32.527, Confs: General Linguistics/Online

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Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2021 14:01:33
From: Laurence VINCENT-DURROUX [laurence.durroux at univ-grenoble-alpes.fr]
Subject: Reference : (co-)construction and use

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

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

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

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?”
 

Program Information: 

le colloque international LED 2021 La référence : (co-)construction et
exploitation, se déroulera à distance les 25 et 26 mars 2021.

Vous trouverez le programme sur le site :
https://led2021.sciencesconf.org/data/pages/LED_2021_Programme.pdf

Il n'y a pas de frais mais pour suivre tout ou partie du colloque,
l'inscription est obligatoire.

L'inscription doit être faite sur le site du colloque, rubrique
''Inscriptions'', avant le 22 mars au soir, de façon à vous permettre de
recevoir les liens Zoom avant le colloque.

Toutes les informations nécessaires sont sur le site. Le livret des résumés
pourra notamment y être consulté.





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