33.2594, Calls: General Linguistics, Ling & Literature, Text/Corpus Linguistics/Germany
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Subject: 33.2594, Calls: General Linguistics, Ling & Literature, Text/Corpus Linguistics/Germany
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Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2022 06:33:53
From: Sonja Zeman [Sonja.Zeman at lmu.de]
Subject: 45th DGfS AG5: Linguistic Aspects of Fictionality
Full Title: 45th DGfS AG5: Linguistic Aspects of Fictionality
Short Title: DGfS 2023 - AG5
Date: 08-Mar-2023 - 10-Mar-2023
Location: Cologne, Germany
Contact Person: Sonja Zeman
Meeting Email: Sonja.Zeman at lmu.de
Web Site: https://dgfs2023.uni-koeln.de/en/
Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Ling & Literature; Text/Corpus Linguistics
Call Deadline: 28-Aug-2022
Meeting Description:
Human language not only serves the purpose of speaking about facts in the real
world, but is also widely used to talk about hypothetical and fictional
scenarios. Fictional discourse has always posed pressing questions about the
reference status of fictive entities and proper names, the speech act involved
in fictional storytelling, and the relation between fiction, imagination and
other forms of hypothetical discourse. Recently, new interest in discourse and
register studies has put fictionality in the spotlight, as it has been shown
that fictional discourse is affecting core grammatical entities like temporal
and local deictics, tense, personal pronouns and modality (see Maier &
Altshuler 2021). In this sense, fictionality has more than one dimension: It
can reflect upon (i) the ontological status of its referent (e.g. the status
of a referent like a unicorn in the real world), (ii) the fictional discourse
within a (fictional or non-fictional) text (in tradition of Hamburger 1957),
and (iii) the idea of a certain fictional speech act (Searle 1975).
As such, fictional language use takes center stage in many different areas of
linguistics: Philosophy of language, (formal) semantics, pragmatics, grammar,
register and discourse studies, text linguistics, corpus linguistics, etc.
2nd Call for Papers:
Second Call for Papers - Extended deadline
In our workshop, we want to bring together researchers working from different
perspectives and backgrounds in order to stake out the relationship between
fictional discourse and linguistics and calibrate this new emerging field. We
are particularly interested in, but not restricted to the following questions:
- How can we define fictionality in linguistic terms? What are the margins to
other forms of hypothetical discourse (e.g. dreams, counterfactuals,...)?
- What is the relationship between fictionality and grammar?
- How can we annotate fictional passages in corpora?
- What are the cognitive prerequisites for fictionality (displacement /
decoupling)?
- What can linguists learn from concepts of fictionality in narratology and
literary studies?
References
Hamburger, K. 1957. Die Logik der Dichtung. Stuttgart: Klett.
Maier, E. & Stokke, A. (eds.). 2021. The Language of Fiction. Oxford: Oxford
University Press.
Searle, J. R. 1975. The logical status of fictional discourse. New Literary
History 6/2, 319-332.
Abstract submission:
We welcome abstracts on any of the topics listed above and beyond. Anonymous
abstracts (English, Times New Roman, 12pt, one page; tables and references may
appear on a second page) should be submitted as a pdf via email to:
fictionality.dgfs2023gmail.com by August 28, 2022. The body of the email
should include the name and affiliation of each author and the title of the
abstract.
Submissions are limited to at most one single-authored submission and one
joint-authored submission per author. Upon acceptance, participants will be
requested to submit a shortened version of the abstract for the conference
booklet.
The talks will be 20 minutes + 10 minutes discussion.
Important dates:
Deadline for abstract submission: August 28, 2022
Notification: Early September, 2022
Workshop: 8-10 March 2023
Invited speakers: Emar Maier (University of Groningen) & Jarmila Mildorf
(Universität Paderborn)
Workshop coordinators
Luisa Gödeke (luisa.goedekeuni-goettingen.de)
Sonja Zeman (Sonja.Zemanlmu.de)
Workshop information:
The workshop is part of the 45th annual meeting of the Deutsche Gesellschaft
für Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS 2023) to be hosted by the Universität zu Köln
from 8th - 10th March 2023 (https://dgfs2023.uni-koeln.de/en/). This
conference will most likely take place in person. Please be prepared to travel
to the conference to be able to take part in it.
Please note that the regulations of the German Linguistics Society (DGfS) do
not allow workshop participants to present two or more papers in different
workshops.
A limited number of travel grants of up to 500 Euro are available for accepted
contributions by DGfS members without/with low income.
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