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Directory         1.     Tak-Sum Wong , Stance Phenomena in Asian Languages: Typological, Diachronic and Discourse Perspectives Message 1: Stance Phenomena in Asian Languages: Typological, Diachronic and Discourse Perspectives Date: 07-Jul-2011 From: Tak-Sum Wong <egwtsinet.polyu.edu.hk> Subject: Stance Phenomena in Asian Languages: Typological, Diachronic and Discourse Perspectives E-mail this message to a friend “Stance Phenomena in Asian Languages: Typological, Diachronic and Discourse Perspectives Date: 18-Jul-2011 - 20-Jul-2011 Location: Hung Hom, Kowloon Peninsula, Hong Kong Contact: Winnie Chor Contact Email: < click here to access email > Meeting URL: http://www.engl.polyu.edu.hk/events/stance2011/ Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Syntax Meeting Description: 3-day PolyU Thematic Workshop (July 18-20, 2011) Invited Workshop on “Stance Phenomena in Asian Languages: Typological, Diachronic and Discourse Perspectives” Venue: M1603, PolyU Organizing Committee: CHOR, Winnie (ENGL) IWASAKI, Shoichi (Applied Linguistics, UCLA) LAM, Marvin (ENGL) MATTHIESSEN, Christian (ENGL) SZAKOS, Joszef (CBS) YAP, Foong Ha (ENGL) – Organizing Committee Chair Monday (July 18, 2011) 9:00-9:15 Welcome Remarks: Christian Matthiessen 9:15-10:15 Invited Lecture: Spike Gildea (University of Oregon) 'Diachronic Pathways that Create Stance Constructions: Insights from Some South American Languages' 10:15-10:30 Coffee Break 10:30-11:30 Stance Project Reports: Methodological Issues Christian Matthiessen (Introduction to the Stance Project) Winnie Chor & Foong Ha Yap (Data Collection) John Wakefield (Proposing a Methodology for Defining Stance) 11:30-11:45 Chat-n-Stretch Time 11:45-12:45 Discussion on Data Collection and Data Analysis Shoichi Iwasaki & UCLA team (Japanese/Korean) Frantisek Kratochvil (Indonesian & Papuan) Mark Post & Gwen Hyslop (Tibeto-Burman) 12:45-2:00 Lunch Break 2:00-4:00 Data Analysis Session for Undergraduate and Postgraduate Students Session Chair: Winnie Chor Invited presenters: JIANG, Haowen (Rice University) 'Analyzing Mandarin de yangzi Constructions' LAM, Phoenix (Hong Kong Baptist University) 'English Discourse Particles as Stance Markers' SU, I-wen and Lu, Wei-lun (National Taiwan University) 'How Intersubjectivity Works in Conversation: the Use of le in Spoken Discourse' TAY, Dennis (University of Otago, New Zealand) 'Combining Cognitive Linguistics and Discourse Analysis to Understand Psychotherapeutic Metaphors' 4:00-4:15 Coffee Break Tai Languages Session Chair: Shoichi Iwasaki 4:15-4:45 PATPONG, Pattama (Mahidol University) 'Thai Modal Particles in Medical Discourse 4:45-5:15 IDRAMBARYA, Kitima (Kasertsart University) 'The Impersonal Stance of Thai Man' 5:15-5:45 Prasithrathsint, Amara (Chulalongkorn University) 'Nominalization as a Marker of Detachment and Objectivity in Thai Academic Writing' 6:30-8:30 Workshop Dinner (I) Tuesday (July 19, 2011) 9:00-10:00 Keynote Lecture: František Kratochvíl (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) 'Demonstratives as Markers of Speaker Stance: Evidence from Abui' 10:00-10:15 Coffee Break Austronesian Languages (I)--Formosan Session Chais: Randy LaPolla 10:15-10:45 Hsieh, Fuhui (Tatung University, Taipei) 'On the Development of SAY Verbs as Stance Markers in Some Formosan Languages' 10:45-11:15 Jiang, Haowen (Rice University) 'Nominalization and Stance Marking in Kavalan' 11:15-11:30 Chat-n-Stretch Time 11:30-12:00 Szakos, Joszef (Hong Kong Polytechnic University) 'Stance Marking Strategies in Tsou' 12:00-12:30 Sung, Li-May (National Taiwan University) 'Exclamatives (and Nominalization) in Seediq' 12:30-2:00 Lunch Break 2:00-3:00 Invited Lecture: Frantisek Lichtenberk (University of Auckland) 'Stance Marking in Oceanic Languages' Austronesian Languages (II) --Formosan Session Chair: Gwen Hyslop 3:00-3:30 Yeh, Mei-li Marie (National Hsinchu University of Education, Taiwan) 'Evidentiality and Perception Verbs in Saisiyat' 3:30-4:00 Zeitoun, Elizabeth (Academia Sinica, Taiwan) 'The Verb 'Say' in Mantauran Rukai: Analogy and Syntactic Change' 4:00-4:15 Coffee Break Austronesian Languages (III) –Philippine & Malay/Indonesian Session Chair: František Kratochvíl 4:15-4:45 Dita, Shirley (De LaSalle University) 'The Form and Function of Stance Markers in Philippine Languages' 4:45-5:15 Tanangkingsing, Michael (National Taipei University of Technology) 'Demonstratives and Stance Marking in Cebuano' 5:15-5:45 Yap, Foong Ha; MV Sri Hartini & Mujiono (Hong Kong Polytechnic University & Sebelas Maret University, Surakarta, Central Java) 'Wh-placeholder Anu and Speaker Stance in Indonesian Wednesday (July 20, 2011) 9:00-10:00 Invited Lecture: John Whitman (Cornell University) 'Remarks on the Nominalization Cycle: Implications for the Development of Stance Markers' 10:00-10:15 Coffee Break Japanese and Korean Languages Session Chair: Seongha Rhee 10:15-10:45 Kaneyasu, Michiko (UCLA) 'Stance Taking in Japanese Newspaper Discourse: The Use and Non-use of Copula da and dearu' 10:45-11:15 Cha, Jihyeon (UCLA) 'How Stance-taking Emerges in the Course of Interaction: Strategic Use of - kes kathta in Korean conversation' 11:15-11:30 Chat-n-Stretch Time Sinitic Languages Session Chair: Winnie Cheng 11:30-12:00 Chor, Winnie (Hong Kong Polytechnic University) 'Clause-medial Particles as Subjective and Intersubjective Markers in Cantonese' 12:00-12:30 Lim, Ni Eng (UCLA) 'Stance Modification with TCU-extensions in Mandarin Chinese' 12:30-1:00 Yap, Foong Ha, Chor, Winnie & Lam, Marvin (Hong Kong Polytechnic University) 'Whatchamacallit-type Expressions in Cantonese: Analyzing Non-referential uses of mat, matje, meje, and me' 1:00-2:00 Lunch Break 2:00-3:00 Keynote Lecture: Mark Post (Cairns Institute, James Cook University) 'Stance Marking in Tani (Tibeto-Burman) and Beyond' Tibeto-Burman Languages Session Chair: Scott DeLancey 3:00-3:30 Gwen (University of Oregon) 'The Grammatical Encoding of ‘Expectations’ in Kurtöp' 3:30-4:00 Lin, You-jing (Academia Sinica, Taiwan) 'The Intersection of Evidentiality and Imperfectivity: Observational Marking in Zhuokeji rGyalrong' 4:00-4:30 Xu, Xin Vera & GU, Yang (Chinese University of Hong Kong) 'The Jingpo Copular Verbs and Stance Marking' 4:30-4:45 Coffee Break 4:45-5:45 Comments from Workshop Discussants: Scott DeLancey (University of Oregon) Shoichi Iwasaki (UCLA) Randy LaPolla (La Trobe University, Melbourne) Seongha Rhee (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul) 5:45-6:00 Closing Remarks and Announcements 6:30-8:30 Workshop Dinner (II) Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 08-Jul-2011       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.