34.659, Calls: Vagueness and Ambiguity in Languages

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Subject: 34.659, Calls: Vagueness and Ambiguity in Languages

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From: Caterina Cacioli [caterina.cacioli at unifi.it]
Subject: Vagueness and Ambiguity in Languages

Full Title: Vagueness and Ambiguity in Languages
Short Title: LinUD

Date: 14-Jun-2023 - 16-Jun-2023
Location: Firenze, Italy
Contact Person: Caterina Cacioli
Meeting Email: caterina.cacioli at unifi.it
Web Site: https://sites.google.com/view/linud2022/home-page?authuser=0

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Linguistic Theories;
Philosophy of Language; Text/Corpus Linguistics

Call Deadline: 15-Apr-2023

Meeting Description:

We are glad to announce the second edition of the International
Doctoral conference in Linguistics and Digital Humanities organized by
phd students at the University of Florence.
The theme is ambiguity and vagueness in languages, investigated at all
levels of linguistic analysis.

Call for Papers:

LinUD II is a doctoral conference organised by the Ph.D students in
Linguistics and Digital Humanities at the Humanities and Philosophy
Department of the University of Florence. The second edition is
dedicated to linguistic ambiguity and vagueness.

Doctoral students and early career researchers will discuss vagueness
and ambiguity, two phenomena typical of natural languages, at all
linguistic levels of analysis and according to different theoretical
perspectives. Ambiguity and vagueness are multi-sided concepts that
elicit a sense of doubt and uncertainty, and also of manifold
dimensions. In fact, ambiguous and vague constructs alter the
predictability of the relationship between form and meaning. However,
they are necessary features of languages to avoid redundancy and
mentioning of inferable pieces of information, and to reuse words with
different senses and functions - making languages cognitively and
communicatively efficient.

Linguistic and extralinguistic factors that create ambiguity and
vagueness are favorable grounds for investigation, as are the
consequences for communicative purposes. In this respect, it is
interesting to look at the interface of semantics with
morpho-syntactic levels. Looking at extra-linguistic factors, they
have a prominent role in ambiguity and vagueness resolution but may
sometimes be their cause. In a diachronic perspective, ambiguity and
vagueness can be the source but also the cause of language change.

In light of the above considerations, we invite researchers to submit
proposals aimed at discussing linguistic ambiguity and vagueness in
their different manifestations, with a single-disciplinary or
interdisciplinary focus, with particular attention to the following
areas:

- case studies (texts, lexicon and domain-specific terminology,
communicative situations) which investigate causes or consequences of
ambiguity and/or vagueness (communicative difficulty,
misunderstanding, or, instead, communicative efficiency) also with
regards to linguistic or extralinguistic resolution strategies;

- case studies presenting diachronic research or language change
describing the role of ambiguity and vagueness in these processes;

- studies at the interface of semantic and other linguistic levels
Guidelines for submission The conference welcomes doctoral students,
post-docs and early career researchers.

Researchers can submit a maximum of two proposals: one as a single
author and one as co-author or two as co-author. There will be oral
presentations (with an allotted time of 30 minutes, 20 for the
presentation and 10 for discussion) and a poster session. Proposals
may be in Italian or English, the official languages of the
conference.

Proposals should be submitted via email to convegno.linud at gmail.com,
attaching two PDF files:

one file with your profile (name of author/s, email address/es,
affiliation/s and a short biographical note), the title of your
presentation and your preference for oral presentation or poster;

one file with your abstract (max 300 words, excluding title, tables,
graphs and references)

The conference will be held as an in-person event in Florence (Italy).
The deadline for proposal submission is April 15, 2023. Accepted
proposals will be notified via email by May 15, 2023.
Conference proceedings are planned to be published after the
evaluation of the proposals by the Scientific Committee.
Registration information will be given at a later stage and published
on the website https://sites.google.com/view/linud2022
For further information please contact the organising committee via
email (convegno.linud at gmail.com).

Important Dates
April 15: deadline for submission
May 15: notification of acceptance
June 14-16: conference dates

Organizing committee
Caterina Cacioli
Stefano Miani
Lorenzo Cambi
Carmelina Toscano
Shuai Luo
Simona Trillocco
Francesca Maltagliati

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