28.863, Calls: Anthropological Ling, Lang Documentation, Pragmatics, Typology/Finland

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Subject: 28.863, Calls: Anthropological Ling, Lang Documentation, Pragmatics, Typology/Finland

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Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 14:28:01
From: Seppo Kittilä [seppo.kittila at helsinki.fi]
Subject: The Expression of Knowledge: Epistemicity and Beyond

Full Title: The Expression of Knowledge: Epistemicity and Beyond 
Short Title: Knowling 

Date: 23-Aug-2017 - 25-Aug-2017
Location: Helsinki, Finland 
Contact Person: Seppo Kittilä
Meeting Email: knowling-2017 at helsinki.fi
Web Site: http://www.linguistics.fi/knowling-2017/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Language Documentation; Pragmatics; Typology 

Call Deadline: 31-Mar-2017 

Meeting Description:

In recent years, the study of evidentiality and epistemicity has expanded from
typologies of information source to a more comprehensive view on the
expression of knowledge. Also languages without grammatical evidentials have
gained foothold in studies of evidentiality (e.g., Diewald & Smirnova 2010).
In other words, the focus of study has shifted from pure grammaticalized
systems towards the semantic notion of source of information. Evidentiality
has increasingly been investigated in relation to neighboring functional
categories such as epistemic stance (cf. Englebretson 2007), and it has also
been studied from an interactional and socio-cultural perspective (Mushin
2001; Gipper 2011; Nuckolls & Michael 2014).

Our goal is to extend the notion of expression of knowledge even further to
include any possible way of referring to how and why we know what we know.
This is not to diminish the relevance of epistemicity, but rather to broaden
the perspective, i.e., our goal is to arrive at a holistic view of knowledge
expression. The expression of knowledge to be broached is thus not confined to
grammaticalized evidentials or epistemic markers, but also other possible ways
of referring to knowledge will be of interest. Consequently, both
contributions that discuss the interplay of different ways of knowledge
expression and more traditional, narrower approaches are equally welcome.
Furthermore, we are interested in how language ecology shapes the linguistic
coding of knowledge. For example, ways of referring to knowledge vary
according to genre and speech situation (Aikhenvald 2004: 310). Moreover, the
information acquired through mediated forms of discourse such as new media may
be encoded differently from more traditionally understood types of information
source such as hearsay (Aikhenvald 2014: 34).

Call for Papers:

Any presentation dealing with the expression of knowledge is welcome
regardless of whether it deals with the topic in an individual language,
across languages, or from a more theoretical perspective. Any theoretical
framework is welcome, but the authors need to bear in mind that the papers
should be accessible to anyone regardless of their theoretical background.
Potential topics for talks include, but are in no way restricted to:

- The lexical, constructional and morphological ways of expressing knowledge:
What is the division of labor of different ways of expressing knowledge
(including information source, epistemic stance and authority, shifting
perspectives) (cf. Cornillie 2009; San Roque 2015)? How do knowledge
expressions interact with each other? 
- The pragmatics of knowledge expression: How are evidential and epistemic
expressions (and also lexical ways of knowledge expression) used in
interaction?
- The grammar of knowledge within and across languages: What kinds of systems
of knowledge expression do languages have? To what extent are the various
functional domains expressed obligatorily? 
- The borders of the categories related to knowledge: Do expressions of
knowledge form a natural class? What kind of comparative concept would cover
the diverse descriptive categories of knowledge (cf. Haspelmath 2010)?
- The ecology of knowledge expressions: How do cultural-linguistic practices
shape the linguistic coding of knowledge? In what ways are knowledge
expressions genre-specific (e.g. oral history, newspaper discourse) (cf. Floyd
2005)? How do knowledge expressions adapt to changes in the socio-cultural
environment (e.g. new forms of communication)?
- Emergence, variation and change of knowledge expressions: What are the
source constructions and processes of grammaticalization that lead to the
scattered coding of evidentiality? What kinds of semantic extensions do
knowledge expressions have?

Anonymous abstracts of no more than 500 words, excluding data and references,
should be submitted by March 31, 2017. Each abstract will be reviewed by (at
least) two members of the scientific committee. Notifications of acceptance
will be announced by April 30, 2017. The talks will be 30 minutes long: 20 min
for presentation and 10 min for discussion (including the 2–3 minutes needed
for changing rooms between talks).

The first day of the conference is reserved primarily for workshops. Workshop
convenors should submit a general description of the workshop (up to 1000
words) along with a list of speakers by March 31. The proposal should be sent
to the organizers at knowling-2017 at helsinki.fi. The participants of the
workshops are requested to submit their abstracts via Easychair as they will
go through the same evaluation process as the abstracts submitted to the
general session.

Please submit your abstract at:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=knowling2017.

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