[Fwd: [Pundp-list] CfP: DGfS workshop on "Prosody and Meaning of (non)canonical questions across languages"]

['Michela Russo' michela.russo@univ-paris8.fr [parislinguists]]

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Objet:   [Pundp-list] CfP: DGfS workshop on "Prosody and Meaning of
(non)canonical questions across languages"
De:      "Bettina Braun" <bettina.braun at uni-konstanz.de>
Date:    Sam 26 juillet 2014 9:35
À:       pundp-list at uni-potsdam.de
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The prosody and meaning of (non-)canonical questions across languages

Daniela Wochner, Nicole Dehé, Bettina Braun (U Konstanz) & Beste Kamali,
Hubert Truckenbrodt (ZAS Berlin)

Invited speakers: Sigrid Beck, Nancy Hedberg

The workshop is integrated into the annual meeting of the German
Linguistic Society in Leipzig and takes place there on March 4–6 2015.

It is interested in the syntax, prosody, semantics and the interfaces of
different questions and question types across languages.

Additional details concerning the planned content:

For canonical questions, the workshop is particularly interested in the
relation between questions and focus in the different modules of grammar,
and in the role of the intonation contour in different questioning types.
Where do questions show question- specific stress or phrasing patterns?
Where do wh-phrases show similarities to focused phrases? Why do the
alternatives in alternative questions show focus prosody? Intervention
effects are an important topic in the interaction between focus and wh-
phrases and/or alternatives in alternative questions. Are there other
interactions as well? What question-specific intonation contours or
question-specific assignment of intonation contours do different languages
show, and how is the variation to be understood?

The non-canonical questions that the workshop is interested in include
those which (i) besides being used as requests for information, have
further pragmatic dimensions; (ii) have non-interrogative syntax; and/or
(iii) may be identified as non-canonical through their prosody, or any
combination of these properties. Example types are declarative questions,
tag questions, and rhetorical questions. We would like to see if various
well- known –but not uncontroversial- properties of non-canonical
questions stand up to closer scrutiny: Are declarative questions and tags
always confirmation-seeking rather than information-seeking? Do
declarative questions always have rising intonation and why? How to
approach the illocutionary force of assertion in rhetorical questions and
to what extent can their prosody inform us? How do modal particles such as
schon in German contribute to the rhetorical question pragmatics?

Please send abstracts (one page and one optional page of examples,
graphics and/or references, reasonable font and margins) to

questions.dgfs at gmail.com

by August 26th 2014.
At the beginning of the abstract, please include name(s) of the author(s),
their affiliation, and a contact e-mail.







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