LINGUIST List 17.1660

Thu Jun 01 2006

Calls: General Ling/Brazil;Discourse Analysis/Portugal

Editor for this issue: Kevin Burrows <kevinlinguistlist.org>

Directory         1.    Roberta Pires de Oliveira, 6th Workshop on Formal Linguistics
         2.    Benjamim Moreira, Conectives and Discourse Markers
Message 1: 6th Workshop on Formal Linguistics
Date: 31-May-2006
From: Roberta Pires de Oliveira <pirescce.ufsc.br>
Subject: 6th Workshop on Formal Linguistics



Full Title: 6th Workshop on Formal Linguistics Short Title: 6 WFL
Date: 28-Aug-2006 - 30-Aug-2006 Location: Florianopolis - Santa Catarina, Brazil Contact Person: Roberta Pires de Oliveira
Meeting Email: < click here to access email >
Web Site: http://6workshop.ufsc.br
Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

Call Deadline: 14-Aug-2006

Meeting Description:

Formal approaches to natural languages.

Please submit an anonymous abstract (of 1 page, 500 words) to workshopcce.ufsc.br. The body of the message should include the title of the paper, the name of the author(s), his (their) affiliation(s) and whether the abstract is to be considered as paper, as poster or both.

There will be a registration fee of R$ 20,00.

Presentations will be allotted twenty minutes with ten minutes for discussion.

There will be a poster session also opened to undergraduate students that participate in Iniciação Científica program


Message 2: Conectives and Discourse Markers
Date: 30-May-2006
From: Benjamim Moreira <abelhanortenet.pt>
Subject: Conectives and Discourse Markers



Full Title: Conectives and Discourse Markers
Date: 02-Nov-2006 - 03-Nov-2006 Location: Lisbon, Portugal Contact Person: Benjamim Moreira
Meeting Email: < click here to access email >
Web Site: http://www.fcsh.unl.pt/clunl/linhas_de_investigacao/LINHA_3/cdm.html
Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Pragmatics; Semantics; Syntax

Call Deadline: 15-Jul-2006

Meeting Description:

The main purpose of this conference is to bring together descriptive and formal approaches (quantitative or qualitative, synchronic or diachronic) to connectives and discourse markers. It is concerned with some theoretical issues on syntactic, semantic and pragmatical analysis, especially six main topics, primarily in Portuguese but also in contrast with other languages.

The sub-unit 3 'Semantics', project Grammar and Enunciation, of the Centro de Linguística da Universidade Nova de Lisboa (www.fcsh.unl.pt/clunl) is organising an international conference on ''CONECTIVES AND DISCOURSE MARKERS'' on the 2nd and 3rd November 2006 at the Linguistic Studies Department (Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa - FCSH-UNL), 26C avenida de Berna, 1069-061 Lisboa (Portugal).

The main purpose of this conference is to bring together descriptive and formal approaches (quantitative or qualitative, synchronic or diachronic) to connectives and discourse markers. It is concerned with some theoretical issues on syntactic, semantic and pragmatical analysis, especially six main topics, primarily in Portuguese but also in contrast with other languages. Those topics are the following:

(1) The contribution of connectives and discourse markers to utterance interpretation

(2) Characterisation of the semantic identity (core meaning) of a unit and description of the variation in relation to its distribution

(3) The scope, the position and the prosody of a discourse particle

(4) The role (The semantic contribution) of discourse connectives and discourse markers in text or discourse structuring

(5) The polysemy and multifunctionality of a unit (e.g. ''mal'' in Portuguese, as a qualitative or a quantitative adverb, as a discourse or a connective marker)

(6) The meaning and the functions of a unit based on a comparative linguistic study of translation (or its equivalents in two or more languages)

Guest Speakers:

Antoine Culioli (Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France)Mário Eduardo Martellota (UFRJ, Brazil)João Sàágua (Institute of Philosophy of Language, UNL)Salvador Pons Bordería (Univ. Valencia, Spain)Antónia Coutinho (FCSH-UNL)Jean-Jacques Franckel (Univ. Paris X)João Costa (FCSH-UNL)