32.3748, Confs: Cognitive Science, Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics, Sociolinguistics, Syntax

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Subject: 32.3748, Confs: Cognitive Science, Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics, Sociolinguistics, Syntax

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Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2021 01:44:21
From: María José Serrano [mjserran at ull.edu.es]
Subject: 1st International Symposium on Grammatical Variation and the Construction of Meaning/I Simposio Internacional sobre variación gramatical y construcción del significado

 
1st International Symposium on Grammatical Variation and the Construction of Meaning/I Simposio Internacional sobre variación gramatical y construcción del significado 

Date: 22-Nov-2022 - 23-Nov-2022 
Location: San Cristóbal de La Laguna, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain 
Contact: María José Serrano 
Contact Email: svcs22 at ull.edu.es 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Discourse Analysis; Pragmatics; Sociolinguistics; Syntax 

Meeting Description: 

The 1st International Symposium on Grammatical Variation and the Construction
of Meaning aims at becoming a forum for scientific exchange and advancement in
the study of linguistic variation ‒ mainly at the morphosyntactic and
discursive levels ‒ as a resource for speakers to construct and negotiate
meanings in interaction. In this area of research there is an ever-growing
awareness that traditional variationist approaches, based on the establishment
of correlations between linguistic forms and geographical zones, social
ascriptions of speakers or features of the situation, can hardly reach beyond
the descriptive level and answer a number of fundamental questions: Why does
variation exist in the first place? Are there really different ways of saying
the same? Is it possible to elucidate regular or systematic connections
between the inherent meanings of grammatical forms and their distribution
according to extralinguistic factors? Are processes of diachronic change a
mere effect of mechanical and/or sociocultural factors, or do they
simultaneously entail the progressive replacement of some meanings with
others?

For some years now, the need has repeatedly been pointed out to transcend the
structural-formalist view of variation as the existence of alternate forms to
which different psychosocial evaluations become attached, introducing
constructivist approaches whereby it is conceived as a way of communicating
and even of being, i.e. as the creation of personal identities and group
insertions. However, the recent development of theoretical models of grammar
within functional and cognitive linguistics, such as construction grammar
(Goldberg 2006; Gras 2021) and usage-based grammar (Bybee & Hopper eds. 2001;
Bybee 2010) makes it possible to go much further and contemplate linguistic
forms as inherently meaningful: the structure of languages can only be
explained by primarily viewing them as instruments for communication. This, in
turn, suggests that a linguistic form does not receive its meaning from the
mere opposition to other forms that could appear in analogous contexts;
neither are the differences between supposed variants necessarily limited to
their statistically significant correlations with extradiscursive factors.
Rather, each construction entails the choice of a certain meaning, which will
interact with those of other constructions as well as with other semiotically
relevant elements of the discursive and situational context (semantic traits
of the participants, event transitivity and aspect, discourse genre, dominant
textual function, identity assumed and developed by the speaker, sex/gender,
relationship with the audience, and so on). The complex conjunction of the
various levels of internal and external meaning gives rise to the crucial
notion of communicative style, understood as a linguistic variety
characterized not only by its socio-situational associations, but also by its
relationship with highly abstract discursive-cognitive continua including that
of the subjective vs. objective viewpoint from which discourse ‒ and,
consequently, the perception of reality ‒ is built (Serrano 2018, 2020; Aijón
Oliva 2019).

The organization of this Symposium is part of the activities of the research
project «Formalización e integración de dimensiones estilísticas en el
análisis de la elección gramatical en español. Los continuos del punto de
vista y la modalidad del discurso» (PID2020-113474GB-I00), funded by the
Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities within the Programa
Estatal de Generación de Conocimiento y Fortalecimiento Científico y
Tecnológico del Sistema de I+D+i. The main goal of this project is to promote
the development of an integrative theoretical model of grammatical variation
as cognitively-based choice that makes it possible to create meanings.

Keynote speaker: 
Antonio Fábregas (The Arctic University of Norway/University of Tromso).


 






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