We tend to argue over the answers to theoretical questions, when we certainly should just as often reflect on how we arrived at the questions we ask. The best way to understand where the questions came from is to look at their origins. I’ll look at how leading ideas associated with the Vienna Circle and […]
Defined narrowly, evidentiality pertains to the sources of knowledge or evidence whereby the speaker feels entitled to make a factual claim. But evidentiality may also be conceived more broadly as both providing epistemic justification and reflecting speaker’s attitude towards the validity of the communicated information, and hearer’s potential acceptability of the information, derived from the […]
From Austin (1962) through Silverstein (1985) to Blommaert (2015), the impossible search for the totality of a speech situation has opened up useful ways of expanding what we might need to include, even though we know we can never get there. Moving from Hymes’ (1974) SPEAKING acronym to a remodelled SEMIOSIS framework, this paper will […]
Nesta palestra, discutiremos a motivação por trás da proposta do projeto SPIRA, que pretende detectar insuficiência respiratória por meio da análise de voz. Este projeto faz parte de um programa de pesquisa com o objetivo de construir recursos linguísticos computacionais para o português, de modo a elevá-lo das fileiras de “linguagens de baixo recurso” e […]
Retomo no Abralin ao Vivo um tema com o qual me envolvi diretamente a partir de 2018, o Respeito Linguístico, contrapartida positiva do Preconceito Linguístico. Com base em Scherre (a sair em 2020), trago reflexões sobre contribuições da Sociolinguística Variacionista para o fortalecimento do respeito à variação da fala do outro e/ou da própria fala. […]
Despite more than 40 years of code-switching (CS) research there is still considerable disagreement on some of the most basic notions on which competing theories depend. In this talk I will attempt simultaneously to introduce beginners to the field and encourage seasoned CS researchers to questions some of their tacit assumptions. I will do this […]
In the lecture I’ll try to give a panorama of autochthonous languages of Siberia and the Russian Far East touching upon their documentation, current functioning, language contacts in the area and the results of these contacts, language shift in some local groups of autochthonous populations. I’ll trace back the starting points and the development of […]
Variationist sociolinguistic research in Australia has grown rapidly and fruitfully in the last decade. Because of Australia’s unique geographic, historical, cultural and social configuration, Australia-based sociolinguists have uncovered a range of unique perspectives that we will share in this panel. These include how language change has taken place in major multi-ethnic urban centres like Sydney, […]
This talk will offer an overview of a current understanding of the content and the form of linguistic roots. It first reviews the cases i) against semantic content of uncategorised roots and ii) for Late Insertion of roots; then it investigates how native speakers identify roots. First, the idea that roots may be polysemous or may encode the shadow of […]
This roundtable will discuss how different pathologies influence the production and the processing of prosody and phonetics/phonology. It will be given a special attention to different techniques of collecting and analyzing linguistic data. Marc Pell will present a critical review about how Parkinson’s Disease affects the ability to express and interpret meanings by speech prosody. […]