27.2986, Calls: Gen Ling, Ling Theories, Pragmatics/UK

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Subject: 27.2986, Calls: Gen Ling, Ling Theories, Pragmatics/UK

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Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2016 10:40:42
From: Rita Finkbeiner [finkbein at uni-mainz.de]
Subject: Pragmatics and Constructions

Full Title: Pragmatics and Constructions 

Date: 16-Jul-2017 - 21-Jul-2017
Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom 
Contact Person: Rita Finkbeiner
Meeting Email: finkbein at uni-mainz.de
Web Site: http://ipra.ua.ac.be/main.aspx?c=.CONFERENCE15&n=1510 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Linguistic Theories; Pragmatics 

Call Deadline: 30-Sep-2016 

Meeting Description:

Contributions are invited to a panel on “Pragmatics and Constructions” to be
held at the 15th International Pragmatics Conference (IPrA 2017), Belfast,
Northern Ireland, UK, 16-21 July 2017.

Organizer: Rita Finkbeiner, Mainz University

Most linguists will agree that constructions such as, e.g., the NPN
construction (student after student, cf. Jackendoff 2008), the Incredulity
Response Construction (Him be a doctor?, cf. Kay 2004), the N be that
construction (The problem is that …, cf. Schmid 2001), or the that noun thing
construction (Tony is off doing that dissertation thing, cf. Salmon 2015),
play an important role in language. As other linguistic categories, such as
lexical categories or sentence types, constructions should not only have
syntactic and semantic aspects, but also systematically interact with
pragmatics.

However, constructionist approaches to grammar usually do not draw a clear
distinction between semantics and pragmatics. This is in line with standard
definitions of Construction Grammar as a non-modular theory (Goldberg 2013;
cf. also Langacker 1987). Furthermore, constructionist approaches usually do
not incorporate a theoretical explication of the role of general pragmatic
principles, e.g., Gricean maxims (Grice 1989), in the theory.

Neo-Gricean and Relevance-theoretical approaches to the semantics/pragmatics
interface, on the other hand, unanimously believe that utterances are only in
part determined by their encoded meaning, while a great deal is achieved
inferentially by hearers in context (e.g., Levinson 2000, Carston 2016, Ariel
2016). This should be true not only for utterances of sentences, but also for
utterances of all kinds of constructions (or constructs) – be it
morphological, phraseological, syntactic, lexically specified, or schematic
constructions.

However, while constructionist approaches tend to neglect inferential
pragmatics, Neo-Gricean and Relevance theoretic frameworks tend to neglect
specific constructions. Against this background, it seems to be a fruitful
enterprise to bring together both strands of research. 

This panel offers a forum for researchers interested in constructions,
theoretical pragmatics, and the semantics/pragmatics interface, addressing

- Competing theoretical approaches to constructional meaning
- The role of pragmatics in Construction Grammar
- The role of constructions in theoretical pragmatics
- The relationship between conventional and inferential meaning in
constructions
- The nature of the meaning of different types of constructions, e.g.,
morphological constructions, sub-sentential constructions, sentence types
- The meanings of constructions in different languages
- The role of pragmatics in construction acquisition, constructional variation
and constructional change

Call for Papers: 

If you would like to contribute to the panel, please submit a short abstract
for review to the panel organizer (Rita Finkbeiner, finkbein at uni-mainz.de)
(250-500 words, not including references and data). Abstracts must be
submitted to the panel organizer before 30 September 2016.

Once your abstract has been accepted, it must also be submitted officially to
IPrA by 15 October 2016 via the conference website:
http://ipra.ua.ac.be/main.aspx?c=.CONFERENCE15&n=1516.

Please note that you have to become a member of IPrA if you want to
participate in the conference.

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