LINGUIST List 33.2631
Sun Aug 28 2022
Calls: Pragmatics/Belgium
Editor for this issue: Everett Green <everettlinguistlist.org>
Date: 25-Aug-2022
From: Ludivine Crible <ludivine.crible
ugent.be>
Subject: Discourse and disfluencies in cognitive and speech disorders
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Date: 09-Jul-2023 - 14-Jul-2023
Location: Brussels, Belgium
Contact Person: Ludivine Crible
Meeting Email:
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Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics
Call Deadline: 15-Oct-2022
Meeting Description:
This panel intends to gather researchers adopting a discourse-analytic approach to a range of cognitive and speech disorders, including Autism Spectrum Disorder, aphasia, Alzheimer’s disease and stuttering. The term « discourse analysis » is here taken in a broad sense and encompasses quantitative and qualitative studies that investigate the pragmatics of (atypical) interaction, in a functional, context-bound approach to empirical data. The focus therefore lies on linguistic phenomena such as disfluencies (pauses, repetitions, truncations, etc.), gestures, coherence markers or any other devices reflecting discourse-structuring or discourse-representational processes. These pragmatic devices are particularly prone to be impacted by various disorders (e.g., Dipper & Pritchard, 2017) because of their high frequency, optionality and relative freedom of movement. They also reflect mechanisms of interaction management and discourse structure, processes which have been described as particularly challenging for atypical speakers (Merrison & Merrison, 2005).
Such a focus on the pragmatics of atypical speech is in line with the current momentum for mixed approaches, after a long prevalence of purely quantitative, formal and relatively decontextualized studies in the field. This panel will thus shed some light on the micro- and macro-level features that characterize the discourse level in cognitive and speech disorders, a step which is in turn crucial to better describe these populations in general and to understand their specificities with respect to (neuro-)typical speakers.
We welcome submissions that investigate how discourse-structuring devices, pragmatic gestures and disfluencies are used in various speech and cognitive disorders, and submissions that adopt a functional, usage-based approach to atypical speech. We aim to address the following overarching questions: How are coherence markers (connectives, discourse & pragmatic markers, other discourse-structuring devices), gestures and disfluencies used in various speech and cognitive disorders ? Do they vary across speaker groups? On a more theoretical and methodological perspective, what can functional, usage-based approaches to atypical speech contribute to the study of speech and cognitive disorders, and to the field of pragmatics itself?
Call for Papers:
To contribute to this panel, authors should submit an abstract (max. 500 words excluding references) as PDF to the following E-mail addresses:
ludivine.crible
ugent.be
christelle.dodane
gmail.com
The deadline for submissions is 15 October 2022.
Please note that IPrA membership is required to submit an abstract and present during the conference.
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