16.108, Calls: Discourse Analysis/France; Corpus Ling/Spain

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Subject: 16.108, Calls: Discourse Analysis/France; Corpus Ling/Spain

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1)
Date: 13-Jan-2005
From: Dicristo Albert < albert.dicristo at lpl.univ-aix.fr >
Subject: Discourse Prosody Interface 2005

2)
Date: 13-Jan-2005
From: Gaetanelle Gilquin < ggilquin at stanford.edu >
Subject: Linking Up Contrastive and Learner Corpus Research

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Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 18:08:21
From: Dicristo Albert < albert.dicristo at lpl.univ-aix.fr >
Subject: Discourse Prosody Interface 2005

Full Title: Discourse Prosody Interface 2005
Short Title: idp05

Date: 08-Sep-2005 - 09-Sep-2005
Location: Aix-en-Provence, France
Contact Person: Colas Annie
Meeting Email: idp05 at lpl.univ-aix.fr
Web Site: http://www.lpl.univ-aix.fr/~prodige/idp05

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Discourse Analysis; Phonetics; Phonology

Call Deadline: 25-Feb-2005

Meeting Description:

IDP05 (Discourse Prosody Interface 2005) is a symposium to be held in
Aix-en-Provence (France) on September 8th-9th 2005. Organized by the
multidiscplinary research group 'Prosodie et Discours' within the
Laboratoire Parole et Langage (CNRS), this meeting focuses on the modelling
of the relations between prosody and discourse as a complex interface. Both
theoretical and empirical propositions will be considered.

Prosody has certainly been one of the most popular components of language
and speech within not only language sciences, but also parent disciplines
such as psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics. Prosody thus constitutes a
new linguistic dimension which paves the way for an increased knowledge of
language and its uses, captured by the general notion of discourse.

This symposium aims at questionning which theoretical and methodological
frameworks would be most likely to favour an integrative approach of the
relations of prosody to discourse. More precisely, our objective is to
focus on the modelling of these relations, taking into account both
experimental and theoretical perspectives. In this context, conceptions of
the relations of prosody to discourse as a complex interface, and not
simply as binary interactions (prosody/syntax or prosody/semantics) will be
favoured.

Communications will consist in invited, oral and poster presentations.
Themes
*	Syntax, macrosyntax and discourse
*	Discourse semantics and pragmatics
*	Discourse prosody
Both theoretical and empirical propositions are welcome.

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Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 18:08:25
From: Gaetanelle Gilquin < ggilquin at stanford.edu >
Subject: Linking Up Contrastive and Learner Corpus Research

Full Title: Linking Up Contrastive and Learner Corpus Research

Date: 19-Sep-2005 - 19-Sep-2005
Location: Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Contact Person: Gaetanelle Gilquin
Meeting Email: ggilquin at stanford.edu
Web Site: http://www.usc.es/iclc4/

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics; Translation

Call Deadline: 25-Mar-2005

Meeting Description:

Linking Up Contrastive and Learner Corpus Research

Workshop to be held in conjunction with the
4th International Contrastive Linguistics Conference

Monday, September 19, 2005
Santiago de Compostela, Spain

Conference home page: http://www.usc.es/iclc4/

BACKGROUND

While the term 'contrastive linguistics' is traditionally used to refer to the
comparison of two (or more) different languages, the goals and methods of the
contrastive approach can also be applied to the comparison of different
varieties of language, such as original language vs. translated language, child
language vs. adult language or native language vs. learner language (also known
as 'interlanguage').

The field of 'contrastive interlanguage analysis' (CIA) aims to come to a better
understanding of language as it is used by non native speakers. It can involve
two types of comparison, viz. between native speech and non native speech (NS
vs. NNS) and between two or more varieties of non native speech (NNS vs. NNS).
While the former type of comparison highlights the features of nativeness and
non-nativeness of learner language, the latter determines whether the non native
features are limited to one group of non native speakers (in which case it is
most probably a transfer-related phenomenon) or whether they are shared by
several groups of learners with different mother tongue backgrounds (in which
case the most likely explanation is a developmental difficulty). On the basis of
carefully designed corpora representing both native and non native varieties of
a language, such comparisons can be drawn easily and with reliable results.

Interestingly, CIA can also be combined with 'pure' contrastive analysis (CA),
in a model that has been called the 'integrated contrastive model' (see Granger
1996 and Gilquin 2001). Thanks to representative bilingual and learner corpus
data and constant to-ing and fro-ing between CA and CIA, it is possible to
evaluate the predictive power of the CA data (can the differences between L1 and
L2 predict the problems encountered by learners?), as well as their diagnostic
power (can learners' difficulties be explained by the influence of the mother
tongue?), and so give a precise description of the place of the mother tongue in
the acquisition of the target language.

Gilquin, G. 2001. 'The Integrated Contrastive Model. Spicing up your data'.
Languages in Contrast 3.1: 95-123.

Granger, S. 1996. 'From CA to CIA and back. An integrated approach to
computerized bilingual and learner corpora'. In K. Aijmer, B. Altenberg & M.
Johansson (eds) Languages in Contrast. Papers from a Symposium on Text-based
Cross-linguistic Studies. Lund 4-5 March 1994 (pp. 37-51). Lund:
Lund University Press.

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION

The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers whose work links up
contrastive and learner corpus research, either in the form of contrastive
interlanguage analysis or using the integrated contrastive model. The research
can concern any aspect of language (syntax, semantics, pragmatics, discourse,
etc.), provided it is based on corpus data. Papers describing theoretical and/or
methodological issues related to the combination of CA and CIA are also welcome.

SUBMISSION PROCEDURE

Abstracts for 20 minute presentations (plus 10 minutes for discussion) can be
submitted using the abstract proposal form found at:
http://www.usc.es/iclc4/callforpapers-def.htm
The guidelines are the same as for the submission of a regular ICLC paper (10
line long abstract plus additional information). Under 'panel', make sure you
mention the name of the workshop. Abstracts should be sent before Easter
(preferably by email) to:

Gaetanelle Gilquin
Department of Linguistics
Stanford University
Margaret Jacks Hall, Bldg 460
Stanford CA 94305-2150, USA
Email: ggilquin at stanford.edu

Participants submitting an abstract for the general conference are allowed to
submit one for the workshop too. Abstracts accepted for the workshop will be
included in the proceedings of the conference.

LANGUAGE

All papers should be submitted and presented in English.

REGISTRATION

The fee to attend the workshop is included in the conference fee. Those who wish
to attend the workshop without delivering a paper are asked to indicate their
interest to Gaetanelle Gilquin (ggilquin at stanford.edu) to receive their own copy
of the final programme.

ORGANISERS

Maria Belen DIEZ-BEDMAR, Universidad de Jaen, Spain
Gaetanelle GILQUIN, Universite catholique de Louvain, Belgium / Stanford
University, USA
Szilvia PAPP, University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline: March 25, 2005
Notification of acceptance: April 18, 2005
Workshop date: September 19, 2005
Conference dates: September 20-23, 2005

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