27.2116, Calls: Pragmatics, Semantics, Syntax, Typology/Germany

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Subject: 27.2116, Calls: Pragmatics, Semantics, Syntax, Typology/Germany

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Date: Mon, 09 May 2016 12:15:15
From: Katharina Turgay [turgay at uni-landau.de]
Subject: Secondary Information and Linguistic Encoding

Full Title: Secondary Information and Linguistic Encoding 

Date: 08-Mar-2017 - 10-Mar-2017
Location: Saarbrücken, Germany 
Contact Person: Katharina Turgay
Meeting Email: turgay at uni-landau.de
Web Site: http://danielgutzmann.com/secondary-information 

Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics; Semantics; Syntax; Typology 

Call Deadline: 31-Aug-2016 

Meeting Description:

Secondary Information & Linguistic Encoding (DGfS 2017)

In addition to expressing some main or primary content, an utterance often
conveys secondary information. Under this term, we think of content that is
not the “main point” of the utterance, but which rather provides side or
background information and which is less prominent than the main content.
Secondary content – which in recent literature is often called “non-at-issue
content” – often also shows distinctive behavior with respect to its role in
discourse structure and which discourse moves it licenses. Linguistic
phenomena that fall under this category are, for instance, appositives and
non-restrictive relative clauses, presupposition triggers, expressive
adjectives, interjections and many more. The aim of this workshop is to tackle
the question of what kinds of secondary meaning exist, if they can receive a
unified characterization (and treat-ment) and how they influence the
progression of discourse structure. On the formal side, we may ask if and how
secondary information is linguistically encoded and set apart from the main
content of an utterance. For instance, some content may be marked as secondary
by means of intonation, punctuation, or syntactic disintegration, while other
bearers of secondary information prima facie cannot be distinguished from
expressions that convey primary content. An-other controversy regards the
question of whether certain lexical expressions or constructions are
conventionally marked as conveying secondary content or whether the secondary
nature of some information is determined conversationally by pragmatic
processes.

Invited Speakers:

- Judith Tonhauser (Ohio State University)
- Robert Henderson (University of Arizona)

Call for Papers:

We invite submission of proposals for 30min talks (20min presentation + 10min
discussion period) dealing with secondary information and ist linguistic
encoding. We aim at a good balance between empirical and theoretical oriented
talks, approach-ing the topic from a variety angles.

Topics that can be addressed at the workshop include but are not limited to
the following questions:

- Which strategies can be used to mark some information as secondary (e.g.
intonation, morphological or lexical means, punctuation, syntactic
operations)?
Are there different kinds of secondary content (e.g. side vs. background
information) and, if so, how do they relate to traditional kinds of meaning
(like presuppositions, conventional implicatures)?
- How can secondary content be characterized and defined and distinguished
from primary content? Does secondary content have special properties that can
be used to identify it (denial in discourse, propositional anaphora,
embeddability etc.)?
- How does the notion of secondary information relate to established
semantic-pragmatic categories and mechanisms of discourse structure (e.g.
common ground, question under discussion, discourse updates)?
- In the recent literature, secondary information is often treated in terms
with respect to the notion of “(non)-at-issue meaning”. However, there are at
least two different usages of this term: one that is backward-looking and is
based on the notion of the question under discussion and one that is
forward-looking and is based on the notion of making a proposal. Do we need
both variants of this notion to capture the full range of secondary
information or can one be reduced to the other? If not, are there regularities
that tell us which notion applies in which situation and how can possible
different kinds of secondary content be characterized by these two competing
notions?

Abstracts should be submitted to Katharina Turgay no later then August 31,
2016: turgay at uni-landau.de. The workshop languages are English and German.
Abstracts should be anonymized, should not exceed two pages (DIN A4) including
examples and references, and be submitted as a pdf. Notifications of
acceptance will be issued until September 15, 2016.

The workshop is part of the 39th Annual Meeting of the DGfS (Deutsche
Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft). Workshop speakers have to register for
the conference and are not supposed to speak at more than one workshop.

Workshop Details:

Organizers: Daniel Gutzmann (Frankfurt & Cologne), Katharina Turgay (Landau)
Contact: turgay at uni-landau.de
Website: http://danielgutzmann.com/secondary-information
Date: March 8–10, 2017
Venue: Saarland University, Saarbrücken
Deadline for submission: August 31, 2016
Notification of acceptance: September 15, 2016

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