North-South Epistemic Network meeting
Workshop
Start date: Wednesday 1 June 2022
Time: 09.00
End date: Thursday 2 June 2022
Time: 17.00
Location: C307, Department of Linguistics, Stockholm University
The topic of this meeting is the linguistic notion of evidentiality.
Research on epistemicity is a young and vibrant field within linguistics, encompassing studies of evidentiality (source of evidence), epistemic modality (certainty or lack thereof), egophoricity (involvement in the described situation), or engagement (relations between interlocutors), and many other subfields, the description of which is still in its infancy.
This meeting at Stockholm University will provide a starting point for an official cross-institutional synergy, resulting in future collaborations between individual researchers, as well as research groups and departments.
Workshop 1–2 June 2022
The workshop is organized in a hybrid format by researchers Karolina Grzech and Henrik Bergqvist (Department of Linguistics). Researchers from Finland and Germany will participate on site and researchers from Spain, Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands will participate online.
Programme
Wednesday 1 June
| 9:00–9:30 | Welcome |
| 9:30–10:00 | Henrik Bergqvist |
| 10:00–10:30 | Martine Bruil (online) |
| 10:30–11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00–11:30 | Kasper Boye (online) |
| 11:30–12:00 | Kalle Müller |
| 12:00–12:30 | Dorota Kotwica (online) |
| 12:30–14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00–14:30 | Seppo Kittilä |
| 14:30–15:00 | Sonja Gipper (online) |
| 15:00–15:30 | Coffee break |
| 15:30–16:00 | Erika Sandman |
| 16:00–16:30 | Karolina Grzech |
Thursday, 2 June
| 9:30–11:00 |
Discussion 1: Evidentiality, egophoricity, speech act participationWhat can we learn from functional parallels between egophoric and evidential systems? To what extent do reportative evidentials share the properties of other types of evidential expression? How do we incorporate the interactional properties of evidentials, such as their position in an interactional sequence, into their analysis in a consistent way? |
| 11:00–11:30 | Coffee break |
| 11:30–12:30 |
Discussion 2: Typology of epistemic expressionsWhat should we take into account when comparing epistemic systems? How can we ensure that we compare like with like when it comes to epistemic and intersubjective expressions? How can comparative/typological research contribute to a viable, empirically grounded theory of evidentiality and other epistemic categories? |
| 12:30–14:30 | Lunch |
| 14:30–16:00 |
Discussion 3: Epistemic marking and contextWhat counts as context in the analysis of epistemic expressions? How can intersubjective aspects of context be quantified and compared? What aspects of context should be documented in a corpus to enable subsequent work on epistemic expressions? |
| 16:00–16:30 | Coffee break |
| 16:30–17:00 | Final remarks & closing |
Contact
If you wish to attend the workshop on site or via zoom, please send an email to Karolina Grzech or Henrik Bergqvist.
Karolina Grzech: karolina.grzech@ling.su.se
Henrik Bergqvist: henrik.bergqvist@ling.su.se
Funding
Riksbankens Jubileumsfond
Last updated: May 18, 2022
Source: Department of Linguistics