33.439, Calls: Discipline of Linguistics/Romania

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Subject: 33.439, Calls: Discipline of Linguistics/Romania

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Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2022 20:01:31
From: Gabriela Scripnic [Gabriela.Scripnic at ugal.ro]
Subject: Evidentiality in Language and Discourse

Full Title: Evidentiality in Language and Discourse 

Date: 01-Jul-2022 - 02-Jul-2022
Location: “Dunărea de Jos” University of Galați, Romania 
Contact Person: Alina Ganea
Meeting Email: Alina.Ganea at ugal.ro
Web Site: https://cctpd.wordpress.com/2022/01/19/eld-cfp/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Discipline of Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 30-Apr-2022 

Meeting Description:

This online event aims at bringing together scholars, researchers, lecturers
with the aim of disseminating the latest scientific findings in the area of
evidentiality, but also the intention to recall results of scholarship in this
field up to the present moment (state-of-the art). 
We welcome contributions featuring empirical, methodological and theoretical
approaches addressing the following topics:

- evidentiality vs epistemicity 
- boundaries between evidentiality and médiativité
- evidential markers vs evidential strategies
- direct vs indirect evidentiality
- grammaticalisation of evidential lexical markers
- evidentiality and stance taking
- argumentative role of evidential marking 
- evidentials and normative frameworks of argumentation theory 
- evidentials as metadiscourse devices
- rhetorical use of evidentials

Call for Papers:

Evidentiality in language and discourse
1-2 July 2022
“Dunărea de Jos” University of Galați, Romania

Ever since Chafe and Nichols’ (1986) seminal work, evidentiality has become an
expanding research area defined as the study of linguistic means indicating
the source of information in an utterance. 
Research in this field has known a diversity of approaches and perspectives
depending foremost on the grammatical system of the language taken into
consideration. Accordingly, while evidentiality can be defined as a
grammatical category in languages where information source is encoded in the
verbal system (Willett, 1988, Aikhenvald, 2004), other researchers view it as
a universal semantic or pragmatic category (Cornillie, Marín-Arrese & Wiemer,
2015). Nonetheless, the tendency of certain lexical markers to grammaticalise
undermines the binarity referred to above, and situates evidentiality at the
boundaries of grammar and lexicon. This new perspective enhances research
within this continuum (Cornillie, 2007), hence opening ways to
cross-linguistic analyses. 
The relationship between evidentiality and epistemic modality has been closely
looked into and the interplay between the two still calls for further
research. Within a restricted approach, some linguists view the two as
distinct linguistic areas, whereas others opt for a more comprehensive
perspective on evidentiality as integrating epistemic modality (Dendale &
Tasmowski, 2001). 
Envisaged either as a subcategory of epistemic modality (Papafragou, 2000) or
as encompassing it (Palmer, 1986), the concept of evidentiality becomes more
complex when delineating it from the competing French counterpart médiativité
(Lazard 1956, 1996, Guentchéva, ed., 1996, 2004, Dendale & Tasmowski, 2001,
etc.) or when analysing its boundaries with the concept of mirativity
(DeLancey, 2001, Montaut, 2004). 
Not in the least, the fact that evidentiality permeates such phenomena as
stance, subjectivity, first-person experience opens the path to further
exploration on evidential markers propensity to convey speaker’s
(non-)commitment. Relatedly, the question of linguistic markers accounting for
an evidential interpretation under certain co(n)textual conditions or encoding
polysemantic evidential values have been under scope, yet still calling for
further investigation within a diachronic or/and a cross-linguistic approach.

Key dates and registration
1 February 2022 - 30 April 2022 – Abstract submission 
15 May 2022 – Notice of acceptance
16 May - 6 June 2022 – Registration 
1-2 July 2022 – Conference

Abstract Submission:
Please send your abstract (300-500 words, 3-5 keywords, selected bibliography)
for a 20 min presentation including name, position, affiliation, email address
for all authors. Use Times New Roman 12pt font size, single-spaced. 
The proposal should be in English, address the topics proposed, and mention
methodology and (expected) research results. 
Send your proposal to Alina.Ganea at ugal.ro and Gabriela.Scripnic at ugal.ro

Conference Organization:
The conference is intended to be held entirely online. 

Publication:
Following peer-review evaluation, a selection of papers is intended to be
published with an international academic publisher. 

Scientific committee:
Alexandra Y. AIKHENVALD, CQUniversity Australia 
Patrick DENDALE, University of Antwerp, Belgium
Anca GÂŢĂ, Dunărea de Jos University of Galaţi, Romania
Zlatka GUENTCHÉVA, LACITO, CNRS, Sorbonne Nouvelle University Paris 3, France
Gerda HAßLER, University of Potsdam, Germany
Mario SQUARTINI, University of Turin, Italy
Rodica ZAFIU, University of Bucharest, “Iorgu Iordan - Al. Rosetti” Institute
of Linguistics, Romania 

Organizing committee:
Alina Ganea, Dunărea de Jos University of Galaţi
Gabriela Scripnic, Dunărea de Jos University of Galaţi

Conference website: https://cctpd.wordpress.com/2022/01/19/eld-cfp/

For questions and comments, please feel free to contact us at
Alina.Ganea at ugal.ro and Gabriela.Scripnic at ugal.ro

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