35.2801, Calls: ICLC17 Theme Session: Intersubjectivity in grammar, discourse and cognition

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Subject: 35.2801, Calls: ICLC17 Theme Session: Intersubjectivity in grammar, discourse and cognition

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Date: 09-Oct-2024
From: Augusto Soares da Silva [assilva at ucp.pt]
Subject: ICLC17 Theme Session: Intersubjectivity in grammar, discourse and cognition


Full Title: ICLC17 Theme Session: Intersubjectivity in grammar,
discourse and cognition
Short Title: ICLC17

Date: 14-Jul-2025 - 18-Jul-2025
Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Contact Person: Diogo Pinheiro
Meeting Email: diogopinheiro at letras.ufrj.br

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Discourse Analysis; General
Linguistics; Pragmatics; Semantics

Call Deadline: 25-Oct-2024

Meeting Description:

Theme session proposal for the 17th International Cognitive
Linguistics Conference (ICLC17)

Convenors:
Diogo Pinheiro, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Augusto Soares da Silva, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal

Although cognitive linguistics largely grew out of a concern with
construal, a notion that is tied to the relation between a
conceptualizer and an object of conceptualization, it has long
acknowledged the importance of taking into account the relation
between two or more conceptualizers – that is, intersubjectivity.
Nevertheless, an integrated framework for the study of linguistic
intersubjectivity still seems to be lacking. In order to build such a
framework, we argue that two issues, among others, should be dealt
with: the definition of “intersubjectivity” and the relation between
linguistic intersubjectivity and general traits of human sociality.

1. The definition of “intersubjectivity”. As is well known, the very
definition of “intersubjectivity” varies widely, as does the range of
phenomena that this label is taken to encompass. For example, while
Nuyts (2014) closely ties intersubjectivity to the domain of modality,
all other approaches are significantly more comprehensive (see, for
example, Traugott & Dasher (2002) and Traugott (2022); Verhagen
(2005); Ghesquière et al. (2014) and Tantucci (2021)). However, even
among those broader approaches, significant differences remain. For
instance, Tantucci’s “intersubjective gradience model” exclusively
focuses on grammatical elements that convey extra-propositional
meanings (thus to the exclusion of demonstratives, for example), while
Ghesquière et al. explicitly include demonstratives in the domain of
“textual intersubjectivity”. This clearly shows the need for an
integrated framework to deal, in a principled way, with the different
phenomena that can plausibly be subsumed under the label of
“intersubjectivity”.

2. The relation between linguistic intersubjectivity and general
traits of human sociality. Intersubjectivity has of course been
investigated in a number of disciplines, particularly with an eye to
identifying what makes human sociality unique. From the vantage point
of cognitive psychology and evolutionary developmental biology, for
example, Tomasello (2014, 2019) has maintained that human unique
sociality is grounded on shared intentionality. From a
microsociological / interactional perspective, on the other hand,
Enfield & Sidnell (2022) have claimed that the distinctive trait of
human intersubjectivity is accountability. How do such notions, among
others, shed light on linguistic analysis? And, conversely, how do
linguistic analyses can contribute to our understanding of these
crucial traits of human sociality?

The presentations in this session should include descriptive and/or
theoretical studies that deal with at least one of these issues,
therefore helping advance the field and set it in firmer theoretical
ground. More specific topics include different types of
intersubjectivity, constructions of intersubjectivity,
intersubjectivity and cultural perspectives/norms, intersubjectivity
and linguistic change (intersubjectification), intersubjectivity and
figurativity, communicative interaction, etc.

Call for Papers:

We invite 100-word abstracts until October 25, 2024. Please send your
abstract to Diogo Pinheiro (diogopinheiro at letras.ufrj.br). We will let
you know whether we can incorporate your abstract in the proposed
theme session by the end of October. If our theme session is accepted,
we will ask authors of provisionally accepted abstracts to submit an
extended abstract (max. 500 words) via the conference submission
system until January 15th. The extended abstract will then be subject
to peer review by the ICLC17 scientific committee. If the theme
session is rejected, or if we cannot incorporate your abstract in the
theme session, you are of course free to submit your abstract to
ICLC17 for consideration as a general session paper.



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