33.2560, Calls: Pragmatics/Belgium

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Subject: 33.2560, Calls: Pragmatics/Belgium

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Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2022 05:11:58
From: Seongha Rhee [srhee at hufs.ac.kr]
Subject: Discourse-Pragmatic Markers of Chinese Origin in East Asian Languages

 
Full Title: Discourse-Pragmatic Markers of Chinese Origin in East Asian Languages 

Date: 09-Jul-2023 - 14-Jul-2023
Location: Brussels, Belgium 
Contact Person: Seongha Rhee
Meeting Email: srhee at hufs.ac.kr

Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics 

Call Deadline: 01-Nov-2022 

Meeting Description:

This panel addresses some sets of compounds of Chinese origin used in Chinese,
Japanese and Korean, and investigates the issue whether they have
grammaticalized into discourse-pragmatic markers (DMs, hereafter, as an
umbrella term) from their earlier lexical expressions either similarly across
these languages or distinctively in language-specific ways. 
It is well known that some compounds derived from the same Chinese characters
are used as DMs in these languages (e.g., Rhee et al. 2021); therefore, one
natural question is whether those DMs were borrowed from Chinese to Japanese
and Korean as Sino-Japanese and Sino-Korean words, respectively. In fact, the
higher borrowability of DMs in contact situations is reported in a wide range
of works (e.g., Matras and Sakel 2007). If DMs had not been borrowed from
donor to recipient languages, another possibility is ‘replica
grammaticalization,’ namely, the process that a grammaticalization process in
one language is realized based on a model process in another language (Heine
and Kuteva 2005). Furthermore, some particular meanings of a form may have
their own potential to operate grammaticalization independently from language
contact and regional areas (e.g., ‘fact,’ ‘result,’ ‘issue,’ to name a few;
see Heine et al. 2021 and Higashiizumi and Shibasaki in preparation for
details). 
 Typically, DMs are used in spoken discourse. Therefore, if a DM is borrowed
from one language to another, it would imply borrowing through spoken contact
(e.g., you know in Clyne 2003). On the other hand, the heavy lexical borrowing
of Chinese words into Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese almost exclusively
through written texts is different from those typical cases (Norman 1988; Sohn
1999; Alves 2007; Irwin and Zisk 2019). Further, Fedriani and Sansò (2017: 16)
point out that “the pool of sources from which grams originate is limited…
[snip] when dealing with a given class of DMs it is more difficult to identify
similar restricted pools of sources.” Fortunately, East Asian languages have a
massive amount of materials for the central issue of this panel. 
Since contact linguistics is a thriving field (e.g., Grant 2020), what is
addressed in this research project would thus deserve attention as a point of
departure for offering a good opportunity to extend our knowledge on the
issues from the perspective of DMs in East Asian languages. This panel thus
invites potential contributors to submit their thought-provoking proposals,
with the door open for related studies in other Asian languages. 

Selected references 
Heine, Bernd, Gunther Kaltenboeck, Tania Kuteva and Haiping Long. 2021. The
rise of discourse markers. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Heine, Bernd and Tania Kuteva. 2005. Language contact and grammatical change.
Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Rhee, Seongha, Reijirou Shibasaki, and Xinren Chen (eds.). 2021. Special
issue, Grammaticalization of discourse markers in East Asian Languages, East
Asian Pragmatics 6.3.


Call for Papers:

This panel invites contributions that look into the development of
discourse-pragmatic markers originating from the words of Chinese origin. If
you have interest/queries about this panel, please contact Seongha Rhee
(srhee at hufs.ac.kr). 

To submit to this panel, please visit IPrA website and follow the
instructions: https://pragmatics.international/page/CfP. Please make sure that
your contribution is to the panel “Discourse-Pragmatic Markers of Chinese
Origin in East Asian Languages” organized by Seongha Rhee, Reijirou Shibasaki
and Wenjiang Yang. The panel discussant is Laurel J. Brinton.




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