Comparative and contrastive analyzes of data in Language Sciences

May 30- 31, 2022
Paris Nanterre University

COLDOC is a biannual conference organized by doctoral students and young researchers of the MoDyCo laboratory (UMR 7114 - CNRS / Paris Nanterre University). For its 14th edition, ColDoc will focus on comparative and contrastive data analysis in Language Sciences.
The term ''comparative'' usually refers to comparative linguistics, a discipline that studies the history and the evolution of languages ​​or families of languages, nevertheless, this methodological approach is at the heart of all areas of Language Sciences. In psycholinguistics, researchers can compare the differences between pathological and non-
pathological subjects, in order to better understand the deficit mechanisms related to language acquisition. In the field of bilingualism, for instance, the process of learning a second language in monolingual and bilingual subjects can be examined. In automatic language processing, it is possible to compare, among others, different types of annotations or information extraction. In corpus linguistics, elements of the same corpus or from different corpora can be compared. In discourse analysis, the contrast of several discourses or several kinds of discourse can be highlighted, while in conversational analysis it is possible to underline the distinctive features in the conversational structure of different languages.
We invite doctoral students and young researchers to propose papers that put several sets of data into perspective. The work, whatever its state of progress, may examine the methodological issues relating to the comparison of corpora, the choice of reference theories, the results of contrastive analyses, etc.
Contributions may fall within, but are not limited to, the following areas:
• Discourse analysis
• Conversational analysis
• Language teaching
• Cognitive linguistics
• Corpus linguistics
• Sign language
• Phonetics-Phonology
• NLP
• Pragmatics
• Psycholinguistics
• Semantics
• Sociolinguistics
• Syntax
This diversity of perspectives will allow specialists from different fields, who have a shared perspective on their data, to reflect on their own research methodology, while discovering the studies of other researchers.
Communication proposals:

• The paper proposal should be submitted in Word format to coldoc2022@gmail.com before September 11, 2021. The maximum length of the paper should be of one page, excluding bibliography (font: Times New Roman, font size: 12).
• Presentations can be delivered either in the form of oral communication or posters.
• The languages ​​of submission are French and English.
• Communication proposals must be anonymous. Please mention in the body of the
email your full name, your institutional attachment and whether this is a proposal for
an oral communication or for a poster.