33.748, Calls: Anthro Ling, Gen Ling, Semantics, Socioling/Belgium

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Subject: 33.748, Calls: Anthro Ling, Gen Ling, Semantics, Socioling/Belgium

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Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2022 03:15:27
From: Philippe De Brabanter [Philippe.De.Brabanter at ulb.be]
Subject: Cross-disciplinary Perspectives on Quoting and Speech Reporting

Full Title: Cross-disciplinary Perspectives on Quoting and Speech Reporting 
Short Title: QSR 

Date: 05-Oct-2022 - 07-Oct-2022
Location: Brussels, Belgium 
Contact Person: Philippe De Brabanter
Meeting Email: Philippe.De.Brabanter at ulb.be

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; General Linguistics; Semantics; Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 31-Mar-2022 

Meeting Description:

The aim of this three-day workshop is to reinforce the links between different
groups of scholars working on quotation and on reported speech, very much in
the spirit of what the journal Linguistic Typology did around an important
(2019) paper by Spronck & Nikitina. That is why we invite contributions from
variationist sociolinguistics, from formal semantics, from pragmatics, from
Conversation Analysis, from sign linguistics, from all areas of the language
sciences that undertake to theorise or analyse quotational phenomena.
The workshop also seeks to broaden the scope of research by bringing to
prominence research on sign languages and on ‘less well-studied’ languages.
This broadened scope is reflected both in the choice of keynote presenters and
in a special panel on ‘reported speech in African languages’, coordinated by
Tatiana Nikitina and Izabela Jordanoska (CNRS, Paris).

Call for Papers:

Cross-disciplinary perspectives on quoting and speech reporting

Date: October 5-7, 2022

Location:
Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

Local Organisation:
Philippe De Brabanter, Guillaume Guitang

Contact Persons: Philippe De Brabanter, Guillaume Guitang
E-mail: philippe.de.brabanter at ulb.be, guillaume.guitang at ulb.be

Call deadline: March 31, 2022

Quotation and reported speech have a long tradition of being approached from a
variety of perspectives. The following examples are not intended to give an
exhaustive picture of the field:
Semanticists and pragmaticists debate whether quotation is essentially a
matter of semantics (is it brought about by elements of linguistic structure)
or of pragmatics (a communicative act resulting from particular speaker
intentions), a debate in which the question whether it is necessary for
quotation to be triggered by marks of quotation, syntactically realised or
unrealised, remains central.
Variationists have shed light on the mechanisms underlying the diffusion of
new quotative markers, identifying sociodemographic factors as playing a role,
but also highlighting new discourse functions performed or facilitated by the
new quotatives. Those variationist studies have been enriched by the
contributions of linguistic typologists, who have discussed many quotative
markers across a large number of languages. Some typologists have also raised
the question whether the range of constructions used to report speech displays
syntactic commonalities over and above the obvious semantic ones.

Conversation Analysts have paid careful attention to where in an interaction
reported speech, especially quotation, is used by conversation participants.
They have also identified a variety of functions fulfilled by quotations.
Sign linguistics has been another thriving research area, which has devoted a
lot of attention to the iconic and mimetic dimension of quotation, possibly
offering support to the idea that, in quoting, not just words or utterances
are reproduced but also attitudes and bodily actions.

There are numerous potential convergence points between these different
research perspectives. For example, one question is whether the new quotatives
may be preferentially selected for the expression of some of the functions
highlighted by Conversation Analysts and variationists. Besides, those
quotatives clearly play a role in making salient the iconic dimension of
quoting. That iconicity, in turn, has an impact on the debate between
semanticists and pragmaticists, and is also a factor to be reckoned with when
addressing the question whether such apparently different ways of reporting
speech as ‘direct discourse’ and ‘indirect discourse’ actually belong together
syntactically.

The aim of this three-day workshop is to reinforce the links between different
groups of scholars interested in these issues, very much in the spirit of what
the journal Linguistic Typology did around Spronck & Nikitina (2019),
“Reported speech forms a dedicated syntactic domain”. It also seeks to broaden
the scope of research into speech reporting and quotational phenomena by
bringing to prominence research on sign languages and on ‘less well-studied’
languages. This broadened scope is reflected both in the choice of keynote
presenters and in a special panel on ‘reported speech in African languages’,
coordinated by Tatiana Nikitina and Izabela Jordanoska (CNRS, Paris).

We welcome contributions on the topics described above and on any that has a
strong connection to them. Authors should submit a paper of at most 500 words,
12 font size, in PDF format (for talks with a duration of 30 minutes plus 10
for discussion). Please specify whether you would like your talk to be
included in the workshop or in the special panel on African languages.

Please send your submissions via e-mail to philippe.de.brabanter at ulb.be

Invited Speakers:
Rebecca Clift (University of Essex)
Emar Maier (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen)
David Quinto-Pozos

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