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1. Wiltrud
Mihatsch,
Workshop : The Emergence of Pragmatic Markers
Message 1: Workshop : The Emergence of Pragmatic Markers
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Date: 30-Oct-2006
From: Wiltrud Mihatsch <wiltrud.mihatschuni-bielefeld.de>
Subject: Workshop : The Emergence of Pragmatic Markers
Workshop : The Emergence of Pragmatic Markers
Date: 30-Nov-2006 - 01-Dec-2006
Location: Bielefeld, Germany
Contact: Wiltrud Mihatsch
Contact Email: < click here to access email >
Meeting URL: http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/lili/personen/wmihatsch/Akutelles/WorkshopPragMarkers.html
Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Historical Linguistics; Pragmatics
Meeting Description:
Workshop :
The emergence of pragmatic markers : innovation, routinisation and pragmaticalisation of approximators and related markers
University of Bielefeld (Germany), 30th November- 1st December 2006
Organisation : Barbara Job and Wiltrud Mihatsch
Faculty of Linguistics and Literature, University of Bielefeld
The workshop is supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.
Invited speakers:
Aijmer, Karin (Göteborg)
Gülich, Elisabeth (Bielefeld)
Dausendschön-Gay, Ulrich (Bielefeld)
Jäger, Gerhard (Bielefeld)
Krafft, Ulrich (Bielefeld)
Martín Zorraquino, María Antonia (Zaragoza)
Rossari, Corinne (Fribourg)
Waltereit, Richard (Newcastle)
Discourse functions such as the structuring and the connection of discourse segments, repairs, hesitation marking, modalisation, backchannelling and the indication of loose talk can be realized by highly heterogeneous linguistic means, which in turn can be more or less conventionalised.
Approximation is still a little-studied phenomenon compared to other discourse functions. Here we find quite heterogeneous means, for instance lexical expressions such as approximately, the approximative effects of disjunctive constructions (e.g. four or five), parentheticals such as say, former prepositions such as about, and former nouns such as kind (of). On the referential level, these markers can all serve to blur the boundaries of semantic categories, on the discourse level they can signal naming problems, figurative meaning, emergency categorisations in the case of word-finding problems, a speaker's distance towards his or her own utterance, or a higher degree of politeness. Thus, there appears to be a strong link with modality.
We subsume all these discursive elements under the more general term ''pragmatic marker''. In the past few years the study of the linguistic forms of pragmatic markers and their linguistic status has considerably advanced. However, diachronic analyses have appeared only relatively recently.
The aim of the workshop is to discuss the processes that lead to the emergence of pragmatic markers by bringing together scholars with diverse theoretical and empirical outlooks and from different philologies in order to address theoretical, methodological and empirical aspects which can help to elucidate the emergence and the conventionalisation of pragmatic markers, in particular approximation markers and modal markers.
Conference languages will be English and French
Programme:
Wednesday, November 29, 2006
19:00 Warming up
Thursday, November 30, 2006
10:00-10:15 Barbara Job and Wiltrud Mihatsch: Introduction
10:15-11:15 Barbara Job (Bielefeld)
L'émergence des marqueurs pragmatiques et théorie du changement
linguistique
11:15-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-12:30 Gerhard Jäger (Bielefeld)
Priming and grammaticalization
12:30-13:30 Richard Waltereit (Newcastle, United Kingdom)
Modal particles and discourse particles: Two pathways of
diachronic change
13:30-15:00 Lunch break
15:00-16:00 Karin Aijmer (Göteborg, Sweden)
Totally in American English - a new maximizer ?
16:00-17:00 María Antonia Martín Zorraquino (Zaragoza, Spain)
Casi et igual: la grammaticalisation modale de deux adverbes de
l'espagnol actuel
17:00-17:30 Coffee break
17:30-18:30 Joel Walters (Ramat-Gan, Israel)
Three types of Pragmatic Approximation in the Use of Pragmatic
Markers
19:30 Dinner
Friday, 1st December, 2006
9:00-10:00 Ulrich Dausendschön-Gay/ Ulrich Krafft (Bielefeld)
Vers l'organisation conventionnalisée de l'interaction
10:00-11:00 Elisabeth Gülich (Bielefeld)
C'est très très dur à décrire ce qu'on ressent
exactement. Procédés d'approximation et de réparation
dans les descriptions de souffrances
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-12:30 Mahmoud A. Al-Khatib and Saddam Bany Mustafa (Irbid, Jordan)
A socio-pragmatic investigation of the persuasive strategies
used in Al-Jazeera's ''the opposite direction'' TV Program
12:30-14:00 Lunch break
14:00-15:00 Corinne Rossari (Fribourg, Switzerland)
L'incursion du dialogique dans le monologique comme routine de
pragmaticalisation
15:00-16:00 Galina A. Kalmykova (Ulyanovsk, Russia)
Defocusing of Conditional markers in German and in Russian from
Pragmatic Perspective
16:00-16:30 Coffee break
16:30-17:30 Astrid Rothe (Cologne, Germany)
''C'est genre pfuuh Scheiße'' The use of genre by French teenagers
17:30-18:30 Wiltrud Mihatsch (Bielefeld)
Approximation Markers : Lexicalization,
Grammaticalization or Pragmaticalization?
Registration and fees:
Participants are invited to register as soon as possible. To register, please send a fax, a letter or an email indicating your name, affiliation, email and mailing adddress, telephone and fax numbers to:
Dr. Wiltrud Mihatsch
Fakultät für Linguistik und Literaturwissenschaft
Universität Bielefeld
Postfach 100131
D- 33501 Bielefeld
Germany
Fax: ++49 (0)521 106 - 2996
All participants (with or without contribution) will be asked to pay a conference fee of 20 EUR. The fee covers the documentation of the conference and the refreshments during the coffee breaks. Undergraduate students and unemployed scholars will pay a reduced fee of 10 EUR. The conference fee can be paid upon arrival.
Further information can be found at:
http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/lili/personen/wmihatsch/Akutelles/WorkshopPragMarkers.html
To obtain a list of hotels offering special rates please get in touch with the organizers.
Organizers:
Prof. Dr. Barbara Job (University of Bielefeld) and Dr. Wiltrud Mihatsch (University of Bielefeld)
Faculty of Linguistics and Literature
For further information please contact :
Dr. Wiltrud Mihatsch
Fakultät für Linguistik und Literaturwissenschaft
Universität Bielefeld
Postfach 100131
D-33501 Bielefeld (Germany)
fax: ++49 (0)521 106 - 2996
email: wiltrud.mihatschuni-bielefeld.de
Secretary: Evelyn Kaehler, tel ++49 (0)521 106 - 6954
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