28.582, Calls: Disc Analysis, Gen Ling, Lang Acq, Psycholing, Socioling/France

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Subject: 28.582, Calls: Disc Analysis, Gen Ling, Lang Acq, Psycholing, Socioling/France

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Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2017 13:47:00
From: Martine Sekali [sekali at u-paris10.fr]
Subject: GReG PLS.5 Linguistic Correction/Correctness

 Full Title: GReG PLS.5 Linguistic Correction/Correctness 
Short Title: GREG PLS 5 Correction 

Date: 17-Nov-2017 - 18-Nov-2017
Location: Paris Nanterre, France 
Contact Person: Martine Sekali
Meeting Email: sekali at u-paris10.fr
Web Site: http://anglais.u-paris10.fr/spip.php?article2173 

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; General Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Psycholinguistics; Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 30-Mar-2017 

Meeting Description:

For its fifth conference, the GReG Linguistics Research Group wishes to gather
researchers from various theoretical frameworks in linguistics to focus on the
notion of correction in language. As a polysemous term in French, correction
may refer to the state of being correct (correctness in English) or the
process by which something is made correct.

In its stative meaning the concept refers to a form of acceptability,
grammaticality, linguistic propriety or observance of convention, in other
words, conformity with a norm.

In its dynamic meaning it calls to mind processes of rectification or
remediation engaged in by the speaker, addressee or a third party. Correcting
means adjusting a linguistic production in order to minimize what is perceived
as a gap with respect to a target norm.

In both its meanings, ''correction'' invites us to think about the nature of
the standard norm from which it is inseparable. This research topic raises the
issue of semantic, syntactic, pragmatic, prosodic, etc. gaps with respect to
the norm. What is the often implicit norm according to which we correct
ourselves and others? Who or what is responsible for defining the norm? Should
it be understood as a statistical pattern defined in terms of frequency of use
or as an evaluative standard imposed onto others by a subgroup of speakers?

The notion of correction calls into play the concept of linguistic variation,
both in a synchronic perspective (since various systems, and therefore various
norms, co-exist within a single language) and in a diachronic perspective
(linguistic change resulting from originally deviant productions gradually
integrated into language).

The languages of the conference are French and English.

Venue : Université Paris Nanterre (France)


Call for Papers:

We encourage researchers working on authentic linguistic data to submit
proposals focused on, but not limited to, the following subtopics:

- Given that any norm is embedded in a specific (hence variable) context and
situation, correction/correctness involves processes of accommodation, which
may be discussed from a pragmatic perspective or in terms of discourse
analysis (relevance, genre and the evaluation of discourse efficiency are some
potentially useful theoretical concepts)
- From a sociolinguistic viewpoint, phenomena pertaining to ‘political
correctness’ and hypercorrection may be examined. Being ‘politically correct’,
for instance, may result in being linguistically incorrect, as PC expressions
are often deviant with respect to normal linguistic usage (i.e. porte-manteau
words; feminization of terms of professions, titles, etc.)
- In second language learning the status of ‘errors’ may be discussed,
together with remediation strategies and the relationship between correction
and remediation
- In first language acquisition, self- and other-correction raise questions
about their nature, scope, modalities and impact in the acquisition process.

Phenomena related to correction in language(s) are thus relevant to all
dimensions of linguistic activity (i.e. syntactic, phonological, semantic,
pragmatic, multimodal/gesture-related) as well as a wide range of linguistic
subfields.

In this conference we would like to bring together researchers of every
theoretical persuasion to consider the notion of correction in language(s)
from a holistic perspective. 

Submission: 

Submission deadline: March 30, 2017. 

Abstracts, which can be in English or French, should be no longer than one
page (3,000 signs), including examples and references, and be followed with 4
keywords, one of them specifying the linguistic domain under study.

Each proposal will be examined anonymously by two members of the scientific
committee. Names of author(s) should not be given in the abstract.

Abstracts should be sent as electronic files (Word .doc or PDF format) to both
of these addresses: sekali at u-paris10.fr and sraineri at u-paris10.fr:

- Subject of the message: “GReG.PLS.5 Conference”
- Please specify in the body of the message:
- Name of author(s);
- Title of paper
- Institution
- Email
- Telephone number(s)

Calendar:

Submission of proposals: March 30, 2017
Notification of acceptance: end of May 2017
Conference: November 17-18, 2017

Contacts: sekali at u-paris10.fr , sraineri at u-paris10.fr
Web Page: http://anglais.u-paris10.fr/spip.php?article2173



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