LINGUIST List 25.1381
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Mar 22 2014
Calls: Historical
Linguistics, Pragmatics, Sociolinguistics,
Typology/Italy
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Date: 21-Mar-2014
From: Andrea Sansò
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Subject: Pragmatic Markers,
Discourse Markers and Modal Particle
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Full Title: Pragmatic Markers, Discourse
Markers and Modal Particles
Short Title: PragmaComo
Date: 16-Oct-2014 - 17-Oct-2014
Location: Como, Italy
Contact Person: Andrea Sansò
Meeting Email:
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Web Site:
http://sites.google.com/site/pragmaworkshopcomo/
Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics;
Pragmatics; Sociolinguistics; Typology
Meeting Description:
Pragmatic Markers, Discourse Markers and Modal
Particles: What do we know and where do we go
from here?
Università dell'Insubria, Como (Italy), 16-17
October 2014
Description:
The workshop aims to contribute to the
discussion on the emergence and use of
pragmatic markers (PMs), discourse markers
(DMs) and modal particles (MPs). Although
classifications diverge in this field, PMs can
be broadly defined as markers of functions
belonging to the domains of social cohesion
(the H-S relationship; e.g. please, danke,
etc.), DMs as strategies ensuring textual
cohesion (discourse managing; e.g. utterance
initial usages of but, anyway, etc.), and MPs
as signals of personal stance (the speaker’s
perspective towards the discourse and the
interlocutor; e.g. German ja, eben etc.). PMs,
DMs, and MPs have been the object of extensive
investigation. However, their heterogeneous
character – i.e. the fact that they derive from
many different sources, and that they are
multifunctional – has resulted in fragmentary
descriptions that fit well the facts of a given
language, but may be seriously challenged when
one extends the analysis to other
languages.
Scientific Committee:
Peter Auer (University of Freiburg), Pierluigi
Cuzzolin (University of Bergamo), Silvia Dal
Negro (Free University of Bozen), Chiara
Fedriani (University of Bergamo), Chiara Ghezzi
(University of Bergamo), Anna Giacalone Ramat
(University of Pavia), Bernd Kortmann (FRIAS,
Freiburg), Gianguido Manzelli (University of
Pavia), Caterina Mauri (University of Pavia),
Piera Molinelli (University of Bergamo), Paolo
Ramat (IUSS Institute), Andrea Sansò (Insubria
University - Como), Federica Venier (University
of Bergamo), Alessandro Vietti (Free University
of Bozen).
Invited Speakers:
Kate Beeching (University of the West of
England)
Yael Maschler (University of Haifa)
Mario Squartini (University of Turin)
Call for Papers:
The workshop, organized as part of the Italian
National Research Program “Linguistic
Representations of Identity. Sociolinguistic
Models and
Historical Linguistics” (
www.mediling.eu),
welcomes papers providing new insights into
classical issues such as the categorization of
PMs/DMs/MPs, as well as papers exploring other
crucial (but less discussed) issues, such as
the sociolinguistics of PMs, DMs and MPs.
Particularly encouraged are studies that take
into account the languages of the
Mediterranean, which are the focus of the
Research Program, but contributions on other
languages (especially less described ones) are
also welcome. The following is a list of
relevant questions, clustering around a few
thematic foci:
(i) Universality vs. language-specificity: are
PMs, DMs and MPs universal or language-specific
categories? If they are universal, which are
the
criteria for distinguishing them? If they are
not, which approach to grammar is the most
suitable to model their behavior?
(ii) PMs, DMs and MPs and their functional
equivalents: some of these categories are easy
to recognize in some languages (e.g. MPs in
German). In other languages, it is more
difficult to single out a class of MPs, DMs
or
PMs. How do these languages perform the
functions carried out by MPs, DMs and PMs in
other languages?
(iii) The sources of PMs, DMs and MPs: which
are their most frequent sources? Are there any
regularities across languages in the processes
leading from definable sets of sources to
specific PMs/DMs/MPs? Are their paths of
development parallel, or do they display
divergences? Are there any ‘pragmatic cycles’,
comparable to Jespersen’s cycles, accounting
for their renewal?
(iv) PMs, DMs and MPs in contact: how do these
markers behave in contact situations? Are there
any borrowability hierarchies among these types
of markers? Are more hearer-sided markers (e.g.
PMs vs. MPs) more prone to be borrowed in
contact situations?
(v) PMs, DMs and MPs as markers of
sociolinguistic identity and subjectivity: to
what extent do these markers function as
signals of sociolinguistic identity? Is there
any other type of social significance attached
to them within a given community? How do they
function to express the speaker’s perspective
towards the content s/he’s conveying, the
interlocutor, or the communicative
situation?
Abstract Submission:
Authors are invited to submit a one-page
abstract (with one additional page for
examples), keeping in mind that the slot for
their communication will last 30 min. including
discussion.
Abstracts should be anonymous and should be
sent as attachments in PDF format to:
workshopcomo
gmail.com
Author(s) name(s) and affiliation should be
indicated in the body of the email. The
abstracts will be anonymously reviewed by two
members of the Scientific Committee. The
publication of a selection of the papers as a
book or a special issue of an international
journal is envisaged.
Important Dates:
30 May 2014: Deadline for abstract
submission
30 June 2014: Notification of acceptance;
(free) registration starts
9 October 2014: Registration ends
16-17 October 2014: Workshop
Page Updated: 22-Mar-2014