31.2949, Calls: General Linguistics/France

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Subject: 31.2949, Calls: General Linguistics/France

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Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2020 11:49:31
From: Laurence Vincent-Durroux [laurence.durroux at univ-grenoble-alpes.fr]
Subject: Reference : (co-)construction and use

 
Full Title: Reference : (co-)construction and use 
Short Title: LED 2021 

Date: 25-Mar-2021 - 26-Mar-2021
Location: Grenoble (Université Grenoble Alpes), France 
Contact Person: Laurence VINCENT-DURROUX
Meeting Email: laurence.durroux at univ-grenoble-alpes.fr
Web Site: https://led2021.sciencesconf.org/ 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 27-Nov-2020 

Meeting Description:

Reference is considered here in the nominal domain – pronouns included – and
is understood as the designation of the mental representation of an entity,
regardless of whether the latter exists in the extralinguistic world.

A great amount of research on reference has been devoted to the constraints on
the interpretation of referential expressions in anaphoric contexts (e.g.
Government and Binding Theory for the syntactic constraints on
sentence-internal anaphora; issues of referential opacity for coreferential
NPs in subject and object positions; or discourse anaphora); later on, more
general studies on reference have considered pragmatics (e.g. Grice’s Maxims
in Gundel et al. 1993) and the influence of the cognitive status of the
referent (e.g. Accessibility theory, Ariel 1990; Givenness Hierarchy, Gundel
et al. 1993; Centering frameworks, Grosz et al. 1995, Walker et al. 1998,
Strube & Hahn 1999). But these studies, as well as more recent research (e.g.
Abbott 2010, Gundel & Abbott 2019), have also brought to light the limitations
of such theoretical models. They are important in that they establish definite
trends, but all they can make out are trends, as the referent’s cognitive
status obviously interacts with other factors – besides, many of these studies
are based on constructed examples.

It is this complexity that the present conference will seek to explore, by
bringing together specialists of various fields and languages. It will place
the speaker/user at the core of the referential process: as stressed by
Strawson (1950) among others, it is not a definite description that refers by
itself, but a speaker who uses a definite description to refer to something in
a given speech situation.

Keynote speakers: 
 - Catherine Emmott (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom): “Antecedentless
plural pronouns: use and interpretation”
 - Lutz Gunkel (Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache, Mannheim, Germany):
“Indefinite Reference: Problems and Prospects” 
 - Manfred Krifka (Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin,
Germany): “Anaphoric reference to incorporated objects and weak definites:
Does it exist? How does it work?”


Second Call for Papers: 

Contributions to the following issues, based on any of the world languages,
are particularly welcome:
- In addition to the cognitive status of the referent, what factors are at
play in the construction and management of reference? 

- A closer look at the reference / quantification interface will provide a
better understanding of plural reference and more generally, of the process of
referential construction. Similarly, considering the problems posed by
referential blurring for automatic detection and annotation of coreference in
various languages may provide insights on how to deal with referential
ambiguity (in the wake of Stede 2016) and complex plurals.

- What are the possible effects of variation from the expected ''norm''? Is it
possible to detect recurrences, or even conventional expectations, in such
variations and their effects? The study of antonomasia, metonomy and metaphor
will be another interesting way to examine the complex issues of denomination
and representation of the referent. 
 
- Further research into the oral and non-verbal dimensions of reference is
also crucially needed: in particular, what part do they play in the
(co-)construction of reference? Regarding the phonological dimension, Ariel
(1990)’s Accessibility Marking Scale distinguishes between stressed and
unstressed pronouns; but stress is still understudied in research on reference
based on spoken corpora. Apart from creating a contrast with another referent,
what is the role of stress?

- The study of reference (and its acquisition where appropriate) in speakers
with non-typical development 

- The issue of the construction of reference also raises that of its
co-construction, in both spoken and written interaction. For example, the
study of anaphora has made out cases of competition for domination
(Salazar-Orvig & Grossen 2011), or conversely cases in which speakers helped
each other in order to establish reference when a useful word was missing from
a non native speaker’s lexicon (David, Poussard & Vincent-Durroux 2019)

 -Finally, the exploitation of reference for argumentative purposes is still
underresearched today. To what extent may a “marked” referential expression
(or referential chain) be regarded as part of the argumentative strategy?

Proposals of around 700 words (plus up to 5 references), together with a short
bio, should be sent to led2021 at sciencesconf.org. The proposals should be sent
both in .doc(x) and .pdf formats. The talks may be given in English or in
French.

Key dates:
Deadline for submission: 27 November 2020
Notification of acceptance: 11 December 2020




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