31.3650, Calls: Disc Analys, Pragmatics, Psycholing, Semantics, Syntax/Online

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Subject: 31.3650, Calls: Disc Analys, Pragmatics, Psycholing, Semantics, Syntax/Online

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Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2020 16:05:33
From: Manfred Krifka [krifka at leibniz-zas.de]
Subject: Biased questions: Experimental results and theoretical modelling

 
Full Title: Biased questions: Experimental results and theoretical modelling 

Date: 04-Feb-2021 - 05-Feb-2021
Location: Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS) Berlin (ZOOM conference), Germany 
Contact Person: Manfred Krifka
Meeting Email: krifka at leibniz-zas.de

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Pragmatics; Psycholinguistics; Semantics; Syntax 

Call Deadline: 01-Jan-2021 

Meeting Description:

The classical approaches towards the semantics of questions such as Hamblin
(1973) and Groenendijk & Stokhof (1984), which modelled questions in terms of
their possible answers, did not account for the ways in which questions can
express bias towards or against particular answers. But work such as Bolinger
(1978) on polar and alternative questions, Ladd (1982) on negation in
questions, Gunlogson (2001) on declarative questions and van Rooij (2003) on
questions with negative polarity items has brought to attention the manifold
ways in which speakers can indicate that one of the answers sticks out because
it is expected, unexpected, desired, or relevant. It is an empirical challenge
to identify the various ways in which languages can mark biases, e.g. by
particles, syntactic structure, and prosody, often in combination, and to
identify the contexts in which such biased questions can be used. It is a
theoretical challenge to model the expressions within a theory of semantics,
pragmatics and discourse that considers the syntactic, morphological, lexical
and prosodic forms in which such biases are expressed. 

The ERC Project SPAGAD: Speech Acts in Grammar and Discourse invites to a
workshop on biased questions that focuses on (a) experimental results
concerning the conditions of use of questions that express a bias towards
particular answers, and (b) on the theoretical modelling of such questions
that includes morphological markers, discourse particles, specialized
syntactic structure, prosody and gestures. The workshop will be carried out
online, as a ZOOM conference. It is currently planned that the workshop will
take place on February 4 – 5, 2021.  

The following scholars have agreed to present their work on question bias:
María Biezma, Bettina Braun & Maribel Romero, Veneeta Dayal, Regine Eckardt,
Daniel Goodhue, Beata Gyuris, Yurie Hara, Pilar Prieto, Sophie Repp, Floris
Roelofsen.  

More information will be made available on the website of ZAS,
http://leibniz-zas.de/en/, by January 15, 2021.


Call for Papers: 

We call for additional submissions for presentations on this topic (30 minutes
talk). Anonymous abstracts of 2 pages maximum should be submitted as a pdf
file, named by the title of the abstract, by January 1, 2021, to the address
krifka at leibniz-zas.de, under the subject line: “Biased Questions”.  If you
want to participate without presenting a talk, please check out the web site
of ZAS, https://www.leibniz-zas.de/de/, by January 15 for further information.




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