[Corpora-List] Conference announcement

[Claus Pusch]

Conference announcement - Call for papers:

3rd Freiburg Workshop on Romance Corpus Linguistics:
"Corpora and Pragmatics - Speech acts and context-bound interaction in 
the light of corpora and data-bases: corpus projects and application"

Albert-Ludwigs University Freiburg im Breisgau (Germany)
14-Sep-2006 - 17-Sep-2006
Email: info at corpora-romanica.net
Web Site: http://www.corpora-romanica.net

Last Call for Papers

Corpus linguistics as a methodological approach aiming at collecting, 
marking-up and documenting real-life language data is confronted with 
particular challenges when its products - corpora and linguistic 
data-bases - are intended to be useful and usable for pragmatic research 
issues.

Among the issues that will be dealt with in this workshop are the following:
-which elements of the extra-linguistic context are selected, how are 
they encoded, and in which way can they be linked to the verbal data?
-Which types of annotation methods and which technical options of 
multimediality and information layering are available in order to 
document para-linguistic (mimic or gestural-kinetic) action?
-According to which sociolinguistic or historical parameters are texts 
and language data chosen in order to arrive at an adequate corpus-based 
description of the synchronic variation and the diachronic dynamism of 
speech acts, registers and genres, norms of linguistic behavior, and 
traditions of speaking?
-To which extent are frequency values and patterns of co-occurrence - 
information so easily obtained through computer-aided corpus-based 
research - useful for a better understanding of speaking in a context 
which, according to its basic conception, is oriented towards individual 
case studies?

Plenary speakers and participants of round tables:
- Carla Bazzanella (Torino / Italy)
- Françoise Gadet (Paris / France)
- Martin-Dietrich Glessgen (Zurich / Switzerland)
- Christian Mair (Freiburg / Germany)
- Lorenza Mondada (Lyon / France)
- Lene Schoesler (Copenhagen / Denmark)
- Scott Schwenter (Columbus OH / USA)
- Anne-Catherine Simon (Louvain-la-Neuve / Belgium)
- Pascal Vaillant (Schoelcher / Martinique / France)

The workshop will be organized in two panels, for which paper 
submissions are hereby invited:

Panel A ''Corpus projects, language data management and analysis 
tools'': This panel will be devoted to the presentation of currently 
on-going or completed corpus and database projects in the realm of 
Romance linguistics; the main focus will be on corpus projects which aim 
at complementing textual and transcription data with context 
information, situational parameters and meta-information on textual 
genres and traditions of speaking.

Panel B ''Corpus-based pragmatic studies on Romance languages'': This 
panel will focus on contributions based on corpus data and linguistic 
databases which comprise specific linguistic facts and phenomena 
relating to different areas of pragmatic research (i.e.: organization of 
utterances and information structure, discourse markers and strategies 
of modalization, gender-specific discourse structures, synchronic 
variability and diachronic change in the realization of speech acts etc.).

Papers may be read in German, any Romance language, and English. More 
information on how to submit your paper proposal is found on the 
conference web-site. Abstract deadline: March 15, 2006. Confirmation of 
acceptance will be sent out before April 15, 2006.

Please check the conference web-site for further details on registration 
and fees, scientific and social program of the workshop, travel and 
accommodation. If you have questions, do not hesitate to contact the 
conference convenor: Claus D. Pusch, Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet, 
Romanisches Seminar, Werthmannplatz 3, D-79085 Freiburg im Breisgau, 
E-mail info at corpora-romanica.net.

This workshop is sponsored by the German Research Council / Deutsche
Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG).

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Dr. Claus Dieter Pusch
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Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg im Breisgau
Romanisches Seminar - Lehrstuhl Prof. Raible
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