LINGUIST List 22.504 Sat Jan 29 2011 Calls: Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics/Spain Editor for this issue: Amy Brunett <brunettlinguistlist.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.     Pilar Pérez , International Workshop on the Evaluative Function Message 1: International Workshop on the Evaluative Function Date: 27-Jan-2011 From: Pilar Pérez <pilarperezocongmail.com> Subject: International Workshop on the Evaluative Function E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: International Workshop on the Evaluative Function Short Title: INT-EVAL Date: 06-Oct-2011 - 08-Oct-2011 Location: Madrid, Spain Contact Person: Laura Alba-Juez Meeting Email: < click here to access email > Web Site: http://www.uned.es/proyectofundett/inteval/index.html Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Pragmatics Call Deadline: 15-Apr-2011 Meeting Description: The FunDETT (Functions of Discourse: Evaluation in Text Types) research group is organizing this international workshop, whose main aim is to bring together scholars who will explore and analyze the evaluative function of language. The workshop is based on the premise that the analysis of discourse-pragmatics functions is vital for finding meaning in any kind of text, and we focus on the evaluative function of language and on how this function is realized at different linguistic levels, different text types and different cultures. Call for Papers: We shall thus welcome contributions on the following topics: -Theoretical and empirical approaches to evaluation -Evaluation in different text types (oral, written, computer mediated, literary or nonliterary discourse) -Evaluation manifested through the different linguistic levels (phonological, syntactic, etc.) -Gender and evaluation -Evaluation across cultures -The relationship between verbal irony and evaluation -Different theoretical viewpoints on evaluation: Appraisal Theory, Functionalism, (im)politeness Theory, Stance, etc. -Grammaticalization of the phenomenon of evaluation in language -Pragmatic meaning in contrast with semantic meaning, as a rich source for the identification of evaluative polarity -Corpus-based approaches to evaluation in different languages and cultures -The expression of evaluation on the web (social networks, e-mail, websites, etc.) -Any other aspect of the evaluative function of language Abstracts (not exceeding 350 words -excluding the references) should be sent as an e-mail attachment to the conference organizers at intevalflog.uned.es before April 15, 2011. Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 29-Jan-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.