29.4438, Calls: Anthro Ling, Cog Sci, Pragmatics, Semantics, Socioling/France

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Subject: 29.4438, Calls: Anthro Ling, Cog Sci, Pragmatics, Semantics, Socioling/France

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Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2018 12:49:10
From: Andrea Beltrama [andrea.beltrama at gmail.com]
Subject: Meaning and Indexicality across Subfields and Theories

 
Full Title: Meaning and Indexicality across Subfields and Theories 
Short Title: MIST2019 

Date: 12-Apr-2019 - 13-Apr-2019
Location: Paris, France 
Contact Person: Andrea Beltrama
Meeting Email: andrea.beltrama at gmail.com
Web Site: https://sites.google.com/view/meanind/home 

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Cognitive Science; Pragmatics; Semantics; Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 15-Jan-2019 

Meeting Description:

The Meaning and Indexicality across Subfields and Theories workshop aims at
bringing together scholars investigating meaning and indexicality in language
from different perspectives; we're especially looking forward to fostering
conversations about how social, formal and cognitive approaches can be
combined to yield novel insights on  these topics.

The Workshop takes place in Paris on April 12-13, 2019. We look forward to
welcoming you in the Olympe de Gouges Building, in the heart of University of
Paris 7-Diderot's campus.

The workshop is jointly sponsored by the Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle
(CNRS-Université Paris Diderot) and the Labex Empirical Foundations of
Linguistics (ANR-10-LABX-0083).

We're excited to have the following invited speakers:

- Maria Candea (Maîtresse de conférences, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle)
- Deborah Cameron (Rupert Murdoch Professor of Language and Communication,
University of Oxford)
- Sally McConnell-Ginet (Professor Emerita, Cornell University)


Call for Papers:

The notion of social meaning designates ‘the stances, personal
characteristics, and personas indexed through the deployment of linguistic
forms’ (Podesva 2011). Research in sociolinguistics and linguistic
anthropology has highlighted the fluid, contingent nature of social meanings,
showing how speakers can creatively recruit and recombine linguistic resources
to make social moves and construct identities (Silverstein 2003, Eckert 2008,
2012). On this view, the link between linguistic forms and social meanings is
informed by a variety of social, ideological and cultural factors that are
central to the life of language users within a particular community (Eckert
1989, 2000; Eckert & McConnell-Ginet 1995; Zhang 2005; Campbell-Kibler 2007;
Podesva 2007, Coates & Cameron 2014, among others).

A growing body of research has recently begun investigating how social
meanings are linked to the structural, language-internal properties of the
expressions that carry them, and to what extent a social perspective on
meaning can shed light on classic topics in semantics and pragmatics such as
definiteness (Acton 2014), gradability (Beltrama and Staum Casasanto 2017),
alternative-based and game-theoretic reasoning (Acton and Potts 2014, McCready
2015, Burnett 2017), markedness (Bender 2001 Campbell-Kibler 2007, Podesva
2011), modality (Glass 2015), pragmatic precision (Beltrama 2018), slurs and
identity terms (McCready 2010, Candea 2016, McConnell-Ginet, 2002, 2006,
forthcoming), questions (Cameron et al. 1988, Cameron 1998, Moore & Podesva
2009, Freed & Ehrlich 2010) and prosody (McConnell-Ginet 1978, Arnold & Candea
2015, Levon 2016, Jeong 2018).

Building on this momentum, we believe there is much to gain from encouraging
further discussion on how the study of social meanings can be enriched with
analytical and methodological tools typically used to investigate the
structure and processing of other layers of meaning; and how, conversely, the
study of social meaning can yield a novel perspective on phenomena that have
been traditionally seen as pertaining to semantics and pragmatics. In the same
vein, we would also like to draw attention to the importance of fostering
interaction between scholars that draw on different traditions -- e.g.,
semantics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, discourse analysis -- to investigate
essentially similar meaning-related phenomena -- e.g., the linguistic
communication of emotions; the ascription of epistemic and affective stances
to the interlocutor; the negotiation of how discourse should or could
continue; slurs and subjective language; deixis and indexicality. To encourage
this type of conversations, we thus invite submissions from scholars that are
concerned with exploring the emergence and circulation of meaning from a broad
range of conceptual and methodological perspectives. We especially encourage
submissions that aim to do so by incorporating insights and methods drawn from
across different linguistic subfields, including phonology, morphology,
syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and language processing.

We welcome submissions presenting theoretical, experimental and/or
computational research on any aspect of meaning and indexicality. Anonymous
abstracts, should be submitted via EasyChair at the following link by January,
15 2019:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mist2019

Abstracts are limited to 500 words (excluding figures, tables, and
references). All content must fit on no more than 2 pages.




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