33.2631, Calls: Pragmatics/Belgium

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Subject: 33.2631, Calls: Pragmatics/Belgium

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Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2022 23:09:20
From: Ludivine Crible [ludivine.crible at ugent.be]
Subject: Discourse and disfluencies in cognitive and speech disorders

 
Full Title: Discourse and disfluencies in cognitive and speech disorders 

Date: 09-Jul-2023 - 14-Jul-2023
Location: Brussels, Belgium 
Contact Person: Ludivine Crible
Meeting Email: ludivine.crible at ugent.be

Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics 

Call Deadline: 15-Oct-2022 

Meeting Description:

This panel intends to gather researchers adopting a discourse-analytic
approach to a range of cognitive and speech disorders, including Autism
Spectrum Disorder, aphasia, Alzheimer’s disease and stuttering. The term «
discourse analysis » is here taken in a broad sense and encompasses
quantitative and qualitative studies that investigate the pragmatics of
(atypical) interaction, in a functional, context-bound approach to empirical
data. The focus therefore lies on linguistic phenomena such as disfluencies
(pauses, repetitions, truncations, etc.), gestures, coherence markers or any
other devices reflecting discourse-structuring or discourse-representational
processes. These pragmatic devices are particularly prone to be impacted by
various disorders (e.g., Dipper & Pritchard, 2017) because of their high
frequency, optionality and relative freedom of movement. They also reflect
mechanisms of interaction management and discourse structure, processes which
have been described as particularly challenging for atypical speakers
(Merrison & Merrison, 2005).

Such a focus on the pragmatics of atypical speech is in line with the current
momentum for mixed approaches, after a long prevalence of purely quantitative,
formal and relatively decontextualized studies in the field. This panel will
thus shed some light on the micro- and macro-level features that characterize
the discourse level in cognitive and speech disorders, a step which is in turn
crucial to better describe these populations in general and to understand
their specificities with respect to (neuro-)typical speakers.

We welcome submissions that investigate how discourse-structuring devices,
pragmatic gestures and disfluencies are used in various speech and cognitive
disorders, and submissions that adopt a functional, usage-based approach to
atypical speech. We aim to address the following overarching questions: How
are coherence markers (connectives, discourse & pragmatic markers, other
discourse-structuring devices), gestures and disfluencies used in various
speech and cognitive disorders ? Do they vary across speaker groups? On a more
theoretical and methodological perspective, what can functional, usage-based
approaches to atypical speech contribute to the study of speech and cognitive
disorders, and to the field of pragmatics itself?


Call for Papers:

To contribute to this panel, authors should submit an abstract (max. 500 words
excluding references) as PDF to the following E-mail addresses:
ludivine.crible at ugent.be
christelle.dodane at gmail.com

The deadline for submissions is 15 October 2022.

Please note that IPrA membership is required to submit an abstract and present
during the conference.




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