32.2690, Calls: General Linguistics, Pragmatics, Syntax, Text/Corpus Linguistics/Belgium (Online/Hybrid)

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Subject: 32.2690, Calls: General Linguistics, Pragmatics, Syntax, Text/Corpus Linguistics/Belgium (Online/Hybrid)

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Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2021 06:21:34
From: Jorina Brysbaert [jorina.brysbaert at kuleuven.be]
Subject: International Workshop on the Expression of Contrast and the Annotation of Information Structure in Corpora

 
Full Title: International Workshop on the Expression of Contrast and the Annotation of Information Structure in Corpora 
Short Title: Contrast & Annotation IS 2021 

Date: 18-Nov-2021 - 19-Nov-2021
Location: Online or hybrid (in Leuven + streaming), Belgium 
Contact Person: Jorina Brysbaert
Meeting Email: contrast.annotationis at kuleuven.be
Web Site: https://www.arts.kuleuven.be/workshop-contrast-and-annotation-is/international-workshop-on-the-expression-of-contrast-and-the-annotation-of-information-structure-in-corpora 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Pragmatics; Syntax; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 03-Sep-2021 

Meeting Description:

The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers working on the
encoding and analysis of information-structural concepts, and particularly
contrast, in naturally attested data.

In the last decades, quite some attention has gone to the concept of contrast
in research on information structure. There is an ongoing discussion about the
role of contrast in the conceptual framework: while most linguists consider
contrast to be compatible with both focus and topic, creating the subtypes
contrastive focus and contrastive topic (Repp & Cook 2010; Repp 2010, 2016;
Büring 2016; Cruschina 2021b), some have argued that contrast is an autonomous
information-structural category (Vallduví & Vilkuna 1998; Molnár 2002). A lot
of researchers study the interaction of contrast with other domains of
language, in particular syntax (Repp 2009; Lahousse et al. 2014; Cruschina &
Remberger 2017; Cruschina 2021a) and prosody (Brunetti et al. 2010; Brunetti
et al. 2012; Repp & Drenhaus 2015; Riester et al. 2020; Seeliger & Repp 2020).
Moreover, contrast has been shown to be encoded by different linguistic means,
such as contrastive adverbials (e.g. Csűry 2001; Hamma & Haillet 2002; Dupont
2019; Harthan 2019; Brysbaert & Lahousse 2020), and clefts (e.g. Hedberg 1990;
Davidse 2000; Scappini 2013; Destruel & Velleman 2014; Lahousse & Borremans
2014; Lahousse et al. 2014; Bourgoin 2017).

>From a methodological point of view, this workshop mainly focuses on the
identification of information-structural concepts (such as contrast) in
naturally attested language. The annotation of these concepts in corpora of
spontaneous speech is not straightforward (Ritz et al. 2008; Cook & Bildhauer
2011, 2013) and the concept of contrast proves to be particularly difficult in
this respect, because it can be superposed on both topics and foci, and can be
marked by various prosodic, syntactic and lexical means. Although a few
initiatives have recently been taken to develop annotation guidelines for
information structure (Götze et al. 2007; Brunetti et al. 2016; De Kuthy et
al. 2018; Riester et al. 2018), there is no consensus on the “best practice”.


Final Call for Papers:

The questions addressed in this workshop include (but are not limited to):
- How can the concept of contrast be defined?
- What is the link between contrast and other concepts of information
structure (topic and focus)? How can we deal with “overlaps” between or
“combinations” of information-structural concepts?
- How does contrast interact with syntax / prosody / lexicon / etc. ?
- How is contrast encoded in spontaneous language in different languages?
Which prosodic / syntactic / lexical means are used to mark contrast?
- Which information-structural concepts are particularly challenging to
annotate in corpora, and may lead to poor inter-annotator agreement?
- Are the existing annotation methods cross-linguistically applicable? Are
there differences between text types, discursive genres, …?
- How is contrast controlled for in experiments? How can this feed into corpus
research?

Submission Guidelines:
- Abstracts are invited for 30-minute presentations plus 10 minutes for
discussion.
- Abstracts should be anonymous and no longer than two pages (including
references, examples, tables and figures), in Times New Roman font size 12,
with margins of at least 2.5 cm (1 inch).
- Abstracts should be written in English.
- Submissions are limited to a maximum of two per author (with at most one
single-authored paper).
- Abstracts should be submitted in PDF format through EasyChair by 3 September
2021: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=contrastannotationis.

Important dates:
- 3 September 2021: deadline for abstract submission
- 20 September 2021: notification of acceptance
- 20 October 2021: deadline for registration
- 18-19 November 2021: workshop (fully online or hybrid (in Leuven +
streaming), in line with the sanitary restrictions at that moment)




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