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<p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Dear list members,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>This is a call for abstracts for a panel on
“Pragmatic aspects of discourse coherence” which will be organized during the
12<sup>th</sup> International Pragmatics conference in Manchester (July, 3<sup>rd</sup>
– 8<sup>th</sup>, 2011) by Helmut Gruber (Vienna) and Gisela Redeker (Groningen):<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:17.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Pragmatic aspects of discourse coherence<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Organizers: Helmut Gruber (Vienna) &
Gisela Redeker (Groningen)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Investigations of discourse coherence have
played an important role in discourse research for at least the last three
decades. Within this research tradition, the investigation of coherence
relations has lead to the proposal of various coherence models which view
coherence as the result of an interplay between textual clues, (analysts'
assumptions of) writers'/ speakers' intentions, cognitive, situational,
rhetorical and/ or generic constraints etc. (Asher & Lascarides, 2003; Spooren
& Sanders, 2008; Taboada & Mann, 2006a, 2006b). <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> Despite the long tradition of
coherence research, there is still disagreement concerning basic questions such
the relationship between generic structures and coherence structures (to which
extent do they depend on each other or are they independent of each other?),
the relation between signals of surface cohesion (e.g. theme-rheme structures,
lexical cohesion) and "underlying" coherence structures, the
signaling of coherence structures on different text/ discourse levels (global
vs. local coherence), etc. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>In addition, the emergence of new genres in
the new media and the possibility of combining different semiotic modes in
hypertexts calls for new approaches that also take into account coherence relations
between different modes of discourse such as coherence between visual and
verbal elements of texts (see Bateman, 2008) or coherence between sound, film
sequences, and verbal and textual elements (Huemer, 2010). <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> The proposed panel aims at bringing
together researchers from different approaches to relational coherence, in
order to present and discuss their recent research. We envisage two 90-minute
sessions with three presentations each and room for discussion. One of the
sessions will focus specifically on multimodality.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Presentations are invited on the following
topics:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:19.6pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;
vertical-align:middle'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=DE style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=DE>coherence, cohesion, and genre</span><span
lang=DE><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:19.6pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;
vertical-align:middle'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]>signalling of coherence relations<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:19.6pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;
vertical-align:middle'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=DE style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=DE>coherence in multimodal discourse<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.6pt;vertical-align:middle'><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.6pt;vertical-align:middle'>Important
dates:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.6pt;vertical-align:middle'>Sept. 1,
2010 send abstracts (500 words) to <a
href="mailto:helmut.k.gruber@univie.ac.at">Helmut Gruber</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.6pt;vertical-align:middle'>Oct. 1, 2010 notification
of acceptance/rejection<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.6pt;vertical-align:middle'>Oct. 29,
2010 authors must have submitted their abstracts to IPrA (n.b.: IPrA
membership required!)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.6pt;vertical-align:middle'>July 3-8,
2011 IPrA Conference, Manchester<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.6pt;vertical-align:middle'><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b>References</b><b><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-36.0pt'>Asher,
Nicholas, & Lascarides, Alex (2003). <i>Logics of conversation</i>. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press.<i><o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-36.0pt'>Bateman, John
A. (2008). <i>Multimodality and Genre: a foundation for the systematic analysis
of multimodal documents</i>. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-36.0pt'><span
lang=DE>Huemer, Birgit (2010). <i>Semiotik der digitalen Medienkunst: Eine
funktionale Kunstbetrachtung.</i> </span>Unpublished PhD, Vienna University,
Vienna.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-36.0pt'>Spooren, W.,
& Sanders, T. (2008). The acquisition order of coherence relations: On
cognitive complexity in discourse. <i>Journal of Pragmatics, 40</i>(12),
2003-2026.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-36.0pt'>Taboada,
Maite, & Mann, William (2006a). Applications of Rhetorical Structure
Theory. <i>Discourse Studies, 8</i>, 567-588 <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-36.0pt'>Taboada,
Maite, & Mann, William (2006b). Rhetorical Structure Theory: looking back
and moving ahead. <i><span lang=DE>Discourse Studies, 8</span></i><span
lang=DE>, 429-459.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=DE><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=DE>Best regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=DE>Helmut Gruber<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=DE>________________________________________<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=DE>Institut f. Sprachwissenschaft<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=DE>Universität Wien<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=DE>Berggasse 11<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=DE>A-1090 Wien<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=DE>Tel.: +43/1/4277-41722<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Fax: +43/1/4277-9417<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><a
href="http://www.univie.ac.at/linguistics/personal/helmut/" target="_blank"><span
style='color:#0C0C99;text-decoration:none'>http://www.univie.ac.at/linguistics/personal/helmut/</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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