31.408, Calls: English;French;Romanian; Applied Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Language Acquisition, Pragmatics, Syntax/Romania

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Subject: 31.408, Calls: English;French;Romanian; Applied Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Language Acquisition, Pragmatics, Syntax/Romania

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Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2020 10:22:47
From: Razvan SAFTOIU [razvansaftoiu at gmail.com]
Subject: 6th International Conference Structure, Use and Meaning. Action and Agency in Language Use

 
Full Title: 6th International Conference Structure, Use and Meaning. Action and Agency in Language Use 
Short Title: SUM 2020 

Date: 17-Sep-2020 - 19-Sep-2020
Location: Brasov, Romania 
Contact Person: Razvan Saftoiu
Meeting Email: sum.brasov at gmail.com
Web Site: http://old.unitbv.ro/arta/Conferences/SUM2020.aspx 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Language Acquisition; Pragmatics; Syntax 

Subject Language(s): English (eng)
                     French (fra)
                     Romanian (ron)

Call Deadline: 31-May-2020 

Meeting Description:

The 6th edition of the conference Structure, Use and Meaning (SUM) takes place
in Brașov (Romania) between 17-19 September 2020 and aims to bring together
researchers and practitioners in a meaningful dialogue, in order to synthesise
different strands of existing academic research. 

The concepts of action and of agency have recently received systematic
attention in various domains, such as Linguistics, Philosophy, Anthropology or
even Psychology, but interest in these concepts started a long time ago, with
Aristotelian ethics. Despite their long existence in Linguistics, these
concepts are still very difficult to define (see Cruse 1973). Duranti (2007,
453) put forward the following definition of agency: “the property of those
entities (i) that have some degree of control over their own behaviour, (ii)
whose actions in the world affect other entities’ (and sometimes their own),
and (iii) whose actions are the object of evaluation(e.g. in terms of their
responsibility for a given outcome)”. From a semantical-syntactic point of
view (Verstiggel and Denhière 1990, 37), agency is related to the semantic
role of Agent and to the concept of control. Irrespective of whether language
is discussed as a system of signs or as a form of social action, as a means
for doing things, a cultural resource, and a set of socio-cultural practices,
we put forward the idea that natural language use has a complex architecture
and the focus should be on “human beings who use language in dialogic
interactions” (Weigand 2017, 3). By placing emphasis on language-as-dialogue,
the turning point from pragmatics to dialogue opens up the scene for
negotiation between speaker and listener in a game of action and reaction,
allowing interactants to do many different things with words, according to
their needs and purposes. Thus, language is seen as a complex communicative
system used by humans who need to adapt to the ever-changing real-life
situations, because “through linguistic communication, we display our
attitudes, feelings, beliefs, and wishes”(Duranti 2004, 452).


Call for Papers: 

We welcome contributions dealing with agency, an inherently human capacity to
(re)act, from the point of view of syntax,semantics, pragmatics, rhetoric,
dialogue studies, discourse analysis, or intercultural and foreign/second
language instruction.

The official languages for the presentations are English, French and German.

Papers will be allotted 20 minutes, plus 10 minutes for discussion.

Abstract submission guidelines: 
Abstracts should include:
1. The title of the paper
2. A list of 3-5 key words describing the area and focus
3. The name(s) of the author(s) and their affiliation(s)
4. The e-mail address and contact details of the author(s).
Abstracts should be between 250-300 words and should be sent via e-mail
attachments to the
following address: SUM.brasov at gmail.com

Deadline:
The abstract submission deadline is 31 May 2020 and the notification of
acceptance will be received by 30 June 2020.




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