29.4751, Calls: Ling & Lit, Neuroling, Psycholing, Syntax/France

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Subject: 29.4751, Calls: Ling & Lit, Neuroling, Psycholing, Syntax/France

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Date: Sat, 01 Dec 2018 05:56:12
From: Antoine Gautier [antoine.gautier at protonmail.ch]
Subject: A Psycholinguistic Approach to Construction Figures

 
Full Title: A Psycholinguistic Approach to Construction Figures 
Short Title: PsychoFig 

Date: 22-Nov-2019 - 22-Nov-2019
Location: Paris, France 
Contact Person: Antoine Gautier
Meeting Email: antoine.gautier at protonmail.ch
Web Site: http://psychofigures.sciencesconf.org 

Linguistic Field(s): Ling & Literature; Neurolinguistics; Psycholinguistics; Syntax 

Call Deadline: 01-Mar-2019 

Meeting Description:

This workshop will bring together psycholinguists, neurolinguists and
stylisticians to study the specific figures of speech called 'construction
figures' or figures based on construction.


Call for Papers:

Psycholinguistics and stylistics share common objects. Stylistics is defined
today as “the formal study of texts in regard to their literary aspect”
(Molinié 1992). It seeks to identify some remarkable linguistic configurations
recognized and labelled as figures of speech. Among these, the figures of
construction concern “the way the words are combined and arranged in the
sentence” (Fontanier 1968 [1827]). This category comprises phenomena such as :

- anacoluthon (unexpected discontinuity within the sentence (1));
- hyperbaton (syntactic appendage (2));
- amphibology (syntactically ambiguous sentence (3));
- apo koinou or “construction louche” (sentences sharing a syntactic pivotal
component (4)).
(1) a. Ô ciel ! Plus j’examine, et plus je le regarde, c’est lui. (Racine)
b. Le nez de Cléopâtre, s’il eût été plus court, la face du monde aurait
changé. (Pascal)
(2) a. Si on la questionnait elle dirait qu’elle s’y repose. De la fatigue
d’être arrivée là. De celle qui va suivre (Duras).
b. Albe le veut, et Rome; il faut leur obéir. (Corneille)
(3)  Elle a fini sa thèse sur l’île de Pâques.
(4)  Je n’aime pas les enfants sont toute ma vie. (publicité, cit. Corminbœuf
2012)

These kinds of utterances are not unfamiliar to psycholinguists and
neurolinguists, who work on stimuli sometimes very similar to these
configurations, but who do not describe them as figures of speech. This is
particularly true for scientists working on :

- long-distance dependencies (Futrell & al. 2015)
- syntactic processing of ambiguities (especially with garden path sentences
(i.a. Bever 1970, Frazier & Fodor 1978));
- the impact of the limitations of working memory on syntactic processing
(Gibson 1990, Gibson & Thomas 1999);
- the respective roles of punctuation (Fayol 1981) and boundaries of syntactic
constituents (Just & Carpenter 1980) in sentence comprehension;
- the effects of lexical and syntactic priming (i.a. Bock 1986, Pickering &
Ferreira 2008, Poletti et al. 2012)

Similarly, phonetic or lexical repetitions are abundantly described in
stylistics, and have at the same time given way to numerous studies in
psycholinguistics (i.a. Grill-Spector et al. 2006). Stylistics refer to such
phenomena as :

- anaphora (repetition of the same word at the beginning of successive
sentences or phrases (5));
- reduplication (immediate repetition of a word or phrase (6));
- antanaclasis (repetition of a same word with two different meanings (7));
- hypozeuxis (parallel construction of successive clauses (8)).
(5)  Moi Président...Moi Président... (F. Hollande en 2012)
(6)  Rapide, rapide, c’est vite dit.
(7)  Notre qualité d’impression fait toujours impression. (slogan)
(8)  Des trains sifflaient de temps à autre et des chiens hurlaient de temps
en temps (Queneau).

If they do not share their methods and goals, stylistics and
psycho/neuro-linguistics clearly share some of their objects, therefore it is
likely that they can learn from each other. Besides, the current state of
research in these disciplines seems to reflect a convergence of interests that
may facilitate interactions between these fields. This workshop aims at
encouraging such interactions.

Title and abstract (500 words) expected by 1-Mar-2019.

Submissions can deal with psycholinguistic or stylistic aspects of clause or
sentence boundaries.

Please check the workshop website for abstract submission and other detailed
information (https://psychofigures.sciencesconf.org/).




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