33.2878, Calls: General Linguistics, Pragmatics/Greece

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Subject: 33.2878, Calls: General Linguistics, Pragmatics/Greece

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Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2022 21:28:00
From: Agnès Celle [agnes.celle at u-paris.fr]
Subject: Questions in monologic discourse

 
Full Title: Questions in monologic discourse 

Date: 29-Aug-2023 - 01-Sep-2023
Location: Athens, Greece 
Contact Person: Agnès Celle
Meeting Email: agnes.celle at u-paris.fr

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Pragmatics 

Call Deadline: 05-Nov-2022 

Meeting Description:

This workshop is devoted to questions in monologic discourse. The workshop
will focus on questions in communication settings where they cannot be
answered face to face by an addressee. How commitments can be synchronised
when the range of addressees and / or mediated communication restrict the
possibility of response is an open question. This raises issues concerning the
discursive function of questions and their definition, as most recent
approaches tend to characterise questions from a dialogic perspective. What is
the status of questions that are not intended to be answered by an addressee?
As the speaker keeps the turn, he/she remains the sole source of information
and how the addressee's information state is updated cannot be checked.
Commitments may thus be predicted to be independent (Gunlogson (2008); Bhadra
(2020)). Nonetheless, the speaker constantly anticipates upcoming discursive
issues by foreseeing the addressee's knowledge state. The question is, how can
the speaker steer the common ground to a new knowledge state without any
response from an addressee? Does the absence of addressee response modify the
nature of questions? Does it make them more vital to monologic discourse? In
this respect, the frequency of questions has been associated with a greater
degree of speaker control over discourse, and there is a great deal of
cross-linguistic variation (Celle (2009); Fløttum et al.(2006)), which will be
further investigated in the workshop.

Can monologic discourse be defined as a genre on the basis of the lack of
interaction? To what extent is dialogism simulated by questions in monologic
discourse (Bakhtine 1984) ? Does monologic discourse favour certain question
types (polar questions, constituent questions, embedded questions, sluices
etc.) and certain discursive relations between questions and their responses?
Do monologic questions have a « textual » function in terms of the
topic-comment organization and the textual progression (Grésillon and Lebrave
1984) ?

One of the goals of the workshop is to foster dialogue between linguists who
have carried out annotation from a discourse coherence perspective and those
who have annotated questions from a dialogic perspective, possibly
incorporating multimodal cues. It is believed that the study of questions in
monologic discourse can benefit from the insights of both perspectives.
Coherence based models (such as Segmented Discourse Representation Theory, see
(Muller et al. 2012) or Penn Discourse TreeBank, see Prasad et al. (2017),
Prasad et al. (2019)) originally intended for narrative text can accommodate
questions. For instance, the corpus STAC, a corpus of dialogues, annotates QA
pairs in the SDRT framework (Asher et al. 2016), whereas in the third version
of the PDTB, questions answered by the writer are annotated as hypophora
(Webber et al. 2019), similarly to the annotation of TED Talks transcripts in
the TED-MDB (Zeyrek et al. 2019). Vice versa, how questions are annotated in
QUD based models (see Westera et al. (2020); Westera & Rohde (2019); Riester
et al. (2018)) in terms of information-structure (focus vs. topic) and in
terms of relevance, may uncover their discursive contribution.



Call for Papers:

Abstracts are invited for papers that investigate questions in speeches and
narratives involving only one speaker (or writer), such as lectures and
didactic discourse, podcasts, TED talks etc.

Abstracts should not exceed 300 words.

Contact persons: Agnès Celle, Amália Mendes
agnes.celle at u-paris.fr
amaliamendes at letras.ulisboa.pt




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