International Symposium
DEIXIS IN LANGUAGE
28th–29th June 2019
Rijeka (Croatia)
Conference venue: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Rijeka
Sveučilišna avenija 4, Rijeka, Croatia
Conference Programme
This symposium has been fully supported by the Croatian Science Foundation under the project number IP-2018-01-2243 “Semantic domains of deictic words: Investigating the fast semantic processes in language (DeicTeS)”
|
FRIDAY, 28th June 2019 |
|
|
08:15-09:00 |
Registration – 1st FLOOR (in front of room 138) |
|
09:00-09:30 |
Opening of the conference (Room: 138) |
|
09:30-10:30 |
Plenary lecture (Room: 138) Peter Gärdenfors (University of Lund) Deixis from Gesture via Demonstratives to Articles. (A Study in Deixis for a Theory of Mind) |
|
|
Session A Chairing: Marija Brala-Vukanović |
|
10:30-11:00 |
Martina Irsara English locative ‘here’ and ‘there’ as perceived by speakers of other languages |
|
11:00-11:30 |
Enikő Tóth Hungarian demonstratives in contrastive contexts |
|
11.30-12:00 |
Coffee break – In the 1st floor hall Student posters presentation in the hall |
|
|
Session B Chairing: Marija Brala-Vukanović |
|
12:00-12:30 |
Cornelia Ebert, Robin Hörnig, Susanne Fuchs, Aleksandra Ćwiek, Manfred Krifka Experimental evidence on the non-at-issueness of co-speech gestures and demonstratives as dimension shifters |
|
12:30-13:00 |
Carla Umbach, Britta Stolterfoht Demonstratives of Manner, Quality and Degree – constraints on features of comparison |
|
13.00-13:30 |
Martin Janečka Deictics, pictographs, emblems: how aphasic people compensate verbal deficit with gestures |
|
13:30-14:30 |
Lunch break – In the 1st floor hall |
| 14:30-15:30 |
Plenary lecture (Room: 138) Holger Diessel (University of Jena) Demonstratives: From gesture to grammar |
|
Session C Chairing: Anita Memišević |
|
| 15:30-16:00 |
Valentina Colasanti, Martina Wiltschko Spatial and discourse deixis and the speech act structure of nominals |
| 16:00-16:30 |
Ekkehard Koenig Beyond exophoric and endophoric uses: Additional discourse functions of demonstratives |
| 16:30-17:00 |
Coffee break – In the 1st floor hall |
|
Session D Chairing: Anita Memišević |
|
| 17:00-17:30 |
Agnieszka Jędrusik Dynamic Nature of Deixis in Political Discourse: an Analysis of the Political Debates between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump |
| 17:30-18:00 |
Nichuta Bunkham, Karl Seifen, Alice Vittrant Encoding Dynamic Deixis: Examples from Southeast Asia |
| 18:00-18:30 |
Jinke Song The encoding of Dynamic Deixis in Standard Chinese – an investigation of linguistic and extra-linguistic factors |
| 18:30-19:00 |
Xuping Li, Yiming Sheng The D type and the Dem type of definite classifiers in Wu |
| 20:30 |
Dinner – In the 1st floor hall |
|
SATURDAY, 29th June 2019 |
|
|
09:00-10:00 |
Plenary lecture (Room: 138 ) Ljiljana Šarić (University of Oslo) & Svetlana Nedelcheva (Konstantin Preslavsky University of Shumen) Deictic verbs of motion: A corpus-based study of (South) Slavic |
|
|
Session E Chairing: Mihaela Matešić |
|
10:00-10:30 |
Clément Voirin, Anetta Kopecka Encoding deictic motion: language specific tendencies in translation |
|
10:30-11:00 |
Paweł Rutkowski Is space a grammatical feature? The case of Polish Sign Language |
|
11:00-11:30 |
Coffee break – In the 1st floor hall |
|
|
Session F Chairing: Mihaela Matešić |
|
11:30-12:00 |
Biljana Stojanovska The Definite Article in the Macedonian Language |
|
12:00-12:30 |
Paola Bocale Deixis and irrealis in Slavic |
|
12:30-13:00 |
Anita Memišević What happens when a couple meets ménage a trois, and vice versa? |
|
13:00-14:00 |
Lunch break – In the 1st floor hall |
|
14:00-16:00 |
ROUND TABLE (Room 121): Demonstratives, Deixis and Beyond Introductory paper: Marija Brala-Vukanović and Mihaela Matešić: Demonstratives as Deictic Terms and Beyond |
|
16:15 |
City tour |
Symposium Call
Deixis in language – From gestures to words
WHERE: University or Rijeka, Croatia
WHEN: 28-29 June, 2019
Deictic expressions take an intermediary position between gestures and words. Although the concept of deixis and the basic deictic categories are well known and have been widely described in the linguistic literature, there exists a variety of positions regarding to the exact semantic interpretation of the phenomenon as such. In other words, there are still open questions concerning their role in communication.
Departing from the view that our understanding of the language system is crucially linked to the types of meanings expressed in languages of the world, and the types of processing mechanisms linked to different word types, one of the central objectives of this symposium is to try and explore the link between the gestures, pointing, deixis and language processes.
The aims of the symposium are aimed at providing further insights into: a) the semantic domains expressed by deictic words; b) the cognitive and linguistic mechanisms involved in deictic communicative processes; c) the differences between semantic and pragmatic functions of deictic terms.
Keywords: deixis, cognitive semantics, fast semantic processing, demonstratives, gestures, pointing
Keynote speakers:
Professor Holger Diessel, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany
Professor Peter Gardenfors, Lund University, Sweden
Professor Danijela Trenkic, University of York, U.K.
Professor Henriette Hendriks, University of Cambridge, U.K.
Professor Ljiljana Šarić, University of Oslo, Norway
Professor Svetlana Nedelcheva, Konstantin Preslavsky University of Shumen, Bulgaria
TOPICS
Submissions are invited for both talks and posters in any area of deictic communication, including (but not limited to):
Cross-linguistic perspectives on deictic language.
The linguistics of deictic expressions.
The evolution of deictic terms.
Deixis and grammaticalization.
The psycholinguistics of deictic expressions.
Elevation as a Deictic Category.
Less-known / rare deictic categories.
Language and gesture in spoken versus sign languages.
Co-speech, pro-speech and post-speech gestures.
Deictic communication across the lifespan.
Deictic communication across species.
Gestures in non-human animals, such as chimpanzees and other great apes
Abstract Submission
We invite abstracts of no more than 500 words, not including references. Abstracts must report previously unpublished work. Abstracts should include a clear statement of the theoretical issue to be addressed, the research methodology to be presented, and a concise summary of the findings/conclusion. Only one submission will be accepted by the same first-author and a maximum of 2 co-authored submissions.
Send your abstracts to: Ova e-mail adresa je zaštićena od spambota. Potrebno je omogućiti JavaScript da je vidite.
Please put DEICTES 2019 as the subject of your submission
Important Dates:
February 20, 2019: Submission deadline (abstracts for talks and poster)
March 1, 2019: Notification of Acceptance
March 31, 2019: Registration Opens
May 25, 2019: Registration Ends
June 28-29, 2019: Symposium dates
Programme Chair: Professor Marija M. Brala-Vukanović, The University of Rijeka, Croatia
Chair of Local Organising Committee: Professor Mihaela Matešić, The University of Rijeka, Croatia
Administrative support: Martina Baričević, Contact: Ova e-mail adresa je zaštićena od spambota. Potrebno je omogućiti JavaScript da je vidite.
The conference is made possible thanks to The Croatian National Science Foundation (HRZZ). The Symposium is organized as part of the project entitled ‘Semantic domains of deictic words’ (DEICTES), HRZZ grant agreement No. P-2018-01-2243)