Disfiller2021: Discourse-Pragmatic Markers, Fillers and Filled Pauses: pragmatic, multi-modal, socio- and psycholinguistic perspectives University of the West of England, Frenchay Campus Brisol, UK, July 14-15, 2021 |
Conference website | https://www1.uwe.ac.uk/cahe/research/bristolcentreforlinguistics/events.aspx |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=disfiller2021 |
Abstract registration deadline | February 14, 2021 |
Submission deadline | February 14, 2021 |
Disfiller 2021
Discourse-Pragmatic Markers, Fillers and Filled Pauses: pragmatic, multi-modal, socio- and psycholinguistic perspectives
UWE, Bristol, 14 -15 July 2021
The aim of this workshop is to bring together scholars working on so-called 'fillers' and filled pauses from pragmatic, multi-modal, psycho- and sociolinguistic backgrounds.
The last 25 - 30 years has seen an explosion of research and publications on discourse and pragmatic markers, and the development of the Discourse-Pragmatic Variation and Change network.
Less work has been done to integrate psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic, or indeed multimodal, approaches to these phenomena, though many publications acknowledge the speech processing functions of fillers and filled pauses. These are the interdisciplinary gaps which the current workshop aims to address, hoping to begin a dialogue between scholars with different perspectives on these difficult-to-define items and to investigate their constructions and collostructions in spontaneous speech in English and other languages.
Submission Guidelines
All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference.
The questions we will be posing:
- do discourse markers, fillers and/or filled pauses constitute 'constructions' ?
- what characterises different discourse marker and filler constructions? Are there universals across different languages?
- how do children acquire discourse markers and fillers?
- how do second language learners acquire discourse markers and fillers? (Should they?)
- what attitudes and ideologies surround discourse markers, fillers and filled pauses? (eg stereotypically considered to be non-standard and indicate less educated and less articulate speakers)
- are there conventionalised combinations of DMs, fillers and filled pauses and paralinguistic features such as High-Rise Terminals, raised eye-brows or rise-fall intonation?
- discourse markers, fillers and filled pauses in contact situations: MATter or PATtern?
We invite Abstracts which address these questions and which provide empirical evidence in relation to:
- the status of discourse markers, fillers and filled pauses
- descriptive studies of filled pause collostructions
- sociolinguistic aspects of fillers and filled pauses
- child and second language acquisition of fillers
- the role of paralinguistic features in collostructions with DMs, fillers and filled pauses
- bilingual filled pause collostructions in contact situations
Please submit your 300 word abstract to Easy Chair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=disfiller2021) by 14 February 2021.
Committees
Program Committee
- Kate Beeching, UWE, Bristol
- Anna Piasecki, UWE, Bristol
- Minna Kirjavainen-Morgan, UWE, Bristol
- Luke Rudge, UWE, Bristol
Organizing committee
- Kate Beeching, UWE, Bristol
- Minna Kirjavainen-Morgan, UWE, Bristol
- Luke Rudge, UWE, Bristol
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to Kate.Beeching@uwe.ac.uk