Programme

A prelude to a workshop

Pre-workshop get-together with food and drinks provided

Session 1: Redefining viewpoint in a crowded field

Barbara Dancygier (University of British Columbia) & Lieven Vandelanotte (UNamur & KU Leuven)

followed by:

Dispatches from collaborative projects (part 1)

• Viewpoint and the fabric of meaning: Form and use of viewpoint tools across languages and modalities (Barbara Dancygier, Wei-lun Lu, & Arie Verhagen)
• Viewpoint phenomena in multimodal communication (Barbara Dancygier & Lieven Vandelanotte)
• Multimodal artefacts and the texture of viewpoint (Lieven Vandelanotte & Barbara Dancygier)

Session 2: Revisiting viewpoints across narrative and persuasive genres

Kobie van Krieken (Radboud Universiteit) (standing in for her Radboud colleague José Sanders who was unavoidably detained)

followed by:

Dispatches from collaborative projects (part 2)

• Time and viewpoint in narrative discourse (Kobie van Krieken, José Sanders & Eve Sweetser)
• Irregular perspective shifts and perspective persistence. Discourse-oriented and theoretical approaches (Caroline Gentens, María Sol Sansiñena, Stef Spronck & An Van linden)
• Notes from the field on perspective-indexing constructions: Irregular shifts and perspective persistence (An Van linden, Stef Spronck, Caroline Gentens & María Sol Sansiñena)
• Stance-stacking in language and multimodal communication (Barbara Dancygier, Sally Rice & Terry Janzen)

Workshop dinner

Session 3: Renewing viewpoint research across expressive modalities

Terry Janzen (University of Manitoba): focus on sign language

Irene Mittelberg (RWTH Aachen University): focus on co-speech embodiment phenomena

Session 4: Researching the viewpoint aspects of figurative language and image use

Geert Brône (KU Leuven): focus on irony and multimodal viewpoint

Barbara Dancygier & Adrian Lou (University of British Columbia): focus on image schemas

Send-off drinks