LINGUIST List 17.2449

Thu Aug 31 2006

Confs: Pragmatics/Sweden

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Message 1: 10th International Pragmatics Conference
Date: 31-Aug-2006
From: Lexical Contrast in Discourse Panel <ann.verhaert ipra.be>
Subject: 10th International Pragmatics Conference



10th International Pragmatics Conference

Date: 09-Jul-2007 - 14-Jul-2007 Location: Göteborg, Sweden Contact: Lexical Contrast in Discourse Panel Contact Email: < click here to access email > Meeting URL: http://webhost.ua.ac.be/ipra/10th_conference.html

Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics

Meeting Description:

10th International Pragmatics ConferenceJuly 9-14, 2007Göteborg, Sweden

Special theme: Language data, corpora, and computational pragmatics[as always the conferences are open to all other relevant themes in pragmatics]

Chaired by: Karin Aijmer & Jens Allwood (Göteborg)

Other members of the local site committee:- Elisabeth Ahlsén (Göteborg)- Robin Cooper (Göteborg)- Per Linell (Linköping)- Thorstein Fretheim(Trondheim)- Anna-Brita Stenström (Bergen)- Jan-Ola Östman (Helsinki)

Dear Colleagues,

We are proposing a panel on the theme of ''Lexical Contrast in Discourse'' for the International Pragmatics Conference in Göteborg, Sweden in July 2007, and are thus interested in hearing from other people working on related topics who might be interested in presenting at this panel. The organisers of the panel have recently been researching the use of antonyms in discourse (in English and Swedish), but we define 'lexical contrast' broadly and would be interested in hearing about research related to:

- functions of antonyms/lexical opposition in discourse - the contexts/constructions that coerce opposite readings in word pairs(e.g. synonyms, hyponyms, incompatibles) - discourse properties of using morphological antonyms vs. lexical antonyms vs. syntactic negation - cross-linguistic/cross-cultural studies - methodological/technological innovations in studying contrast in discourse

If interested, please send a brief summary of the work you would want to present in such a panel ann.verhaertipra.be by the end of June 2006.