• Annual linguists' day 2008 •
CRISSP
Saturday April 26th, CRISSP
Organization
Dany Jaspers, Lobke Aelbrecht
On Saturday, April 26, 2008, the annual
linguists’ day of the Linguistic Society of Belgium will be organized by the
Center for Research in Syntax, Semantics and Phonology (CRISSP).
Participation is free. The venue is the Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel,
campus Koningsstraat (nr. 336 in 1030 Brussels).
The organizers have set up a separate website containing all relevant information (programme, venue, travel information, fee). The invitation that was sent out is available here.
Organized by
Dominique Longrée and Sylvie Mellet
FUSL, Brussels, May 22-24 2008
New Approaches in Text Linguistics
The development of the field of
text linguistics over the last years has yielded insights at several levels of
methodological reflection and practice, resulting in new issues for
investigation.
On one hand, the development of computerized textual corpora has reminded
researchers of the text as a complex object, both linear and network-like, and
largely shaped by its context (editorial practices and their variety, the co-texts
with which the text is associated in a given corpus, the genre label given to it,
etc.). What is a text in the digital age? How can analysis grapple with such
complexity? And which definition of a co-text will effectively account for the
multiplicity of mirror texts obtained from a hypertextual reading?
On the other hand, the new tools for the processing of computerized corpora open
the way for stimulating investigations, which in turn raise methodological
questions. In the first place, tagging the digitized texts implies discussing
the relevance of the textual units chosen for analysis: i.e., what to do with
reported speech? “sequences” (J.-M. Adam)? or “passages” (F. Rastier)? The
process of morpho-syntactic labeling also raises the question of the relevance
of grammatical categories as tools for the stylistic and generic
characterization of a text. Furthermore, the fairly easy access to extensive
digital data requires a new appraisal of the quantitative methods of analysis:
does standard statistics still apply in this case?
By proposing to consider “New
Approaches in Text Linguistics”, the forthcoming thematic conference of the
Belgian Linguistics Society, organized by the SeSLa (Séminaire des Sciences du
Langage des Facultés universitaires Saint-Louis, Brussels), in collaboration
with UMR 6039 “BCL-Bases, Corpus, Langage” (CNRS - University of Nice-Sophia
Antipolis), hopes at least to stimulate constructive reflection on these
challenging issues.
Important dates:
- paper sessions scheduled on 22–24 May 2008
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