29.4619, Calls: Gen Ling, Psycholing, Semantics, Text/Corpus Ling/France

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Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2018 02:53:36
From: Céline Benninger [benninge at unistra.fr]
Subject: Clear vs Approximate Categorization: Searching for Signs of Differentiation

 
Full Title: Clear vs Approximate Categorization: Searching for Signs of Differentiation 
Short Title: CLAP19 

Date: 03-Oct-2019 - 04-Oct-2019
Location: Strasbourg, France 
Contact Person: Céline Benninger
Meeting Email: clap19 at sciencesconf.org
Web Site: http://clap19.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/5 

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

Call Deadline: 31-Mar-2019 

Meeting Description:

In recent decades, research on clear and/or approximate categorization and
their manifestations in language has been generating a number of studies on
syntax, semantics, pragmatics, psycholinguistics, philosophy, logic, etc. This
is particularly interesting because these two operations have formally similar
realizations even in languages belonging to different language groups. The
existence of a large number of metalinguistic nouns in French and in other
languages (Flaux & Van de Velde 2000: 26; Mihatsch 2007, 2016) such as sorte,
type, espèce, forme, genre, manière, mode, variété, façon testifies to the
productivity of these realizations. If these nouns serve to both categorize
and approximate, the fundamental question one can raise is that of identifying
the processes of interpretation concerned, since there is not always a
consensus on interpretation. The parameters of specification are not clearly
established thus leaving much to intuition. In fact, besides the highly
grammaticalized cases (such as certain uses of genre in modern French as in
fais pas genre tu t’y connais en catégorisation, hein ? or tipo / tipo che in
Italian as in ecco una foto tipo che vi può fare la gentilissima fotografa!),
it is hard to find criteria, especially in syntax, that would distinguish the
two processes – the categorization by approximation and the clear
categorization. The number and the nature of interpretations or of semantic
and pragmatic effects also remain to be clarified.

First, from a conceptual point of view, a number of questions are pending: if
we can categorize either in a strict manner or by approximation, where is the
line to be drawn? What does it mean to approximate (see among others Bat-Zeev
Shyldkrot et al. 2014, 2016; Gerhard & Vassiliadou 2014, 2017a, b)? Does a
categorization by approximation cease to be a categorization? The issue
becomes even more complex when we start questioning the meaning of
categorization in general (placing an X in Y) and categorization in language.
In fact, the possibilities offered by language vary from denominated
categories, lexically and semantically structured fields to apprehend,
formulate realities to ad hoc categorizations. Psycholinguistic studies
suggest for instance that cognitive categories do not necessarily engage with
their lexical counterparts (Kahlaoui et al. 2010).

Finally, it is sufficient to take into account the communicative intentions
which imply (have in mind) the use of one or the other of these types of
categorization: for example, the absence of denomination, the difficulty of
identifying a reality to denote, the complexity of the world, the hesitation
of the speaker as to his knowledge of the world or the language, the
value-based judgements (good or bad copy), etc., adding to these more
pragmatic phenomena, such as a tendency towards modality, which leads to
approximate interpretations where clear categorization cannot be excluded.

Invited Speakers :

Anna Anastassiadi-Symeonidi (Université Aristote de Thessalonique)
Olga Inkova (Université de Genève)
Georges Kleiber (Université de Strasbourg)
Wiltrud Mihatsch (Université de Tübingen)

Language : French, English

Important dates :

October 2018 : 1st call for papers
December 2018 : 2nd call for papers
March 2019 : Final call for papers
31 march 2019 : Deadline for submission
15 may 2019 : Notification

Informations and modalities for submission : http://clap19.sciencesconf.org


Call for Papers:

With a view to clarification, this conference is open to all dimensions of the
issue and welcomes proposals in monolingual or plurilingual perspectives, as
well as synchronic and diachronic ones.

For more details on abstract submission visit the following webpage:

https://clap19.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/1




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