Jour : 12 septembre 2023

Une version de l’appel en anglais est disponible sur le site de la
Rencontre : https://phd-geras-2024.sciencesconf.org

Nous accueillons les propositions de communication des doctorants dont
les recherches portent, par exemple, sur les thématiques suivantes :
–       Milieux et domaines spécialisés anglophones
–       Analyse des discours, genres spécialisés, fiction à substrat
professionnel
–       Didactique et secteur LANSAD
–       Corpus spécialisés, linguistique de corpus
–       Traductologie et traduction spécialisée
–       Histoire et épistémologie de la recherche en anglais de spécialité.

Ces rencontres constituent un moment privilégié de réflexion et
d’échange où les doctorants présentent l’avancement de leur travail à
un auditoire bienveillant et, généralement, en présence de leur
directeur de recherche, sous la forme d’une communication structurée
de vingt minutes, suivie de réponses aux questions. L’échange peut
aborder plus spécifiquement certains aspects de la recherche en cours
: questions d’ordre pratique ou méthodologique, lien avec une
communication ou une publication scientifique, préparation en vue de
la soutenance, etc.

Une table ronde animée par un enseignant-chercheur du GERAS permet
ensuite d’aborder le parcours de thèse et ses perspectives d’ouverture
scientifique et professionnelle. Les participants sont invités à
soumettre des questions et à sélectionner les thématiques qu’ils
souhaitent voir aborder à cette occasion.

Les soumissions sont à déposer sur la plateforme Science Conf
(https://phd-geras-2024.sciencesconf.org/) en indiquant :
•   nom, prénom
•   adresse électronique
•   année d’inscription en thèse
•   nom du laboratoire de recherche de rattachement
•   nom du directeur ou de la directrice de thèse (assistera aux
rencontres doctorales : oui/non/ne sait pas encore)
•   intitulé de la thèse
•   intitulé et résumé de la communication (200 à 300 mots environ).
Seules les inscriptions complètes seront prises en compte par le
comité organisateur.

Date limite d’envoi des propositions : le 31 décembre 2023
Contact (si questions) : doctorales-geras@mailo.com

Comité organisateur
Maud BÉNARD (université Paris Cité)
Harry BEVAN (université Grenoble Alpes)
Nedjah ZERROUKI (université Clermont Auvergne)


Maud Bénard pour le comité d’organisation des doctorales 2024
Doctorante Sciences de la traduction
CLILLAC-ARP (EA 3967) – ED 622
Université Paris Cité
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7031-8637

Vous trouverez en suivant ce lien et aussi ci-dessous l’appel à communications pour un colloque intitulé ‘The Spatial Imagination in Postwar and Contemporary American Literature and Art’ qui se tiendra à l’Université de Strasbourg le 21 et le 22 mars 2024 avec le soutien de l’Institut Universitaire de France.

Invitées d’honneur confirmées: Dr. Judith Madera (Wake Forest University) et l’écrivaine américaine Dawn Raffel.

La date limite pour l’envoi des propositions est le 30 septembre 2023.

The concept of preconstruction in enunciative linguistics

The concept of preconstruction has received various acceptations in enunciative linguistics and consequently has been described as “highly plastic” by Marie-Anne Paveau (Paveau, 2017). Drawing an inventory of what has become of the term since its first introduction into discourse linguistic studies in the 1970s, she underlines what she considers to be one of its main characteristics, namely that it refers to a construction that is an “interpretative gesture” as well as a “recognition procedure” and which mobilizes cultural as well as cognitive resources.
Within the framework of the Theory of Enunciative and Predicative Operations (TEPO), the concept of preconstruction has often been differentiated from that of presupposition, a distinction pointed out by Antoine Culioli as he discussed the concept in his 1975-76 seminar. The preconstructed, he says, is a text and a metatext (Culioli, 1975-76, session 5), in other words, it is a linguistic form that refers to a sequence of operations, and its operative form is a way out of the presupposed, whose meaning and usage vary according to authors and study fields, from the philosophy of language (Russel, Frege and Strawson) to pragmatics (Fillmore, Stalnaker, among others), and in particular integrated pragmatics (Ducrot and Anscombre) (see Ducrot 1969, Zuber 1975, or more recently Kleiber 2012, Deloor 2012).
However, if the preconstructed element, in the sense given to the term in the TEPO, is a metaform, it differs from an underlying structure for at least two reasons: i) it refers to a linguistic form that could be attested and which is reconstructed from an attested utterance (Fisher 1983: 168, quoted by La Mantia 2020:167); ii) it refers to an operation (implicit or explicit) taking place prior to the on-going utterance and not to an abstract representation of that utterance. The preconstructed element also differs from an underlying structure because, as text (in the sense of a sequence of operations) and metatext, it is part of a family of paraphrases that allow to adjust meaning in discourse. As such, they differ from the natural logic inferences of the philosophy of language because of their formal and metalinguistic nature. Thus, the answer to the question Who can read English? Jean can read English refers to more than one preconstructed element and at least the following two: i) At least Jean can read English and ii) Only Jean can read English (1975-76 Seminar, session 8, p. 102). The objective is, says Culioli, to propound forms that make it possible “to bring out rigorously the way the utterance is constructed and to see how it can be represented so as to be assigned such or such value accordingly” (idem). Selecting the preconstructed element will, therefore, be part of the language activity (the epilinguistic activity) of the speaking subjects, an activity that precedes every on-going utterance. As such, it will be necessary to try and determine which criteria are engaged in the non-conscious selection of the preconstructed element (prosodic, contextual, situational, etc., cf. Wyld 2014).
Yet, though the form given to the preconstructed element must be reusable (Culioli 75-76, session 5) and result from a calculation (Culioli 75-76, session 9, p.114), the way it is generated remains to be defined. It is associated with an anaphora-like operation (for instance, in the functioning of the French imparfait or the BE-ING form in English) or with an “effect of relating to a preconstructed element”, again for the imparfait (Chuquet 2000: 69), although it seems hardly possible to distinguish the preconstructed element and the operation from which it results. One could, thus, speak of a certain vagueness of the preconstructed.
The lack of a stabilized definition has been emphasized in papers written within the framework of the TEPO, some of which put forward an approach in terms of validation of the predicative relation relative to a locator disconnected from the on-going situation, which results in a relation that is pre-asserted or non-asserted in the on-going discourse (Bouscaren and Chuquet, 1987). This approach has been particularly productive in works on verbal nominalizations, aspectual forms (BE-ING, HAVE-EN, imparfait), relative clauses, THAT-noun clauses in indirect speech and in focalizing structures (extraposition, cleft sentences, etc.), as well as works on subordination in general (cause, condition, concession, purpose, etc.), which relate to locators that are said to be preconstructed.
In order to further reflect on the concept, we invite submissions for presentations questioning its very theoretical background, the distinction between glosses, paraphrases and the preconstructed, between the preconstructed, the presupposed and prediscourse, and the part they play, for instance, in irony, argumentation and figures in discourse, which revisit analyses of markers that have been extensively studied along these lines (cf. supra) and propound analyses of markers that have been overlooked so far, particularly in oral discourse (such as like, genre, du coup, say, etc.), which question the functioning of the preconstructed in incipits, in text poetics and genetics, in brief genres (motto, proverbs, ads, for instance), etc.

Cited references
Bouscaren, J. & J. Chuquet, 1987, Grammaire et textes anglais, guide pour l’analyse linguistique, Gap/Paris, Ophrys.
Culioli, A., 1975-76, Transcription du séminaire de D.E.A de M. A. Culioli, « Recherche en Linguistique Théorie des opérations énonciatives » par les étudiants, transcription réalisée par Solenn Aliji et Lionel Dufaye, col. Archives et transcription, le LISAA éditeur.
Deloor, S., 2012, « Bref aperçu des travaux sur la présupposition », Langages n° 186 :3-20.
Ducrot, O., 1969, « Présupposés et sous-entendus », Langue française n° 4, La Sémantique : 30-43.
Chuquet, H. 2000, « L’imparfait français est-il traduisible en anglais ? Le cas de l’imparfait dit ‘de rupture’ » in Linguistique contrastive et traduction, Tome 5, Gap, Ophrys, 67-85.
Fisher, S., 1983, « Postface », S. Fisher et J.-J. Franckel (dir.), Linguistique, énonciation. Aspects et détermination : 165-170.
Kleiber, G., 2012, « Sur la présupposition », Langages n° 186 : 21-36.
La Mantia, F. 2020, Pour se faire langage. Lexique élémentaire de la Théorie de Opérations Prédicatives et Enonciatives d’Antoine Culioli, Lexica n°1, Academia.
Paveau, M-A, 2017, « Le préconstruit, généalogie et déploiement d’une notion plastique », F. Bréchet, S. Giai-Duganera, R. Luis, A. Mezzadri & S. Thomas (dir.), Le préconstruit, approche pluridisciplinaire, 192, Classique Garnier, Rencontres, 78-2-406-06807-5. HAL Id: hal-01672261, https://hal.science/hal-01672261.
Wyld, H., 2014, « Constructing reality: on the operation of validation in T.O.E. », Travaux linguistiques du CerLiCO, Du réel à l’irréel, 25 (1) : 297-302.
Zuber, R., 1975, « À propos du statut sémantique de la présupposition », Études de linguistique appliquée 19 : 43-51.


Submission guidelines
We welcome submissions of abstracts on any language (500 words + bibliography), in French or English, for 30 min presentations + 10 min discussion.
Please send your submission to : christine.copy@univ-eiffel.fr  and lionel.dufaye@univ-eiffel.fr

Venue
The conference will take place at Université Gustave Eiffel, Champs-sur-Marne. Half a day will be dedicated to communications by Master’s and PhD’s candidates.

Calendar
Submission deadline: Sept. 15th, 2023.
Notification of acceptance: Oct. 15th, 2023.



Plenary Speakers
Francesco La Mantia, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy.
Marilia Blundi Onofre, Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCar) and Jacqueline Jorente IFSP (Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia de São Paulo), Brazil.

Organiser
Christine Copy, Université Gustave Eiffel, EA 4120 LISAA
Co-organiser
Lionel Dufaye, Université Gustave Eiffel, EA 4120 LISAA

Scientific committee

Jean Chuquet-Université de Poitiers
Monique De Mattia-Viviès-Université Aix-Marseille
Françoise Doro-Mégy-Université Paris-Est Créteil
Hugo Dumoulin- Université Paris Nanterre
Catherine Filippi-Université de Rouen
Jean-Jacques Franckel-Université Paris Nanterre
Isabelle Gaudy-Campbell-Université de Lorraine
Lucie Gournay-Université Paris-Est Créteil
Lise Hamelin-Université de Cergy
Sylvie Hanote-Université de Poitiers
Marge Käsper- Université de Tartu, Estonie
Agnès Leroux-Université Paris Nanterre
Julien Longhi- Université de Cergy
Raluca Nita-Université de Poitiers
Sylvester Osu-Université de Tours
Philippe Planchon-Université de Tours
Graham Ranger-Université d’Avignon
Wilfrid Rotgé-Université Paris-Sorbonne
Sarah de Vogüé-Université Paris Nanterre

https://maifeminism.com/call-for-papers-intersectional-selves-feminist-self-portraiture/

Self-portraiture can encompass many forms (Borzello 2016; Battista 2019), from embodied and participatory practices (Luciano & Chen 2015; Hogue 2016; Zivkovic 2022) to disembodied, abstract data (Johnstone & Imber 2020; Piper-Wright 2022). It keeps raising questions concerning the politics of representation and representationalism (Barad 2007).

For example, Susan Morris’ self-tracking self-portraits Medication and Mood Swings (2006) present the self-abstracted in a ‘double condition of standardization and opacity’ (Newman 2020: 54). They are non-representational portraits that use a standardised format and do not express narrative information or the likeness of the individual but project information about specific aspects of Morris’ life over a period of time.

Elsewhere, transgender artist Cassils uses their body in hybrid works that employ performance, sound, sculpture and photography. Their Becoming An Image (2012 onwards) offers a visceral experience in illuminated glimpses of the artist at work during which they beat a mountain of clay in darkness, exerting themself into being to a soundtrack of slaps and grunts.

Bobby Baker’s practice of self-portrayal employs drawing, performance, and installation. Her recent piece, Drawing on a (Grand) Mother’s Experience (2015-2021) wittily revisits a work made a generation ago that takes a feminist view of motherhood. Dressed like a cross between a laboratory technician and a nursery nurse, Baker’s performance draws upon her experiences Laying a sheet on the stage and applying to it the produce of sustenance (tins of tomatoes, cold roast beef, flour), she describes the messiness of motherhood in a performance that culminates by cloaking herself in the drawing to applause.

While self-portraiture in photography has been widely discussed, the last 20 years have left a void regarding reflection in other visual arts, moving images, text, performance, etc. We wish to add to the literature and push the boundaries of what a feminist self-portrayal could be.

Our Focus Issue of MAI will centre on contemporary self-portraiture using feminist, new materialist, queer, crip, critical race theory, and other theoretical approaches to present the diversity of ontological approaches within contemporary self-portraiture. Critically, we aim at pushing the boundaries of what constitutes a self-portrait. Considered art forms and media can include video, performance, painting, sculpture, new media, photography, audio, and text.

We particularly welcome submissions that ask, but are not limited, to the following questions:

• How can self-portraiture uniquely respond to a contemporary environment characterised by ecological disaster, racial violence, erosion of women’s rights and hostility towards trans and non-binary people?
• Can self-portraiture challenge or evade the binary gendered, idealised, and commodified body ubiquitous in neoliberal networked societies?
• How might self-portraiture enact a multi-species, tentacular entanglement (Haraway 2016), a horizontal people-thing assemblage of mutual exchange (Bennett 2010), or a ‘care web’ that enables ‘co-constituted, interdependent subjects to repair, rebuild, and cultivate resilience in the midst of, and in the aftermath of, experiences of overwhelming negative affect’ (Malatino 2020: 43)?
• How might a practice of self-portrayal become a means of repair, redemption, or reclamation by the wilful assertion of the subject (Ahmed 2014)?

We welcome proposals in the following formats:

• academic research/critical reflection articles (6000-8000 words)
• interviews (1000-3000 words)
• creative writing (poems, short stories, creative responses, max 3000 words)
• video essays (5-10 min + a brief supporting statement 800-1000 words)
• photographs, visual/audiovisual or interactive art with critical reflection as written commentary

Other types of submissions may be considered at the discretion of MAI editors.

Any questions regarding the format or type of your prospective submission should be sent to contact@maifeminism.com. Please read MAI Manifesto before sending us your work.

All submissions should follow MAI formatting guidelines: Submissions.

MAI only publishes work that fits into its feminist and visual culture remit.

Focus Issue Guest Editors

• Lizzy Orcutt (Leeds Arts University, UK)
• Dawn Woolley (Leeds Arts University, UK)

Proposal Submission

Your proposal should consist of:

• A proposed title of your submission
• An abstract (250-500 words)
• A short bio for each author (100 words)
• Submit one PDF to contact@maifeminism.com & IntersectionalSelves2025@gmail.com 

Please use this subject title in your submission email: ‘Proposal: Intersectional Selves’.

Deadline for Proposals: 30 November 2023

Authors will be notified by 15 January 2023.

Full Submissions Deadline: 17 June 2024 (subject to prior proposal acceptance)

Proposed Publication Time: Spring 2025