Arabic-L:LING:Conf on Communication and Information Structure in Spoken Arabic

[Dilworth Parkinson]

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1) Subject:Conf on Communication and Information Structure in Spoken  
Arabic

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Date: 21 Jul  2005
From:jowens at casl.umd.edu
Subject:Conf on Communication and Information Structure in Spoken Arabic

The Arabic Program of the School of Languages, Literatures, and  
Cultures of the University of Maryland, and the Center for Advanced  
Study of Language at the University of Maryland are pleased to  
announce a conference on:

Communication and Information Structure in Spoken Arabic

This conference aims to fill a gap in studies about spoken Arabic by  
presenting descriptions of how information is structured by speakers.  
A core issue to be addressed, for instance, is the interplay between  
new and old information, a topic which has been defined within the  
Arabic linguistic tradition since mediaeval times (e.g. mubtada’ vs.  
xabar). Elements of information structure will be examined in the  
spoken language in terms of word order, internal structure and  
semantics of grammatical elements encoding informational units,  
segmental marking, discourse particles, stress and intonation, as  
well as the macro-organization of information in longer stretches of  
text.
The Arabic Program of the School of Languages, Literatures, and  
Cultures of the University of Maryland, and the Center for Advanced  
Study of Language invite scholars in Arabic linguistics to present  
original research papers that contribute to our understanding of oral  
communication in Arabic. Presentations from various theoretical  
perspectives are welcome, including Arabic dialectology,  
accommodation theory, code-switching, pragmatics, discourse analysis,  
conversation analysis, and the ethnography of speaking. We intend to  
publish a collection of selected papers with a major publishing house.

A list of invited speakers will be announced by October 2005. A  
certain amount of travel funding is available for those whose papers  
are accepted.

Further information about the conference, as well as forms for  
registering and submitting abstracts can be found at:

http://register.casl.umd.edu/arabicconference/


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