31.2775, Calls: Lang Acquisition/Switzerland

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Subject: 31.2775, Calls: Lang Acquisition/Switzerland

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Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2020 13:15:26
From: José AMENÓS-PONS [jamenos at ucm.es]
Subject: Grammar, Pragmatics and Evidentiality: a developmental perspective

 
Full Title: Grammar, Pragmatics and Evidentiality: a developmental perspective 

Date: 27-Jun-2021 - 02-Jul-2021
Location: Winterthur, Switzerland 
Contact Person: Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes
Meeting Email: p.guijarro at uib.es
Web Site: https://pragmatics.international/page/Winterthur2021 

Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition 

Call Deadline: 25-Oct-2020 

Meeting Description:

The development of the capacity to produce and interpret utterances is closely
connected to the learner’s ability to consider thoughts about the objects,
relations, and events that language encodes. Expressions of evidential meaning
encode, or lead to the derivation, based on encoded meaning and inference, of
the information source to which propositional content is attributed; the
understanding of this kind of meaning also contributes to the ability to
identify the degree of speaker certainty, and thereby, speaker commitment. 
The question of how evidentiality is acquired offers potential answers that
are relevant to an ongoing debate about the precise relationship between
linguistic and cognitive development with two clear divided camps. For some,
the way L1 learners use (or fail to use) language may uncover whether a L1
learner has gripped or failed to grip the underlying concepts, in this case,
the links between information sources, speaker certainty and commitment. For
others, it has been claimed that what L1 learners say or do not say is
governed not only by what they can and cannot think about but also by the
internal mechanics of language acquisition that makes the discovery of the
meanings for certain expressions easier than for others. The understanding and
use of evidential has been shown to develop slowly, once children have
acquired linguistic expressions of false belief and uncertainty, often
considered to be the main components of theory of mind (Papafragou et al.,
2007). Thus, a relevant question, in this regard, is the relative linguistic
or conceptual complexity of information-source tracking involved in the
expression and understanding of evidential meaning, theory of mind and of the
linguistic means for attributing mental states. 

This panel attempts to provide a forum in which to share research on pragmatic
perspectives of the acquisition and expression of evidential meaning in
cross-linguistically different evidential systems, especially in language
pairings where at least one of the two languages does not encode evidentiality
in specialised grammatical morphology. The interest of cross-linguistic
studies lies in the fact that in some languages (for example, Turkish,
Bulgarian or Persian), evidentiality is encoded in specialised morphemes,
whilst others (such as Spanish or French) resort to processes of pragmatic
enrichment of diverse linguistic devices (especially, tense and aspect
morphemes) to express evidential meaning. Even though little is known about
how evidential systems are acquired, existing research results suggest that
the acquisition of evidentiality poses significant challenges for learners; it
can be assumed that knowledge about first, second or bilingual acquisition,
due to the varying configurations of evidential meaning, will have
implications on the understanding of the language faculty and its relationship
to cognition in general This panel offers opportunities to clarify which
language internal or external factors (e.g., specific structural features,
language dominance, language The development of the capacity to produce and
interpret utterances is closely connected to the learner’s ability to consider
thoughts about the objects, relations, and events that language encodes.
Expressions of evidential meaning encode, or lead to the derivation, based on
encoded meaning and inference, of the inproximity and input) constrain the
results of language learning processes.


Call for Papers: 

We aim to narrow gaps in our knowledge and form connections between
researchers working with different languages and learners population. These
breaches include theoretical or methodological gaps in our linguistic or
empirical knowledge, or areas of research that have not been fully explored,
language combinations and populations. Methodologically oriented papers that
adopt any particular pragmatic and linguistic framework for research on the
acquisition of evidentiality in any language combination will be most welcome.

Abstracts (250-500 words) must be submitted directly on the IPrA website
(https://ipra2021.exordo.com/login), specifying that the submission is
intended for the ''Grammar, Pragmatics and Evidentiality: a developmental
perspective'' panel. For more information on submission, please visit
https://pragmatics.international/page/Winterthur2021.




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