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Linguistic and Psycholinguistic Approaches to Text Structuring
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Book of abstracts
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Linguistic and Psycholinguistic Approaches to Text Structuring - Call for papers
The aim of the conference is to provide an interdisciplinary forum to present and discuss recent work on markers of discourse structure: adverbials, connectives, discourse particles, etc. How can we categorize these markers? What kind of relations do they express? Can they combine several functions at the sentence level and/ or at the discourse level and, if so, which ones? What impact do discourse structure markers have on comprehension? When and how are they acquired? From what age are (...)
Scientific committee
David Banks, University of ’Bretagne Occidentale’, France
Bergljot Behrens, University of Oslo, Norway
Yves Bestgen, Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research, UCL, Belgium
Andrée Borillo, University of Toulouse Le Mirail (CLLE-ERSS), France
Janice Carruthers, Queen’s University Belfast, Irland
Bernard Combettes, University of Nancy 2 (ATILF), France
Francis Cornish, University of Toulouse Le Mirail (CLLE-ERSS), France
Trine Dahl, Norwegian School of Economics and Business (...)
Conference topics
Topics may include, but are not limited to, the following:
Segmentation and linearization
Initial positioning
Saliency and Information Structure
Grammaticalization and evolution of structure markers
Typological approach to structure markers
Spatial and temporal discourse structure
Effects of discourse organization markers on comprehension
Acquisition and mastering of their use in discourse production
Role of text structuring devices in acquiring (...)
Invited speakers
Peter Crompton (American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates)
Tuomas Huumo (University of Turku, Finland)
Tuija Virtanen (Åbo Akademi University Department Of English, Finland)
Isabelle Tapiéro (University of Lyon 2 – EMC, France)
Yves Bestgen (FNRS-UCL, Belgium – on behalf of the psycholinguistic group of the project Spatial Framing Adverbials)
Submission information
Evaluation
Proposals will be subjected to a double, blind review and should be anonymous. They should not exceed 1000 words (references excluded) and be sent via email as an attachment (MS-WORD doc, rtf, or PDF) to: LPTS09 at ens dot fr
Please put in the subject line: “abstract LPTS09”. In the body of the mail, please specify:
author(s);
title;
author(s)’s affiliation;
if you prefer to give an oral presentation or present a poster;
3 - 5 keywords.
Newly available : Online Submission (...)
Registration
The registration process is in two stages. You should firstly pre-register by filling in the form here. You will then be sent an email explaining how to make a firm registration.
Registration fees
Regular fee (participants/audience) : 80 euros / late registration 100 euros (after July 10, 2009).
Students : 38 euros Students / late registration 60 euros (after July 10, 2009).
Lunch : 9,50 (...)
Organising committee
Laure Sarda (LATTICE, UMR 8094 CNRS & ENS)
Jeanne Aptekman (LATTICE, UMR 8094 CNRS & ENS)
Benjamin Fagard (LATTICE, UMR 8094 CNRS & ENS)
Shirley Carter Thomas (Institut Télécom (Paris Sud), LATTICE, UMR 8094 CNRS & ENS)
Michel Charolles (Université Paris 3, LATTICE, UMR 8094 CNRS & ENS)
