LINGUIST List 21.2851

Thu Jul 08 2010

Calls: Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics/Germany

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        1.    Katja Jasinskaja, Implicatures and Discourse Structure
Message 1: Implicatures and Discourse Structure
Date: 08-Jul-2010
From: Katja Jasinskaja <jasinskims.uni-stuttgart.de>
Subject: Implicatures and Discourse Structure
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Full Title: Implicatures and Discourse Structure
Date: 23-Feb-2011 - 25-Feb-2011 Location: Göttingen, Germany Contact Person: Fabienne Salfner
Meeting Email: < click here to access email >
Web Site: http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/workshop_diskursstruktur.html
Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Pragmatics

Call Deadline: 20-Jul-2010

Meeting Description:

Workshop on Implicatures and Discourse StructureOrganizers: Anton Benz, Katja Jasinskaja, Fabienne Salfner

Workshop organized as part of the Annual Conference of the GermanLinguistic Society (DGfS) to be held in Göttingen, Germany, February 23-25,2011

Human communication is characterized by the ability to convey moreinformation than uttered just by words. There are two major theoreticalframeworks that approach this matter from different perspectives: one is thetheory of rhetorical relations that characterizes the macro-structure ofdiscourse. This approach derives the additional content from the kind ofconnection between discourse segments. The other approach is the theory ofconversational implicatures, which usually considers a single speech act andderives the additional content from the assumption that the communicationparticipants observe the conversational maxims. The workshop will provide aplatform to discuss the interplay of these two aspects of pragmatic inference:discourse structure and implicatures.

Keynote speakers:Bart GeurtsNicholas Asher

Programme committee:Nicholas AsherMaria Averintseva-KlischAnton BenzChristian ChiarcosMichael FrankeBart GeurtsGerhard JägerKatja JasinskajaElena KaragjosovaEdgar OneaJanina RadóRobert van RooijUli SauerlandFabienne SalfnerBarbara SchmiedtovaKatrin SchulzMaria SpychalskaCarla UmbachKazuko YatsushiroHenk Zeevat


Second Call for Papers

We invite talks related (but not limited) to one of the following topics:

- The identification of discourse parameters (discourse relations, topicstructure, gestures etc.) which affect or are affected by the derivation ofimplicatures;- Experimental or corpus-based studies on the interaction of discoursestructure and implicatures;- Discourse dependency of generalized vs. particularized implicatures;- Theoretical models of the interaction of implicatures and discourse.

The studies can be embedded in any theoretical framework including:

- (S)DRT- question-based models- game theory- optimality theory- relevance theory

or not represent any specific framework.

Abstracts:

Please submit anonymous abstracts of 2 pages including examples andreferences in the PDF format via EasyChair athttp://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ag4dgfs2011The abstracts should include a title, the research question, an indication ofthe theoretical framework and/or empirical methodology and a brief summaryof the results. Accepted papers will be allotted 30 min. including discussion.The languages of the conference are English and German.

Important dates:

July 20, 2010: Abstract submission deadlineSeptember 1, 2010: Notification of acceptanceDecember 1, 2010: Final abstracts for the conference proceedingsFebruary 23-25, 2011: Workshop


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