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Mon May 3 2004

Confs: General Linguistics / Limoges, France

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    Message 1: Workshop on Language, Literature and Science

     Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 06:13:37 -0400 (EDT)
    From: pyr <pyrccr.jussieu.fr>
    Subject: Workshop on Language, Literature and Science


    Workshop on Language, Literature and Science Short Title: WLLS

    Date: 24-May-2004 - 26-May-2004 Location: Limoges (Haute-Vienne), France Contact: Pierre-Yves RACCAH, CNRS - CeReS Contact Email: pyrflsh.unilim.fr Meeting URL: http://www.flsh.unilim.fr/recherche/ceres/atelier/Atelier-LLS_En.htm

    Linguistic Sub-field: Discourse Analysis, General Linguistics, Linguistic Theories, Semantics, Ling & Literature

    Meeting Description:

    Workshop on Language Literature and Science: Under what conditions could literature be the object of an empirical science? This workshop is the second of the cycle of workshops on Language and Literature that the CeReS (Centre de Recherches en S�miotique - CNRS and University of Limoges) organizes at Limoges.

    The aim of this second workshop is to settle a multi-disciplinary collaboration, in order to examine the question whether literature can (or cannot) be the object of an empirical science and, if yes, under what conditions and, in particular, what kind of relationship should hold between linguistics and 'literatology'.

    Our aim is not only to set up criteria to discriminate serious literary studies from hoaxes, but also to really question the feasibility of a scientific approach to literary study, from the three sides (the limits of literary studies, the limits of the role that linguistic studies can play and the limits of science).

    The following issues characterize the research program that the main question suggests before the workshop: it is likely -- and desirable -- that other issues, perhaps more relevant, will emerge from the reflection; some of the following issues might also loose their relevance.

    1. Issue about the relevance of the main question 2. Issue about complexity 3. Issue about what is observable in literature 4. Issue about the relationship between science and hermeneutics 5. Issue about the relationship with aesthetics 6. Issue about the relationship between uniqueness and generality 7. Issue about predictability and the nature of scientific models 8. Issue about the relationship between text and meta-text

    In order to ground the epistemological debate on concrete linguistic and literary questions and specific activities, we selected two short literary texts (one in French and one in English, to be chosen according to your language preference) on which the participants are asked to work in such a way that they can illustrate their epistemological point. The different analyses of each text will be compared to one another and, for each analysis, its relationship with the different positions expressed in the epistemological debate will be examined. The study of that text before the workshop has been found to be necessary, in order for the discussions to be richer and to avoid ideological biases.

    More information is available at http://www.flsh.unilim.fr/recherche/ceres/atelier/Atelier-LLS_En.htm