Discourse Particles and Information Processing

in Romance Languages

 

 

 

Wednesday, July 11th

 

 

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9:30 – 12:00
Session 1
Cognitive approaches to discourse particles

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Cognitive origin of discourse markers
Barbara Job (Universität Bielefeld)

 

Cognitive evidence on focus particles
Forschungsgruppe Diskurspartikeln und Kognition
(Universität Heidelberg)

Chair: José Portolés
 

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12:00 - 13:30
Lunch

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13:30 – 15:30
Session 2
Theoretical approaches to discourse particles

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Methodological tools from Relevance Theory and Argumentation Theory for the contrastive study of discourse markers in Spanish and in English
José Portolés (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
Silvia Murillo (Universidad de Zaragoza)

 

Argumentation Theory, Relevance Theory and discourse particles: incompatibilities and shortcomings
Araceli López Serena (Universidad de Sevilla)
Margarita Borreguero Zuloaga (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)

Chair: Salvador Pons

 

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15:30 – 16:15
Session 3
Young  researchers’ forum

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Coffee break and poster presentations

 

 

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 16:15 – 18:30
Session 4
  Discourse markers and text types

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Intelligibility and processing of legal language:
discourse markers in Court judgments
Manuel Casado, Ramón González, Carmen Llamas, Inés Olza
(Universidad de Navarra)

 

From boosting to hedging: on italian veramente
Jacqueline Visconti (Univesità di Genova)
Davide Ricca (Università di Torino)

 

Metarepresentational processing of discourse markers
Sebastián Bonilla (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

Chair: Óscar Loureda

 

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18:30 – 19:15
Visit to the eyetracker-laboratory (optional)

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20:30
Dinner

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Thursday, July 12th

 

 

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9:30 – 12:00
Session 5
Discourse particles and information stucture

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Discourse markers and information structure
Manuela Moroni (Università di Trento)

 

The development of the Spanish reformulative marker o sea:
on Grice and paradigms
Salvador Pons (Universitat de València)

 

Italian and French additive focus adverbs anche and aussi:
information hierarchy and discourse functions
Anna-Maria De Cesare (Universität Basel)

Chair: Margarita Borreguero
 

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12:00 - 13:30
Lunch

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13:30 – 16:00
Session 6
The function of discourse particles
in textual information processing

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Focus particles in Germanic and Romance languages: Can facultative
linguistic categories shape perspective-taking in discourse?
Christine Dimroth (Universität Osnabrück)

 

Spanish discourse particles hombre and mujer
Antonio Briz (Universidad de Valencia)

 

Discourse markers types and functions
Maria Josep Cuenca (Universidad de Valencia)

Chair: Araceli López Serena

 

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16:00 - 17:00
Coffee break

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17:00 – 19:30
Session 7
  Discourse traditions and pragmatic markers

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From adverb to discourse marker: on discoursive uses of adverbs
así and bien from a diachronic approach
Javier Rodríguez Molina (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)

 

Expressions of stance in the history of English
Beatrix Busse (Universität Heidelberg)

Chair: Silvia Murillo

 

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19:30 - 20:00
Session 8
  Closing Panel

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