29.910, Calls: Ling & Lit, Philosophy of Lang, Pragmatics, Psycholing, Semantics/Netherlands

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Subject: 29.910, Calls: Ling & Lit, Philosophy of Lang, Pragmatics, Psycholing, Semantics/Netherlands

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Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2018 17:13:36
From: Emar Maier [emar.maier at gmail.com]
Subject: Once upon a time... Semantic approaches to fiction, literature, and narrative

 
Full Title: Once upon a time... Semantic approaches to fiction, literature, and narrative 

Date: 17-Sep-2018 - 18-Sep-2018
Location: Groningen, Netherlands 
Contact Person: Emar Maier
Meeting Email: emar.maier at gmail.com
Web Site: https://sites.google.com/view/fiction2018/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Ling & Literature; Philosophy of Language; Pragmatics; Psycholinguistics; Semantics 

Call Deadline: 25-May-2018 

Meeting Description:

We seem to approach a text that we know to be a work of fiction rather
differently than a newspaper article, or a conversation about the weather. An
influential view in philosophy is that fictional narratives are prescriptions
for the reader to imagine some fictional world, while regular assertions are
proposals to update the common ground. But whatever the eventual diagnosis,
the (apparent) difference between the interpretation of fiction and of
non-fiction already raises interesting linguistic questions: How does a reader
even know that a text is fiction? Are there linguistic clues an author may
leave that mark a given text as such? And is our formal semantic toolkit,
developed for dealing with assertions in every day communication, suitable and
sufficient for dealing with the peculiarities of narrative fiction and
literary style?

In this workshop we want to bring together linguists and philosophers
interested in applying formal semantic tools to linguistic phenomena
characteristic of fiction/narrative. Examples of questions we would like to
address include:

Are there languages with dedicated markers of fiction or story-telling (e.g.
''fiction-evidentials'')?

What exactly are so-called historical/narrative uses of present tense? Are
there other tense/aspect/mood configurations characteristic of narrative?

What is the role of imagination in the semantics of fiction?

Conversely, what is the role of the usual foundational semantic concepts like
truth, reference, truth-conditions, and common ground?

Can/should we distinguish fiction and non-fiction at a discourse level, e.g.
in terms of discourse structure, coherence relations etc.?

How to model free indirect discourse and other forms of perspective shifting,
and to what extent are these constructions characteristic of narrative
fiction?

What is the role of (direct) speech/thought representation in literature?

How can we model different types of narration/narrators (omniscient third
person, first/second person narration, unreliable narrators) semantically?

Can we push our semantics beyond literary/textual narrative to e.g. oral
storytelling, comics, picture books, movies, or narrative music/dance?

Invited Speakers:

Márta Abrusán (Paris)
Stefan Hinterwimmer (Köln)
Alessandro Zucchi (Milan)


Call for Papers:

Submission:

We invite submissions of anonymous two-page abstracts (including references
etc.) for 25 minute talks (plus 10 minutes discussion), via Easychair:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fiction2018 .

With enough high quality submissions we'll also organize a poster session with
lightning talks.

Location:

University of Groningen, The Netherlands. Exact conference location in
Groningen to be announced. We can offer limited daycare facilities, contact
the organizers to apply.

Dates:

Workshop: Mo, Sept 17, 2018 -- Tue, Sept 18, 2018
Deadline for abstract submission: May 25, 2018
Notification: June 10, 2018

Updates, corrections, more info: https://sites.google.com/view/fiction2018




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