Conference announcement - Call for papers:
3rd Freiburg Workshop on Romance Corpus Linguistics:
"Corpora and Pragmatics - Speech acts and context-bound interaction in
the light of corpora and data-bases: corpus projects and application"
Albert-Ludwigs University Freiburg im Breisgau (Germany)
14-Sep-2006 - 17-Sep-2006
Email: info@corpora-romanica.net
Web Site: http://www.corpora-romanica.net
Last Call for Papers
Corpus linguistics as a methodological approach aiming at collecting,
marking-up and documenting real-life language data is confronted with
particular challenges when its products - corpora and linguistic
data-bases - are intended to be useful and usable for pragmatic research
issues.
Among the issues that will be dealt with in this workshop are the following:
-which elements of the extra-linguistic context are selected, how are
they encoded, and in which way can they be linked to the verbal data?
-Which types of annotation methods and which technical options of
multimediality and information layering are available in order to
document para-linguistic (mimic or gestural-kinetic) action?
-According to which sociolinguistic or historical parameters are texts
and language data chosen in order to arrive at an adequate corpus-based
description of the synchronic variation and the diachronic dynamism of
speech acts, registers and genres, norms of linguistic behavior, and
traditions of speaking?
-To which extent are frequency values and patterns of co-occurrence -
information so easily obtained through computer-aided corpus-based
research - useful for a better understanding of speaking in a context
which, according to its basic conception, is oriented towards individual
case studies?
Plenary speakers and participants of round tables:
- Carla Bazzanella (Torino / Italy)
- Françoise Gadet (Paris / France)
- Martin-Dietrich Glessgen (Zurich / Switzerland)
- Christian Mair (Freiburg / Germany)
- Lorenza Mondada (Lyon / France)
- Lene Schoesler (Copenhagen / Denmark)
- Scott Schwenter (Columbus OH / USA)
- Anne-Catherine Simon (Louvain-la-Neuve / Belgium)
- Pascal Vaillant (Schoelcher / Martinique / France)
The workshop will be organized in two panels, for which paper
submissions are hereby invited:
Panel A ''Corpus projects, language data management and analysis
tools'': This panel will be devoted to the presentation of currently
on-going or completed corpus and database projects in the realm of
Romance linguistics; the main focus will be on corpus projects which aim
at complementing textual and transcription data with context
information, situational parameters and meta-information on textual
genres and traditions of speaking.
Panel B ''Corpus-based pragmatic studies on Romance languages'': This
panel will focus on contributions based on corpus data and linguistic
databases which comprise specific linguistic facts and phenomena
relating to different areas of pragmatic research (i.e.: organization of
utterances and information structure, discourse markers and strategies
of modalization, gender-specific discourse structures, synchronic
variability and diachronic change in the realization of speech acts etc.).
Papers may be read in German, any Romance language, and English. More
information on how to submit your paper proposal is found on the
conference web-site. Abstract deadline: March 15, 2006. Confirmation of
acceptance will be sent out before April 15, 2006.
Please check the conference web-site for further details on registration
and fees, scientific and social program of the workshop, travel and
accommodation. If you have questions, do not hesitate to contact the
conference convenor: Claus D. Pusch, Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet,
Romanisches Seminar, Werthmannplatz 3, D-79085 Freiburg im Breisgau,
E-mail info@corpora-romanica.net.
This workshop is sponsored by the German Research Council / Deutsche
Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG).
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