35.1908, Calls: Symposium B.8: Epistemic categories in Uralic and beyond: evidentiality, intersubjectivity, epistemic authority and engagement

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Date: 27-Jun-2024
From: Sándor Szeverényi [szevers at hung.u-szeged.hu]
Subject: Symposium B.8: Epistemic categories in Uralic and beyond: evidentiality, intersubjectivity, epistemic authority and engagement


Full Title: Symposium B.8: Epistemic categories in Uralic and beyond:
evidentiality, intersubjectivity, epistemic authority and engagement
Short Title: CIFU14

Date: 18-Aug-2025 - 23-Jun-2024
Location: Tartu, Estonia
Contact Person: Sándor Szeverényi
Meeting Email: szevers at hung.u-szeged.hu
Web Site: https://cifu14.ut.ee/symposium-b8/

Linguistic Field(s): Morphology; Pragmatics; Semantics; Syntax;
Typology
Language Family(ies): Uralic

Call Deadline: 30-Sep-2024

Meeting Description:

CIFU XIV (Congressus XIV Internationalis Fenno-Ugristarum) will take
place on August 18–23 2025 in Tartu, Estonia. The congress is
organized by University of Tartu Institute of Estonian and General
Linguistics.

Call for Papers:

In recent years, the research of evidentiality, a category that is
primarily associated with information source, has explored new avenues
into the direction of semantics and pragmatics (cf. Bergqvist & Grezch
2023). At the same time, new concepts and categories have been
established in connection with knowledge, which often exceed the
traditional morphology-based approaches that have been typical of the
research on Uralic languages in this regard. Categories like
intersubjectivity, epistemic authority, epistemic stance and
engagement concerns the speaker’s relationship in respect to
acquiring, accessing and processing information in interaction with
other discourse participants. We aim to apply a broader understanding
of these concepts and thus, subject a wide array of linguistic
elements, not exclusively morphological markers, to discussion.

We primarily follow the definitions found in Bergqvist & Kittilä
(2020) and Bergqvist & Grezch (2023): an approach based on pragmatics,
as function of evidentials are conditioned by interaction. The key
notions and the relationship between these are illustrated by the
following definitions. We also consider these definitions to be
justified because research on evidentiality in Uralic languages has
reached similar conclusions (e.g. Kugler 2015, Kubitsch 2023, Spets
2021):
- Evidentiality typically concerns the signaling of information
source, however, the use of evidential markers in discourse shows
close connections to other epistemic categories, e.g., evidentials are
prone to develop intersubjective semantics.
- Intersubjectivity concerns forms including the point of view of the
addressee in discourse (e.g., in terms of epistemic authority and
access).
- Epistemic authority is an inherently relative notion that relates to
rights over knowledge (e.g., my own actions), as well as
responsibility for knowledge.
- Engagement concerns asymmetries in the mental disposition of the
speech-act participants (Evans et al. 2018: 118). Engagement refers to
intersubjective configurations of knowledge/access, which can be
exclusive to the speaker or shared with the addressee.

At the workshop we intend to have contributions addressing the
following questions:
-  How are these categories expressed in the Uralic languages?
-  How do these categories intertwine (if they do so) with each other
and with other parts of grammar?
-  What are the limitations of researching these categories in Uralic?
What kind of sources should be used and what kind of methodology could
advance research?
-   Are there any consequences, possible new avenues of research in
connection with ethnolinguistics and/or cognitive linguistics?
-   How have these categories evolved in language history?
-   Can areal connections be outlined within and across these
categories?

We primarily invite contributions that tackle the above-mentioned
phenomena from a functional point of view, especially in regard to
minor Uralic languages.

Contact persons: Nikolett F. Gulyás nikolett.fgulyas at btk.elte.hu,
Rebeka Kubitsch kubitsch.rebeka at gmail.com, Sándor Szeverényi
szevers at hung.u-szeged.hu

Guidelines for abstract submission: All abstracts must be written in
English. The length of an abstract may not exceed 2 pages, including
references; font size 12, line spacing 1.5, margins 2.5 cm everywhere,
A4 paper. The abstract must be submitted as an anonymized attachment
(preferably word and pdf file) to cifu14 at ut.ee. In the body text of
the email include your name, affiliation, and the title of the talk.
In case you plan to give your talk in a language other than English,
please add the title of your talk in this language.



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