32.3354, Calls: Discourse Analysis, General Linguistics/Romania

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Subject: 32.3354, Calls: Discourse Analysis, General Linguistics/Romania

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Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2021 14:42:39
From: Doriana Cimmino [dcimmino at unisa.it]
Subject: Disentangling Topicality Effects

 
Full Title: Disentangling Topicality Effects 

Date: 24-Aug-2022 - 27-Aug-2022
Location: Bucharest, Romania 
Contact Person: Doriana Cimmino
Meeting Email: dcimmino at unisa.it
Web Site: https://societaslinguistica.eu/meetings/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; General Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 15-Nov-2021 

Meeting Description:

Workshop at Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE)

The concept of the proposition-level TOPIC is central to multiple areas of
linguistic theory and analysis, but remains largely controversial regarding
its definition and the range of the phenomena to which it applies. The
boundaries of this category, regardless the definition adopted, are too broad
for the study of linguistic phenomena. For example, in grammar, topicality is
commonly associated with a large set of prototypical cross-linguistically
recurrent constructions: constituent order with a clause-initial position,
Left Dislocation and Hanging Topic structures, as for-type markers, wh-clefts
and topical particles. However, in the empirical description of data, the
usage of the concept does not provide sufficient resolution for
language-specific research and for comparative analysis.

This workshop aims at disentangling topicality effects, focusing on the
description of phenomena of natural discourse and spontaneous interaction. Our
purpose is to examine the range of phenomena commonly dubbed “topical”,
discussing whether and to what extent the traditional concept of TOPIC is
theoretically and empirically relevant for their study. 
In this respect, a promising path of research has been traced from
interactional, corpus-based approaches, questioning topicality-oriented
analyses of common “topical” structures. For example, Left Dislocation (LD)
constructions have been found to be triggered by a variety of specific
interaction-managing and production related factors, such as incremental
utterance production, turn-taking, local attention alignment, resonance of
available material, and textual prominence (Pekarek-Doehler et al. 2015;
Ozerov forthcoming; Cimmino forthcoming). These studies may suggest that an
apparent aboutness-effect is not a primitive factor, but a retrospective,
potentially epiphenomenal overgeneralization of the specific and diverse local
discourse moves performed by the speakers. In this case, the identified
specific factors can be modelled as guiding the interlocutors directly in the
dynamic process of utterance production and interpretation (Ozerov 2021).


Call for Papers:

DISENTANGLING TOPICALITY EFFECTS
Doriana Cimmino & Pavel Ozerov
(University of Salerno, University of Münster)

We invite submissions for papers aiming at describing effects associated with
topicality, teasing them apart from syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic
components in the description of discourse level phenomena. Every discourse
phenomenon related to the concept of TOPIC can be the object of study and it
can be approached from every theoretical and methodological angle. Submissions
to the workshop may include, but need not be limited to the following
theoretical and empirical issues. Papers taking a theoretical approach must
also hint to empirical case-studies, and, in turn, empirical case-studies must
also clearly state their theoretical contribution. Both intra-linguistic and
cross-linguistic studies are welcome.

- Theoretical discussion of discourse phenomena associated with topicality and
possible alternative conceptual categories for their description;
- Theoretical discussion on the place/benefit/evidence for a unified view of
the diverse topicality-like phenomena;
- Possible fruitful operationalization of the concept of TOPIC for
language-specific or comparative studies;
- Language-specific and comparative studies of linguistic phenomena associated
with topicality-like effects, combined with the examination of the factors
triggering these effects;
- Crosslinguistic variation in the identification/description of
topicality-like effects;
- Cross-linguistic variation in the assignment of topical-like effects in
parallel contexts.

Please send your non-anonymous 300 words abstracts to Doriana Cimmino
(dcimmino at unisa.it) and Pavel Ozerov (pozerov at uni-muenster.de) by 15 November
2021.




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