34.2502, Calls: DGfS 2024 AG: Attitudinal Meaning in Prosody

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Subject: 34.2502, Calls: DGfS 2024 AG: Attitudinal Meaning in Prosody

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Date: 16-Aug-2023
From: Heiko Seeliger [heiko.seeliger at uni-koeln.de]
Subject: DGfS 2024 AG: Attitudinal Meaning in Prosody


Full Title: DGfS 2024 AG: Attitudinal meaning in prosody

Date: 28-Feb-2024 - 01-Mar-2024
Location: Bochum, Germany
Contact Person: Heiko Seeliger
Meeting Email: heiko.seeliger at uni-koeln.de
Web Site: https://idsl1.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/personen/lehrende-a-z/dr
-heiko-seeliger/attitudinal-meaning-in-prosody

Linguistic Field(s): Phonetics; Phonology

Call Deadline: 01-Sep-2023

Meeting Description:

The attitude that a speaker is taking towards what they are saying or
towards their interlocutor may influence the prosodic realization of
their utterance. Examples include (but are not limited to) attitudes
resulting in the prosodic marking of otherwise ambiguous sentences as
particular speech acts (e.g., as exclamations, or questions),
speech-act-modifying attitudes such as incredulity, doubt,
rhetoricity, and/or reluctance for instance for questions, sarcasm and
irony, and, more generally, a speaker's emotions. Independently of the
issue if phenomena of attitudinal stance are extra-grammatical (e.g.,
emotions) or grammatical (e.g., question prosody), they all clearly
affect the meaning that is conveyed by the speaker.

We hypothesize that it is a strong cross-linguistic tendency that
attitudinal meaning can be encoded in prosody, and that listeners of
different languages employ different strategies to decode and
interpret prosodic cues to attitude.

This workshop aims to discuss the following questions:

- Which prosodic cues (intonation, rhythm, intensity, voice quality,
etc.) can be used in which ways to encode and decode attitudinal
meaning?
- Which aspects of the prosodic marking of attitudinal meaning are
obligatory, which are optional (in a given language), and how are
available cues weighted?
- How conventionalized are the prosodic expressions of attitudinal
meaning in individual languages, and how variable are they
typologically?
- How do language learners (L1 and L2) use and interpret attitudinal
prosody?

We invite contributions from researchers working on (cross-linguistic
aspects of) prosody with interfaces to pragmatics and semantics, also
from the perspective of language acquisition. Contributions from early
career researchers are particularly welcome.

The workshop will be held at the 2024 annual meeting of the DGfS at
the Ruhr-Universität Bochum.

2nd Call for Papers:

We invite submissions for 20-minute presentations (plus 10-minute
discussions). Abstracts should not exceed one A4 page in length,
excluding references. Graphs may also be placed on the second page.
Submissions should be made as anonymous PDFs on EasyChair at
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=amipdgfs2024. Please name your
abstract as follows: [short-title].pdf.

Coordinators: Timo Buchholz (timo.buchholz at uni-koeln.de), Heiko
Seeliger (heiko.seeliger at uni-koeln.de) [University of Cologne],
Katharina Zahner-Ritter (k.zahner-ritter at uni-trier.de) [Trier
University]



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