35.2456, Calls: 2nd International Symposium on Grammatical Variation and the Construction of Meaning

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Subject: 35.2456, Calls: 2nd International Symposium on Grammatical Variation and the Construction of Meaning

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Date: 04-Sep-2024
From: Miguel A. Aijón Oliva [maaijon at usal.es]
Subject: 2nd International Symposium on Grammatical Variation and the Construction of Meaning


Full Title: 2nd International Symposium on Grammatical Variation and
the Construction of Meaning
Short Title: VARISIG2

Date: 08-May-2025 - 09-May-2025
Location: Universidad de Salamanca, Spain
Contact Person: Grupo de Investigación CoSoLen
Meeting Email: varisig2 at usal.es
Web Site: eventum.usal.es/go/varisig2

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Morphology; Pragmatics;
Sociolinguistics; Syntax

Call Deadline: 10-Nov-2024

Meeting Description:

The aim of this event is to pursue the lines of scientific exchange
and collaboration started at the 1st International Symposium on
Grammatical Variation and the Construction of Meaning, held at
Universidad de La Laguna in November 2022 with the participation of
numerous international researchers. The focus of interest is variation
in languages, mainly at the morphosyntactic and discursive levels, and
explicitly taking into account its connections with the different
levels of meaning.

Functional and cognitive models of linguistics are by no means
incompatible with communication-based disciplines; indeed, in recent
years there has been considerable progress in understanding the
relations between the supposed internal and external levels of
language. In the field of variationist (socio)linguistics, such
advances have shown the need to overcome the structural-formalist view
of variants as alternate forms whose differences are at most related
to social and situational distribution. For years now, constructivist
approaches that see variants as ways of creating personal identities
and group insertions have gained weight, even if most of the
contributions tend to maintain the focus on the phonetic or
phonological phenomena that have traditionally been the interest of
variationism, where semantic and pragmatic equivalence does not seem
questionable.

However, the development of approaches related to functional and
cognitive linguistics, such as usage-based grammar, construction
grammar, or studies at the Columbia School, makes it possible to go
much further. These approaches assume that grammar is inherently
symbolic and that the structure of languages can be explained by
seeing them as instruments for the organization of thought and its
transmission to others. Moreover, speakers' knowledge of the meaning
of forms may include semantic and pragmatic as well as dialectal,
social and/or situational information. Each form or construction
employed in discourse involves the choice of certain meanings,
belonging to levels such as those mentioned, which will interact with
other semiotically relevant elements in the discursive context and in
the situation.

The complex conjunction of the various facets of internal and external
meaning leads to the development of a concept of communicative style
as a linguistic variety characterized not only by its
socio-situational associations, but also by its relation to highly
abstract discourse-cognitive continua. In turn, these developments
link studies of variation to cognitive models such as that of mental
spaces. Grammatical constructions create semantic frameworks for
contextual interpretation, which reinforces the idea that morphosyntax
cannot be explained independently of discourse.

Based on the notions outlined, this Symposium requests oral
presentation proposals, in English or Spanish, dealing with topics of
morphological, syntactic, and/or discourse variation in any language.
Such proposals should adopt some theoretical-methodological approach
whereby the use of linguistic forms is understood as a projection of
meanings in specific communicative contexts, and which can thus foster
progress in the construction of theoretical models of variation and
use.

The organization of this Symposium is part of the activities of the
research project “Formalización e integración de dimensiones
estilísticas en el análisis de la elección gramatical en español. Los
continuos del punto de vista y la modalidad del discurso”
(PID2020-113474GB-I00), funded by Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y
Universidades / Agencia Estatal de Investigación
(10.13039/501100011033/) and developed by the research group
"Comunicación, Sociedad y Lenguajes" (CoSoLen).

Call for Proposals:

Researchers interested in presenting at the Symposium can submit their
proposals for oral presentations (20 minutes, plus another 5-10
minutes for questions and discussion) by filling in the corresponding
form. Abstracts must be written in English or Spanish and will not
exceed 500 words, excluding bibliographic references. They should
succinctly expose the goals of the study, the theoretical approach
adopted, the methodology, as well as an advance of the results.

Each person can send one proposal as a single author, or else up to
two co-authored proposals. Each of the abstracts will be submitted as
a single PDF or MS Word file, which must not contain any data that
could make it possible to identify the author(s).

The abstract submission form can be accessed here:
https://forms.gle/HGac68RtKexxqctH6, or from the Symposium website.



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