19.328, Calls: General Linguistics/Denmark; General Linguistics/Canada

Tue Jan 29 18:46:15 UTC 2008

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Subject: 19.328, Calls: General Linguistics/Denmark; General Linguistics/Canada

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1)
Date: 28-Jan-2008
From: Francesca Bianchi < francesca.bianchi at ateneo.unile.it >
Subject: Methodological Perspectives on Communicative Functions 

2)
Date: 28-Jan-2008
From: Michelle St-Amour < michelle.stamour at utoronto.ca >
Subject: Inuktitut Linguistics Workshop

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Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 13:42:13
From: Francesca Bianchi [francesca.bianchi at ateneo.unile.it]
Subject: Methodological Perspectives on Communicative Functions
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Full Title: Methodological Perspectives on Communicative Functions 

Date: 22-Aug-2008 - 26-Aug-2008
Location: Aarhus, Denmark 
Contact Person: Sara Gesuato
Meeting Email: sara.gesuato at unipd.it
Web Site: http://www.esse2008.dk/cfp_seminars.html 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 01-Mar-2008 

Meeting Description:

ESSE Seminar S.15
The notion of communicative function is invoked in discourse studies to define
speech acts, genres, text types, and to account for macro/micro properties of
linguistic constructs like their rhetorical structure, lexical encoding, and
addresser-addressee's role-relationships. Yet, it is an elusive notion, which
may refer to: language's role in interaction, a text's purpose, the addresser's
illocutionary intent, an utterance/move's semantic contribution to a
communicative exchange. We aim to trace a standard characterization of the
notion of function by exploring the relationships between functions and the
encoding-decoding of meaning, and by discussing criteria for the definition,
identification and classification of functions. 

Call for Papers

Those wishing to participate in the Seminar are invited to submit 200-word
abstracts of their proposed papers directly to all convenors of the seminar in
question before 1 March 2008. The convenors will let the proponents know whether
their proposals have been accepted no later than 21 March 2008. Please note that
authors of seminar papers will be expected to give an oral presentation of not
more than 15 minutes duration, rather than simply reading their papers aloud.
The convenors will ensure that reduced versions of the papers are circulated
among all speakers in advance of the seminar in question. There will be a
maximum of 5 papers in each two-hour seminar session, and suitable time for
discussion between speakers and with the audience.

Convenors:
- Assoc. Prof. Sara Gesuato (University of Padua)
E-mail: sara.gesuato at unipd.it 
- Assist. Prof. Francesca Bianchi (University of Salento)
E-mail: francesca.bianchi at ateneo.unile.it 
- Dr. Josef Schmied (Chemnitz University)
E-mail: josef.schmied at phil.tu-chemnitz.de

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Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 13:42:22
From: Michelle St-Amour [michelle.stamour at utoronto.ca]
Subject: Inuktitut Linguistics Workshop
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Full Title: Inuktitut Linguistics Workshop 

Date: 15-Mar-2008 - 16-Mar-2008
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada 
Contact Person: Michelle St-Amour
Meeting Email: michelle.stamour at utoronto.ca
Web Site: http://individual.utoronto.ca/nattaya/ILW/ 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 08-Feb-2008 

Meeting Description:

To mark International Polar Year, a workshop on research into the formal
linguistics of Inuktitut will be held March 15-16, 2008 at the University of
Toronto, Department of Linguistics. 

Call for Papers

Abstracts on this topic, as well as language maintenance issues, should be sent
to michelle.stamour at utoronto.ca by Feb. 8, 2008. Talks will be 20 minutes.
Papers from faculty, grad students and undergraduate students are invited for
submission by email.

Abstracts should be one page either in pdf or word. The abstract itself should
not contain identification. Instead name, affiliation and contact information
should be provided in the email.

Please contact michelle.stamour at utoronto.ca or visit our website at
http://individual.utoronto.ca/nattaya/ILW if you have any questions or need
further information.

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