Topic 1: LANGUAGE AND THE MEDIA
Print media, radio, television, the Internet, social networks… All the media bring daily a superabundance of information, whether reliable or misleading, while recent advances in artificial intelligence have introduced new forms of communication, for example ChatGPT offering conversations between a human and a machine.
Topic 2: THE EUROPE OF LANGUAGES
Is Europe a mosaic of separate languages, or a melting pot of languages in contact, naturally influencing each other, where lexical items are transferred from one language to another? The languages lend and borrow constantly, with some words stuck in transit… Does linguistic similarity ensure mutual intelligibility? The special case of place names: to keep the original form, or translate? Plurilingualism facing globalisation: can we diagnose the beginnings of an international vocabulary?
Topic 3: GRAMMATICALISATION AND DYNAMIC SYNCHRONY
In the context of dynamic synchrony, grammaticalization enables a lexical unit to become a grammatical unit at the syntactic level. This thematic session will provide an opportunity to examine whether the original use disappears or is maintained, and how the new grammatical units fit semantically into the paradigm of their syntactic functions. Moreover, it will explore specific contexts when grammaticalization results in a new use similar to that of phatèmes (phatic expressions) at the pragmatic level.
Workshop (in English and French): FUNCTIONAL SEMIOLOGY – PAST AND PRESENT
The functional linguistics project as outlined by André Martinet was successfully developed into a fuctional semiology by notable linguists as Luis J. Prieto, Georges Mounin, Eric Buyssens and Jeanne Martinet in the second half of the twentieth century. Recent developments in both linguistics and semiotics, however, call for a revision of both the theoretical foundations of such a semiological project and of the outcomes it can still provide to contemporary semiotics and to linguistic research as framed within semiology (an implicit tenet of Martinet’s functionalism). The present workshop will thus welcome presentations on the history of functional semiology, and of the actuality of its methods when applied to current fields of semiotics, from semiotics of culture to bio and cognitive semiotics.
Individual contributions: on other topics
Pre-registration and deadline for submissions: March 31, 2024
Abstracts should not exceed one A4 page (RTF format). Abstracts submitted must include the title of the communication, the name(s) and affiliation(s) of the researcher(s), an electronic mail address and be accompanied by an indication of their purpose (contribution to one of the three topics or the workshop above or individual communication). Communication abstracts received will be reviewed by the Scientific Committee of the Colloquium. Participants will be informed on the acceptance of their contribution (topic contribution or individual communication) by the end of May. The second call for abstracts will be sent in early June to the persons having responded to the first call.
The pre-registration and the abstract must be sent to BOTH email addresses: