32.1249, Calls: Applied Ling, Comp Ling, Disc Analys, Pragmatics, Semantics/Switzerland

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Subject: 32.1249, Calls: Applied Ling, Comp Ling, Disc Analys, Pragmatics, Semantics/Switzerland

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Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2021 21:06:07
From: Steve Oswald [steve.oswald at unifr.ch]
Subject: Argumentation & Language 2021

Full Title: Argumentation & Language 2021 
Short Title: ARGAGE2021 

Date: 10-Nov-2021 - 12-Nov-2021
Location: University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland 
Contact Person: ARGAGE2021 Conference
Meeting Email: Argage.Conference at unine.ch
Web Site: https://www.unine.ch/argage/home.html 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Computational Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Pragmatics; Semantics 

Call Deadline: 30-Apr-2021 

Meeting Description:

The CoRReA (Collectif Romand de Recherche en Argumentation - Universities of
Fribourg, Lausanne and Neuchâtel) in collaboration with the Università della
Svizzera Italiana (IALS), organises every three years, since 2015, a
conference specifically devoted to the question of argumentation approached
from the perspective of language. The 2015 edition of this bilingual
international conference was held in Lausanne and the 2018 edition in Lugano.
The 3rd edition of the conference will take place in Neuchâtel.

The ARGAGE conference series is a platform devoted to research at the
interface of the language sciences and argumentation studies. Please refer to
the website (https://www.unine.ch/argage/en/home.html) and to our submission
page (https://www.unine.ch/argage/en/home/soumission.html) for specific
information about this 3rd edition of the event.

Second Call for Papers: 

*Deadline extension for individual presentations: 30 April 2021*
*All information at http://www.unine.ch/argage/en/home.html*

ARGAGE is primarily aimed at researchers in language and communication
sciences, but also in other disciplines, with the understanding that the
description of the linguistic functioning of argumentation significantly
permeates their research. Researchers are invited to submit proposals for
papers in at least one of the following three areas:

a) Linguistic description of argumentation schemes

Since Perelman, argumentative schemes or types of arguments are part of the
DNA of argumentation theory. While the notion of scheme is closely linked to
the philosophical approach to argumentation, its linguistic dimension is the
subject of several recent studies, whether on the straw man fallacy, the
appeal to popularity or the argument of reciprocity. This illustrates the
richness of the interdisciplinary dialogue between philosophy and the language
sciences on argumentation.

b) Argumentation and pragmatics

Pragmatics and argumentation have always had a close relationship, as
evidenced for example by the speech act-theoretic foundations of
pragma-dialectics. Cognitive science is closely concerned with questions
relating to argumentation and its effects, which are the result of inferential
mechanisms and language instructions. The perlocutionary dimension of
argumentation is accordingly at the center of this sub-theme.

c) Argumentation beyond connectives and beyond words

All argumentation manuals recommend the identification of logical and
argumentative connectives in the analysis of argumentation. However, on the
one hand, only a minority of naturally-occurring statements are connected by
them, and many scholars claim that argumentation cannot be reduced to these
language markers alone on the other. Research about the multimodality of
argumentation envisages the act of arguing beyond words, while others argue
for the idea that the semantics of words themselves guide argumentation. This
is not without echoing the position of J.-B. Grize's natural logic, to which a
conference on argumentation in Neuchâtel cannot fail to pay tribute. The
richness of argumentation beyond words poses numerous problems in argument
mining, due to the absence (or ambiguity) of linguistic markers. The
organisers accordingly welcome contributions in this field to illustrate the
difficulties to which this approach is confronted.

Given the above rationale, the organising committee
-will give priority to proposals which make their methods and analytical
categories explicit and which privilege the description of data collected in
corpora or empirically gathered.
-will select received submissions on the basis of anonymised abstracts.

Individual presentations will last 25 minutes, followed by a 5 minute question
session. Contributors will need to tie their presentation with one or two of
the conference themes, as described above. The deadline for submission is
April 30, 2021.

Abstracts should not be more than 400 words; they must
(i) clearly state the research question
(ii) include a brief description of the theoretical framework and of the
methodology adopted by the author and
(iii) highlight the originality of the proposal
The submission link is the following:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=argage2021

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