LINGUIST List 21.2901 Tue Jul 13 2010 Calls: Cog Sci, Disc Analysis, Socioling/United Kingdom Editor for this issue: Di Wdzenczny <dilinguistlist.org> LINGUIST is pleased to announce the launch of an exciting new feature: Easy Abstracts! Easy Abs is a free abstract submission and review facility designed to help conference organizers and reviewers accept and process abstracts online. Just go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/confcustom, and begin your conference customization process today! With Easy Abstracts, submission and review will be as easy as 1-2-3! Directory         1.    Helmut Gruber, Pragmatic Aspects of Discourse Coherence IPrA Panel Message 1: Pragmatic Aspects of Discourse Coherence IPrA Panel Date: 12-Jul-2010 From: Helmut Gruber <helmut.k.gruberunivie.ac.at> Subject: Pragmatic Aspects of Discourse Coherence IPrA Panel E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: Pragmatic Aspects of Discourse Coherence IPrA Panel Date: 03-Jul-2011 - 08-Jul-2011 Location: Manchester, United Kingdom Contact Person: Helmut Gruber Meeting Email: helmut.k.gruberunivie.ac.at Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Discourse Analysis; Sociolinguistics Call Deadline: 01-Sep-2010 Meeting Description: Investigations of discourse coherence have played an important role in discourse research for at least the last three decades. Within this research tradition, the investigation of coherence relations has lead to the proposal of various coherence models which view coherence as the result of an interplay between textual clues, (analysts' assumptions of) writers'/ speakers' intentions, cognitive, situational, rhetorical and/ or generic constraints etc. (Asher & Lascarides, 2003; Spooren & Sanders, 2008; Taboada & Mann, 2006a, 2006b). Despite the long tradition of coherence research, there is still disagreement concerning basic questions such the relationship between generic structures and coherence structures (to which extent do they depend on each other or are they independent of each other?), the relation between signals of surface cohesion (e.g. theme-rheme structures, lexical cohesion) and 'underlying' coherence structures, the signaling of coherence structures on different text/ discourse levels (global vs. local coherence), etc. In addition, the emergence of new genres in the new media and the possibility of combining different semiotic modes in hypertexts calls for new approaches that also take into account coherence relations between different modes of discourse such as coherence between visual and verbal elements of texts (see Bateman, 2008) or coherence between sound, film sequences, and verbal and textual elements (Huemer, 2010). The proposed panel aims at bringing together researchers from different approaches to relational coherence, in order to present and discuss their recent research. We envisage two 90-minute sessions with three presentations each and room for discussion. One of the sessions will focus specifically on multimodality. Presentations are invited on the following topics: -coherence, cohesion, and genre -signalling of coherence relations -coherence in multimodal discourse Call For Papers Please send your abstract (not longer than 500 words) to Helmut Gruber (helmut.k.gruberunivie.ac.at) before September, 1st, 2010. Notifications of acceptance/ rejection will take place at the beginning of October. Please note that after this notification it will also be necessary to submit your abstract at the IPrA website and that IPrA membership will be necessary for this submission process. Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 13-Jul-2010       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.