30.3632, Calls: Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics, Text/Corpus Linguistics, Typology/Romania

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Subject: 30.3632, Calls: Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics, Text/Corpus Linguistics, Typology/Romania

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Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2019 05:02:52
From: Alessandra Barotto [alessandra.barotto at unibo.it]
Subject: Typological Approaches to Discourse Phenomena

 
Full Title: Typological Approaches to Discourse Phenomena 

Date: 26-Aug-2020 - 29-Aug-2020
Location: Bucharest, Romania 
Contact Person: Alessandra Barotto
Meeting Email: alessandra.barotto at unibo.it

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Pragmatics; Text/Corpus Linguistics; Typology 

Call Deadline: 08-Nov-2019 

Meeting Description:

This workshop aims at investigating discourse phenomena in cross-linguistic
perspective, adopting the methods and instruments of typology. Our purpose is
to create a forum in order to discuss the theoretical relevance of discourse
phenomena for typology and how to investigate these structures in
cross-linguistic perspective.
With the term 'discourse phenomena', we mean linguistic elements and
constructions that typically occur in oral speech and help to manage the
organization, flow and outcome of communication. These phenomena range from
connectives and information managing structures (e.g. topic shift strategies)
to interjections and discourse markers (e.g. reformulation). 
It is a well-established idea in functional-typological approaches that
grammar is shaped by 'discourse use' (cf. Givón 1979, Du Bois 1985, Bybee &
Beckner 2010, Diessel 2019 among others). This means that phenomena that
typically occur in oral speech should be of great interest for typologists.
Yet, systematic typological cross-linguistic investigations on discourse
phenomena are relatively rare (e.g. Brown & Levinson 1987, Ameka 1992,
Lambrecht 1994, Dingemanse 2012).
The rarity of typological studies on these issues goes hand in hand with a
scarcity of detailed accounts in descriptive grammars, in a circular loop that
provides a critical challenge for the cross-linguistic investigation of this
kind of phenomena. This empirical problem results in the need for mixed
methodologies, providing evidence coming from different types of data, such as
corpora, grammars, and behavioral experiments. 
We are interested in contributions presenting i) cross-linguistic analyses,
synchronically and diachronically oriented, on one or more discourse
phenomena, and ii) methodological proposals on how to collect, examine and
compare cross-linguistic data on discourse phenomena. Language-specific
investigations will be taken into consideration only to the extent that they
raise issues that are relevant for the broad typological picture.

Possible phenomena and topics to be investigated include:

- Discourse connectives
- Discourse markers 
- Ideophones and interjections
- Prosody
- Repetitive patterns
- List constructions
- General extenders
- Intentional vagueness and non-exhaustivity
- Information structure management (e.g. topic shift)
- …


Call for Papers:

We invite short abstracts of 300 words. Abstracts should be in an editable
format (.doc/.docx). Abstracts should be sent to the two workshop organizers:

alessandra.barotto at unibo.it
simone.mattiola at unibo.it

The deadline for the submission of the short abstract is November 8, 2019.

Note that if your abstract has been included in the workshop and the workshop
has been accepted, you will also have to prepare a full abstract and submit it
to be reviewed by the SLE scientific committee. The deadline for the
submission of full abstracts is January 15, 2020.

References:

Ameka, F. 1992. Interjections. The Universal yet Neglected Part of Speech.
Journal of Pragmatics, 18, 101-118
Bybee, J. & C. Beckner. 2010. Usage-based theory. In Heine, B. & H. Narrog
(eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Analysis, 827-55. Oxford: OUP
Brown, P. & S. Levinson. 1987. Politeness: Some Universals in Language Use.
Cambridge: CUP
Diessel, H. 2019. The Grammar Network. How linguistic structure is shaped by
language use. Cambridge: CUP
Dingemanse, M. 2012. Advances in the cross-linguistic study of ideophones.
Language and Linguistics Compass, 6, 654-672
Du Bois, J. 1985. Competing motivations. In Haiman, J. (ed.), Iconicity in
Syntax, 343-65. Amsterdam: Benjamins
Givón, T. 1979. On Understanding Grammar. New York: Academic Press
Lambrecht, K. 1994. Information structure and sentence form. Cambridge: CUP




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