LINGUIST List 26.4696

Thu Oct 22 2015

Calls: English, French, Applied Ling, Lang Doc, Ling & Lit, Text/Corpus Ling, Typology

Editor for this issue: Ashley Parker <ashleylinguistlist.org>

Date: 22-Oct-2015
From: Élodie Lang <elodie.langunistra.fr>
Subject: From Research Epistemology to PHD Methodology: Heuristic Journey or Reflexive Path?
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Full Title: From Research Epistemology to PHD Methodology: Heuristic Journey or Reflexive Path?

Date: 29-Jun-2016 - 01-Jul-2016
Location: Strasbourg, France
Contact Person: Élodie Lang
Meeting Email: < click here to access email >
Web Site: http://cjc2016-stbg.sciencesconf.org/

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Language Documentation; Ling & Literature; Text/Corpus Linguistics; Typology

Subject Language(s): English; French

Call Deadline: 15-Jan-2016

Meeting Description:

Following the 2012 Seminar for Young Researchers edition, PhD students from Lilpa (E.A. 1339, University of Strasbourg) have the pleasure to announce you that a second edition will take place on the 29 of June and 1 of July 2016 in Strasbourg University.

Methodology has been a popular theme among seminars for young researchers as it is a matter of interest to every researcher regardless of experience. This second edition of our seminar will nevertheless focus on a less often debated question: what happens – or should happen- before methodological choices are made by the researcher, ie what is the thinking process that leads to these choices.

This seminar adopts a pluridisciplinary approach as it is open to PhD students both in the field of Applied Linguistics and Human and Social Sciences. It will enable participants from various horizons to share knowledge and experience thus providing new perspectives for young researchers in the making.

Call for Papers:

In the past few years, seminars for young researchers in Social and Human Sciences have provided a growing space for reflection concerning research methodology issues, and more specifically corpus processing methods. Such a development in this field of research, along with an increase in the use of quantitative methods seems to express a need for a more grounded scientific base, such as that which the so called « hard sciences » are known for. Despite some recent publications (Bertacchini, 2009, Blanchet and Chardenet, 2011, among others), this subject remains a focus of attention among young researchers.

Consequently, this seminar aims to bring its own contribution to this issue. At present, focus tends to be laid more on corpus and processing methodology as proofs of scientific respectability than on upstream processes such as choice of subject, hypotheses and research objectives.

It is our intention during these sessions to address the question of the individual researcher’s positioning towards his/her subject and corpus, as it is an often underestimated topic in linguistics. Positioning oneself with regards to one’s topic is a double reflexive process as it implies a to and fro movement between epistemology and methodology, the one constantly influencing the other. Defining one’s epistemological positioning implies, on the one hand, a clear statement of how one will deal with pre-existing knowledge and, on the other hand, of how one might reconstruct such knowledge if judged inappropriate to one’s purpose (Demaizière and Narcy-Combes, 2007). This is a prerequisite to the formalization of sound research methodology which « permits, drawing on a corpus of known principles or landmarks, construction of action (i.e. research) that is suited to the specific context in which it is implemented » (Demaizière and Narcy-Combes, 2007: 3)[1]. It appears that more often than not, young researchers take to collecting and analyzing data without explicitly engaging in this crucial step, one explanation being that their vocational training did not explicitly prepare them in this matter.

Applicants are asked to submit papers addressing one of the five lines of research identified below, in relation to this issue: deontology, positioning, relevance, frequency and variation, handling of data.

For more information, see our website: http://cjc2016-stbg.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/4


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