22.240, Calls: Discourse Analysis, Phonetics, Phonology, Pragmatics/UK

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Subject: 22.240, Calls: Discourse Analysis, Phonetics, Phonology, Pragmatics/UK

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Date: 12-Jan-2011
From: Diane Blakemore [d.blakemore at salford.ac.uk]
Subject: Prosody-Discourse Interface
 

	
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Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 22:42:52
From: Diane Blakemore [d.blakemore at salford.ac.uk]
Subject: Prosody-Discourse Interface

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Full Title: Prosody-Discourse Interface 
Short Title: IDP 

Date: 12-Sep-2011 - 14-Sep-2011
Location: Salford, Manchester, United Kingdom 
Contact Person: Diane Blakemore
Meeting Email: d.blakemore at salford.ac.uk
Web Site: http://www.famss.salford.ac.uk/page/pdi_conference 

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Phonetics; Phonology; Pragmatics 

Call Deadline: 15-Apr-2011 

Meeting Description:

This conference is the fourth in a series which provides a forum for those working on the relationship between prosody and discourse.  As the previous conferences have shown, there is a range of phenomena which illustrate how research in prosody feeds into research in discourse and vice versa - for example, the communication of attitudes and emotions, constraints on implicit meaning, focus and information structure, the communication of irony, interaction and interactive meaning, humour in discourse, parentheticals, the interpretation of anaphora, the identification of processing units, and the identification of genre. The relationship between prosody and discourse has been viewed from the perspective of phonology, semantics, syntax, pragmatics, language acquisition, language processing, language pathology, stylistics, language evolution, and speech synthesis. Moreover, research has been carried out in a wide range of theoretical paradigms. We now aim to build on this research, and in this way develop a greater understanding of phenomena at the prosody-discourse interface.

Invited speakers:

Nicole Dehe, University of Konstanz
John Local, University of York
Chris Potts, University of Stanford
Marc Schroeder, German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence

The conference will consist of four parts:

1. Research Training Workshop (for research students and academics who wish to develop an understanding of the issues involved in transcribing prosodic structure).
2. Oral presentations on any area of the prosody-discourse interface
3. Poster sessions on any area of the prosody-discourse interface
4. Special workshop on expressive and affective prosody (speakers: Diane Blakemore, Chris Potts, Marc Schroeder) 

2nd Call for Papers:

We now invite researchers in prosody and discourse to submit abstract for inclusion in themed sessions on any area of the prosody-discourse interface (including the topic of the special workshop). We expect abstracts to address the following questions from a range of theoretical paradigms:

-What are the different prosodic subsystems; how do they interact; and how do they contribute to the interpretation of discourse?
-How should we describe and analyze prosodic facts?
-What are the relevant units for the analysis of discourse; and what are their prosodic properties?
-How is discourse processed; and how does prosody affect discourse processing?
-How do context and prosody interact in the interpretation of discourse?
-What is 'tone of voice' and how does it affect interpretation?
-How do L1 and L2 speakers acquire an understanding of the relationship between prosody and context?
-What are the best methodological tools for the description and transcription of the prosodic properties of discourse?

Please note:

-The conference will be held in English and French.  
-Abstracts must be no more than 1 A4 page and written in Times 12 Font  (plus an extra page for references and figures)
-Two copies of the abstract must be submitted - one anonymous and the other marked with the name of the author(s), affiliation(s) and email address of the main author
-Abstracts must be sent to the following address: IDPConf at Salford.ac.uk
-Abstracts will be evaluated anonymously by the scientific committee for the conference. 
-Abstracts should indicate if they are for an oral presentation, a poster, or both. Please note that we will not be able to accommodate everybody in the oral sessions.

Deadlines:

Submission of abstracts: 15 April 2011
Notification of acceptance: 6 June 2011
Conference: 12 - 14 September 2011 

Conference website: 

http://www.famss.salford.ac.uk/page/pdi_conference 

Enquiries:

Diane Blakemore  (local organizer) d.blakemore at salford.ac.uk
Debbie Hughes (conference support) d.hughes1 at salford.ac.uk
Gerry Howley (conference assistant) G.M.Howley at edu.salford.ac.uk




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