Short Title: DISROM 6

Date: 29-May-2019 – 31-May-2019
Location: Bergamo, Italy
Contact Person: Piera Molinelli

Web Site: https://disrom6.unibg.it/home

Call Deadline: 31-Oct-2018

Meeting Description:

The Conference is one of a series of conferences on discourse markers in Romance languages (Madrid, 2010; Buenos Aires, 2011; Campinas, 2012; Heidelberg, 2015; Louvain-la-Neuve, 2017) and aims to build on the previous events, serving as a platform for internationally renowned linguists and young researchers alike to exchange views and ideas and to broaden their research perspectives.

This Conference’s theme will specifically question issues of crosslinguistic analyses of discourse markers in Romance languages and beyond.

Researchers on discourse markers in Romance languages are invited to submit contributions on this topic, as well as on related subjects including (but not restricted to):

– definition of the discourse marker category;
– lexicons of discourse markers;
– discourse markers and their relation to other pragmatic categories;
– syntax-prosody-discourse interface;
– sociolinguistic approaches to discourse markers;
– variation of discourse markers across registers, languages and language varieties;
– translation studies;
– L1 and L2 acquisition of discourse markers;
– diachronic studies;
– experimental studies;
– corpus-based and computational studies;
– applied studies (business language, legal discourse, educational settings, etc.).

Call for Papers:

Conference Presentation Modalities:

1. Oral Presentations
Presentations should be no longer than 20 minutes. Presentations will be followed by a 10- minute discussion.
2. Posters
– Posters should not be larger than A0 size (118.9 x 84.1 cm, landscape or portrait)
– Posters may be printed in colour or in black and white
– Authors must bring the printed posters to the conference
– Contributors are requested to be present during the poster sessions
– The poster session(s) will be preceded by a short one-minute poster boost session where authors will have the opportunity to present the topic of their research.

Abstracts and Conference Languages:

While contributions may be in any Romance language or in English, any accompanying material (handout, Powerpoint presentation) must be in English. Please indicate the language chosen for the presentation in your abstract.

Submission of Abstracts:

Abstracts should not exceed one page (single spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, not including figures and references, and must be uploaded as pdf). Abstracts can be written in any Romance language or in English.

Please submit your abstracts to: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=disrom2019

For the submission of abstracts for posters, you can either select the poster option on the online registration site or apply for both an oral presentation and a poster contribution. In the latter case, the scientific committee reserves the right to decide which option will be more appropriate for the proposal submitted.