33.692, Confs: Discourse Analysis, General Linguistics, Pragmatics, Text/Corpus Linguistics/Germany

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Subject: 33.692, Confs: Discourse Analysis, General Linguistics, Pragmatics, Text/Corpus Linguistics/Germany

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Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2022 14:06:51
From: Rita Finkbeiner [finkbeiner at uni-mainz.de]
Subject: International Workshop: The Pragmatics of Headlines

 International Workshop: The Pragmatics of Headlines 

Date: 10-Mar-2022 - 11-Mar-2022 
Location: Mainz, Germany 
Contact: Rita Finkbeiner 
Contact Email: finkbeiner at uni-mainz.de 
Meeting URL: https://www.germanistik.uni-mainz.de/files/2022/02/Workshop-Program_.pdf 

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

Meeting Description: 

International Workshop: The Pragmatics of Headlines

Workshop Organizer: Rita Finkbeiner, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

Headlines are an integral part of most types of written discourse. We find them in print and online news media, in advertising, in literary texts as well as in all kinds of non-fictional written discourse, such as scientific, didactic, legal, or administrative texts. In many cases, the use of a headline will enhance a reader’s understanding of the text; in other cases, it may rather obscure it. Either way, it is clear that writers use headlines, as scriptural objects, to achieve particular communicative goals. Therefore, the study of headlines ought to be a genuine task of pragmatics as the linguistic discipline that is dedicated to “the systematic study of meaning by virtue of, or dependent on, the use of language” (Huang 2017: 2).

Yet, the discipline of pragmatics has been remarkably reluctant when it comes to the investigation of headlines. Only very few studies so far explore headlines from a genuinely pragmatic perspective. The bulk of research on headlines is carried out in other linguistic subfields such as discourse and media studies, text linguistics, stylistics and semiotics, as well as in studies on language processing and the psychology of reading. However, in order to fully understand the mechanisms behind headline usage and interpretation, an approach is needed that places the interaction between headline utterances (inscriptions), co-texts, and the broader discourse context – including writer intentions and reader expectations – at the center of interest. 

The workshop takes a decidedly pragmatic perspective on headlines in order to shed new light on the intricacies of headline communication and to open up for new research avenues that take their starting point in a pragmatic understanding of written discourse. It aims at setting the stage for the development of a pragmatic theory of headlines which will advance our understanding of the usage, meaning, and communicative  effects of headlines in different types of written discourse.

The main issues to be discussed at the workshop include:
(i) How can we systematically describe the various pragmatic effects of headline usage, and how are these effects related to the linguistic properties of headlines, to writer intentions, to reader expectations, and to properties of discourse?
(ii) Are there interrelations between specific types of headlines and specific types of discourse? How can such interrelations be motivated from a pragmatic point of view?
(iii) In what ways do headlines guide readers’ comprehension of a text? Are there infelicitous usages of headlines, and if yes, how are they to be defined pragmatically?
(iv) How do various types of discourse influence the choice of headline, and how can we account for this from a pragmatic point of view?
(v) What pragmatic role do figurative language, metaphor, and various other kinds of implicit language play in headline usage?

Program:

See the workshop program at
https://www.germanistik.uni-mainz.de/files/2022/02/Workshop-Program_.pdf

Registration Information:
- The workshop will be held as a hybrid event.
- If you wish to attend the workshop online, please send an e-mail to
finkbeiner at uni-mainz.de to register.
- A link to the video conference will be sent to all registered attendees on
Wednesday, 9 March, 2022.



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