35.2515, Calls: 39th Romanistiktag, Workshop "Sentence and punctuation: The function of graphical techniques in the history of Romance languages"

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Subject: 35.2515, Calls: 39th Romanistiktag, Workshop "Sentence and punctuation: The function of graphical techniques in the history of Romance languages"

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Date: 14-Sep-2024
From: Klaus Gruebl [klaus.gruebl at uni-leipzig.de]
Subject: 39th Romanistiktag, Workshop "Sentence and punctuation: The function of graphical techniques in the history of Romance languages"


Full Title: 39th Romanistiktag, Workshop "Sentence and punctuation:
The function of graphical techniques in the history of Romance
languages"

Date: 22-Sep-2025 - 25-Sep-2025
Location: Konstanz, Germany
Contact Person: Klaus Gruebl
Meeting Email: klaus.gruebl at uni-leipzig.de
Web Site: https://www.romanistiktag.de

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Pragmatics; Syntax;
Text/Corpus Linguistics; Writing Systems
Subject Language(s): French (fra)
                     Italian (ita)
                     Portuguese (por)
                     Romanian (ron)
                     Spanish (spa)
Language Family(ies): Romance

Call Deadline: 31-Dec-2024

Meeting Description:

39th Congress of the German Society for Romance Studies

Call for Papers:

https://www.romanistiktag.de/xxxix-romanistiktag/sektionen/sektion-14/

The emergence of grammars of Romance languages in the Early Modern
period began a struggle over sentence definitions which continues to
this day (Ries 1931; Seguin 1993). Pragmatic sentence functions such
as illocutions, semantic concepts of sentences as carriers of
propositional content, and syntactic properties have always played a
significant role within this debate. However, explanations of
sentences as the maximal domains of grammatical regularities, as well
as formal criteria for sentences as ‘complete’ and relatively
‘autonomous’ units of utterance, have proven problematic. Moreover,
recent syntactic research has impressively shown that not only
sentences, but also elliptical utterances and ‘sentence fragments’ are
subject to complex grammatical, information-structural, and
interpretative constraints (Merchant 2001; Winkler 2005; Hadermann et
al. (eds.) 2012).

For spoken language, the usefulness of the concept of ‘sentence’ has
even been fundamentally questioned (Auer 2000); at the same time, the
coevolution of sentence concepts, grammar writing, and literacy has
been analysed as a ‘technological revolution’ (Auroux 1994). But even
in written texts, it can easily be shown that semantic or pragmatic
sentence value does not necessarily coincide with syntactic sentence
form. Indeed, not only the mise en page, the visual arrangement of
texts, but also the division into sentences, as mise en texte, is
subject to considerable historical variability (Parkes 1992; Mortara
Garavelli (ed.) 2008) and language-specific conventions (Rössler, Besl
& Saller (eds.) 2021).

Concerning punctuation, prosodic structures and communicative
intentions can play an important role, depending on the historical
context (Mazziotta 2009; Dauvois & Dürrenmatt 2011; Wilmet 2011;
Siouffi 2017;bGoux 2021). At the same time, the graphic marking of
incomplete sentences with ellipsis points is highly stylized, as well
(Rault 2015). In the age of instant messaging and other forms of
digital and multimodal communication, the ‘crisis’ of normative
concepts of sentences and punctuation (Mieszkowski 2019) even seems to
be exacerbated, but it may also contribute to the emergence of new
discourse strategies and new conventions of visual coding (Scheible
2015; Zappavigna & Logi 2024). The classic works on the writing of
inexperienced authors provide interesting approaches to the formal and
discourse-pragmatic description of non-canonical sentence structures
and forms of textual coherence that deviate from established norms
(Oesterreicher 1994; Branca-Rosoff 2009; Fresu 2016).

The workshop aims to bring together researchers from various
sub-disciplines – from syntax and information structure to
grapholinguistics, text linguistics, philology, media and
multimodality studies. Together, we aim to explore the theory of
sentences and the practice of using punctuation in the history and
present of Romance languages, and to identify historical developments
and current trends to better determine the interdependence of material
foundations, normative guidelines, and media-cultural change.
Historically, the scope is deliberately broad, ranging from the age of
manuscript culture up to the printing press and digital communication.

The working languages of the section are the Romance languages,
English, and German.

Abstracts (max. 4000 characters, including spaces and references) are
due by 31 December 2024.

Invited speakers: Mathieu Goux (Université de Caen Normandie),
Nicoletta Maraschio (Accademia della Crusca / Università degli Studi
di Firenze)



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