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The aim of the 2nd edition of TEPEN conference is to bring together scholars of varied disciplines to explore EVENTS and NARRATIVES from a range of perspectives. By applying a variety of analytical, empirical tools and concepts, contributors will hopefully show how people construct events and/or narrative form in language, and how language resources are selected and used to perform desirable versions of narrative and events in them. Although other topics may be considered, we welcome papers dealing with, but not being limited to, issues such as the following:

– theoretical and empirical aspects of narration in linguistics, psycholinguistics, cognitive linguistics, pragmatics, discourse analysis
– theoretical and empirical aspects of events in linguistics, psycholinguistics, cognitive linguistics, pragmatics, discourse analysis
– events in narration, their parts and kinds
– narrative schema(s)
– goals of narrative
– narrative in different  aspects of life (social, individual)
– processes of constructing time, space, cause-effect structure in events and in narratives
– time in narration, narration in time
– spoken and written narratives
– events and narrative in political discourse
– events and narrative in different discourses
– media and presentation of events, their construal
– units of narration
– units of events
– narrative occasioning,
– narrative, stories in conversation,
– narrative in different semiotic systems, e.g. sign language,
– gestures and sign languages in event and  narrative construction
– stories and forms of narrative in second language acquisition
– events and narrative in language pedagogy (first as well as foreign languages)