Pragmática

While "discourse" has long been an object of investigation in many disciplines, the contours of a new field of transdisciplinary research are now coming to the fore: Discourse Studies. Known for theoretical orientations and methodological tools at the intersection of language and society, discourse research usually deals with social phenomena with a particular focus on the entanglements of power and language. While Discourse Studies has resulted from the exchange between numerous strands and approaches which deal with the social production of meaning, an increasing need for interdisciplinary exchange can now be observed. The 2nd International DiscourseNet Congress at Warwick (DNC#2) aims to represent the many strands, schools, and perspectives in Discourse Studies, from the humanities to the social sciences, from strictly interpretive to quantifying methodologies, from discourse as a situated practice to discourse as socially distributed knowledge.

dnc2@warwick.ac.uk

Pragmática

isd.unr@gmail.com

Estudios culturales, Estudios de género, Lingüística, Lingüística de corpus, Pragmática, Sociolingüística

Genres of discourse, although quite diverse, can be approached and characterized by the place and form they give to reported speech – a dimension that has been widely studied. However, some discursive genres distinguish themselves by the very special place they give to the representation of another discourse: the whole discourse presents itself as «discourse of replacement» of another discourse. This suggests the existence of a generic field in which a discourse (D) represents another discourse (d). For instance, meeting reports, official statement transcripts, text summaries, written press interviews, trial minutes, course notes and published courses could be considered as relevant to this generic field.

We invite contributors to reflect on the specificities and limits of this generic field: to identify and describe the different genres and socio-discursive practices related to it and to observe the forms that the representation of reported speech can take.

Contributors may address the following issues:

- Identifying the characteristics and subcategories of «replacement» discourse,
- Addressing how replacement discourse operates and what it relies on – its bases and forms,
- Identifying the relationship of equivalence between original and «replacement» discourses, and the potential transformations or losses that occur as a result the «replacement» process,
- Examining to which extent the original discourse (d) can somehow be said to contain the seeds of its «replacement» discourse (D), and to which extent the two discourses are interdependent (or not),
- Determining if discursive practices such as translation, «writing for someone else» (public writers, ghost writers), and speech preparations (theatrical improvisation outlines, notes/summaries for oral presentations) can be viewed as «replacement discourse» genres.

The conference aims to focus especially on the specific use of linguistic forms of reported speech in the different genres: quantity, types of representation (direct and indirect speech…), presence/absence of markers. Some useful parameters might be:

- The status of the «enunciator» of D
- The genres of D and d
- The channel (oral or written) of D and d
- The conditions for the validity of D
- The aims and uses of D

Diachronic analysis, as well as genetic and literary analyses of «replacement» discourse production, is welcome.

Proposals should be 500 words in length (word count does not include bibliography). They must be submitted in French on a Word document to lieutenance2017@gmail.com. Your name and university affiliation must appear only in your email; please keep your proposal document anonymous.

Contacto:
Université Paris 3 & Université Paris 10
Correo e.: lieutenance2017@gmail.com

lieutenance2017@gmail.com

Dialectología, Estudios culturales, Lenguas amerindias, Lingüística, Lingüística aplicada, Lingüística computacional, Lingüística de corpus, Lingüística descriptiva, Pragmática, Sociolingüística, Traducción

El propósito del congreso es construir un espacio dialógico en el que se discutan tanto los pensamientos clásicos como las nuevas perspectivas y corrientes de pensamiento respecto de las problemáticas del desarrollo social, político y cultural. La intención es ofrecer un foro en el que nuestras comunidades epistémicas expongan sus investigaciones y tengan interlocución con las voces más significativas en el ámbito internacional; y al mismo tiempo, que se constituya en una conmemoración académica del LXVII aniversario de nuestra Facultad.

Secciones:
- Humanismos y poshumanismos en la academia
- Democracia y estado: ¿Hacia dónde?
- Mundos posibles: ética y ciudadanía
- Lenguaje: interfaces culturales, educativas y sociohistóricas
- Nuevas culturas e identidades en la glocalidad
- Enfoques posmetafísicos y sociedad secular

Actividades y modalidades de participación:
Conferencias magistrales, mesas temáticas, encuentro de estudiantes de posgrado, paneles, sesión de carteles, talleres y presentaciones de libros.

Contacto:
Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, UANL
Correo e.: congresohumanidades2017@gmail.com

Plazo de envío de propuestas: 20 de mayo de 2017
Notificación de contribuciones aceptadas: 3 de junio de 2017

congresohumanidades2017@gmail.com

Enseñanza de ELE, Enseñanza de la lengua, Enseñanza y tecnología, Fonética, Fonología, Lingüística, Lingüística aplicada, Pragmática

vmarrero@flog.uned.es

http://7cife.weebly.com

Página de inscripción: congresos.uned.es/w13428

Fonología, Lingüística, Lingüística aplicada, Lingüística románica, Pragmática, Semántica, Sintaxis

crible.ludivine@gmail.com

Barbara De Cock <barbara.decock@uclouvain.be>

Enseñanza de ELE, Enseñanza de la lengua, Lingüística aplicada, Pragmática

• Envío de resúmenes: 16 de enero de 2017.
• Notificación de aceptación: 15 de febrero de 2017.
• Entrega de artículos completos para las actas del congreso: 3 de abril de 2017.

aesla2017@gmail.com

Enseñanza de la lengua, Lingüística románica, Pragmática

The meeting is organized by the Department of Romance studies and Classics at Stockholm University in the period 31 May - 2 June. 2017. Conference languages will be English, French and Spanish, but we also welcome presentations on negation in other languages. The theme Pragmatics of Negation has been the subject of two research panels at the International Pragmatic Association’s (IPRA) international conference (2011 and in 2013). The second panel resulted in a collective volume that will appear in the beginning of 2017 (Roitman (eds), forthcoming).

Negation is one of the uncontested language universals. It is among the most complex, phenomena of human languages. The structural expressions of negation and negative functions are connected to all language levels; it has been studied in different linguistic domains, in pragmatics not the least.

The pragmatics of negation, which is actually one of the most privileged areas for negation studies, involves how we use and interpret different forms of negation in communication. What meanings do forms of negation generate in different contexts? The conference will also promote studies on how negative meanings are created in specific contexts: what linguistic forms and figures, other than negation lexica, may generate negative meanings?

The theme of the conference relates back to the asymmetric postulate of negative sentences as non-equivalent to inverted assertions, but an operator that carries more complex structures, on a syntactical, lexical and semantic level. Arguments for negation being essentially different from assertions have been presented in studies on negation’s relation to negative polarity item, to quantifiers, to scalar words, on the unequal reference ability (of negations and assertions) and on the fact that the interpretation of negatives is a cognitively demanding process. Probably because of these mentioned factors, negation generally constitutes a marked item in discourse; negatives break with the expectations in the context and also hint a subjacent positive counterpart. Meanings of negations therefore gain from being analysed by taking into account criteria that go beyond the formal linguistic aspects of language and take into consideration the communicative situation and the interplay between the interlocutors involved in the interaction.

The focus of the conference will be on corpus driven studies where the connection is made between the use, meanings and forms of negation in relation to genre, in a broad sense of social and cultural activity. Here follows the axes of the conference:

1) Relation negative forms – negative functions in a genre perspective. Are they related to the text type and genre? One may for example expect initial negation (No, etc.) to be more common in interactive genres, and pre- or post verbal phrase negations to be more frequent in more formal with only one speaking subject.

2) Negation and figure of speech. How is negation linked to rhetorical devices as metaphors, litotes, irony, maxims, proverbs, etc.? Is negation a figure of speech in itself? Are there some language evolutionary aspects to be considered here?

3) Negation in political, media and constitutional discourse. Professionals in media, media training and academic writing generally propose a restrictive use of negations in order to produce clear, unambiguous and comprehensive texts. Can we say that negation is less suitable for straightforward communication? On what grounds?

4) Negation has, within French enunciation theories, been considered an operator in language that subdivides negative utterances into hierarchical organized strata creating multi-voiced “polyphonic” texts. Within Critical Discourse Analysis negation appears as one of heterogeneous linguistic entities that may represent and reflect power relations and real hierarchies in language. Fauconnier, within his theory on “mental spaces”, has described negation as “space opener” that creates and unifies two worlds in a meaning construction process. Givón postulates negative utterances to embrace a pragmatic presupposition. Can these perspectives – all dealing with the interference of a positive counterpart in negatives – complete each other?

5) Negation in language acquisition and cognitive aspects of processing and understanding negative utterances. Many language acquisition studies show that negation is acquired late because of its syntactic and cognitive complexity that may have implications on comprehension and interpretation. Do these findings have any impact on the didactics of language learning?

The deadline to submit abstracts is the 20th of January. To submit your abstract, please send it to this address: pragmatics.negation@su.se Your abstract may be written in English, French and Spanish. Please ensure that the following information is included in the document:

Title of presentation
Theme
Your name
Your institution
Phone number
Email address
Summary (maximum 300 words)
References (Maximum five)

Important dates:
15 March: Participants send revised abstract according to template to pragmatics.negation@su.se
1-30 April: Registration and payment at Konferensservice (see further information on website published in January)
31 May - 2 June: Days of conference
 

pragmatics.negation@su.se

http://www.su.se/romklass/om-oss/evenemang/konferenser-symposier-och-workshops/the-pragmatics-of-negation-aspects-of-communication-1.311150

Estudios culturales, Lingüística, Lingüística de corpus, Pragmática, Sociolingüística

josep.castella@upf.edu

http://www.edisoportal.org/events/index.php/Barcelona2017/EDiSo2017

Dialectología, Enseñanza de ELE, Enseñanza de la lengua, Fonética, Fonología, Historia del español, Lexicografía, Lexicología, Lingüística, Lingüística computacional, Lingüística de corpus, Morfología, Pragmática, Psicolingüística y neurolingüística, Sintaxis, Sociolingüística

Actividades científicas previstas:
- Cursos precongreso 
- Conferencias magistrales
- Paneles
- Trabajo en comisiones
- Presentación de proyectos nuevos y en curso

Cuotas de inscripción:  
Ponentes: $ 200,00 CUC
Estudiantes*: $ 100,00 CUC
Observadores: $ 100,00 CUC

gigi@ill.cu

Lidia Santana González <gigi@ill.cu>