34.392, Calls: Germanic; Discourse Analysis, Ling & Literature/Germany

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LINGUIST List: Vol-34-392. Tue Jan 31 2023. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 34.392, Calls: Germanic; Discourse Analysis, Ling & Literature/Germany

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Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2023 02:38:59
From: Barthe Bloom [dina.diager at gmail.com]
Subject: Discourse Structure and Narration: A Diachronic View from Germanic

Full Title: Discourse Structure and Narration: A Diachronic View from Germanic 

Date: 04-May-2023 - 05-May-2023
Location: Potsdam, Germany 
Contact Person: Barthe Bloom
Meeting Email: dina.diager at gmail.com

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Ling & Literature 

Language Family(ies): Germanic 

Call Deadline: 10-Feb-2023 

Meeting Description:

Discourse Structure and Narration: A Diachronic View from Germanic will be a
two-day workshop on the diachronic developments of grammatical realization of
discourse and narrative structure, focusing on the patterns exhibited by the
Germanic languages. The intent is to publish a collected volume with the
papers following the workshop.

The organization of the workshop and the following volume is related to the
DFG project Wortstellung und Diskursstruktur in der Frühen Neuzeit, which is
concerned with the impact of discourse structure on Early New High German word
order in narratives.

We invite abstracts for papers that deal with the relation between grammatical
patterns and the structure of discourse and narration from a diachronic and
Germanic perspective.

Confirmed Speakers:

- Jordan Chark, ZAS Berlin
- Anna Cichosz, Łódź
- Bettelou Los, Edinburgh
- Pierre-Yves Modicom, Lyon
- Sonja Zeman, Augsburg

2nd Call for Papers:

Abstract Submission Deadline Extended

Characteristic of narratives is the double-layered nature of the structure,
with on the one hand the descriptive content and on the other hand the
representation of the content (Chatman 1980), and thus lends itself well for
shifting viewpoints (Dancygier & Sweetser 2012). This is particularly
interesting as perspective taking interacts with the use of tense and aspect
(Fleischmann 1985, Sanders & Van Krieken 2019), but also with the use of
complement clauses (Verhagen 2005) and the position and integration of
adverbial clauses (Csipak 2019).

Narratives may be structured around the temporal sequence of events or
centered on topics, which is reflected in the grammatical devices used to link
elements to previous discourse and continue the narration (Carroll, Von
Stutterheim & Nuese 2004). Consequently, a change in narrative structure
should be correlated with changes in the use and productivity of grammatical
patterns. Think for example of the changes and variation regarding the
realization of the preverbal slot(s) in declarative sentences (Axel 2004, Frey
2005, Bohnacker & Rosén 2007, Bech & Salvesen 2012, Walkden 2017, Larsson &
Kinn 2022) or regarding the position of the finite verb (Hinterhölzl & Petrova
2010, Los 2012, Demske 2018, Booth & Beck 2021).

How and to which degree changes in grammatical patterns correlate or are
affected by changes in discourse and narrative structure, how the two layers
interact with each other and affect each other, and how such issues can be
operationalized are still understudied. Therefore, we invite papers that deal
with such issues.

Abstracts of max. 400 words (excl. references) should be emailed as a PDF-file
to DiNa.DiaGer at gmail.com by February. 10th, 2023. Notification of acceptance
will be provided by Feb. 27th, 2023. Please indicate whether you would be
interested in contributing a full paper. Further information on the volume
will follow upon acceptance or by request.

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