27.1756, Confs: Discourse Analysis, Gen Ling, Pragmatics, Semantics, Socioling/Norway

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Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2016 11:24:23
From: Christoph Unger [christoph.unger at ntnu.no]
Subject: Researching Pragmatic Particles in Communication: Cognitive, Argumentative and Social Dimensions

 
Researching Pragmatic Particles in Communication: Cognitive, Argumentative and Social Dimensions 

Date: 18-May-2016 - 20-May-2016 
Location: Trondheim, Sør-Trøndelag, Norway 
Contact: Christoph Unger 
Contact Email: christoph.unger at ntnu.no 
Meeting URL: https://www.ntnu.edu/isl/the-meaningandfunctionofnorwegiantags/events 

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; General Linguistics; Pragmatics; Semantics; Sociolinguistics 

Meeting Description: 

Pragmatic particles, that is, particles that do not contribute to the truth
conditions of the utterance, have attracted the attention of pragmaticists
from a variety of perspectives. Cognitive pragmaticists have analysed the
contribution they make to communication in terms of the mental processes they
give rise to. General pragmaticists have done so in terms of the argumentation
potential they have.  Discourse analysts focus on the discourse structures or
contexts that these particles require, and sociolinguists have studied them in
terms of the social realities (such as identity constructions) that they help
to create. These studies have generally been made with little interaction
across the respective domains. When interaction has occurred, it has often
taken the shape of arguing that a certain perspective can subsume others.
However, recent progress in each of these domains raises the question whether
the time is right that a more productive synthesis of approaches can be
achieved. To this end, this workshop aims to take stock of recent developments
in the respective approaches to pragmatic particles and explore possible ways
of developing new productive syntheses of approaches.
 

Programme:

Karin Aijmer: Swedish modal particles in a contrastive perspective: the case
of Swedish ''visst''.

Gisle Andersen: Speaking of X: Discourse topic markers in a variational and
cross-linguistic perspective 

Kaja Borthen: Six methodological approaches to pragmatic particles: a case
study of Norwegian ''da'' 

Ingrid Kristine Hasund: By three means. The pragmatic functions of the
Norwegian quotatives bare, liksom and sånn 

Maria Boer Johannessen: On the semantics and pragmatics of the Norwegian tag
''ass''

Elena Karagjosova: On the semantics of English then and German denn and their
function as translational equivalents of utterance-final Norwegian ''da''

Andrea Rocci: What is argumentation for epistemic adverbs to interact with it?
Theoretial foundations and a corpus study of Italian adverbs 

Maria Secova: Change in paris Fench and London English: linguistic motivations
and social correlations 

Jan Svennevig: The response particles ''Ja'' and ''Jo'' as indicators of
response preference 

Christoph Unger: A cross-linguistic puzzle and its theoretical implications:
Norwegian ''Jo'', German ''Doch'' and ''Ja'', and an advertisement 

Grégoire Winterstein: From exclusive to adversative meaning - a diachronic and
cross-linguistic perspective 

More details about the program can be found on our website:
https://www.ntnu.edu/isl/the-meaningandfunctionofnorwegiantags/events

Anyone interested in attending the workshop please contact Christoph Unger
(christoph.unger at ntnu.no) or Kaja Borthen (kaja.borthen at ntnu.no).





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