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Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 15:36:21
From: Vanda Enoiu [vandae10 at yahoo.com]
Subject: 21st Rencontres Jeunes Chercheurs (RJC 2018) “From data to theory” in Linguistics
Full Title: 21st Rencontres Jeunes Chercheurs (RJC 2018) “From data to theory” in Linguistics
Short Title: RJC 2018
Date: 31-May-2018 - 01-Jun-2018
Location: Paris, France
Contact Person: Comité d'organisation Ecole doctorale 268
Meeting Email: rjc-ed268 at gmail.com
Web Site: http://www.univ-paris3.fr/rencontres-jeunes-chercheurs-de-l-ed-268-57780.kjsp?RH=1263512706116
Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Computational Linguistics; Discipline of Linguistics; General Linguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics
Call Deadline: 15-Jan-2018
Meeting Description:
Founded in 1998, the Rencontres Jeunes Chercheurs from the doctorate school
''Speech and Languages'' (ED 268, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle) offer
students, whether they are registered in PhD or in Master, and young PhD, to
present their work in oral paper or posters. This year's theme, '' From data
to theory '', will focus on the different aspects of researcher's production
in linguistics.
Whether gathered in experimental or ecologic situation, or drawn from corpora
of all sorts, data are given a prominent place in linguistics: in fact, theory
is often defined as a coherent and efficient description of data. Thus,
research could be described as a series of steps, going from data gathering to
their processing, using a suitable theory. New data can then allow to
reinforce some theories or, at the contrary, to cast doubt on them or even
entirely refute them. Indeed, the strength of a scientific theory lies, as
Popper 1953 showed, in its refutability caused by new data. For instance,
Greenberg 1966 defined ''language universals'', basing his study on a sample
of 30 languages. Afterwards, new languages' descriptions and, therefore, new
data, challenged the concept of ''universal'' as defined by Greenberg.
Nowadays, we tend to speak more of tendencies than of
absolute universals.
However, gathering and selecting data is not without arising many
difficulties, both methodological and epistemological. The method must be
linked to the research's objectives while taking into consideration the
constraints and issues specific to human and social sciences, such as data's
''naturalness'', the matching of different groups of data or their use by a
researcher who didn't gather them.
In the course of the analysis itself, the theories used make an unavoidable
bias in data processing. These epistemological issues are central in the field
of History of Linguistic Theories where the processing of empirical data by
grammarians and linguists, at any period, is studied. For instance, Auroux
1994 shows how the first descriptions of European languages were inspired
by the theoretical transfer of the Greco-Latin model.
Nowadays, big data studies, experimental linguistics and resort to statistics
attempt to minimize the bias due to the researcher's subjectivity (bigger
samples, strict protocols, calculation of the margin of error...). A great
part of these fields is attributable to the informatic development: big corpus
are created (CIEL-F, CFPP, etc.) as well as data processing softwares (Praat,
R, LeTrameur, Toolbox, etc.). These new ways of studying language imply a new
and quite different relation towards data as opposed to the qualitative way,
but they also got their drawbacks. For example, errors in the transcript of a
manuscript could cause wrong interpretations if there is no confirmation from
the source text. Overall, the data's analysis by researchers who weren't part
of their gathering, thus sometimes ignoring the context of production,
can be an issue in their interpretation.
Actually, the link between data and theory might not go without saying, the
researcher must constantly interrogate this very trend through his analysis
and findings. All these issues will be at the heart of this 21s t edition of
the Rencontre Jeunes Chercheurs. In addition to the mentioned examples,
all fields of linguistics are welcome.
Call for Papers:
Submission guidelines
1. We encourage proposals relevant to this year's topic and related to every
linguistic discipline. Everyone who is interested in presenting an individual
paper or a poster is welcome to submit a 2-pages abstract (5 000 characters
±10%) in English or French by January 15, 2018 at 8 pm (Central European
Time). Abstracts must include a bibliography and from 3 to 5 key-words. They
must be sent in two copies (an anonymous version and a non-anonymous version
with candidate's name, university, department attachment and a valid email
address) to the organising committee: rjc.ed268.p3 at gmail.com .
2. Individual papers will be allocated 20 minutes, and an additional 10
minutes for discussion. The size of the posters is A0. Poster authors will be
invited to give a short oral presentation of their work.
3. Authors of shortlisted abstracts should submit an article of 30,000
characters (without spaces) in French or English by September 15, 2018 at 8
pm (Central European Time). After a proofreading by the Scientific Committee,
a second version of this article will be published in the acts of the
conference . Articles must be sent to the organising committee:
rjc.ed268.p3 at gmail.com
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