31.2414, Calls: Disc Analys, Hist Ling, Pragmatics, Text/Corpus Ling/Switzerland

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Subject: 31.2414, Calls: Disc Analys, Hist Ling, Pragmatics, Text/Corpus Ling/Switzerland

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Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2020 10:22:51
From: Minju Kim [mkim at cmc.edu]
Subject: Connectives and Interactional Functions: A Cross-linguistic Analysis

 
Full Title: Connectives and Interactional Functions: A Cross-linguistic Analysis 

Date: 27-Jun-2021 - 02-Jul-2021
Location: Winterthur, Switzerland 
Contact Person: Minju Kim
Meeting Email: mkim at cmc.edu

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Historical Linguistics; Pragmatics; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 20-Oct-2020 

Meeting Description:

Recent studies have demonstrated that across different languages, connectives
that combine clauses have come to perform interactional functions in
turn-initial or turn-final position. Many subfields of linguistics have
examined this phenomenon (under different names, e.g., grammaticalization,
(inter)subjectification, insubordination) because it provides a fascinating
locus for the investigation of the dynamic interplay between usage and grammar
(Beeching and Detges 2014, Brems et al. 2014, Evans and Watanabe 2016:2). The
proposed panel focuses on the interactional functions of connectives and
explores parameters that can account for cross-linguistic similarities and
differences by asking two questions: 
—Do the core semantics of connectives influence what types of interactional
functions they serve? 
—How do typological differences, sentence structure types (e.g., SOV vs. SVO),
and other language specifics play out in this functional shift?

Based on the current literature, we can classify some basic patterns:  

1)  Core semantics of the connectives are retained but their specific
interactional functions can be different in different languages. In Germanic
languages, English or (Drake 2015) and Swedish eller ‘or’ (Lindström 1997) are
attached to a yes/no question to indicate that the dis-preferred response is
unproblematic; in Korean, tunci ‘or’ has become a marker of non-imposing
suggestions (M. Kim 2018). Due to the shared semantics, however, all three
forms can indicate the speaker’s non-imposing stance in turn-final position. 

2)  Interactional functions are comparable, but sentence structure can alter
the position of the connectives. And-prefaced questions in English (Heritage
and Sorjonen 1994) and turn-final ko ‘and’ questions in Korean (M.S. Kim 2015)
have similar interactional functions. 

3)  Despite typological differences, interactional functions can be remarkably
similar. For instance, turn-final uses of English but, Japanese kedo, and
Korean nuntey express a contrastive implication that is “left hanging for the
listener to construe” (Mulder and Thompson 2008:186, Park 1998).

4)  Typologically similar languages can show similar developmental patterns.
In turn-final position, Korean nikka ‘because’ (Rhee 2012) and Japanese kara
‘because’ (Ohori 1995) express logical assertions, translatable as “you know,”
and the Korean quotative marker ko (Sohn 1996) and Japanese quotative marker
to (Hayashi 1997) encode the emphatic meaning of “I’m saying.” In Germanic
languages, complement clauses (e.g., English that, German daβ, Dutch dat,
Swedish att, Danish at clauses) can express the speaker’s disbelief and
surprise (Evans 2007).


Call for Papers: 

We invite all papers that examine interactional and discourse functions of
connectives or conjunctions, especially those using natural discourse data.
Please send your abstract of 250 - 500 words to Minju Kim (mkim at cmc.edu).




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