28.3968, Calls: Disc Analysis, History of Ling, Typology/France

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Subject: 28.3968, Calls: Disc Analysis, History of Ling, Typology/France

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Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2017 15:45:46
From: Friederike Spitzl-Dupic [friederike.spitzl-dupic at uca.fr]
Subject: Reduction, Densification, Elision: Forms and discourse functions

 
Full Title: Reduction, Densification, Elision: Forms and discourse functions 
Short Title: Reduction-elision 

Date: 25-May-2018 - 26-May-2018
Location: Clermont-Ferrand, France 
Contact Person: Hana Gruet-Skrabalova Friederike Spitzl-Dupic
Meeting Email: friederike.spitzl-dupic at uca.fr; hana.gruet-skrabalova at uca.fr
Web Site: http://lrl.univ-bpclermont.fr/article348.html 

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; History of Linguistics; Typology 

Subject Language(s): French (fra)

Call Deadline: 10-Jan-2018 

Meeting Description:

This conference will revisit the forms of reduction, densification and elision
of language material that locutors use to express their communicational
intentions. It will focus on the various reduced, elided and densified forms
in different languages, on their morphosyntactic and semantic properties, and
on their function in discourse. On the hypothesis that these forms are
complementary, and permit a range of discourse processes, we aim to compare
the roles of the different forms, and to highlight those factors that
determine their use in discourse. We will also address the strategies used by
interlocutors in understanding these forms.

Keynote Speakers:

Gerda Haßler (Université de Potsdam) 
Jean‐Christophe Pitavy (Université Jean‐Monnet‐St‐Etienne & Université
Galatasaray, Turquie)


Call for Papers:

International Conference 
Reduction, densification, elision: forms and discourse functions

Clermont-Ferrand, May 25-26, 2018
Laboratoire de recherche sur le langage (LRL, EA 999), Université Clermont
Auvergne
Site internet : http://lrl.univ-bpclermont.fr/article348.html

The conference will cover three approaches: 

1) Historiographical, addressing the history of linguistic thought concerning
the reduction, elision and densification of utterances,
2) Typological, in which the different forms and processes of reduction,
elision and densification in one or more languages are described and compared,
 
3) Discursive, emphasizing the use of these forms/processes in discourse, and
highlighting the linguistic, discursive and interlocutory factors that
determine their choice in a given communicational context, including literary
discourse.

The following aspects can thus be addressed (among others):

- Types of production conducive to the use of reduced forms,
- Conditions for elision and reduction of language elements and outcome for
the comprehension of utterances,
- Complementarity or competition among different forms of reduction (anaphora,
ellipsis, null elements, etc.) in discourse,  together with the locutor’s
communicational aim with regard to the interlocutor when using these forms,
- The role played by the structure of the information (presupposition,
focalisation, etc.) in the reduction processes,
- The role played by oral analysis for understanding of the reduced forms,
- The role of silence, suspension points, parenthesis, short interpolations,
etc.,  
- The motivations for the reinterpretation of short forms (nominal utterances,
prefabricated expressions etc.) as non-elliptical forms,
- The managing of non-comprehension of reduced forms by the interlocutors,
- The contribution of contextual visual elements for understanding reduced
forms. 

More specifically, in the historiographical approach:

- Besides the notion of ellipsis and its different theoretical frameworks,
from the grammarians’ ‘flaw’ to the rhetorician’s elegant concision, more
pragmatic approaches placing special emphasis on the communicational aim of
particular forms of reduction, densification or elision,
- A study of examples provided by authors to identify and understand those
types of reduction that are of greatest interest, 
- Evolution in how reduced forms are treated in both school and scientific
grammars.

Important Dates:

Submission of abstracts: 10 January 2018
Notification of acceptance: 1 March 2018
Conference: 25-26 May 2018 

Conference Location:

Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (MSH)
4 rue Ledru 
63000 Clermont-Ferrand

Submission Procedure:

Send summaries of articles, in French or English, no longer than two pages,
examples and bibliography included, to:

friederike.spitzl-dupic at uca.fr 
hana.gruet-skrabalova at uca.fr

A publication of selected papers is planned at Nodus (Münster / Germany).

Conference Fee:  80 € / 25 € for students.

References, please see the conference site:
http://lrl.univ-bpclermont.fr/article348.html




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