26.1560, Calls: English, French, Discourse Analysis, General Ling, Socioling, Text/Corpus Ling, Typology/France

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Subject: 26.1560, Calls: English, French, Discourse Analysis, General Ling, Socioling, Text/Corpus Ling, Typology/France

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Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2015 17:24:12
From: Anissa Dahak [neessa_9 at yahoo.fr]
Subject: Micro-/macro- : quels enjeux en linguistique anglaise ?

 
Full Title: Micro-/macro- : quels enjeux en linguistique anglaise ? 

Date: 08-Oct-2015 - 10-Oct-2015
Location: Metz (Lorraine), France 
Contact Person: Anissa Dahak
Meeting Email: colloque-micro-macro-contact at univ-lorraine.fr

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; General Linguistics; Sociolinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics; Typology 

Subject Language(s): English (eng)
                     French (fra)

Call Deadline: 15-Apr-2015 

Meeting Description:

The aim of the conference will be to entice a dialogue between specialists of
micro-linguistic analysis and specialists of macro-linguistics, i.e. of a
wider and more contextualized analysis. The purpose will be to put into
perspective our analytical practises and to reach a better understanding of
the interaction between different linguistic levels.


2nd Call for Papers:

« Le texte se présente comme une extrapolation de la phrase. » (M. Wilmet, Grammaire critique du français, Paris, Hachette-Duculot, 1997, p. 582)

« La construction interne d’une clause est essentiellement faite de rapports de rection (sélections, accords) (…) Au-delà la combinatoire est d'une tout autre nature [reposant] sur des rapports de présupposition ou de production d'information. » (A. Berrendonner, « La phrase et les articulations du discours », Le Français dans le monde, Recherches et applications, février-mars 1993, p. 22)

“A clause is a lexicogrammatical object, a structure of wording; whereas a text is a semantic object, a structure of meaning.” (M. Halliday, [1982] “Text semantics and clause grammar: how is a text like a clause”, in J.J. Webster (ed.), On Grammar (Vol. 1 in The Collected Works of M.A.K Halliday, 2002, p.242)

These quotations enable us to bring together different levels of discourse, i.e. wording, clause, sentence and text, and invite us to question the relationships between various language units (word, phrase, prosodic unit, sentence, paragraph, text, speech...).

The aim of the conference will be to entice a dialogue between specialists of micro-linguistic analysis and specialists of macro-linguistics, i.e. of a wider and more contextualized analysis. The purpose will be to put into perspective our analytical practises and to reach a better understanding of the interaction between different linguistic levels.

For instance, this will involve questioning the interdependence/independence of various linguistic levels (segmental/suprasegmental, discourse/language, syntactic unit/informative or discourse unit...) in the analysis of language phenomena in particular, be it on a micro level (e.g. on the syntactic level of isolated markers) or on a macro level (e.g. on the level at which units combine together, for example discourse and informational units, argumentative/rhetorical or narratological structures), or even on an intermediate level (e.g. anaphoric relationships, contextualized construction of meaning).

The problem of what unit to take as framework arises here (level of analysis and relevance of isolated units), along with terminological and epistemological questions (what do we mean by grammatical, semantic, discursive or prosodic units?). What is our level of analysis and what are our purposes? Should one consider, along with Rastier, that the global level shapes the local level? Can grammatical analysis limit itself to sentence units?

This conference should help (re)consider both empirical analyses and theoretical approaches. Participants are welcomed to present works on written or oral sources, without leaving aside a double perspective.

We expect presentations pertaining to various fields of English linguistics mainly, and of French linguistics (syntax, semantics, morphology, phonology, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, traductology, etc.).

Proposals should be submitted in French or English. They should be one page long (Times New Roman, size 12) and include a title as well as a selected bibliography. Submissions should be sent as anonymous Word and PDF documents attached to the message, with a second document indicating the author’s name and university, the title of the abstract and the author’s contact information.

Guest Speakers:

Jean-Charles Khalifa (Université de Poitiers)
Gunther Kaltenböck (University of Vienna)




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