Program for Rhetoric Culture II: Linguistics

Thursday, July 4, 2002	”Rhetoric in Language Theory” ”Rhetoric, Culture, and Language”
Friday, July 5, 2002	”Metaphor” ”Rhetoric and Optimality Theory”
Saturday, July 6, 2002	”Rhetoric in Grammar” ”Rhetoric in Grammar”
Sunday, July 7, 2002	”Modulations of Rhetorical Energy” General Debate: The Promises of a Rhetorical Theory of Language

Thursday, July 4, 2002

”Rhetoric in Language Theory”

Chair:
Ivo Strecker (Mainz)

Discussants:

Ellen Basso (Tucson) , Walter Bisang (Mainz), Stephen Tyler (Houston)

9. 00 - 10. 00
Welcoming Address

10. 00 - 11. 00
Christian Stetter (Aachen) : "Wilhelm von Humboldt's Rhetorical Theory of Language"   Abstract

Coffee Break

11. 30 – 12. 30
Maurizio Gnerre (Naples) : "Rhetoric Culture and Names"   Abstract

Lunch Break

”Rhetoric, Culture, and Language”

Chair:
Kwesi Yankah (Accra)

Discussants:
Jean Lydall (Mainz), Gerrit Dimmendaal (Cologne), Günter Senft (Nijmegen)

14. 30 – 15. 30
Walter Bisang (Mainz) : "Language Typology and Rhetoric"   Abstract

Coffee Break

16. 00 – 17. 00
Dilip Gaonkar (Evanston) : "Rhetorical Culture and the Cultural Rhetorics"   Abstract

17. 00 – 18. 00
Ellen Basso (Tucson) : "Rhetoric and Ordeals of Language"   Abstract

Friday, July 5, 2002

”Metaphor”

Chair:
Ellen Basso (Tucson)

Discussants:
Todd Oakley (Cleveland), Claus Deimel (Dresden), Bernd Heine (Cologne)

9. 00 - 10. 00
Marie-Cécile Bertau (Munich) : "Conceiving Language: The Case of Metaphor"   Abstract

Coffee Break

10. 30 - 11. 30
Anna-Maria Brandstetter (Mainz) : "The History of Metaphor"   Abstract

11. 30 - 12. 30
Grand Discussion on Metaphor

Lunch Break

"Rhetoric and Optimality Theory"

Chair: 
Maurizio Gnerre (Naples)

Discussants: 
Benjamin Lyngfelt (Göteborg) , Torgrim Solstad (Oslo) , Paul Hopper (Pittsburgh)

14. 30 - 15. 30
Stephen Tyler (Houston) : "Speaking"   Abstract

15. 30 - 16. 30
Helen de Hoop (Nijmegen) : "Rhetoric and Optimality Theory"   Abstract

16. 30 
Open Discussion

Saturday, July 6, 2002

”Rhetoric in Grammar”

Chair:
Suzanne Kemmer (Houston)

Discussants:
Maurizio Gnerre (Naples), Baye Yimam (Addis Ababa), Raimund Kastenholz (Mainz)

9. 00 – 10. 00
Norbert Cyffer (Vienna) : "Syntax and the Rhetorical Will"   Abstract

Coffee Break

10. 30 – 11. 30
John Du Bois (Santa Barbara) : "Dialogic Syntax, Stance Taking, and Intersubjectivity"   Abstract

11. 30 - 12. 30
Discussion

Lunch Break

"Rhetoric in Grammar"

Chair:
Raimund Kastenholz (Mainz)

Discussants:
William F. Hanks (Berkeley), Gerrit Dimmendaal (Cologne), John Du Bois (Santa Barbara),
Dan Sperber (Paris)

14. 00 - 15. 00
Glen Stillar (Waterloo) : "Metaredundancy Relations Among Grammar, Rhetoric, and Social Practice"

15. 00 - 16. 00
Bernd Heine (Cologne) : "On Creating Grammar"   Abstract

Coffee Break

17. 00 - 18. 00
Ivo Strecker (Mainz) and Baye Yimam (Addis Ababa) : "The Imperial Gerund: Tense and Tension in Language"   Abstract

Sunday, July 7, 2002

”Modulations of Rhetorical Energy”

Chair:
Stephen Tyler (Houston)

Discussants:
Felix Ameda (Leiden) , Werner Nothdurft (Fulda) , Norbert Cyffer (Vienna)

9. 00 – 10. 00
William F. Hanks (Berkeley) : "Deixis and Rhetoric"

Coffee Break

10. 30 - 11. 30
Gerrit Dimmendaal (Cologne) : "The Rhetoric of Attitude Markers"   Abstract

11. 30 - 12. 30
Jean Lydall (Mainz) : "The Rhetorical Energy of Ideophones"   Abstract

Lunch Break

General Debate:
The Promises of a Rhetorical Theory of Language

Chair:
Dan Sperber (Paris) and Stephen Tyler (Houston)

15. 00 - Open End
Discussion

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