Studies in language science and communication have shown that in any form of discourse there may be a gap between what is said and what is meant. It is the contents actually intended to be communicated – the meaning we can call implicit, unexpressed, figurative, or indirect – which has to be taken into account to get the speaker’s actual meaning. Fields of study such as pragmatics and rhetoric make it possible to define the various existing implicit forms and, above all, unveil the various strategies used in the production and understanding of this type of form.
The aim of this international conference is to assemble researchers interested in the implicit and to compare points of view about the various approaches (theoretical as well as applied), developed in the various complementary disciplines represented within the CeReS.
Contributions in the following fields of research will be welcome:
- argumentation and rhetoric
- language acquisition and pathology
- contrastive linguistics and translation studies
For further information please read the attached files or visit the conference website.
Juliette Elie Deschamps
Cindy Lefebvre Scodeller
Rovena Troqe