33.2283, Calls: General Linguistics, Text/Corpus Linguistics, Psycholinguistics/Germany

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Subject: 33.2283, Calls: General Linguistics, Text/Corpus Linguistics, Psycholinguistics/Germany

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Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2022 21:52:16
From: Yvonne Portele [portele at lingua.uni-frankfurt.de]
Subject: 45th DGfS AG16: Creativity and routine in sentence production

 
Full Title: 45th DGfS AG16: Creativity and routine in sentence production 

Date: 08-Mar-2023 - 10-Mar-2023
Location: Cologne, Germany 
Contact Person: Yvonne Portele
Meeting Email: portele at lingua.uni-frankfurt.de
Web Site: https://dgfs2023.uni-koeln.de/ 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Psycholinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 15-Aug-2022 

Meeting Description:

Sometimes, speakers and writers are creative when producing sentences.
Creativity may surface, for example, by choosing non-canonical word orders, by
using non-canonical voice, or by producing marked or unexpected referential
expressions. More often, however, speakers and writers show routine behavior
and do not exploit creative options, but rather stick to canonical and
unmarked choices. Priming - the tendency of speakers to reuse items and
structures that have been processed recently - is a prominent phenomenon tying
together creativity and routine (e.g. MacDonald, 2013; Pickering and Garrod,
2013). On the one hand, researchers are using priming to increase the
probability of using creative structures. On the other hand, priming outside
of the laboratory may strengthen language routines. 
The aim of our workshop, which is part of the 45th annual meeting of the
German Linguistic Society (DGfS), is to identify, discuss, and compare factors
promoting linguistic creativity at different levels of sentence production.
These include linguistic factors (e.g., givenness, topic status, thematic
roles, phonological weight, rhythm), but also non-linguistic factors (e.g.
animacy, perceptual salience). These factors, which often come under the names
of prominence, accessibility, or salience, may be at work unconsciously, but
can also be put to use voluntarily, for example to avoid repetition in written
and spoken production or even to provoke irritation in poetic language use.

Questions to address include: 
- How do speakers/writers cope with the tension between boring but simple and
creative but complex language use? 
- How do particular communicative situations and intentions favor or disfavor
creativity and routine? 
- What are language-specific and/or cross-linguistic means to realize
linguistic creativity? 
- What are the cognitive mechanisms underlying creative and routine language
use? 
- Do individual speakers/writers differ in being linguistically creative?

References
MacDonald, Maryellen C. 2013. How language production shapes language form and
comprehension. Frontiers in Psychology 4:226. 
Pickering, Martin J. & Simon Garrod. 2013. An integrated theory of language
production and comprehension. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 36(04). 329-347.

Workshop coordinators: 
Yvonne Portele (portele at lingua.uni-frankfurt.de), Markus Bader
(bader at em.uni-frankfurt.de) (Goethe University Frankfurt), Isabelle Franz
(isabelle.franz at ae.mpg.de) (MPI for Empirical Aesthetics)


Call for Papers:

Possible topics of our workshop are conceptual, syntactic, prosodic/rhythmic
or information-structural influences promoting creativity or routine in
language production. We welcome abstracts on any of the topics listed above.
Theoretical, corpus and experimental contributions are welcome.

Abstracts:
Abstracts should be anonymous and at most 2 pages in length, 12pt, examples
and references included. Examples, tables and figures should be interspersed
within the text. Please send your abstracts electronically in PDF-format to
portele at lingua.uni-frankfurt.de, and include your name, affiliation, and the
title of the abstract in the body of the e-mail. The talks will be 20 minutes
+ 10 minutes discussion.

Workshop information:
Please note that the regulations of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS) do
not allow workshop participants to present two or more papers in different
workshops. However, you are allowed to be named co-authors in more than one
presentation.
A limited number of travel grants of up to 500 Euro are available for accepted
contributions by DGfS members without/with low income.

Important dates:
Deadlines for abstracts: August 15, 2022
Notification: September 10, 2022




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