. Conditionals 

Date: 24-May-2018 - 25-May-2018
Location: Osnabrück, Germany 
Contact Person: Mingya Liu
Meeting Email: discrel.xprag at gmail.com
Web Site: http://www.xprag.de/?page_id=5450 

Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics; Psycholinguistics; Semantics; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 20-Mar-2018 

Meeting Description:

Invited speakers:

- Vera Demberg (Saarland University)
- Anastasia Giannakidou (University of Chicago)
- Fritz Hamm (University of Tübingen)
- Katrin Schulz (University of Amsterdam)

Discourse relations are essential for the production and comprehension of text
and dialogue. From a processing perspective, the identification of discourse
relations - among them causal, conditional and temporal relations - plays a
crucial role in the extraction of textual meaning and the inferences we can
derive from it. When producing utterances, we can choose to express discourse
relations explicitly, for example, through dedicated coherence devices such as
''because'', ''if (… then)'', and ''before'', or leave them implicit, leaving
it to the hearer to infer the most likely discourse relation.

The proposed workshop aims at identifying factors that contribute to the
decision of when a given discourse relation can be left implicit and when it
must be marked. We will focus on various kinds of causals, concessives and
conditionals which allow for implicit and explicit marking of discourse
relations (with the possible exception of concessives). On the one hand, we
aim to identify generally valid inferential and interpretational processes
related to discourse relations by way of examining these discourse relations.
On the other hand, we also aim to identify the correlation between the
semantic and pragmatic properties of discourse relations and the degree to
which they can be kept implicit. 

For further details please visit the workshop web page:
http://www.xprag.de/?page_id=5450

Organizers:

Oliver Bott (University of Tübingen)
Mingya Liu (Osnabrück University)
Torgrim Solstad (Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics - ZAS)

Funded by Xprag.de


2nd Call for Papers:

Discourse relations are essential for the production and comprehension of text
and dialogue. From a processing perspective, the identification of discourse
relations - among them causal, conditional and temporal relations - plays a
crucial role in the extraction of textual meaning and the inferences we can
derive from it. When producing utterances, we can choose to express discourse
relations explicitly, for example, through dedicated coherence devices such as
''because'', ''if (… then)'', and ''before'', or leave them implicit, leaving
it to the hearer to infer the most likely discourse relation.

The proposed workshop aims at identifying factors that contribute to the
decision of when a given discourse relation can be left implicit and when it
must be marked. We will focus on various kinds of causals, concessives and
conditionals which allow for implicit and explicit marking of discourse
relations (with the possible exception of concessives). On the one hand, we
aim to identify generally valid inferential and interpretational processes
related to discourse relations by way of examining these discourse relations.
On the other hand, we also aim to identify the correlation between the
semantic and pragmatic properties of discourse relations and the degree to
which they can be kept implicit. Below are listed a few dimensions that may
prove important for the decision to explicitly mark a DR:

- Linguistic complexity of DRs (e.g. cause vs. concession, sequence vs.
condition)
- Semantic and pragmatic properties of DRs (e.g. veridical vs. non-veridical)
- Predictability of a DR from narrow linguistic and broad discourse context
- Cognitive costs and cognitive resources for inferring relations
- Pragmatic constraints (e.g. avoidance of ambiguity)
- Strategic communication: the strategic speaker may opt for implicit DR
marking to foster e.g. plausible deniability
- Availability of fast and automatic mechanisms generating DR predictions
- Interlocutors' familiarity with the current (local) discourse topic

We invite submissions for oral (45min) or poster presentations on, but not
limited to, the above topics. We welcome both empirical (e.g.
corpus-linguistic, cross-linguistic, experimental), theoretical and
computational contributions.

For further details please visit the workshop web page:
http://www.xprag.de/?page_id=5450

Organizers:

Oliver Bott (University of Tübingen)
Mingya Liu (Osnabrück University)
Torgrim Solstad (Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics - ZAS)




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