31.2541, Calls: Disc Analys, Pragmatics/Switzerland

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Subject: 31.2541, Calls: Disc Analys, Pragmatics/Switzerland

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Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2020 11:39:17
From: Noriko Onodera [onodera at cl.aoyama.ac.jp]
Subject: From Intersubjective to Textual Meaning: Motivation for the Rise of Discourse Markers/Pragmatic Elements

Full Title: From Intersubjective to Textual Meaning: Motivation for the Rise of Discourse Markers/Pragmatic Elements 

Date: 27-Jun-2021 - 02-Jul-2021
Location: Winterthur, Switzerland 
Contact Person: Noriko Onodera
Meeting Email: onodera at cl.aoyama.ac.jp

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Pragmatics 

Call Deadline: 03-Oct-2020 

Meeting Description:

This panel explores one conspicuous directional tendency in functional
/semantic change (1), which has recently drawn much research attention
(Shinzato 2002, Narrog 2012, Onodera 2019a, 2019b, etc.).

(1) intersubjective  >  textual

As many recognize, in the last four decades of studies on semantic change,
unidirectionality such as ‘from Function (Meaning) A to Function B’ has been a
focus of analyses. Among numbers of hypothesized tendencies/clines, the
following has been acknowledged as one robust and predictable tendency which
has guided work on semantic change especially accompanying grammaticalization.

     (2) propositional > ((textual) > (expressive))        (Traugott 1982,
1989)  

The last function in (2), ‘expressive’, has been later replaced by
‘(inter)subjective’  
functions (cf. Traugott and Dasher 2002: 94). Tendency (2) can then be
depicted as

     (3) propositional > textual > (inter)subjective     

If we follow the tendency (3) in our analyses, as most of us have all done,
the suggested (1) marks a counterexample to (2) and (3). Is the direction
“from intersubjective to textual” really a counterexample to the strongly
supported directions for decades, (2) and (3)? Our review has already found
that (1) “from intersubjective to textual” is not a counterexample, but it had
indeed been proposed in an early work of semantic change (Traugott 1989:
34-35). In Traugott (ibid.), (2) was revised as the following set of
tendencies (4) because “the ordering [of (2)] appeared to be too strong”
(Traugott and Dasher 2002: 94):

           (4) Tendency I: Meanings based in the external described situation
> meanings based in the internal (evaluative/perceptual/cognitive) described
situation.

         Tendency II: Meanings based in the external or internal described
situation >
                                meanings based in the textual and
metalinguistic situation.

       Tendency III: Meanings tend to become increasingly based in the
speaker’s subjective belief state/attitude toward the proposition. 
(Traugott 1989: 34-35)

Tendency III shows, in other words, subjectification. Now, if we closely look
at Tendency II, it proposes the tendency from ‘internal (inter)subjective
meanings’ to ‘textual’ meanings. Thus, the change “from intersubjective to
textual” meaning is not a counterexample to (2), the long-supported primary
predictable direction in studies on semantic change. 
However, the revision as the set of tendencies (4) might have left “the
problem of ordering” (Traugott and Dasher 2002: 94) pending. Therefore, our
panel will address this problem by demonstrating that the change,
“intersubjective > textual”, is not an exception but another facet of the
plausible cline.

We will include examples from English, Japanese, Korean, and other languages
(e.g. Ainu) in order to meet the criterion for IPrA 2021, the Pragmatics of
Inclusion.

The intersubjective meanings seem to arise in nothing but dynamic human
“interaction” such as everyday conversations. Plausible candidates that might
undergo the change ‘intersubjective > textual’ would be discourse markers and
other pragmatic elements.   

Prospective speakers: Mitsuko and Katsunobu Izutsu, Ryo Takamura, Noriko
Onodera.

Selected References:
Narrog, Heiko. 2012. “Beyond intersubjectification: Textual uses of modality
and mood in subordinate clauses as part of speech-act orientation.” English
Text Construction 5:1, 29-52.
Traugott, Elizabeth Closs. 1989. “On the rise of epistemic meanings in
English: An example of subjectification in semantic change.” Language 65:1,
31-55.

Call for Papers: 

I hope that the above three papers will be included. Besides, I would like to
invite contributions that look into the above suggested tendency, “from
intersubjective to textual”. Illustrations and investigations from the
languages all over the world will be welcome.

If you have interest/queries about this panel, please contact Noriko Onodera
(onodera at cl.aoyama.ac.jp).

To submit to this panel, please visit IPrA website and follow the
instructions: https://pragmatics.international/page/Winterthur2021

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