31.423, Calls: Anthro Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Ling Theories, Pragmatics, Socioling/Italy

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Subject: 31.423, Calls: Anthro Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Ling Theories, Pragmatics, Socioling/Italy

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Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2020 16:50:57
From: Viviana Masia [viviana.masia at gmail.com]
Subject: The Pragmatics of Evidentiality : Inter- and intra-linguistic perspectives on pragmatic aspects of evidentiality marking in communication

 
Full Title: The Pragmatics of Evidentiality. Inter- and intra-linguistic perspectives on pragmatic aspects of evidentiality marking in communication 

Date: 02-Jul-2020 - 03-Jul-2020
Location: Venice, Italy 
Contact Person: Viviana Masia
Meeting Email: viviana.masia at gmail.com

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Linguistic Theories; Pragmatics; Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 31-Mar-2020 

Meeting Description:

Over the last decades, evidentiality has become one of the central concerns of
theoretical linguistics (cf. Chung 2005, Faller 2002, 2007, Izvorsky 1997,
Matthewson et al. 2007, Squartini 2004 among many others) and of typological
research (Chafe & Nichols 1986; Friedman 1986; Willett 1988; Aikhenvald 2004).
Most of the theoretical research has investigated the relation between
evidentiality, epistemic modality and speech act operators/modifiers, while
the more pragmatically oriented research investigated the role of evidential
markers in regulating social interactions (Aikhenvald 2004) and in
establishing different conceptualizations of experience (Anderson 1986). If a
lot has been said on the explicit morphological encoding of evidentiality in
the world’s languages, little is known on its discourse dimension and,
precisely, on the relation it bears on both the micro- and macro-pragmatic
level of utterances. In fact, in some languages, evidential morphological
markers seem to intersect with the expression of distinct illocutionary acts
(Faller 2006, Murray 2017), with factuality of knowledge (Ohta 1994) or even
with different informational articulations of utterances (Sánchez 2010;
Shireman 2012). Within some relevance theoretic frameworks (Blakemore 1986;
Ifantidou 2001), the encoding of evidential meanings has also been
investigated in terms of the inferential reconstruction of the source of
information and/or the speaker’s commitment to truth based on the evaluation
of contextual and co-operational parameters (Grice 1975).

The workshop aims at a better understanding of the relation between (broad and
narrow) evidentiality marking and these aspects of the discourse, with a view
to probe into the discourse pragmatics of evidential values conveyed in an
utterance and, precisely, those pragmatic strategies through which
evidentiality encoding contributes to expressing usage conditions in
conversation.

INVITED SPEAKERS:
Martina Faller (University of Manchester)
Uli Reich (Freie Universität Berlin)
Roumyana Pancheva (University of Southern California, Los Angeles)



Call for Papers: 

Moving from the foregoing premises, the proposed workshop will address (but
will not be limited to) the following topics:
1. Evidentiality and speech acts
2. Evidentiality and epistemic modality
3. Evidentiality and Information Structure: evidence from typological data and
discourse analysis
4. Implicit communication and the encoding of evidential meaning
5. The evidential value(s) of presupposition and assertion in discourse
6. The pragmatic dimension of evidentiality in different text genres
7. Evidential pragmatic values conveyed by phonological patterns
8. Information structure and the grammaticalization of speaker commitment
and types of sources of information.

Deadline for abstract submission: 31 March 2020
Notification of acceptance: 30 April 2020
Registration deadline: 15 June 2020
Workshop dates: 2-3 July 2020
Registration fees: 50 euros

Abstracts should not exceed 350 words (references excluded) and should be sent
to the following email address: viviana.masia at gmail.com by March 31.

A conference website is under construction and will be posted soon! Until
then, please email viviana.masia at gmail.com with any questions. 

N.B. BANK TRANSFER DETAILS FOR REGISTRATION WILL BE COMMUNICATED ALONG WITH
NOTIFICATIONS OF ACCEPTANCE.




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