24.1316, Confs: General Linguistics/Germany

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Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2013 09:59:54
From: Barbara Sonnenhauser [basonne at lmu.de]
Subject: Distance in Language, Language of Distance

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Distance in Language, Language of Distance 

Date: 05-Apr-2013 - 06-Apr-2013 
Location: Munich, Germany 
Contact: Barbara Sonnenhauser 
Contact Email: basonne at lmu.de 
Meeting URL: http://www.slavistik.uni-muenchen.de/forschung/konferenz1/index.html 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Meeting Description: 

In linguistics, the notion of ‘distance’ has already been employed in cognitive and functional approaches, and has proven as a fruitful tool for the description of verbal and nominal categories, particularly in the area of Balkan linguistics. 

However, its use is by no means consistent. On the one hand various linguistic phenomena are described in terms of ‘distance’; on the other hand, the notion itself is being related to different concepts. In its original sense, ‘distance’ refers to a ‘gap’ between two spatially separated points (Dancyngier & Vandelanotte 2009). This spatial concept, combined with a deictic component, is transferred to other mental and linguistic concepts, whereby the speaker serves as a point of reference.

The central question of the conference is: What is the common denominator for the various uses of this notion, based on which a semantic category ‘distance’ can be defined and how is this category realised in language?

Plenary Speakers:

Lieven Vandelanotte (Namur & Leuven): ‘The language of distance in grammar and discourse’
Evangelia Adamou (Paris): ‘Distance in tensed nominals: A typological perspective’
Gracie Fielder (Arizona): ‘Triangulation: Navigating distance in interaction’ 

Friday, April 5th 2013

09.00-09.30
Registration 

09.30-10.00
Barbara Sonnenhauser & Anastasia Meermann (Munich)
Introduction 

10.00-11.00
Lieven Vandelanotte (Namur & Leuven) 
The language of distance in grammar and discourse

11.00-11.30
Coffee break

11.30-12.00
Maksim Makartsev (Moscow)
Evidentials in Balkan Slavic and Albanian as a text-structuring device

12.05-12.35
Yoshinori Nishijima (Kanazawa)
Ignorance of epistemological distance: Rhetorical use of non-evidentials in the work of Franz Kafka

12.40-13.10
Tatiana Kuznetsova (Alberta)
Constructing distance in the world of blogs: Who are the Others?

13.10-14.45
Lunch 

14.45-15.45
Evangelia Adamou (Paris) 
Distance in tensed nominal: A typological perspective

15.45-16.00
Coffee break

16.00-16.30
Imke Mendoza (Salzburg)
Distance in Discourse. Evidence from Polish, Russian and German

16.35-17.05
Sonja Zeman (Munich)
‘Near’ present, ‘distal’ past, and ‘future of fate’: Temporal distance and its perspectival effects on the textual surface

Saturday, April 6th 2013

09.30-10.30
Gracie Fielder (Arizona)
Triangulation: Navigating distance in interaction

10.30-10.45
Coffee break

10.45-11.15
Barbara Sonnenhauser (Munich) 
Hear-say, inference, surprise: (Self-)distancing in Balkan Slavic

11.20-11.50
Anastasia Meermann (Munich)
Truncated perfect in Serbian - a marker of distance?

11.50-12.15
Coffee break

12.15-12.45
Liljana Mitkovska, Eleni Bužarovska, Marija Kusevska (Skopje) 
Macedonian ‘da ne’ constructions as distance markers

12.50-13.20
Galina Putjata (Dresden)
Concept of privacy and adjustment of proxemics in Russian, Spanish and French speaking immigrants

13.20
Closing remarks








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