31.1476, Calls: General Linguistics/France

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Subject: 31.1476, Calls: General Linguistics/France

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Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2020 23:53:54
From: Laurence VINCENT-DURROUX [laurence.durroux at univ-grenoble-alpes.fr]
Subject: Reference : (co-)construction and use

 
Full Title: Reference : (co-)construction and use 
Short Title: LED 2021 

Date: 25-Mar-2021 - 26-Mar-2021
Location: Grenoble (Université Grenoble Alpes), France 
Contact Person: Laurence VINCENT-DURROUX
Meeting Email: laurence.durroux at univ-grenoble-alpes.fr
Web Site: https://led2021.sciencesconf.org/ 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 27-Nov-2020 

Meeting Description:

Reference is considered here in the nominal domain – pronouns included – and
is understood as the designation of the mental representation of an entity,
regardless of whether the latter exists in the extralinguistic world.

A great amount of research on reference has been devoted to the constraints on
the interpretation of referential expressions in anaphoric contexts (e.g.
Government and Binding Theory for the syntactic constraints on
sentence-internal anaphora; issues of referential opacity for coreferential
NPs in subject and object positions; or discourse anaphora); later on, more
general studies on reference have considered pragmatics (e.g. Grice’s Maxims
in Gundel et al. 1993) and the influence of the cognitive status of the
referent (e.g. Accessibility theory, Ariel 1990; Givenness Hierarchy, Gundel
et al. 1993; Centering frameworks, Grosz et al. 1995, Walker et al. 1998,
Strube & Hahn 1999). But these studies, as well as more recent research (e.g.
Abbott 2010, Gundel & Abbott 2019), have also brought to light the limitations
of such theoretical models. They are important in that they establish definite
trends, but all they can make out are trends, as the referent’s cognitive
status obviously interacts with other factors – besides, many of these studies
are based on constructed examples.

It is this complexity that the present conference will seek to explore, by
bringing together specialists of various fields and languages. It will place
the speaker/user at the core of the referential process: as stressed by
Strawson (1950) among others, it is not a definite description that refers by
itself, but a speaker who uses a definite description to refer to something in
a given speech situation.


Call for Papers: 

Contributions to the following issues, based on any of the world languages,
are particularly welcome (see conference site for details on the following
themes):
- In addition to the cognitive status of the referent, what factors are at
play in the construction and management of reference? 
- A closer look at the reference / quantification interface will provide a
better understanding of plural reference and more generally, of the process of
referential construction.
- What are the possible effects of variation from the expected ''norm''? Is it
possible to detect recurrences, or even conventional expectations, in such
variations and their effects?
- Further research into the oral and non-verbal dimensions of reference is
also crucially needed.
- The study of reference (and its acquisition where appropriate) in speakers
with non-typical development will also provide useful insights into the
parameters at play.
- The issue of the construction of reference also raises that of its
co-construction, in both spoken and written interaction.
- the exploitation of reference for argumentative purposes is still
underresearched today. To what extent may a “marked” referential expression
(or referential chain) be regarded as part of the argumentative strategy?

Keynote speakers:
Catherine Emmott, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
Lutz Gunkel, Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache, Mannheim, Germany
Manfred Krifka, Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin, Germany

Proposals of around 700 words (plus up to 5 references), together with a short
bio, should be sent to led2021 at sciencesconf.org The proposals should be sent
both in .doc(x) and .pdf formats. The talks may be given in English or in
French.

Following the conference, submitted papers will be considered for a
publication with an international impact, subject to double blind peer review.




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