LINGUIST List 25.3056
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Jul 26 2014
Calls: General
Linguistics/Germany
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Date: 25-Jul-2014
From: Nicole Dehé
<nicole.dehe
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Subject: DGfS 2015 - AG 6: The
Prosody and Meaning of (Non-)Canonical
Questions Across Languages
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Full Title: DGfS 2015 - AG 6: The Prosody and
Meaning of (Non-)Canonical Questions Across
Languages
Date: 04-Mar-2015 - 06-Mar-2015
Location: Leipzig, Germany
Contact Person: Nicole Dehé
Meeting Email:
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Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
Call Deadline: 26-Aug-2014
Meeting Description:
The prosody and meaning of (non-)canonical
questions across languages
Daniela Wochner, Nicole Dehé, Bettina Braun (U
Konstanz) & Beste Kamali, Hubert
Truckenbrodt (ZAS Berlin)
Invited Speakers:
Sigrid Beck
Nancy Hedberg
The workshop is integrated into the annual
meeting of the German Linguistic Society in
Leipzig and takes place there on March 4–6
2015. It is interested in the syntax, prosody,
semantics and the interfaces of different
questions and question types across
languages.
Additional details concerning the planned
content:
For canonical questions, the workshop is
particularly interested in the relation between
questions and focus in the different modules of
grammar, and in the role of the intonation
contour in different questioning types. Where
do questions show question-specific stress or
phrasing patterns? Where do wh-phrases show
similarities to focused phrases? Why do the
alternatives in alternative questions show
focus prosody? Intervention effects are an
important topic in the interaction between
focus and wh-phrases and/or alternatives in
alternative questions. Are there other
interactions as well? What question-specific
intonation contours or question-specific
assignment of intonation contours do different
languages show, and how is the variation to be
understood?
The non-canonical questions that the workshop
is interested in include those which (i)
besides being used as requests for information,
have further pragmatic dimensions; (ii) have
non-interrogative syntax; and/or (iii) may be
identified as non-canonical through their
prosody, or any combination of these
properties. Example types are declarative
questions, tag questions, and rhetorical
questions. We would like to see if various
well-known –but not uncontroversial- properties
of non-canonical questions stand up to closer
scrutiny:
Are declarative questions and tags always
confirmation-seeking rather than
information-seeking? Do declarative questions
always have rising intonation and why? How to
approach the illocutionary force of assertion
in rhetorical questions and to what extent can
their prosody inform us? How do modal particles
such as schon in German contribute to the
rhetorical question pragmatics?
Call for Papers:
Please send abstracts (one page and one
optional page of examples, graphics and/or
references, reasonable font and margins) to
questions.dgfs
gmail.com by August 26, 2014. At
the beginning of the abstract, please include
name(s) of the author(s), their affiliation,
and a contact email.
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