34.3443, Calls: General Linguistics / Lingvisticae Investigationes (Jrnl)

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Subject: 34.3443, Calls: General Linguistics / Lingvisticae Investigationes (Jrnl)

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Date: 14-Nov-2023
From: Laure Gardelle [laure.gardelle at univ-grenoble-alpes.fr]
Subject: General Linguistics / Lingvisticae Investigationes (Jrnl)

Call for Papers:

Fuzziness, vagueness and underdetermination in reference

The act of reference links a linguistic expression, called a referring
expression, to one or more entities that belong to the extralinguistic
world or to a mental representation of a possible world. Most
referring expressions, in their context of use, allow for the precise
identification of a referent. For instance, the properties specified
in a proper noun or a nominal phrase ('the big car on the forecourt',
'that white rabbit', 'the unicorn in Blade Runner') may exclude any
ambiguity, so that the act of reference leads to the identification of
the right referent. Some expressions, for example the anaphoric
pronoun 'he' or 'she' when several antecedents are possible, lead to
ambiguity, i.e. to two or three potential candidates which are clearly
identified, but among which a choice remains to be made. In yet other
cases – which will be the focus of the present issue – it is not clear
which referent(s) are really involved in the act of reference. This
concerns, among others, the following phenomena, which are sometimes
described as a case of fuzzy, vague or underdetermined reference:
– plural references, for example: the pronoun 'we' when it is
alternately exclusive or inclusive (Truan 2016); the institutional
pronoun 'they' as in 'at the hospital, they treated him energetically'
(Kleiber 2001, Johnsen 2019 for French, Emmott 2015 for English); some
plural phrases, whether specific or generic, whose scope is difficult
or even impossible to determine, as in 'the Americans have reached the
Moon', where for, the referring expression 'the Americans' might
designate a vague set including at least the astronauts, perhaps also
the staff involved directly or indirectly (Radden 2009), or even
perhaps all Americans through collective credit (Gardelle 2023);
– evolving referents, which undergo such a metamorphosis that they
eventually become something else (Achard-Bayle 2001), as in the
following recipe: 'Kill an active, plump chicken. Prepare it for the
oven, cut it into four pieces and roast it with thyme for 1 hour'
(Brown & Yule 1983). Here, the anaphoric pronouns 'it' do not seem to
designate exactly the same referent as the text progresses;
– human impersonal pronouns (Cabredo Hofherr 2008; Van der Auwera et
al. 2012), indefinite pronouns, such as French 'l'un/l'autre'
(Schnedecker 2006), underspecified pronouns, such as French 'on'
(Fløttum et al. 2007; Landragin & Tanguy 2014; Delaborde 2021) or
‘ça’, or English 'it' (Cadiot 1988; Anscombre 1998; Sales 2008),
aphorisms (Béguelin 2014); similarly in a number of other languages
(cf. German 'man'), and also the unspecified use of the second person
pronoun (Derringer et al. 2015).

[...] Rest of the CFP here:
https://cloud.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/s/SNof8kx2sWCB2c5]

We welcome submissions that address especially (but not exclusively):
– processing of vague (or fuzzy, or underdetermined) reference and
vague anaphora,
– case studies, both in production and reception,
– sequences of vague references and reference chains,
– vague reference in several languages or in several states of
language; in written genres, speech and signed languages,
– vague reference in context: interpretation, meaning effects,
pragmatics,
– the linguistic properties of operators that license vague reference
interpretation (properties such as determination or quantification),
– vague reference in corpus annotation and Natural Language
Processing,
– vague reference approached through the human vs. non-human angle;
through genre; in psycholinguistics, pathology, philosophy of
language, or other approaches to language.

- Submission deadline: 5 Dec. 23
- Notification to authors: Jan 24

Contact & submission
laure.gardelle at univ-grenoble-alpes, frederic.landragin at ens.psl.eu

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