Research group (C-1) Deixis and Frames of Reference. Perspectivation in Language, Text, and Image of the Excellence Cluster Topoi (Berlin) organizes a workshop that will bring together the doctoral students and PostDoc researchers of the group and associated researchers with distinguished scholars from different fields, who have a special expertise in topics of crucial relevance for our projects. Core topic is the phenomenon of perspectivation in language. The workshop will be organized in two sections, each of which will consist of both guest lectures and presentations by Topoi members and associate researchers.
The first section will focus on alternative means by which a speaker adopts a certain perspective in a given situation. More precisely, emphasis will be given to deictic motion, to the distinction between deictic and non-deictic concepts and to the variety of patterns languages employ with respect to spatial frames of reference.
The second section will focus in particular on the asymmetry between Goal and Source in motion events. The topic will be addressed from various angles, viz. typological, diachronic, psycholinguistic, etc.
25.7.2014 | |
16:15 - 16:30 | Welcome Frank Kammerzell |
16:30 - 17:00 | Introduction to the topic of SOURCE-GOAL assymetry Thanasis Georgakopoulos |
17:00 - 18:00 | Cross-linguistic approaches to the Source-Goal asymmetry Anetta Kopecka |
18:15 - 19:15 | The source-goal asymmetry in dressing and undressing events cross-linguistically Frank Seifart |
26.7.2014 | |
10:00 - 11:00 | Sources and goals in static descriptions: The synchrony and diachrony of the competition Tatiana Nikitina |
11:00 - 11:30 | Put and take events in Koĩts (Sunwar) Dörte Borchers |
11:30 - 12:00 | Profiling of the Goal in Ancient Greek: Explicit expression as a means of salience Thanasis Georgakopoulos |
14:00 - 15:00 | Deictic motion, deictic tense and constructions of perspective Kiki Nikiforidou |
15:00 - 16:00 | The Hittite demonstratives: subjective construal of speech participants’ spaces Petra Goedegebuure |
16:15 - 16:45 | Deixis as matter of actionality Marianna Spano |
16:45 - 17:45 | A model of reference frames for spatial and temporal language Thora Tenbrink |
17:45 - 18:45 | Figure-Ground Reversals in Language and Visual Perception A Cognitive Semiotic Approach Martin Thiering |