33.2823, Calls: Pragmatics/Belgium

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LINGUIST List: Vol-33-2823. Sat Sep 17 2022. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 33.2823, Calls: Pragmatics/Belgium

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Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2022 02:13:58
From: Carmela Sammarco [csammarco at unisa.it]
Subject: The pragmatics of the referential process and its interpretation

Full Title: The pragmatics of the referential process and its interpretation 

Date: 09-Jul-2023 - 14-Jul-2023
Location: Brussels, Belgium 
Contact Person: Alfonsina Buoniconto
Meeting Email: abuoniconto at unisa.it
Web Site: https://pragmatics.international/general/custom.asp?page=Brussels2023 

Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics 

Call Deadline: 01-Nov-2022 

Meeting Description:

This panel aims to promote and compare theoretical and empirical studies
investigating the co-construction of reference (Abbott 2010; Brandom 1984;
Evans 1982) with particular emphasis on the pragmatic conditions that
determine its (mis)understanding by the interpreter (Morris 1938) of a speech
act performed through different modalities (written, spoken,
dialogic-conversational, etc.; (Voghera 2017).

Studies on comprehension show how the necessary (Balota et al. 1990; Verhoeven
& Van Leeuwe 2008) ability to decode the surface elements of an utterance is
not per se sufficient for an effective comprehension (Corno 1991; De Mauro
1985; Ferreri; 2019; Kintsch 1998; Lumbelli 2009; Orrico & Sammarco 2021;
Piemontese 1996). This is particularly true for reference comprehension
(Buoniconto, in press). It is now established that, from a pragmatic point of
view, reference is the action of verbally pointing to “a certain object or
individual that one wishes to say something about” (Carlson 2006). In order
for this action to be successful, the addressee of the message needs to be
able to recognize the relation existing between a linguistic expression and
its referent, be it an extralinguistic (Halliday 2014) or a metatextual entity
(anaphoric encapsulators) (Berretta1990; Conte 1991; 1996; 1999; Korzen 2015).

Thus, reference construction has a strong interactional-mediational nature
(Auer 1984; Calaresu 2018, in press; Clark 2004; 2022; Enfield & Stivers 2007;
Jucker et al. 2003; Sidnell & Enfield 2017) and context dependency: not only
does the speaker select reference expressions following addressee-oriented
procedures, but, since referring expressions need to be worked out
contextually, the identification of a referent by the addressee may be
different from that originally intended by the speaker.

In spite of the increasing awareness on the interactional nature of reference
(co)construction, as well as of its place at the semantics/pragmatics
interface (Carston 2017), a systematic investigation on how this linguistic
operation unfolds is still to be sought for.

Call for Papers:

The panel means to gather studies shedding light on reference comprehension
from different theoretical perspectives (text linguistics, discourse analysis,
translation studies, semiotics, language teaching, language acquisition,
language education, clinical linguistics, socio- and psycholinguistics, etc.)
and applied to different study domains (speech and written production and
reception, reading comprehension,  text readability, L1/L2 interlanguage,
language disorders, Semantics/Pragmatics interface, Cognitive pragmatics,
etc.).

Interpreter-oriented variables that could be taken into account are:

(a) the co-presence or non-presence of the speaker and the receiver in the
enunciative situation;
(b) the amount of information that the receiver and the speaker share;
(c) the interaction ability of the receiver.

Point (a) relates to the different strategies for comprehending and/or
constructing the reference in the spoken and written modalities respectively
(different degree of textual planning; greater or lesser specificity of the
reference). Informational background (b): receivers may lack information and
speakers draw the interpreter’s comprehension of new topics, through referring
to extralinguistic elements or to their encyclopedic knowledge. Finally, point
(c) (hearing impairment, aphasia, learning disorders) necessarily conditions
the speaker’s linguistic choices to eliminate elements that may be an obstacle
to comprehension and to make inferences less implicit.

Abstracts should be of max. 500 words (plus references) and they should be
uploaded on the IPrA website by November 1, 2022. To upload your abstract,
please follow the following process: 

1) Go to the webpage https://ipra2023.exordo.com/submissions/new (in case you
don’t have an account, you’ll be required to create one) 
2) Click on “New Submission” 
3) At Step 4 “Topic”, please select our panel “Performing compliments in a
variationist perspective” (Note: you can only select one topic) 
4) Click on “Done” to save your submission 

Please note the IPrA membership is required both to send the abstract and then
to present at the conference. The selected communication will be later
published. Further details will be provided to the panel participants during
the meeting. 

We invite all contributors to read IPra’s regulations on membership status and
comply with them before submitting their abstract. For further inquiries or
problems with the uploading procedure, you can email the panel organizers:
Alfonsina Buoniconto (University of Salerno) abuoniconto at unisa.it, Carmela
Sammarco (University of Salerno), csammarco at unisa.it, Debora Vena (University
of Salerno) dvena at unisa.it. Further information about IPrA and the conference
could be found at
https://pragmatics.international/general/custom.asp?page=Brussels2023.

Proponents: Alfonsina Buoniconto*, Carmela Sammarco*, Debora Vena*
(*Università degli Studi di Salerno)

Format: The panel will gather contributions in the form of oral talks (20’
presentation +10’ discussion). 

Keynote speaker: Emilia Calaresu (Università di Modena-Reggio Emilia)

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