33.2289, Calls: Disc Analysis, Pragmatics, Psycholing, Semantics, Text/Corpus Ling/Germany

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Subject: 33.2289, Calls: Disc Analysis, Pragmatics, Psycholing, Semantics, Text/Corpus Ling/Germany

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Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2022 04:22:02
From: Jet Hoek [jet.hoek at ru.nl]
Subject: DGfS-AG6: Signaling discourse relations: Exploring (non-) connective cues

 
Full Title: DGfS-AG6: Signaling discourse relations: Exploring (non-) connective cues 

Date: 08-Mar-2023 - 10-Mar-2023
Location: Cologne, Germany 
Contact Person: Jet Hoek
Meeting Email: jet.hoek at ru.nl
Web Site: https://easychair.org/cfp/DGfS-AG6 

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Pragmatics; Psycholinguistics; Semantics; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 15-Aug-2022 

Meeting Description:

Discourse relations, such as cause-consequence or contrast relations, can be
signalled in many different ways: ‘routine’ ways with classic discourse
connectives or cue phrases such as because and as an example, and ‘creative’
ways with other lexical or non-lexical cues, such as grammatical structure. A
considerable amount of research is concerned with connectives and their
effects: Corpus-based work has provided insight into how connectives can be
used, resulting in the creation of connective lexica in various languages
(collected in Connective-Lex, Stede et al., 2019); experimental work has shown
that connectives facilitate the processing of relations, but to different
degrees, e.g., depending on the expectedness of the relation.

Compared to the fairly large body of literature on connectives, much less is
known about non-connective signals. Interest in these signals has increased in
recent years, evident by the release of the RST Signalling Corpus (Das &
Taboada, 2018), which describes signals such as semantic, syntactic, and
graphical features. There is early evidence that such signals, although less
clear cues than connectives, do affect comprehension and processing. For
example, Crible et al. (2021) show that syntactic parallelism facilitates the
processing of contrastive relations, and that this effect is greater for
non-native readers than for native readers.


Call for Papers:

Despite the considerable and growing attention, open questions remain relating
to connective and non-connective signalling alike, as well as their
interaction. The goal of our workshop is therefore to aggregate research
addressing topics related to the following core questions:

- How are discourse relations signalled? How do we determine what counts as a
signal?
- How do non-connective cues, as well as more traditional relational markers,
contribute to the marking of discourse relations and affect production and
comprehension?
- What are the differences in discourse marking across languages, modalities,
genres, or individuals?

For submission info, visit:
https://easychair.org/cfp/DGfS-AG6




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