CALL FOR PAPERS Polysemy and Semantic Indetermination Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC) 22-25 August 2001 Important dates: Deadline for submission of abstracts: by 15 May (postage date) Acceptance notice: by 30 May Abstracts must not exceed 500 words and may be sent by e-mail or by post (hard copy AND floppy if latter). Accepted formats: Postscript, PDF and Word for Windows Please specify format on floppy label Abstracts should be sent to: Programa de Pos-graduacao em Linguistica Centro de Comunicação e Expressao Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina Campus Universitario da Trindade Bloco B- Sala 314 88040-970 Florianopolis SC Brazil e-mail: pgl@cce.ufsc.br Introduction: The lexicon issue, particularly the multiplicity of senses associated to lexical items, has become a matter of growing importance in linguistic research. This conference means to offer an opportunity for interdisciplinary debate on the theme, encouraging participation of scholars from different areas. Relevant themes include but are not restricted to: - polysemy and context - semantics, pragmatics and the lexicon - computational approaches to the lexicon - semantic indetermination and pragmatic negotiation - polysemy, discourse and argument The event is planned so as to avoid simultaneous activities of any kind. Therefore, only a limited number of papers will be accepted (eight). Each paper presentation is allocated a thirty-minute slot, twenty minutes for the presentation itself and ten minutes for questions and discussion. Abstracts may be written in Portuguese, French or English. Organizers: Linguistics Post-Graduate Program-UFSC English Language Post-Graduate Program-UFSC Organizing Committee: Pedro Garcez (UFRGS) Heronides Maurilio de Melo Moura (UFSC) Marco Rocha (UFSC) Leda Tomitch (UFSC) Mara Sophia Zanotto (PUC-SP) Invited speakers: Oswald Ducrot (EHESS-Paris) Marion Carel (EHESS-Paris) Alan Cruse (Manchester) Jacob Mey (Odense) Georges Kleiber (Strasbourg) Armelle Le Bars (Sorbonne Nouvelle) Planned activities: 7 invited talks 3 debate sessions 2 tutorials 8 paper presentations Conference languages: French, English and Portuguese Bilingual handouts (in Portuguese and English or French) will be provided for attendants in tutorials and invited talks. Speakers presenting accepted papers who are not native speakers of Portuguese may participate in the bilingual handout scheme, but are requested to send their original handouts appropriately in advance. Programme: 22-08-2001 8:45a.m. Opening 9a.m.-10:30a.m Invited talk Oswald Ducrot (EHESS-Paris) Polysemie et Argumentation 10:30-10:45a.m. Break 10:45a.m.-12:15 Invited talk Alan Cruse (Manchester). On the individuation of polysemic sense units: types and degrees of semantic autonomy 12:15p.m.-2p.m. Lunch 2p.m.- 4p.m Papers (4 presentations) 4p.m.-4:30p.m. Coffee break 4:30p.m.-7:00p.m. Tutorial 1 La semantique argumentative a l'epreuve de la description lexicale Oswald Ducrot e Marion Carel 7:00p.m.-7:30p.m. Break 7:30p.m. to 9:30p.m. Tutorial 2 Polysemy and Pragmatics Jacob Mey 23-08-2001 9a.m.-10:30a.m Invited talk Jacob Mey (Odense) Polysemy and Pragmatics 10:30-10:45a.m. Break 10:45a.m.-12:15a.m Invited talk Georges Kleiber (Strasbourg) La polysemie, a la croisee des chemins 12:15p.m.-2p.m. Lunch 2p.m.- 4p.m Debate session Dictionaries and computational approaches to the lexicon Armelle Le Bars (Sorbonne Nouvelle) Marco Rocha(UFSC) Third person to be announced 4p.m.-4:30p.m. Break 4:30p.m.-7:00p.m. Tutorial 1 (cont.) La semantique argumentative a l'epreuve de la description lexicale Oswald Ducrot e Marion Carel 7:00p.m.-7:15p.m. Break 7:15p.m.-9:15p.m. Tutorial 2 (cont.) Polysemy and Pragmatics Jacob Mey 24-08-2001 Invited Talks 8:30a.m.-9:30p.m. Heronides Moura (UFSC) Polissemia e Vagueza 9:30a.m.-10:30a.m. Marco Rocha Ideas for a WordNet-like lexical database of Portuguese 10:30a.m.-10:45a.m. Break 10:45a.m.-12:15 Marion Carel (EHESS-Paris) Ambiguite argumentative et predication 12:15p.m.-2p.m. Lunch 2p.m.-4p.m. Debate session Indeterminacy and Negotiation of Meaning Mara Zanotto (coordinator) Jacob Mey (Odense) Josalba Vieira (UFSC) 4:30p.m.-7:30p.m. Tutorial 1 (cont.) La semantique argumentative a l'epreuve de la description lexicale Oswald Ducrot e Marion Carel 7:30p.m.-9:30p.m. Tutorial 2 (cont.) Polysemy and Pragmatics Jacob Mey 25-08-2001 8a.m.-10a.m. Papers (4 presentations) 10a.m.-12:00 Tutorial 2 (cont.) Polysemy and Pragmatics Jacob Mey 12:00-2:00p.m. Lunch 2:00-4:00p.m. Debate session Psycholinguistics and Polysemy Regine Kolinsky (U.Libre de Bruxelles) Edwiges Moratto (UNICAMP) Leonor Scliar (UFSC) 4:30p.m. Closing Fees : Conference and one tutorial: R$ 100,00 Conference and two tutorials: R$ 130,00 Conference only: R$ 60,00 Note: One US dollar is roughly equivalent to two reais (R$ above) Conference forms (below) should be printed and sent to: Pos-graduacao em Linguistica Centro de Comunicacao e Expressao Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina Campus Universitario da Trindade Bloco B Sala 314 88040-970 Florianopolis SC _________________________________________________________________________ Conference Polisemy and Semantic Indetermination Name_____________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________ Institution____________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________ Tutorial 1 ( ) Tutorial 2 ( ) Conference only ( ) __________________________________________________________________________ Fees should be settled by cheque or bank order payable to Heronides Maurilio de Melo Moura. The conference will take place at Hotel Engenho Velho, a hotel in the northeastern region of Santa Catarina Island, where Florianópolis is located. The hotel is roughly twenty kilometers away from central Florianópolis. Participants are thus advised to stay at the conference venue. Facilities are quite comfortable and appropriate. The hotel has a swimming pool, tennis court, football pitch and plenty of natural woods and lagoon mangrove areas for walks. Wild life watchers will have plenty to enjoy. Prices in Brazilian reais listed below are full board per person per day. Participants are asked to do their own reservation arrangements in due advance, preferably in suitable groups for sharing if double or triple room choices are selected. Single room R$ 70,00 Double room R$ 60,00 (each person) Triple room R$ 55,00 (each person) The hotel administration should be contacted by the phone: +55 +48 2697000 or at the site http://www.engenhovelho.com.br See you in Florianopolis