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CALL FOR PAPERS
This workshop is organized within the LEAdhoC project, based at the University of Bologna (www.leadhoc.org).
Please see the scientific description.
In this workshop, we aim to broaden our understanding of language as a tool for categorization in linguistic interaction, by investigating how language-specific grammatical resources are exploited in conversation to name and create locally meaningful categories, with special attention to how this process is rooted in the real‑time dimension (see the discussion of temporality in Auer 2009; Günthner and Deppermann 2015; Du Bois 2014; Hopper 2011 inter al.).
Since, categorization is thought of as a dynamic process in which participants are actively involved, we aim at understanding what linguistic and possibly multi-modal resources are exploited and what are the pragmatic and conversational effects obtained. In this view, the divide between fully grammatical(ized) strategies encoding reference to a category and more fluid discursive strategies is ideal rather than factual, since grammar is regarded as the outcome of entrenchment of discursive patterns (cf. Auer and Pfänder 2011).
We aim to look at data coming from different languages, examined from complementary perspectives, integrating cognitive and discourse studies, typology and conversational analysis. We further aim to compare linguistic evidence with experimental evidence, obtained in psychological and psycholinguistic research, to verify the psychological reality of the mechanisms observed in language.
We therefore invite contributions focusing on how speakers in interaction name categories, co-construe them, interpret and negotiate their meaning according to context. We accept contributions adopting different perspectives (linguistic typology, historical linguistics, psycholinguistics, cognitive linguistics, conversation analysis, …). Empirical works will receive special attention, but also more theory-oriented contributions will be regarded as eligible.
Here is a non-exhaustive list of relevant linguistic phenomena:
A non-exhaustive list of possible topics includes:
Please see the scientific description.
In this workshop, we aim to broaden our understanding of language as a tool for categorization in linguistic interaction, by investigating how language-specific grammatical resources are exploited in conversation to name and create locally meaningful categories, with special attention to how this process is rooted in the real‑time dimension (see the discussion of temporality in Auer 2009; Günthner and Deppermann 2015; Du Bois 2014; Hopper 2011 inter al.).
Since, categorization is thought of as a dynamic process in which participants are actively involved, we aim at understanding what linguistic and possibly multi-modal resources are exploited and what are the pragmatic and conversational effects obtained. In this view, the divide between fully grammatical(ized) strategies encoding reference to a category and more fluid discursive strategies is ideal rather than factual, since grammar is regarded as the outcome of entrenchment of discursive patterns (cf. Auer and Pfänder 2011).
We aim to look at data coming from different languages, examined from complementary perspectives, integrating cognitive and discourse studies, typology and conversational analysis. We further aim to compare linguistic evidence with experimental evidence, obtained in psychological and psycholinguistic research, to verify the psychological reality of the mechanisms observed in language.
We therefore invite contributions focusing on how speakers in interaction name categories, co-construe them, interpret and negotiate their meaning according to context. We accept contributions adopting different perspectives (linguistic typology, historical linguistics, psycholinguistics, cognitive linguistics, conversation analysis, …). Empirical works will receive special attention, but also more theory-oriented contributions will be regarded as eligible.
Here is a non-exhaustive list of relevant linguistic phenomena:
- The use of associative and similative plurals in linguistic interaction
- Word formation (compounding, derivation) as strategies to name context-dependent categories
- Reformulation and exemplification strategies
- Reduplication and echo-constructions
- Lexical search and approximation
- List constructions
- The competition between the above-mentioned strategies
A non-exhaustive list of possible topics includes:
- The cognitive and pragmatic functions of the above-mentioned constructions
- The role of shared context and shared knowledge in building categories in discourse
- Emerging (co-)constructions for building categories in discourse
- Dialogic syntax and resonance
- On line processing and its role in building reference to categories
- Differences (and similarities) in the processing of different strategies (e.g. listing vs. naming)
- Experimental evidence for how categories are elaborated and construed by speakers
- Cross-linguistic and diachronic variation concerning the above-mentioned strategies
- …