29.3440, Calls: Discourse Analysis, General Linguistics, Pragmatics/Romania

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Subject: 29.3440, Calls: Discourse Analysis, General Linguistics, Pragmatics/Romania

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Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2018 02:01:17
From: Alexandru Nicolae [nicolae_bibi at yahoo.com]
Subject: Attitude and Stance in Discourse

 
Full Title: Attitude and Stance in Discourse 

Date: 23-Nov-2018 - 24-Nov-2018
Location: Bucharest, Romania 
Contact Person: Ariadna Stefanescu
Meeting Email: ariadna.stefanescu at gmail.com
Web Site: https://litere.ro 

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; General Linguistics; Pragmatics 

Call Deadline: 05-Oct-2018 

Meeting Description:

The workshop Attitude and Stance in Discourse aims to highlight, detail, and
distinguish various aspects covered by these two notions while applying them
to different discourse registers. Attitude and stance are the theoretical
correlates that point to the common intuition that all language users access
language introspectively.

A series of recent studies on attitude have broaden the scope of this concept,
which was initially confined to the fields of semantics and the logic of
language. In the current stage or research, a wide range of discourse and
communication phenomena, such as emotion, opinion, evaluation, intentionality,
subjectivity, and intersubjectivity or interpersonal meaning, may be studied
in relation to this notion. Moreover, the projection of attitude in discourse
involves a series of constructions, mechanisms, discourse categories and
inferential processes: e.g. evaluation structures that serve as attitude
indicators, or other grammatical constructions, such as concession, contrast,
quoting and reporting, modalisations and quantification, the use of
attitudinal markers and hedges and of strategically triggered implicatures,
the manipulation of presuppositions, etc.
The speaker’s intentionality as a potential source of discourse attitude opens
up new generous perspectives of analysis as far as speech acts, verbal
(im)politeness, or discourse strategies are concerned, to name but a few
possible applications.

The analysis of the speaker’s positioning in discourse – a pragmatic concept
related to the one of attitude – fosters studies concerned with the speakers’
image (stance) and their degree of involvement in communication. The
negotiation of attitude and stance in discourse, their amplification or, on
the contrary, their mitigation, the calibration of the relationship with the
interlocutor, etc. give rise to various ways to approach these notions, from
ethno-methodological, sociolinguistic, or argumentative viewpoints.
Our general, basic assumption is that this diversity of meanings and inter- or
cross-disciplinary approaches may bring about a deeper understanding of the
sociocultural, interactional, performative, and ideational nature of language,
and that new studies into this area will help to shed more light on the
(Romanian) language resources involved in stance-taking and expressing
attitude in various forms of verbal communication.


Call for Papers:

The workshop is part of the Annual Conference of the Department of Linguistics
of the University of Bucharest
(https://linguistlist.org/issues/29/29-3396.html). Submissions should be sent
by attachment, as anonymous pdfs, to: colocviu_lingvistica at yahoo.ro,
accompanied by a file containing the title of the paper, the authors and their
affiliation.

Submissions must be no longer than two single-spaced pages, in Times New Roman
12, including references and examples.

Registration fee: € 40 (or RON 180); students: € 20 (RON 90). The registration
fee can be paid upon arrival.

Workshop languages: English and French

Important dates for submission:

- Deadline for submissions: October 5, 2018
- Notification of acceptance: October 15, 2018
- Conference dates: November 23-24, 2018




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