Full Title: Verbs of Thought and Speech: Pragmaticalization Paths across Languages

Date: 07-Sep-2022 – 09-Sep-2022
Location: Salamanca, Spain
Contact Person: Alberto Pardal Padín
Meeting Email: < click here to access email >
Web Site: https://thoughtandspeech.usal.es

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Pragmatics; Text/Corpus Linguistics; Typology

Call Deadline: 15-Apr-2022

Meeting Description:

These two relatively large groups show some common features: they are highly frequent, they are commonly used in interaction and they are prone to deal with (inter)subjectivity. The main aim of this conference is to delve into the pragmaticalization of thought and speech verbs in order to shed light on the main tendencies shown by the languages of the world and to try to establish some shared trends across languages and language-families.

Final Call for Papers:

Deadline extension for the conference ”Verbs of Thought and Speech: pragmaticalization paths across languages”. New deadline: April 15 2022.

Keynote Speakers:
We are glad to inform you that the conference will have the following keynote speakers:

Concepción Company Company (National Autonomous University of Mexico)
Chiara Fedriani (University of Genova)
Heiko Narrog (Tohoku University)

PROPOSALS
Topics may include, but are not limited to:

Typological approaches to the pragmaticalization of verbs of thought and speech
Contrastive analysis in different languages
Diachronic studies on specific languages
The emergence of discourse markers out of verbs of thought and speech
Subjectivity and intersubjectivity at play: thinking and speaking as activities-in-interaction
Those interested in presenting their papers, please send your proposal via the submission form before April 15 2022. Speakers will be notified of their acceptance by May 15.

We welcome proposals from researchers on any stage of their career. Proposals may be presented in any language, but the use of English is recommended as a lingua franca.