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[Patricia Cabredo Hofherr]

On 28/05/2012 15:44, Markus Steinbach wrote:

Fall School

Shifting Perspectives
Non-canonical Forms of Reported Discourse in Spoken and Sign Languages

Göttingen University, October 01-05, 2012

*Organization:*
Annika Hübl and Markus Steinbach
German Department and CRC Text Structures

http://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/349312.html

Languages use several non-canonical forms of reported speech that are 
far from being investigated satisfactorily. Sign languages, for 
instance, show a modality-specific strategy of reporting thoughts and 
utterances that is referred to as role shift (see Lillo-Martin to 
appear, Herrmann/Steinbach 2007, Quer 2005). Moreover, literary texts 
make use of free indirect discourse, which seems to be a specific form 
of reported speech only found in literary narration (see Banfield 1982, 
Schlenker 2004 among others).

Although eminently different at a first glance, apparent parallels in 
the analyses of both phenomena can be discovered since keywords such as 
"shifting contexts", "shifting perspectives" and "shifted reference" are 
highly relevant for role shift and for free indirect discourse.

This interdisciplinary fall school aims at bringing together scholars 
from the fields of linguistics and literature as well as experts of 
empirical and theoretical research in order to analyze role shift, free 
indirect discourse and other non-canonical forms of reported speech in 
the two modalities of spoken and sign languages. For this purpose, we 
cordially invite researchers to share their expertise in the following 
topics during the fall school:

  * the semantics and pragmatics of free indirect discourse (theoretical
    linguistics)

  * experimental studies on free indirect discourse (psycholinguistics)

  * (psycho)narratological foundations of free indirect discourse
    (literary studies)

  * role shift and constructed action in sign languages (sign language
    linguistics)


The fall school addresses advanced students (Ph.D. or M.A. level) in 
linguistics, psycholinguistics, literary studies and related fields. 
Every class includes 4 lessons of 90 minutes from Monday, October 1st, 
to Thursday, October 4th. On Friday, October 5th, a one-day workshop 
closes the fall school. At this workshop, the invited speakers as well 
as the participating students will present their current work.

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