| Call for Abstracts |
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canonical questions, the workshop is particularly interested in the
relation between questions and focus in the different modules of
grammar, and in the role of the intonation contour in different
questioning types. Where do questions show question- specific stress or
phrasing patterns? Where do wh-phrases show similarities to focused
phrases? Why do the alternatives in alternative questions show focus
prosody? Intervention effects are an important topic in the interaction
between focus and wh- phrases and/or alternatives in alternative
questions. Are there other interactions as well? What question-specific
intonation contours or question-specific assignment of intonation
contours do different languages show, and how is the variation to be
understood?
The non-canonical questions that the workshop is interested in include
those which (i) besides being used as requests for information, have
further pragmatic dimensions; (ii) have non-interrogative syntax;
and/or (iii) may be identified as non-canonical through their prosody,
or any combination of these properties. Example types are declarative
questions, tag questions, and rhetorical questions. We would like to
see if various well- known –but not uncontroversial- properties of
non-canonical questions stand up to closer scrutiny: Are declarative
questions and tags always confirmation-seeking rather than
information-seeking? Do declarative questions always have rising
intonation and why? How to approach the illocutionary force of
assertion in rhetorical questions and to what extent can their prosody
inform us? How do modal particles such as schon in German contribute to the rhetorical question pragmatics? |
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| Guidelines for Abstracts |
| 1 page (one optional page of examples, graphics and/or references) |
| Reasonable font and margins |
| At the beginning of the abstract, please include name(s) of the author(s), their affiliation, and a contact e-mail |
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| Abstract Submission |
| Please send abstracts to questions.dgfs@gmail.com by August 26th 2014 |
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