32.2623, Calls: Historical Ling, Pragmatics, Text/Corpus Ling, Writing Systems/Germany

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Subject: 32.2623, Calls: Historical Ling, Pragmatics, Text/Corpus Ling, Writing Systems/Germany

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Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2021 07:34:24
From: Sonja Taigel [sonja.taigel at uni-wuppertal.de]
Subject: The graphematics/pragmatics interface (DGfS 2022)

 
Full Title: The graphematics/pragmatics interface (DGfS 2022) 

Date: 24-Feb-2022 - 25-Feb-2022
Location: Tübingen, Germany 
Contact Person: Mailin Antomo
Meeting Email: mailin.antomo at phil.uni-goettingen.de
Web Site: http://www.dgfs2022.uni-tuebingen.de 

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Pragmatics; Text/Corpus Linguistics; Writing Systems 

Call Deadline: 22-Aug-2021 

Meeting Description:

It is generally accepted that the writing system of a language such as German
results from phonographic, syllabic, morphological and syntactic principles. A
more recent insight, however, is that several written devices are
systematically connected with pragmatic functions, we use the term
graphematics/pragmatics interface for that purpose. A heterogeneous number of
phenomena can be subsumed under this notion: e.g. the use of punctuation marks
(exclamation marks, quotation marks, omission marks; on the level of words the
word-internal period (e.g. lit.COLOGNE), word-internal lower cases (KAUFhOF)
or the use of * in gender-sensitive language; on the sentence and text level
e.g. footnotes, parentheses, typographical means such as paragraphs, the
marking of headlines, dashes, colons, different fonts, free capitalisations
(Was für ein VOLLDEPP) and emojis; furthermore functional differences between
writing systems if a language employs more than one (e.g. Katakana and
Hiragana in Japanese). These phenomena - which have received little attention
by research so far - have in common that they are related to pragmatic
entities such as illocution, information structure or implicature or involve
pragmatic concepts such as politeness, style or emotions respectively.
Questions we would like to address are:

- Which phenomena interact with pragmatics?
- What is the function of these writings and to which pragmatic entities do
they relate?
- Where is the border between semantics and pragmatics?
- Are the phenomena genre- or modality-specific?
- How did the respective devices develop
- Which didactic implications result from the description of these phenomena?
- Are there universal phenomena?

We aim at appealing to researchers who work synchronically or diachronically
on cases of pragmatic writings. Theoretical as well as empirical approaches on
any language displaying phenomena of this kind are welcome.

Confirmed Invited Speaker:
Rita Finkbeiner (Mainz)


2nd Call for Papers:

We invite submissions of anonymous abstracts for 30 minutes (20+10)
presentations. Submissions should not exceed one page, 12pt. single spaced,
with an optional additional page for examples and references. Please upload
your abstracts at http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/graphprag2022 by the
deadline listed below.

A limited number of travel grants of up to 500 Euro each are available for
accepted contributions by DGfS members without/with low income.

Important Dates:

Call Deadline: 22 August 2021
Notification: 05 September 2021
Workshop: 24 & 25 February 2022 (in the context of the 44th Annual Conference
of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS) from February 23 to 25, 2022,
Tübingen).
Meeting URL: www.dgfs2022.uni-tuebingen.de

Workshop Organizers:

Mailin Antomo (Göttingen)
Nathalie Staratschek (Wuppertal)
Sonja Taigel (Wuppertal)




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