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Directory         1.    Barbara De Cock, Non-Prototypical Uses of Personal Pronouns Message 1: Non-Prototypical Uses of Personal Pronouns Date: 16-Sep-2010 From: Barbara De Cock <barbara.decockarts.kuleuven.be> Subject: Non-Prototypical Uses of Personal Pronouns E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: Non-Prototypical Uses of Personal Pronouns Date: 03-Jul-2011 - 08-Jul-2011 Location: Manchester, United Kingdom Contact Person: Barbara De Cock Meeting Email: barbara.de.cockgmail.com Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Pragmatics; Sociolinguistics Call Deadline: 10-Oct-2011 Meeting Description: Personal pronouns normally refer to agents, experiencers, cognizers or patients of certain actions, beliefs, states etc. Their interpretation is established in context. It has been argued by Bühler (1934) and Benveniste (1966), among others, that the 1st person singular refers to the speaker, while the 2nd person singular denotes the hearer to whom the utterance is directed. In addition to pragmatic and cognitive approaches, also typological (Cysouw 2003, Helmbrecht 1999, Siewierska 2004) and formal semantics research (Wechsler 2010, establishing a connection with a general Theory of Mind) has looked into these issues. Already Bühler, however, hints at uses that do not have a purely deictic reading in his concept of Deixis am Phantasma. Mostly due to corpus-based studies, there has been an upsurge of interest in these non-prototypical uses of deictic pronouns (or corresponding verb inflections). Non-canonical uses such as generic readings of the 1st and 2nd person singular and the 'condescending' 'we' used by nurses and doctors (have we taken our medicine?' cf. Quirk et al. 1985, Brown/Levinson 1987) have been documented. Interestingly, misunderstandings of reference seem to be very rare and/or are resolved interactively during conversation. These phenomena have been claimed to be widespread - possibly universal - (Siewierska 2004, Kitagawa/Lehrer 1990), yet language-specific properties have been analysed as well (e.g. Laberge 1977 for Canadian French, Bolinger 1979 and Hyman 2004 for English, Biq 1991 for Mandarin, Stewart 1992 for French and Spanish). Still lacking, however, is a connection of these - often isolated - empirical findings to general pronominal theory. This is partially hindered by a lack of truly cross-linguistic studies beyond the rather well-researched Indoeuropean languages, as well as by terminological differences according to linguistic traditions, mainly with respect to the concepts of 'generic' and 'impersonal'. It is therefore our aim to look into these phenomena in different languages and from different theoretical approaches to pronominal theory, in order to present and discuss recent findings. By consequence, all data- based research on non-prototypical uses of person deixis is welcome. Discussion may include: - differences between singular and plural personal pronouns as to their non-prototypical readings; - disambiguation strategies of interactants and interactive treatment of misunderstandings; - alternation with other strategies, such as indefinite pronouns, impersonal constructions, other person reference forms; - alternation of T/V pronouns and inflected verb forms used as forms of address and as a generalization strategy; - the impact of TAM and other purported 'shifters of reference'; - sociolinguistic and sociostylistic variation; - acquisition of these non-prototypical uses; - crosslinguistic perspectives, including sign languages; - theoretical explanations of these phenomena, and, conversely, implications of these phenomena for the analysis of deictic forms in general. (Due to character restrictions, this is a short version of the call. If you wish a more complete version of the call, including a reference list, please contact the session organizers.) Call For Papers In order to maximally enhance crosslinguistic and crosstheoretical reflection, a slot of three 20-minute presentations will be concluded with a 30 minute joint discussions slot, bringing together the presented theoretical perspectives and findings from different languages. Call deadlines: Oct. 10th, 2010: send a 500 word abstract of your paper to Bettina.klugeuni-bielefeld.de and barbara.de.cockgmail.com Specify the data you use, theoretical framework(s), main hypothesis and (expected) results. Oct.15th, 2010: notification of acceptance/rejection in the panel. Selection will be made according to the link of the proposal with the panel proposal and aims at proposing a diverse range of languages/theories. Therefore, data-based papers contrasting languages/theories are welcomed as well. Non-acceptance in this panel does not imply that your paper will not be accepted for the general IPrA session. 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