Corpora: Polysemy & Semantic Indetermination Call for Papers

Fri Apr 13 16:56:50 UTC 2001

                    CALL FOR PAPERS
            Polysemy and Semantic Indetermination
        Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC)
                   22-25 August 2001

Important dates:
Deadline for submission of abstracts:  by 15 May (postage date)
Acceptance notice: by 30 May

Abstracts must not exceed 500 words and may be sent by e-mail or by post
(hard copy AND floppy if latter).

Accepted formats: Postscript, PDF and Word for Windows
Please specify format on floppy label

Abstracts should be sent to:
Programa de Pos-graduacao em Linguistica
Centro de Comunicação e Expressao
Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
Campus Universitario da Trindade
Bloco B- Sala 314
88040-970 Florianopolis  SC
Brazil
e-mail: pgl at cce.ufsc.br

Introduction:

The lexicon issue, particularly the multiplicity of senses associated
to lexical items, has become a matter of growing importance in
linguistic
research. This conference means to offer an opportunity for
interdisciplinary debate on the theme, encouraging participation of
scholars from different areas.

Relevant themes include but are not restricted to:

- polysemy and context
- semantics, pragmatics and the lexicon
- computational approaches to the lexicon
- semantic indetermination and pragmatic negotiation
- polysemy, discourse and argument

The event is planned so as to avoid simultaneous activities of any kind.
Therefore, only a limited number of papers will be accepted (eight).
Each paper presentation is allocated a thirty-minute slot, twenty
minutes
for the presentation itself and ten minutes for questions and
discussion.

Abstracts may be written in Portuguese, French or English.

Organizers:
Linguistics Post-Graduate Program-UFSC
English Language Post-Graduate Program-UFSC

Organizing Committee:
Pedro Garcez (UFRGS)
Heronides Maurilio de Melo Moura (UFSC)
Marco Rocha (UFSC)
Leda Tomitch (UFSC)
Mara Sophia Zanotto (PUC-SP)

Invited speakers:
Oswald Ducrot (EHESS-Paris)
Marion Carel (EHESS-Paris)
Alan Cruse (Manchester)
Jacob Mey (Odense)
Georges Kleiber (Strasbourg)
Armelle Le Bars (Sorbonne Nouvelle)

Planned activities:
7 invited talks
3 debate sessions
2 tutorials
8 paper presentations

Conference languages: French, English and Portuguese

Bilingual handouts (in Portuguese and English or French) will be
provided for attendants in tutorials and invited talks. Speakers
presenting accepted papers who are not native speakers of Portuguese may
participate in the bilingual handout scheme, but are requested
to send their original handouts appropriately in advance.

Programme:

22-08-2001

8:45a.m.
Opening

9a.m.-10:30a.m
Invited talk
Oswald Ducrot (EHESS-Paris)
Polysemie et Argumentation

10:30-10:45a.m.
Break

10:45a.m.-12:15
Invited talk
Alan Cruse (Manchester).
On the individuation of polysemic sense
units: types and degrees of semantic autonomy

12:15p.m.-2p.m.

Lunch

2p.m.- 4p.m
Papers (4 presentations)

4p.m.-4:30p.m.
Coffee break

4:30p.m.-7:00p.m.
Tutorial 1
La semantique argumentative a l'epreuve de la description lexicale
Oswald Ducrot e Marion Carel

7:00p.m.-7:30p.m.
Break

7:30p.m. to 9:30p.m.
Tutorial 2
Polysemy and Pragmatics
Jacob Mey

23-08-2001

9a.m.-10:30a.m
Invited talk
Jacob Mey (Odense)
Polysemy and Pragmatics

10:30-10:45a.m.
Break

10:45a.m.-12:15a.m

Invited talk
Georges Kleiber (Strasbourg)
La polysemie, a la croisee des chemins

12:15p.m.-2p.m.
Lunch

2p.m.- 4p.m
Debate session
Dictionaries and computational approaches to the lexicon
Armelle Le Bars (Sorbonne Nouvelle)
Marco Rocha(UFSC)
Third person to be announced

4p.m.-4:30p.m.
Break

4:30p.m.-7:00p.m.
Tutorial 1 (cont.)
La semantique argumentative a l'epreuve de la description lexicale
Oswald Ducrot e Marion Carel

7:00p.m.-7:15p.m.
Break

7:15p.m.-9:15p.m.
Tutorial 2 (cont.)
Polysemy and Pragmatics
Jacob Mey

24-08-2001

Invited Talks

8:30a.m.-9:30p.m.
Heronides Moura (UFSC)
Polissemia e Vagueza

9:30a.m.-10:30a.m.
Marco Rocha
Ideas for a WordNet-like lexical database of Portuguese

10:30a.m.-10:45a.m.

Break

10:45a.m.-12:15
Marion Carel (EHESS-Paris)
Ambiguite argumentative et predication

12:15p.m.-2p.m.
Lunch

2p.m.-4p.m.

Debate session
Indeterminacy and Negotiation of Meaning
Mara Zanotto (coordinator)
Jacob Mey (Odense)
Josalba Vieira (UFSC)

4:30p.m.-7:30p.m.
Tutorial 1 (cont.)
La semantique argumentative a l'epreuve de la description lexicale
Oswald Ducrot e Marion Carel

7:30p.m.-9:30p.m.
Tutorial 2 (cont.)
Polysemy and Pragmatics
Jacob Mey

25-08-2001

8a.m.-10a.m.
Papers (4 presentations)

10a.m.-12:00
Tutorial 2 (cont.)
Polysemy and Pragmatics
Jacob Mey

12:00-2:00p.m.
Lunch

2:00-4:00p.m.
Debate session
Psycholinguistics and Polysemy
Regine Kolinsky (U.Libre de Bruxelles)
Edwiges Moratto (UNICAMP)

Leonor Scliar (UFSC)

4:30p.m.
Closing

Fees : Conference and one tutorial: R$ 100,00
       Conference and two tutorials: R$ 130,00
       Conference only: R$  60,00

Note: One US dollar is roughly equivalent to two reais (R$ above)

Conference forms (below) should be printed and sent to:
Pos-graduacao em Linguistica
Centro de Comunicacao e Expressao
Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
Campus Universitario da Trindade
Bloco B Sala 314
88040-970 Florianopolis  SC

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Fees should be settled by cheque or bank order payable to Heronides
Maurilio de Melo Moura.

The conference will take place at Hotel Engenho Velho, a hotel in the
northeastern region of Santa Catarina Island, where Florianópolis is
located. The hotel is roughly twenty kilometers away from central
Florianópolis. Participants are thus advised to stay at the conference
venue.

Facilities are quite comfortable and appropriate. The hotel has a
swimming
pool, tennis court, football pitch and plenty of natural woods and
lagoon
mangrove areas for walks. Wild life watchers will have plenty to enjoy.

Prices in Brazilian reais listed below are full board per person per
day.
Participants are asked to do their own reservation arrangements in due
advance, preferably in suitable groups for sharing if double or triple
room choices are selected.

Single room   R$ 70,00
Double room   R$ 60,00 (each person)
Triple room   R$ 55,00 (each person)

The hotel administration should be contacted by the phone:
+55 +48 2697000
or at the site http://www.engenhovelho.com.br

See you in Florianopolis