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31.10.2009

Dimensions of Ambiguity

  • Ort: Tübingen
  • Beginn: 05.11.09
  • Ende: 07.11.09
  • Disziplinen: Literaturwissenschaft, Sprachwissenschaft, Medien-/Kulturwissenschaft
  • Sprachen: Sprachenübergreifend

Phenomena of ambiguity provide an interesting and controversial area of research for linguistics and literary studies as well as for rhetoric. A particularly rewarding field of enquiry is the resolution and production of ambiguity in text, speech, gestures and images.

 

The aim of this conference is to bring together the stimuli of these perspectives and focus on the dimensions of ambiguity within an interdisciplinary dialogue. We intend to address the following questions:

- How is ambiguity processed and resolved?

- How does ambiguity arise? How can it be generated?

- What is the communicative value of ambiguity?

 

The following aspects may provide a first approach to the discussion:

- Ellipsis and ambiguity in public speeches at the interface between syntax, semantics, pragmatics and psycholinguistics;

- The relationship between linguistic ambiguities and ambiguous subject matter in literary texts (possible examples are the different versions of the last sentence of Dickens's Great Expectations or the letter A becoming an ambiguous sign in Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter);

- The status of mishearings and mondegreens at the prelexical and lexical level within a model of language processing;

- Beyond the ambiguity of linguistic signs: the ambiguity of the signified, e.g. conceptual figure-ground-effects and their manifestations in language;

- Ambiguity in visual sign systems, e.g. in images, films or gesture-based texts.

 

 

Program

 

Thursday, November 5, 2009

 

6:00 p.m.

Lukas Grimm, Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst, Stuttgart

Der Student von Prag, 1913 (Student of Prague),

St. Johannes Church

 

8:00 p.m.

Welcome Dinner

Die Kelter

 

 

Friday, November 6, 2009

 

8:30-8:45 a.m.

Nikola Wiegeler, University of Tübingen

Gebärdenkodes. Die Gebärde als rhetorisches Element in der kommunikativen Interaktion. Körperliche Stummformen in Pantomime, commedia dell'arte, Ballett, Theater und Stummfilm

 

8:45-9:45 a.m.

Lukas Grimm, Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst, Stuttgart

Musikalische Ambiguität in der Praxis: Vertonen von Stummfilmen

 

9:45-10:15 a.m.

Coffee Break

 

10:15-10:30 a.m.

Melanie Henschke, University of Tübingen

Elliptical Ambiguities

 

10:30-11:30 a.m.

Jason Merchant, University of Chicago

Context and Types of Ambiguity

 

11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

Patrick McCrae, University of Hamburg

The Role of Cross-Modal Context in Syntactic Disambiguation

 

12:30-1:30 p.m.

Lunch Break

 

1:30-1.45 p.m.

Felix Balmer, University of Tübingen

Processing Connected Speech: Triggers for Mondegreens

 

1.45:-2:45 p.m.

Ulrich H. Frauenfelder, University of Geneva

Ambiguity in Language: A Psycholinguistic Lever for Studying Language Processing

 

2:45-3:45 p.m.

Anika Falkert, University of Avignon

On the Relationship between Complexity and Ambiguity in some Varieties of Spoken French

 

3:45-4:15 p.m.

Coffee Break

 

4:15-4:30 p.m.

Olga Springer, University of Tübingen

Ambiguity in Charlotte Brontë's Villette

 

4:30-5:30 p.m.

Eleanor Cook, University of Toronto

Ambiguity and the Poets

 

5:30-6:30 p.m.

Burkhard Niederhoff, University of Bochum

Literary Leitmotifs and the Unfolding of Ambiguity

 

6:30-7:30 p.m.

Alena A. Fidlerová, Charles University in Prague

Authors of the 17th Century Philosophical Languages on Ambiguity

 

8:00 p.m

Dinner

Casino

 

 

Saturday, November 7, 2009

 

8:30-8:45 a.m.

Markus Ising, University of Tübingen

Cognitive Ambiguity: The Role of Collective and Dual Reconceptualisations in Grammar and Lexicon of Romance Languages

 

8:45-9:45 a.m.

Bernhard Wälchli, University of Bern

Number in Lexical Typology: Part-Whole Interaction in Form and Function

 

9:45-10:45 a.m.

Ronald R. Jacobsen, University of Southern Denmark

Intentional Ambiguity in Questions and their Answers

 

10:45-11:15 a.m.

Coffee Break

 

11.15-11.30 a.m.

Thomas Susanka, University of Tübingen

Mehrdeutigkeit in bildlichen Persuasionsvorgängen

 

11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

Klaus Sachs-Hombach, Technical University of Chemnitz

Ambiguitäten im Bild

 

12:30-1:30 p.m.

Jan Albert van Laar, University of Groningen

Dealing with Ambiguity in Argumentative Discussion

 

1:30-2:30 p.m.

Lunch and Departure

 

You are cordially invited

Von:  Markus Ising

Publiziert von: Kai Nonnenmacher