26.5240, Confs: Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics, Semantics, Syntax, Text/Corpus Ling/France

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Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2015 12:00:12
From: Richard Faure [faurerichard5044 at neuf.fr]
Subject: Exclamation and Intersubjectivity

 
Exclamation and Intersubjectivity 

Date: 03-Dec-2015 - 04-Dec-2015 
Location: Nice, France 
Contact: Richard Faure 
Contact Email: rfaure at unice.fr 
Meeting URL: http://exclintersubj.sciencesconf.org/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Pragmatics; Semantics; Syntax; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Meeting Description: 

Most studies on exclamation focus on the speaker’s point of view, treating it as an isolated phenomenon. This conference aims to explore the idea that exclamative utterances have an interactional dimension, taking into account the impact that they have on the context in a broad sense, including the hearer/addressee, the common ground etc.

Exclamations are often seen as linguistic reactions to unexpected events or words (Martin 1987; Rett 2011). They are triggered by emotions, which makes them a phenomenon of the so-called “expressive function of language” (Jakobson 1963-1973). They are often associated with specific properties in the areas of syntax (incomplete structures or wh-clauses, i.e. ‘gap’-clauses), semantics (high degree), intonation (see Milner 1978; Morel in Danon-Boileau and Morel 1995; d’Avis 2001; Zanuttini and Portner 2003;  Rett 2011).
       
Still, such approaches focus on the speaker’s point of view, while too often leaving aside the role of the hearer/addressee. Even in interactional models, the interactive dimension is not tackled as such (Vanderveken 1990). This conference aims at questioning the idea that exclamations are only speaker-oriented. They often appear in verbal interactions. This raises the question of whether there might exist conventional exclamation triggers, hence their ability to function as rejoinders to certain speech acts. Moreover, exclamations could be involved in interactions where a reaction is expected from the hearer (acceptance, confirmation, but also denial or mimicry of the speaker’s attitude by the hearer). Some linguists argue that exclamations have a “context change potential” based on their expressive force (Castroviejo Miró 2008, Chernilovskaya 2014). Finally, the hearer’s point of view can contribute to the semantic/pragmatic debate regarding the nature of the factivity a
 ttributed to exclamations be it presupposition or conventional implicature (Beyssade 2009; Abels 2010, whose tests are mostly based on embedded clauses).

Registration fees: 80 euros (free for students) 

Programme:

We are pleased to announce that the programme of the conference on exclamation and intersubjectivity is now available. Please follow this link

http://exclintersubj.sciencesconf.org/program

The programme includes the following sessions
- Historical perspectives
- Around exclamation: Prosody, stress and particles
- Conversational analysis
- Non prototypical exclamations
- New analyses of prototypical exclamations





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