From clements at INDIANA.EDU Sat Nov 1 17:59:38 1997 From: clements at INDIANA.EDU (J. Clancy Clements (Kapil)) Date: Sat, 1 Nov 1997 11:59:38 -0600 Subject: Assistant Professor in Spanish Linguistics -- PLEASE POST Message-ID: Assistant Professor in Spanish Linguistics Assistant Professor, tenure-track position in Spanish Linguistics to begin Fall 1998. Area of specialization is Sociolinguistics; an additional area highly desirable. Ph.D. in hand or expected by date of appointment. Teaching duties include graduate and undergraduate courses in linguistics and undergraduate language instruction. Evidence of excellent research potential, effective teaching, and fluent command of Spanish is required. Send letter of application, c.v., and three letters of recommendation to Professor James Lee, Chair, Search Committee, Department of Spanish and Portuguese. All applications received by November 16 will be assured full consideration. Indiana University is an affirmative action/equal employment opportunity employer. AA/EOE J. Clancy Clements Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese Ballantine Hall 844 Bloomington, IN 47405 Email: Clements at indiana.edu Ph: (812) 855-6141 Fax: (812) 855-4526 From clements at INDIANA.EDU Sat Nov 1 20:35:21 1997 From: clements at INDIANA.EDU (J. Clancy Clements (Kapil)) Date: Sat, 1 Nov 1997 15:35:21 -0500 Subject: PLEASE POST -- Assistant Professor in Spanish Linguistics Message-ID: Assistant Professor, tenure-track position in Spanish Linguistics to begin Fall 1998. Area of specialization is Sociolinguistics; an additional area highly desirable. Ph.D. in hand or expected by date of appointment. Teaching duties include graduate and undergraduate courses in linguistics and undergraduate language instruction. Evidence of excellent research potential, effective teaching, and fluent command of Spanish is required. Send letter of application, c.v., and three letters of recommendation to Professor James Lee, Chair, Search Committee, Department of Spanish and Portuguese. All applications received by November 16 will be assured full consideration. Indiana University is an affirmative action/equal employment opportunity employer. AA/EOE J. Clancy Clements Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese Ballantine Hall 844 Bloomington, IN 47405 Email: Clements at indiana.edu Ph: (812) 855-6141 Fax: (812) 855-4526 From john at RESEARCH.HAIFA.AC.IL Tue Nov 4 08:37:46 1997 From: john at RESEARCH.HAIFA.AC.IL (John Myhill) Date: Tue, 4 Nov 1997 10:37:46 +0200 Subject: Grants for NLP Message-ID: Does anyone have an email address for John Haiman? I've been trying to contact him at haiman at MACALSTR.EDU and he hasn't responded. Thanks. John From jrubba at POLYMAIL.CPUNIX.CALPOLY.EDU Tue Nov 4 23:13:16 1997 From: jrubba at POLYMAIL.CPUNIX.CALPOLY.EDU (Johanna Rubba) Date: Tue, 4 Nov 1997 15:13:16 -0800 Subject: School-age syntax Message-ID: I am looking for recent research (especially summaries) of children's syntactic development during the school years. I have looked through two recent language acquisition textbooks, Berko-Gleason's 'The Development of Language' and Owens' 'Language Development'. Most of the research they cite is either rather old or focuses on particular constructions such as passive or anaphora. I teach a class for future language arts teachers and would like to give them an overview of how children's syntax increases in complexity over the school years, in terms of increase in types and frequency of subordination, as well as mastery of sentence types such as clefts, pseudo-clefts, etc. Any tips or references would be appreciated. I will post a summary to the list. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Johanna Rubba Assistant Professor, Linguistics ~ English Department, California Polytechnic State University ~ San Luis Obispo, CA 93407 ~ Tel. (805)-756-2184 E-mail: jrubba at polymail.calpoly.edu ~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From macw at CMU.EDU Wed Nov 5 00:05:15 1997 From: macw at CMU.EDU (Brian MacWhinney) Date: Tue, 4 Nov 1997 19:05:15 -0500 Subject: syntax in the early school years Message-ID: Johanna, You just now posted a note to FunkNet asking for pointers to recent discussions of syntactic acquisition in the early school years. I actually had two contacts yesterday that required me to field exactly this question. One was from a student, another from a colleague. I answered that the truth is that, by age 5, children really know just about all there is to know about the forms of English. What they don't yet know are the mappings from form to function or the mappings between functions. One would think that this would provide a happy hunting ground for functionally-oriented studies of language development, but that hasn't really happened, largely because these studies require one to have good comparable stimuli to elicit functionally interesting performances. And the analysis of production data is extremely tedious. Berman and Slobin's work on the frog stories or parallel work on narratives from Maya Hickmann and Annette Karmiloff-Smith are examples of some of the best work in this area. But you seem to be looking for a description that says, for example, that cleft sentences increase by a certain percentage each year. They do indeed, but what is interesting is why they do. I think that you shouldn't shy away too much from studies that look at "particular constructions such as passive or anaphora." In fact, the problem is that we just don't have enough studies of the development of these particular constructions in the increasingly rich discourse formats required by the school environment. Given the gaps in the functionalist literature, I would tend to point your teacher friends toward the work on the learning of composition. I think Myra Shuaghnessy is a classic in that area. There at least, one gets the sense of rich database and a real problem that schooling can address. --Brian MacWhinney From simon at CVAX.IPFW.INDIANA.EDU Wed Nov 5 00:20:55 1997 From: simon at CVAX.IPFW.INDIANA.EDU (Beth Simon) Date: Tue, 4 Nov 1997 19:20:55 EST Subject: language extinction, language maintenance list(s) Message-ID: Are there e-lists for language extinction and/or language maintenance? thanks, beth simon assistant professor, linguistics and english indiana university purdue university simon at cvax.ipfw.indiana.edu From simon at CVAX.IPFW.INDIANA.EDU Wed Nov 5 16:09:11 1997 From: simon at CVAX.IPFW.INDIANA.EDU (Beth Simon) Date: Wed, 5 Nov 1997 11:09:11 EST Subject: endangered languages Message-ID: Thanks to everyone for the various e-addresses and websites. Beth Simon Assistant Professor, Linguistics and English Indiana University Purdue University simon at cvax.ipfw.indiana.edu From ocls at IPA.NET Tue Nov 11 13:41:59 1997 From: ocls at IPA.NET (George Elgin, Suzette Haden Elgin) Date: Tue, 11 Nov 1997 08:41:59 -0500 Subject: references needed for statistics Message-ID: November 11, 1997 Can anyone on this list provide me with references -- however vague -- for two statistics that seem to appear all over the place (my books included) without credits? They are: that, as an average, 65% of all communication in spoken English is nonverbal; and that, as an average, more than 90% of all *emotional* communication in spoken English is nonverbal. These figures must go way back; they appear in notes I took in graduate courses, for example. I posted the query on Linguist List and got a flood of responses. With one exception (a source for a similar, but different claim about a word/voice/body language division for spoken English information), all the responses were notes saying the individual also needed references for those two statistics. I'm hoping for better results here, and look forward to your replies. Suzette Haden Elgin ocls at ipa.net From delancey at OREGON.UOREGON.EDU Tue Nov 11 15:51:23 1997 From: delancey at OREGON.UOREGON.EDU (Scott Delancey) Date: Tue, 11 Nov 1997 07:51:23 -0800 Subject: references needed for statistics In-Reply-To: Message-ID: On Tue, 11 Nov 1997, George Elgin, Suzette Haden Elgin wrote: > Can anyone on this list provide me with references -- however vague -- for > two statistics that seem to appear all over the place (my books included) > without credits? They are: that, as an average, 65% of all communication in > spoken English is nonverbal; and that, as an average, more than 90% of all > *emotional* communication in spoken English is nonverbal. These figures No source, but surely these figures must just be made up. How would you quantify nonverbal communication (for that matter, how would you quantify *verbal* communication) so as to arrive at a percentage? Scott DeLancey From edwards at COGSCI.BERKELEY.EDU Tue Nov 11 22:24:50 1997 From: edwards at COGSCI.BERKELEY.EDU (Jane A. Edwards) Date: Tue, 11 Nov 1997 14:24:50 -0800 Subject: references needed for statistics Message-ID: On Tue, 11 Nov 1997, George Elgin, Suzette Haden Elgin wrote: > Can anyone on this list provide me with references -- however vague -- for > two statistics that seem to appear all over the place (my books included) > without credits? They are: that, as an average, 65% of all communication in > spoken English is nonverbal; and that, as an average, more than 90% of all > *emotional* communication in spoken English is nonverbal. These figures These numbers definitely have the flavor of work in social psychology, psychotherapy or communication prior to 1980. I think you would get a more definitive answer, therefore, if you post to a list more in those areas - perhaps lang-use (info appended). But my best bet is that the 65% figure came from Mehrabian's work: > Mehrabian, Albert; Ferris, Susan R. > Inference of Attitudes from Nonverbal Communication in Two Channels. > Journal of Consulting Psychology, 1967, v31 (n3):248-252. > > Abstract: 3 degrees of attitude (i.e., positive, neutral, and negative) in > facial expression were each combined with 3 degrees of attitude > communicated vocally. The vocal communications of attitude were > superimposed on a neutral word. In preparing the 2-component > communications, the components were selected so that the degree of > positive attitude communicated facially was equivalent to that > communicated vocally-i.e., the independent effects of the 2 components > were comparable. It was found that attitudes inferred from combined > facial-vocal communications are a linear function of the attitudes > communicated in each component, with the facial component receiving > approximately 3/2 the weight received by the vocal component. > Implications of the findings for more general attitude-communication > problems are discussed. (PsycINFO Database Copyright 1967 American > Psychological Assn, all rights reserved). He also has a book: Mehrabian, Albert. Nonverbal communication. Chicago, Aldine-Atherton [1972]. Best Wishes, -Jane Edwards --------------------- To subscribe to lang-use, send email to LISTSERV at VM.TEMPLE.EDU, containing the one-line command: SUB lang-use For more information on lang-use, send email to listserv at vm.temple.edu, containing the one-line command: help From edwards at COGSCI.BERKELEY.EDU Tue Nov 11 22:33:24 1997 From: edwards at COGSCI.BERKELEY.EDU (Jane A. Edwards) Date: Tue, 11 Nov 1997 14:33:24 -0800 Subject: Metacomment Message-ID: I should add that - like many pop psych figures (Another one is that we only use 10% of our brains.) - the 65% and 90% statistic also seem to me to be of limited value and questionable validity. I think these are basically used as metaphors in the culture, rather than as true scientific findings. I suspect that if you find the experiment which gives the number, it will always be the case that there was a huge amount of extrapolation away from the experimental context. -Jane Edwards From MAGernsb at FACSTAFF.WISC.EDU Wed Nov 19 01:14:10 1997 From: MAGernsb at FACSTAFF.WISC.EDU (Morton Ann Gernsbacher) Date: Tue, 18 Nov 1997 20:14:10 -0500 Subject: Please post. Thank you! Message-ID: CogSci98 -- Call for Submissions Twentieth Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society August 1 - 4, 1998; University of Wisconsin-Madison http://psych.wisc.edu/CogSci98/conf.html We are pleased to announce CogSci98, the Twentieth Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, to be held in Madison, Wisconsin, August 1-4, 1998. Because the field of cognitive science exists to promote cross-disciplinary integration of concepts, methods, epistemologies, and data, and the empirical and theoretical base of cognitive science can shed light on the nature of such an interdisciplinary enterprise, CogSci98 will focus on Interdisciplinarity. This focus will be manifested in the following four ways: First, one plenary session will be dedicated to the topic of interdisciplinarity. Second, several invited tutorial symposia designed to provide breadth of interest will be offered. Third, presentations from the Cognitive Science Society membership that address interdisciplinarity as an object of empirical and theoretical research are hereby encouraged for one strand of the conference program. And fourth, all submissions for spoken presentations (i.e., symposia and spoken papers) will be evaluated for their ability to transcend their disciplinary boundaries and truly address the breadth of the community of cognitive scientists, in addition to being evaluated for their technical and theoretical merit (see review criteria below); thus, more general papers and symposia will have a higher priority for scheduling on the spoken program, and more specialized topics will be assigned to poster sessions. This call solicits submissions for four forms of presentation: STANDARD SPOKEN PAPERS: 20-minute spoken presentations, which if accepted will be published as 6-page papers in the Proceedings; STANDARD POSTERS: standard poster presentations, which if accepted will be published as 6-page papers in the Proceedings; ABSTRACT POSTERS: poster presentations, which are guaranteed to be published in the Proceedings as one-page abstracts but can be submitted only by members of the Cognitive Science Society. The deadline for submitting proposals for abstract posters is one month later than that for standard paper and poster presentations, so that persons who would like to become members of the Society may do so prior to submitting their abstract posters. Please see http://www.pitt.edu/~cogsci95/ for information about membership in the Cognitive Science Society, or contact the Executive Officer of the Cognitive Science Society, Inc., Colleen Seifert of the University of Michigan at (313) 764-4253; fax (313) 763-7480 (Attn: Prof. Seifert); email cogsci at umich.edu. SYMPOSIA: 90-minute spoken presentations, including three or more well-integrated talks on a common topic and possibly a discussant, which if accepted will be published as one-page abstracts in the Proceedings. Submissions for standard spoken papers, standard posters, and symposia will be reviewed according to the following criteria: Technical/Theoretical Merit; Relevance to a Broad Audience of Cognitive Science Researchers; Clarity of Presentation; Significance; and Originality. ALL submissions for standard spoken papers, standard posters, abstract posters, and symposia require three pieces of information to be submitted, two by postal mail and one by electronic mail. The three components are (1) one hard-copy of a COVER PAGE (described below); (2) one electronic mail message containing the information presented on the COVER PAGE; and (3) five hard-copies of CAMERA-READY PROCEEDINGS CONTRIBUTION (described at http://psych.wisc.edu/CogSci98/conf.html). (1) POSTAL MAIL ONE HARD-COPY OF COVER PAGE PROVIDING THE SEVEN ITEMS (a - g) LISTED BELOW: Provide the following information on a cover page, and mail the hard-copy of the cover page with the five copies of the camera-ready Proceedings contribution. (a) Author Information: Name, affiliation, full mailing address, email address, telephone number, and fax number of all authors. (b) Presenter/Organizer's Name: Name of person who will be making the presentation, or in the case of a symposium, the name of the organizer. (c) Title: The title of the presentation. (d) Presentation Format Preference: Indicate whether the first preference is presentation as a standard spoken paper, standard poster, abstract poster, or symposium. If first preference is standard spoken paper, you must also indicate whether you are willing to make a standard poster presentation or an abstract poster presentation if your submission cannot be accepted for a standard spoken paper. (e) Keywords: A list of FIVE keywords (to be used for indexing as well as assignment of reviewers) (f) Marr Prize Eligibility: Indicate whether the proposal should be considered for a David Marr Memorial Prize. Papers with a student first-author are eligible. (g) 150-word Summary (2) EMAIL THE INFORMATION PROVIDED FOR THE COVER PAGE (items (a) through (g) described above), in the body of an email message, to CS98PROG at MACC.WISC.EDU. Use the presenter's last name as the subject heading of the email. (3) POSTAL MAIL FIVE HARD-COPIES OF THE CAMERA-READY PROCEEDINGS CONTRIBUTION: Strictly follow the instructions provided at http://psych.wisc.edu/CogSci98/conf.html, which are also being postal mailed to society members. For standard spoken papers and standard posters, the entire contribution (including figures, references, everything) can be no longer than six pages. For abstract posters and symposia, the entire contribution can be no longer than one page. POSTAL MAIL ADDRESS: CogSci98 c/o Dr. Morton Ann Gernsbacher 1202 W. Johnson Street University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison, WI 53706-1611 USA Deadline for RECEIPT of all submission materials is February 6, 1998 (for standard paper, standard poster, and symposium submissions) and March 6, 1998 (for abstract posters). Authors whose submissions are accepted on the program and will appear in the Proceedings will be notified in time to return final versions of their camera-ready Proceedings contributions by late April. PROPOSALS THAT DO NOT CONTAIN ALL OF THE ABOVE INFORMATION OR DO NOT FIT ALL THE SPECIFICATIONS DESCRIBED IN THE INSTRUCTIONS (available at http://psych.wisc.edu/CogSci98/conf.html) WILL BE RETURNED WITHOUT REVIEW. For information about conference registration and housing, contact CS98REG at MACC.WISC.EDU after December 1, 1997. Please DO NOT direct queries about conference registration, housing, parking on campus, or lodging to any other email address. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Morton Ann Gernsbacher, Ph.D. Sir Frederic C. Bartlett Professor University of Wisconsin-Madison 1202 W. Johnson Street Madison, WI 53706-1611 (608) 262-6989 [fax (608) 262-4029] MAGernsb at facstaff.wisc.edu http://psych.wisc.edu/lang/index.html From harder at COCO.IHI.KU.DK Wed Nov 19 14:08:07 1997 From: harder at COCO.IHI.KU.DK (harder at COCO.IHI.KU.DK) Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 08:08:07 -0600 Subject: No subject Message-ID: >Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 14:05:48 +0100 (MET) >From: Nina Gronnum >X-Sender: ng at rask >To: harder at coco.ihi.ku.dk > > > >Kære Peter - vil du være sød at viderebefordre nedenstående til FUNKNET? > >tak, nina > >------------------------------------------------------------------ > >Faculty of Humanities, >University of Copenhagen > >invites applications for a > >PROFESSORSHIP IN LINGUISTICS > >at the Department of General and Applied Linguistics to be >filled by August 1st, 1998 or as soon as possible. > >Applicants must be able to document excellent contributions to >linguistic theory and empirical research in one or several >languages, including a typological perspective. Furthermore, >applicants must be prepared to undertake teaching and >supervision, especially within the field of general >linguistics. Applicants must have experience in research >supervision and collaborative research and will be expected to >assume a role in the everyday life of the Department, also >with respect to administrative duties. > >Since the successful applicant must be able to participate in >all departmental and Faculty activities, including examination >and administration, it is required that if he or she is >without previous knowledge of Danish, he or she must acquire >adequate knowledge of the language within two years at most, a >condition of permanent appointment. > >Applications must include full information and documentation >of the applicant's scholarly qualifications and teaching >experience. Applications should include a full list of >publications and should specify which publications the >applicant wishes to be taken into account in the evaluation of >his or her scholarly, teaching and other qualifications. >Three copies of these publications should be included in the >application. Material in electronic form - such as discs - is >not accepted. > >The appointment committee is only required to take the >specified research material into account to the extent that it >is necessary to make an assessment of the applicant's >qualifications and it may also consider research material >which has not been specified. In such cases the applicant >will be notified. > >The names of the members of the appointment committee will be >sent to the applicants. The complete recommendation made by >the committee will be sent to all the applicants. Information >on other applicants must be treated confidentially. > >The professorship is a tenured position under the Ministry of >Education. The annual salary is approximately 430.000 DKK >after contribution to the pension scheme. > >Further information about the position may be obtained from >Esther Glahn, Director of the Department of General and >Applied Linguistics, tel. +45 35 32 86 41, fax +45 35 32 86 >35. > >Applications should be addressed to the Rector of the >University of Copenhagen with reference to J.nr. 401-211- >21/97-4226 and sent to the Humanities Faculty, Njalsgade 80, >DK-2300 Copenhagen S, Denmark, so that they reach the Faculty >no later than January 15th, 1998 at noon. > > >____________________________________________ > >Nina Groennum >Institute of General and Applied Linguistics >University of Copenhagen > > > From tpayne at OREGON.UOREGON.EDU Thu Nov 20 14:32:21 1997 From: tpayne at OREGON.UOREGON.EDU (Thomas E Payne) Date: Thu, 20 Nov 1997 06:32:21 -0800 Subject: Describing Morphosyntax Message-ID: For those who may be interested in a basic, hopefully readable, guide to describing the grammars of little-studied languages, please consider Describing morphosyntax: A guide for field linguists. This book is now available from Cambridge University Press at a very reasonable introductory price. Check it out at: http://www.cup.org/Titles/58/0521582245.html The introductory price is quite a bit less than what is listed on this page. Call their 800 number for details. Thanks! Tom Payne From spikeg at OWLNET.RICE.EDU Fri Nov 21 20:16:19 1997 From: spikeg at OWLNET.RICE.EDU (Spike Gildea) Date: Fri, 21 Nov 1997 14:16:19 -0600 Subject: (fwd) 8th Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse Message-ID: >>From "Rachel R. W. Robertson" Subject: 8th Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse Call for Proposals Eighth Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse (co-sponsor: University of Wisconsin - Madison) Wednesday through Friday, July 29 - 31, 1998 The Edgewater Hotel (near the University of Wisconsin - Madison campus) * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * We are pleased to announce the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse. The Society for Text and Discourse is an international society of researchers who investigate all aspects of discourse processing and text analysis. (See our web site: http://www.psyc.memphis.edu/ST&D/ST&D.htm.) The purpose of the Society is to consolidate research in discourse processing and to enhance communication among researchers in different disciplines. Therefore, we invite scholars from various disciplines (e.g., psychology, linguistics, artificial intelligence, education, sociology, anthropology, communications, and philosophy) to attend and participate in the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse. The Eighth Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse will be held the two days preceding the annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (which is being hosted by the University of Wisconsin - Madison, August 1 - 4). The meeting will begin with a welcome reception, Wednesday evening, July 29th, in the Rigadoon Room of The Edgewater Hotel, overlooking Lake Mendota. Spoken papers and invited addresses will begin the morning of Thursday, July 30 and end the afternoon of Friday, July 31. A poster session will be held Thursday evening, July 30. All events of the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse will occur in The Edgewater Hotel. We are very pleased to announce a special feature of this year's annual meeting: Elizabeth Bates, Douglas Biber, Tom Givón, Jane Oakhill, and Eve Sweetser each will be giving an invited address. We hope that you, too, will join us by submitting a proposal for participation in the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse and by attending what we believe will be an excellent meeting. This announcement contains four pieces of information: 1. How to submit a proposal for presentation at the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse. 2. How to submit an entry for the OUTSTANDING STUDENT PAPER AWARD and the JASON ALBRECHT AWARD to be awarded at the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse. 3. How to reserve hotel lodging for the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse. 4. How to register for the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse. For further information, about the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse, contact Rachel Robertson, Conference Manager, by phone at (608) 262-6989, or e-mail at textdis at macc.wisc.edu. ***************************************** ***************************************** 1. How to Submit a Proposal for the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse Presentations at the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse can be in the form of POSTERS and SPOKEN PAPERS. The deadline for submitting proposals for both presentation formats is March 9, 1998. Note that this is a "receipt deadline" (proposals must be received on or before that date). Authors will be notified whether their proposed presentations are accepted before April 13, 1998. Please note that all presentations must be based on research that is completed at the time that the proposal is submitted. For POSTER and PAPER presentations, please submit the following BY E-MAIL to textdis at macc.wisc.edu. Please place information within the body of the e-mail message, DO NOT USE ATTACHMENTS OR ENCLOSED DOCUMENTS. The subject heading should contain the last name of the first author and the title of the proposal, in the format LAST NAME, TITLE (e.g., Gernsbacher, The benefits of becoming a member of the Society for Text and Discourse). Each submission must be in the body of a separate e-mail message. Please use the following format. A. AUTHOR INFORMATION For every author on the submission, provide: Name Affiliation Full mailing address E-mail address Telephone number B. PRESENTER NAME (name of the person who will be making the presentation) C. PRESENTATION FORMAT PREFERENCE Choose one of the following options: Spoken only Poster only Preference for spoken but would be willing to do a poster (Note that the number of time slots for spoken presentations will be limited.) D. STATEMENT verifying that the research that will be presented has been completed (as of the date that the proposal is submitted). E. PRESENTATION INFORMATION The title of the presentation Authors' names and affiliations A 2-page summary of the presentation A 75-word abstract of the presentation Incomplete submissions will not be reviewed. If for some reason you cannot send your submission by e-mail, please contact the conference manager, Rachel Robertson, Department of Psychology, 1202 W. Johnson St., Madison, WI 53706, phone: (608) 262-6989, fax: (608) 262-4029, textdis at macc.wisc.edu. Confirmation of submissions will be sent within a week of receipt. ***************************************** 2. How to Submit an Entry for the OUTSTANDING STUDENT PAPER AWARD or the JASON ALBRECHT OUTSTANDING YOUNG SCIENTIST AWARD Each year the Governing Board of the Society for Text and Discourse holds a competition for the best spoken paper submitted and presented by a graduate student. Up to two Outstanding Student Paper Awards will be given. Recipients of the award receive a commemorative (framed) certificate and a check for $150. At last year's annual conference, the Governing Board of the Society for Text and Discourse introduced the Jason Albrecht Outstanding Young Scientist Award. This award, in honor of Jason Albrecht, a promising young text and discourse researcher who passed away in 1996, will be presented to the best spoken paper submitted and presented that is based on a doctoral dissertation. Entries for the Outstanding Student Paper Award or the Jason Albrecht Outstanding Young Scientist Award must be submitted IN ADDITION to regular submissions for the conference (i.e., persons who submit entries for the Outstanding Student Paper Award or the Jason Albrecht Award must ALSO submit "regular" proposals for inclusion in the program). The deadline for submitting entries for the Outstanding Student Paper Award and the Jason Albrecht Outstanding Young Scientist Award is also March 9, 1998. Recipients will be notified April 13, 1998. For these award submissions, please submit the following BY EMAIL to textdis at macc.wisc.edu. Please place the required information (listed below) inside the body of the email message. DO NOT USE ATTACHMENTS OR ENCLOSED DOCUMENTS. The subject heading for entries for the Outstanding Student Paper Award should contain the acronym OSPA followed by the last name of the student submitting the proposal (e.g., OSPA, Sundermeier). The subject heading for entries for the Jason Albrecht Outstanding Young Scientist Award should contain the acronym JAOYSA followed by the last name of the student submitting the proposal (e.g., JAOYSA, Linderholm). The submission must be in the body of the e-mail in the following format. A. THE TITLE OF THE PRESENTATION B. A 2-page SUMMARY of the presentation C. For papers co-authored with the student's advisor(s) a statement from the major advisor that, in the case of the Outstanding Student Paper Award the work is primarily the student's or, in the case of the Jason Albrecht Outstanding Young Scientist Award the presentation is based on the student's dissertation. Evaluation of entries for these two competitions will be blind. Therefore, DO NOT include any information for the first two items listed above that will identify the author of the entry. Other identifying necessary (e.g., the student's name in the subject heading and the statement from the advisor in the case of co-authoring) will be removed prior to the evaluation. Incomplete submissions will not be reviewed. If for some reason you cannot send your submission by e-mail, please contact the conference manager, Rachel Robertson, Department of Psychology, 1202 W. Johnson St., Madison, WI 53706, phone: (608) 262-6989, fax: (608) 262-4029, textdis at macc.wisc.edu. Confirmation of submissions will be sent within a week of receipt. ***************************************** 3. How to Reserve Hotel Lodging for the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse All sessions will be held at The Edgewater Hotel, 666 Wisconsin Avenue, Madison, WI 53703. Participants of the Society for Text and Discourse meeting will receive a special group rate for hotel rooms at The Edgewater Hotel. The rate is $79 per night for single or double occupancy and $99 for a lake front double. Amenities at The Edgewater Hotel include free airport shuttle, free indoor parking, complimentary health club passes and transportation, private voice-mail messaging, business services, morning coffee served in the guest lobby and nightly turn-down with pillow mint, ice refill, weather forecast and list of events. Check-in time is 3:00 p.m. and check-out time is noon. We also have a small block of rooms reserved at the Madison Inn, 601 Langdon St., which is two blocks from The Edgewater Hotel. The special group rate for rooms at the Madison Inn are $52 for single occupancy and $60 for double occupancy. To reserve lodging and secure the special group rates, you must reply by e-mail, phone, fax or mail using the form below by June 26 (receipt date). Confirmations of reservations will be sent within a week of receipt. To reply by e-mail include the information in the form below in an e-mail message to textdis at macc.wisc.edu. In the subject heading type Reservations - YOUR LAST NAME. To phone in your reservation call Rachel Robertson at (608) 262-6989 and be prepared to give the information included in the form below. To fax your reservation, fax the form below to Rachel Robertson at (608) 262-4029. To mail your reservation, send the following form to: Rachel Robertson, Department of Psychology, 1202 W. Johnson St., Madison, WI 53706. HOTEL ROOM RESERVATION FORM Eighth Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse Name: E-mail address: Phone: Mailing address: # of people in the room: Name(s) of other occupant(s): Hotel choice (The Edgewater Hotel or The Madison Inn): If arriving after 6:00 p.m. provide credit card type (Visa, Mastercard, etc. Note: The Edgewater Hotel does not take Discover): and credit card number: Arrival date: Check-out date: Indicate the type of room you want [single (one queen-sized bed), double (two full-sized beds), lake front double (Edgewater Only - two full sized beds, larger room with two vanities)]: Would you prefer smoking or non-smoking? ***************************************** 4. How to Register for the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse To register, please fill out the form below. Send the completed form with a check made out to the Society for Text and Discourse, to the address listed below. There will be on-site registration available; however, the on-site registration rates are $30 for members and $45 for non-members. If you are not a member of the Society, please consider joining now. Membership includes a subscription to the Society's journal, Discourse Processes. 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Mail to: Roger J. Kreuz Secretary/Treasurer, Society for Text and Discourse Department of Psychology Campus Box 526400 The University of Memphis Memphis, TN 38152-6400 USA ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Rachel R.W. Robertson Department of Psychology 1202 W. Johnson St. Madison, WI 53706 (608) 262-6989 From MAGernsb at FACSTAFF.WISC.EDU Mon Nov 24 01:36:36 1997 From: MAGernsb at FACSTAFF.WISC.EDU (Morton Ann Gernsbacher) Date: Sun, 23 Nov 1997 20:36:36 -0500 Subject: CogSci98; Please post! Message-ID: CogSci98 -- Call for Submissions Twentieth Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society August 1 - 4, 1998; University of Wisconsin-Madison http://psych.wisc.edu/CogSci98/conf.html We are pleased to announce CogSci98, the Twentieth Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, to be held in Madison, Wisconsin, August 1-4, 1998. Because the field of cognitive science exists to promote cross-disciplinary integration of concepts, methods, epistemologies, and data, and the empirical and theoretical base of cognitive science can shed light on the nature of such an interdisciplinary enterprise, CogSci98 will focus on Interdisciplinarity. This focus will be manifested in the following four ways: First, one plenary session will be dedicated to the topic of interdisciplinarity. Second, several invited tutorial symposia designed to provide breadth of interest will be offered. Third, presentations from the Cognitive Science Society membership that address interdisciplinarity as an object of empirical and theoretical research are hereby encouraged for one strand of the conference program. And fourth, all submissions for spoken presentations (i.e., symposia and spoken papers) will be evaluated for their ability to transcend their disciplinary boundaries and truly address the breadth of the community of cognitive scientists, in addition to being evaluated for their technical and theoretical merit (see review criteria below); thus, more general papers and symposia will have a higher priority for scheduling on the spoken program, and more specialized topics will be assigned to poster sessions. This call solicits submissions for four forms of presentation: STANDARD SPOKEN PAPERS: 20-minute spoken presentations, which if accepted will be published as 6-page papers in the Proceedings; STANDARD POSTERS: standard poster presentations, which if accepted will be published as 6-page papers in the Proceedings; ABSTRACT POSTERS: poster presentations, which are guaranteed to be published in the Proceedings as one-page abstracts but can be submitted only by members of the Cognitive Science Society. The deadline for submitting proposals for abstract posters is one month later than that for standard paper and poster presentations, so that persons who would like to become members of the Society may do so prior to submitting their abstract posters. Please see http://www.umich.edu/~cogsci for information about membership in the Cognitive Science Society, or contact the Executive Officer of the Cognitive Science Society, Inc., Colleen Seifert of the University of Michigan at (313) 764-4253; fax (313) 763-7480 (Attn: Prof. Seifert); email cogsci at umich.edu. SYMPOSIA: 90-minute spoken presentations, including three or more well-integrated talks on a common topic and possibly a discussant, which if accepted will be published as one-page abstracts in the Proceedings. Submissions for standard spoken papers, standard posters, and symposia will be reviewed according to the following criteria: Technical/Theoretical Merit; Relevance to a Broad Audience of Cognitive Science Researchers; Clarity of Presentation; Significance; and Originality. ALL submissions for standard spoken papers, standard posters, abstract posters, and symposia require three pieces of information to be submitted, two by postal mail and one by electronic mail. The three components are (1) one hard-copy of a COVER PAGE (described below); (2) one electronic mail message containing the information presented on the COVER PAGE; and (3) five hard-copies of CAMERA-READY PROCEEDINGS CONTRIBUTION (described at http://psych.wisc.edu/CogSci98/conf.html). (1) POSTAL MAIL ONE HARD-COPY OF COVER PAGE PROVIDING THE SEVEN ITEMS (a - g) LISTED BELOW: Provide the following information on a cover page, and mail the hard-copy of the cover page with the five copies of the camera-ready Proceedings contribution. (a) Author Information: Name, affiliation, full mailing address, email address, telephone number, and fax number of all authors. (b) Presenter/Organizer's Name: Name of person who will be making the presentation, or in the case of a symposium, the name of the organizer. (c) Title: The title of the presentation. (d) Presentation Format Preference: Indicate whether the first preference is presentation as a standard spoken paper, standard poster, abstract poster, or symposium. If first preference is standard spoken paper, you must also indicate whether you are willing to make a standard poster presentation or an abstract poster presentation if your submission cannot be accepted for a standard spoken paper. (e) Keywords: A list of FIVE keywords (to be used for indexing as well as assignment of reviewers) (f) Marr Prize Eligibility: Indicate whether the proposal should be considered for a David Marr Memorial Prize. Papers with a student first-author are eligible. (g) 150-word Summary (2) EMAIL THE INFORMATION PROVIDED FOR THE COVER PAGE (items (a) through (g) described above), in the body of an email message, to CS98PROG at MACC.WISC.EDU. Use the presenter's last name as the subject heading of the email. 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PROPOSALS THAT DO NOT CONTAIN ALL OF THE ABOVE INFORMATION OR DO NOT FIT ALL THE SPECIFICATIONS DESCRIBED IN THE INSTRUCTIONS (available at http://psych.wisc.edu/CogSci98/conf.html) WILL BE RETURNED WITHOUT REVIEW. For information about conference registration and housing, contact CS98REG at MACC.WISC.EDU after December 1, 1997. Please DO NOT direct queries about conference registration, housing, parking on campus, or lodging to any other email address. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Morton Ann Gernsbacher, Ph.D. Sir Frederic C. Bartlett Professor University of Wisconsin-Madison 1202 W. Johnson Street Madison, WI 53706-1611 (608) 262-6989 [fax (608) 262-4029] MAGernsb at facstaff.wisc.edu http://psych.wisc.edu/lang/index.html From bobwyatt at GEOCITIES.COM Mon Nov 24 13:47:23 1997 From: bobwyatt at GEOCITIES.COM (Bob Wyatt) Date: Mon, 24 Nov 1997 11:47:23 -0200 Subject: speech function tagging and discourse anaylysis Message-ID: Dear list colleagues, I am a PhD candidate in Applied Linguistics at the Catholic U. of S. Paulo, Brazil. I have been working on text analysis with a focus on the identification and classification of speech functions and the clause mood choices used to realize them. The nature of this work has required me to develop a set of tags for classifying both speech functions and text types. As a result, I'm looking for publications on tagging, the classification of indirect speech acts, markedness theory and those which deal with marked and unmarked forms. Although I have a basic idea of what may be essential to my bibliography (Brown & Levinson, Halliday, Hasan, Martin, O'Donnell, ...) , I would appreciate any suggestions you might have, especially concerning current work related to topics above. Best Wishes, Bob PS - This message is being posted on several lists. My apologies if you receive multiple copies. -- Bob Wyatt MA Applied Linguistics Distance Education Group, COGEAE, PUC/SP, Brazil Homepage http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/8604 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From fling11 at EMDUCMS1.SIS.UCM.ES Fri Nov 28 16:17:57 1997 From: fling11 at EMDUCMS1.SIS.UCM.ES (Marta Carretero) Date: Fri, 28 Nov 1997 17:17:57 +0100 Subject: conventional implicature? Message-ID: Dear 'funknetters': I am a teacher of linguistics at the Universidad Complutense, Madrid, and one of my subjects is pragmatics, of which my students are 5th year undergraduates. Now I am teaching cooperation and implicature, as in Grice's proposal, and soon I will come across the notion of 'conventional implicature'. I am beginning to think that what comes under the label 'conventional implicature' (for instance, BUT and HOWEVER carry the 'implicature' that what follows will run counter to expectations) could well be included in the LEXICAL MEANING of these items, since these 'implicatures' are independent of context and persist in all the uses of these words. I would appreciate it very much if some of you could send me messages about your views on this subject. Thank you very much in advance. Marta Carretero Departamento de Filologia Inglesa Facultad de Filologia - Edificio A Universidad Complutense 28040 - Madrid. From barlow at RUF.RICE.EDU Fri Nov 28 19:13:30 1997 From: barlow at RUF.RICE.EDU (Michael Barlow) Date: Fri, 28 Nov 1997 13:13:30 -0600 Subject: Germanic Linguistics Message-ID: Forwarded message from Gregor Hens ------------------------------------------------------------------- The Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures at The Ohio State University is pleased to announce the fourth Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference to be held in Columbus, Ohio, USA on April 17-19, 1998. Abstracts are hereby invited for thirty-minute papers in all areas of linguistics dealing with any Germanic language, past and present. All abstracts will be evaluated anonymously, by a panel of reviewers. Please send five copies of a one-page abstract (font size 12). On the abstract include the title of the proposed paper but do not include the author's name. Attach a three-by-five inch index card with the following information: author(s), academic affiliation(s), title of paper, postal address, e-mail, phone, and fax (if available). Deadline for submissions is January 2, 1998. Send your abstracts to: GLAC 4 Conference Committee Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures 314 Cunz Hall 1841 Millikin Rd. Columbus, OH 43210-1229 Tel. (614) 292-6985 Fax. (614) 292-8510 For more information send e-mail to glac4 at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu _________________________________________ Gregor Hens Indiana-Purdue-Ohio State Studienprogramm G�stehaus der Universit�t Nr. 405 Rothenbaumchaussee 34 D-20148 Hamburg -40-418741 (phone) -40-452792 (fax) hens.1 at osu.edu From DZIEGELE at VAXC.CC.MONASH.EDU.AU Sun Nov 30 08:56:16 1997 From: DZIEGELE at VAXC.CC.MONASH.EDU.AU (Debra Ziegeler) Date: Sun, 30 Nov 1997 19:56:16 +1100 Subject: conventional implicatures Message-ID: Referring to Marta Carretero's question on the semantic content of conventional implicatures, I would not think that such items could be said to contain lexical meaning, since the most frequently cited ones appear to function as grammatical connectives and discourse particles. Although many may be shown to have grammaticalised from former lexical items, such as BUT from a preposition in Old English meaning 'outside of' (see Traugott 1995 in Stein & Wright (eds.),and certainly the original lexical semantics of HOWEVER is transparent, in present-day uses the semantic content must surely be the result of the continual and gradual reinforcement of conversational implicatures as a process of their grammaticalisation. But the question remains whether all context- independent items must neccessarily have a lexical function. Debra Ziegeler From mccay at REDESTB.ES Sun Nov 30 17:21:52 1997 From: mccay at REDESTB.ES (Alan R. King) Date: Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:21:52 +0100 Subject: conventional implicature? Message-ID: I rarely contribute to this list, generally preferring to 'lurk' (a lovely word)! Looking at Marta Carretero's question, it is unclear whether she is fully familiar with Grice's theory on the subject and proposes to question it (a quite valid position, I'm sure), or is asking for clarification on just what Grice argues. Thus it is difficult to know on what level to attempt to answer the question to be most useful. The whole point of Grice's argument is that the conventional implicatures he posits are CONVENTIONAL. As I understand it, the fact that "these 'implicatures' are independent of context", to the extent that this is the case, is part and parcel of their conventionality. (I have hedged the preceding statement since it can be argued that ALL meanings are, to a certain extent, subject to contextual compatibility no matter how conventional!) What needs to be kept clear is what we wish to mean by the term "conventional". It goes without saying that standard, lexical meanings are by definition conventional; language understood as a system (of any kind) is per se conventional. The point raised by Grice was precisely whether all conventional meanings need be considered intrinsic parts of the "code" (i.e. 'lexical'...), are whether some are basic and others are 'acquired' secondarily by processes which he referred to as 'conventional implicature' (in addition to still other meanings which arise strictly in context, viz. his 'conversational implicatures'. Marta also says that the meanings that Grice ascribes to conventional implicature "persist in all the uses of these words". I think that here Grice would disagree and claim that which the meanings in question are often automatically (i.e. conventionally) assumed, they are nonetheless 'defeasible'. I recommend a careful reading of the chapter on implicature in Levinson's excellent book _Pragmatics_ for clarification of Grice's basic idea. Alan R. King, Ph.D. alanking at bigfoot.com Alternative email addresses: mccay at redestb.es, a at eirelink.com, 70244.1674 at compuserve.com SNAIL: Orkolaga plaza 3 1A, 20800 Zarautz, Basque Country, Spain PHONE: +34-43-134125 / FAX: +34-43-130396 VISIT MY WEB PAGE AT --> http://www.eirelink.com/alanking/ From clements at INDIANA.EDU Sat Nov 1 17:59:38 1997 From: clements at INDIANA.EDU (J. Clancy Clements (Kapil)) Date: Sat, 1 Nov 1997 11:59:38 -0600 Subject: Assistant Professor in Spanish Linguistics -- PLEASE POST Message-ID: Assistant Professor in Spanish Linguistics Assistant Professor, tenure-track position in Spanish Linguistics to begin Fall 1998. Area of specialization is Sociolinguistics; an additional area highly desirable. Ph.D. in hand or expected by date of appointment. Teaching duties include graduate and undergraduate courses in linguistics and undergraduate language instruction. Evidence of excellent research potential, effective teaching, and fluent command of Spanish is required. Send letter of application, c.v., and three letters of recommendation to Professor James Lee, Chair, Search Committee, Department of Spanish and Portuguese. All applications received by November 16 will be assured full consideration. Indiana University is an affirmative action/equal employment opportunity employer. AA/EOE J. Clancy Clements Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese Ballantine Hall 844 Bloomington, IN 47405 Email: Clements at indiana.edu Ph: (812) 855-6141 Fax: (812) 855-4526 From clements at INDIANA.EDU Sat Nov 1 20:35:21 1997 From: clements at INDIANA.EDU (J. Clancy Clements (Kapil)) Date: Sat, 1 Nov 1997 15:35:21 -0500 Subject: PLEASE POST -- Assistant Professor in Spanish Linguistics Message-ID: Assistant Professor, tenure-track position in Spanish Linguistics to begin Fall 1998. Area of specialization is Sociolinguistics; an additional area highly desirable. Ph.D. in hand or expected by date of appointment. Teaching duties include graduate and undergraduate courses in linguistics and undergraduate language instruction. Evidence of excellent research potential, effective teaching, and fluent command of Spanish is required. Send letter of application, c.v., and three letters of recommendation to Professor James Lee, Chair, Search Committee, Department of Spanish and Portuguese. All applications received by November 16 will be assured full consideration. Indiana University is an affirmative action/equal employment opportunity employer. AA/EOE J. Clancy Clements Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese Ballantine Hall 844 Bloomington, IN 47405 Email: Clements at indiana.edu Ph: (812) 855-6141 Fax: (812) 855-4526 From john at RESEARCH.HAIFA.AC.IL Tue Nov 4 08:37:46 1997 From: john at RESEARCH.HAIFA.AC.IL (John Myhill) Date: Tue, 4 Nov 1997 10:37:46 +0200 Subject: Grants for NLP Message-ID: Does anyone have an email address for John Haiman? I've been trying to contact him at haiman at MACALSTR.EDU and he hasn't responded. Thanks. John From jrubba at POLYMAIL.CPUNIX.CALPOLY.EDU Tue Nov 4 23:13:16 1997 From: jrubba at POLYMAIL.CPUNIX.CALPOLY.EDU (Johanna Rubba) Date: Tue, 4 Nov 1997 15:13:16 -0800 Subject: School-age syntax Message-ID: I am looking for recent research (especially summaries) of children's syntactic development during the school years. I have looked through two recent language acquisition textbooks, Berko-Gleason's 'The Development of Language' and Owens' 'Language Development'. Most of the research they cite is either rather old or focuses on particular constructions such as passive or anaphora. I teach a class for future language arts teachers and would like to give them an overview of how children's syntax increases in complexity over the school years, in terms of increase in types and frequency of subordination, as well as mastery of sentence types such as clefts, pseudo-clefts, etc. Any tips or references would be appreciated. I will post a summary to the list. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Johanna Rubba Assistant Professor, Linguistics ~ English Department, California Polytechnic State University ~ San Luis Obispo, CA 93407 ~ Tel. (805)-756-2184 E-mail: jrubba at polymail.calpoly.edu ~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From macw at CMU.EDU Wed Nov 5 00:05:15 1997 From: macw at CMU.EDU (Brian MacWhinney) Date: Tue, 4 Nov 1997 19:05:15 -0500 Subject: syntax in the early school years Message-ID: Johanna, You just now posted a note to FunkNet asking for pointers to recent discussions of syntactic acquisition in the early school years. I actually had two contacts yesterday that required me to field exactly this question. One was from a student, another from a colleague. I answered that the truth is that, by age 5, children really know just about all there is to know about the forms of English. What they don't yet know are the mappings from form to function or the mappings between functions. One would think that this would provide a happy hunting ground for functionally-oriented studies of language development, but that hasn't really happened, largely because these studies require one to have good comparable stimuli to elicit functionally interesting performances. And the analysis of production data is extremely tedious. Berman and Slobin's work on the frog stories or parallel work on narratives from Maya Hickmann and Annette Karmiloff-Smith are examples of some of the best work in this area. But you seem to be looking for a description that says, for example, that cleft sentences increase by a certain percentage each year. They do indeed, but what is interesting is why they do. I think that you shouldn't shy away too much from studies that look at "particular constructions such as passive or anaphora." In fact, the problem is that we just don't have enough studies of the development of these particular constructions in the increasingly rich discourse formats required by the school environment. Given the gaps in the functionalist literature, I would tend to point your teacher friends toward the work on the learning of composition. I think Myra Shuaghnessy is a classic in that area. There at least, one gets the sense of rich database and a real problem that schooling can address. --Brian MacWhinney From simon at CVAX.IPFW.INDIANA.EDU Wed Nov 5 00:20:55 1997 From: simon at CVAX.IPFW.INDIANA.EDU (Beth Simon) Date: Tue, 4 Nov 1997 19:20:55 EST Subject: language extinction, language maintenance list(s) Message-ID: Are there e-lists for language extinction and/or language maintenance? thanks, beth simon assistant professor, linguistics and english indiana university purdue university simon at cvax.ipfw.indiana.edu From simon at CVAX.IPFW.INDIANA.EDU Wed Nov 5 16:09:11 1997 From: simon at CVAX.IPFW.INDIANA.EDU (Beth Simon) Date: Wed, 5 Nov 1997 11:09:11 EST Subject: endangered languages Message-ID: Thanks to everyone for the various e-addresses and websites. Beth Simon Assistant Professor, Linguistics and English Indiana University Purdue University simon at cvax.ipfw.indiana.edu From ocls at IPA.NET Tue Nov 11 13:41:59 1997 From: ocls at IPA.NET (George Elgin, Suzette Haden Elgin) Date: Tue, 11 Nov 1997 08:41:59 -0500 Subject: references needed for statistics Message-ID: November 11, 1997 Can anyone on this list provide me with references -- however vague -- for two statistics that seem to appear all over the place (my books included) without credits? They are: that, as an average, 65% of all communication in spoken English is nonverbal; and that, as an average, more than 90% of all *emotional* communication in spoken English is nonverbal. These figures must go way back; they appear in notes I took in graduate courses, for example. I posted the query on Linguist List and got a flood of responses. With one exception (a source for a similar, but different claim about a word/voice/body language division for spoken English information), all the responses were notes saying the individual also needed references for those two statistics. I'm hoping for better results here, and look forward to your replies. Suzette Haden Elgin ocls at ipa.net From delancey at OREGON.UOREGON.EDU Tue Nov 11 15:51:23 1997 From: delancey at OREGON.UOREGON.EDU (Scott Delancey) Date: Tue, 11 Nov 1997 07:51:23 -0800 Subject: references needed for statistics In-Reply-To: Message-ID: On Tue, 11 Nov 1997, George Elgin, Suzette Haden Elgin wrote: > Can anyone on this list provide me with references -- however vague -- for > two statistics that seem to appear all over the place (my books included) > without credits? They are: that, as an average, 65% of all communication in > spoken English is nonverbal; and that, as an average, more than 90% of all > *emotional* communication in spoken English is nonverbal. These figures No source, but surely these figures must just be made up. How would you quantify nonverbal communication (for that matter, how would you quantify *verbal* communication) so as to arrive at a percentage? Scott DeLancey From edwards at COGSCI.BERKELEY.EDU Tue Nov 11 22:24:50 1997 From: edwards at COGSCI.BERKELEY.EDU (Jane A. Edwards) Date: Tue, 11 Nov 1997 14:24:50 -0800 Subject: references needed for statistics Message-ID: On Tue, 11 Nov 1997, George Elgin, Suzette Haden Elgin wrote: > Can anyone on this list provide me with references -- however vague -- for > two statistics that seem to appear all over the place (my books included) > without credits? They are: that, as an average, 65% of all communication in > spoken English is nonverbal; and that, as an average, more than 90% of all > *emotional* communication in spoken English is nonverbal. These figures These numbers definitely have the flavor of work in social psychology, psychotherapy or communication prior to 1980. I think you would get a more definitive answer, therefore, if you post to a list more in those areas - perhaps lang-use (info appended). But my best bet is that the 65% figure came from Mehrabian's work: > Mehrabian, Albert; Ferris, Susan R. > Inference of Attitudes from Nonverbal Communication in Two Channels. > Journal of Consulting Psychology, 1967, v31 (n3):248-252. > > Abstract: 3 degrees of attitude (i.e., positive, neutral, and negative) in > facial expression were each combined with 3 degrees of attitude > communicated vocally. The vocal communications of attitude were > superimposed on a neutral word. In preparing the 2-component > communications, the components were selected so that the degree of > positive attitude communicated facially was equivalent to that > communicated vocally-i.e., the independent effects of the 2 components > were comparable. It was found that attitudes inferred from combined > facial-vocal communications are a linear function of the attitudes > communicated in each component, with the facial component receiving > approximately 3/2 the weight received by the vocal component. > Implications of the findings for more general attitude-communication > problems are discussed. (PsycINFO Database Copyright 1967 American > Psychological Assn, all rights reserved). He also has a book: Mehrabian, Albert. Nonverbal communication. Chicago, Aldine-Atherton [1972]. Best Wishes, -Jane Edwards --------------------- To subscribe to lang-use, send email to LISTSERV at VM.TEMPLE.EDU, containing the one-line command: SUB lang-use For more information on lang-use, send email to listserv at vm.temple.edu, containing the one-line command: help From edwards at COGSCI.BERKELEY.EDU Tue Nov 11 22:33:24 1997 From: edwards at COGSCI.BERKELEY.EDU (Jane A. Edwards) Date: Tue, 11 Nov 1997 14:33:24 -0800 Subject: Metacomment Message-ID: I should add that - like many pop psych figures (Another one is that we only use 10% of our brains.) - the 65% and 90% statistic also seem to me to be of limited value and questionable validity. I think these are basically used as metaphors in the culture, rather than as true scientific findings. I suspect that if you find the experiment which gives the number, it will always be the case that there was a huge amount of extrapolation away from the experimental context. -Jane Edwards From MAGernsb at FACSTAFF.WISC.EDU Wed Nov 19 01:14:10 1997 From: MAGernsb at FACSTAFF.WISC.EDU (Morton Ann Gernsbacher) Date: Tue, 18 Nov 1997 20:14:10 -0500 Subject: Please post. Thank you! Message-ID: CogSci98 -- Call for Submissions Twentieth Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society August 1 - 4, 1998; University of Wisconsin-Madison http://psych.wisc.edu/CogSci98/conf.html We are pleased to announce CogSci98, the Twentieth Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, to be held in Madison, Wisconsin, August 1-4, 1998. Because the field of cognitive science exists to promote cross-disciplinary integration of concepts, methods, epistemologies, and data, and the empirical and theoretical base of cognitive science can shed light on the nature of such an interdisciplinary enterprise, CogSci98 will focus on Interdisciplinarity. This focus will be manifested in the following four ways: First, one plenary session will be dedicated to the topic of interdisciplinarity. Second, several invited tutorial symposia designed to provide breadth of interest will be offered. Third, presentations from the Cognitive Science Society membership that address interdisciplinarity as an object of empirical and theoretical research are hereby encouraged for one strand of the conference program. And fourth, all submissions for spoken presentations (i.e., symposia and spoken papers) will be evaluated for their ability to transcend their disciplinary boundaries and truly address the breadth of the community of cognitive scientists, in addition to being evaluated for their technical and theoretical merit (see review criteria below); thus, more general papers and symposia will have a higher priority for scheduling on the spoken program, and more specialized topics will be assigned to poster sessions. This call solicits submissions for four forms of presentation: STANDARD SPOKEN PAPERS: 20-minute spoken presentations, which if accepted will be published as 6-page papers in the Proceedings; STANDARD POSTERS: standard poster presentations, which if accepted will be published as 6-page papers in the Proceedings; ABSTRACT POSTERS: poster presentations, which are guaranteed to be published in the Proceedings as one-page abstracts but can be submitted only by members of the Cognitive Science Society. The deadline for submitting proposals for abstract posters is one month later than that for standard paper and poster presentations, so that persons who would like to become members of the Society may do so prior to submitting their abstract posters. Please see http://www.pitt.edu/~cogsci95/ for information about membership in the Cognitive Science Society, or contact the Executive Officer of the Cognitive Science Society, Inc., Colleen Seifert of the University of Michigan at (313) 764-4253; fax (313) 763-7480 (Attn: Prof. Seifert); email cogsci at umich.edu. SYMPOSIA: 90-minute spoken presentations, including three or more well-integrated talks on a common topic and possibly a discussant, which if accepted will be published as one-page abstracts in the Proceedings. Submissions for standard spoken papers, standard posters, and symposia will be reviewed according to the following criteria: Technical/Theoretical Merit; Relevance to a Broad Audience of Cognitive Science Researchers; Clarity of Presentation; Significance; and Originality. ALL submissions for standard spoken papers, standard posters, abstract posters, and symposia require three pieces of information to be submitted, two by postal mail and one by electronic mail. The three components are (1) one hard-copy of a COVER PAGE (described below); (2) one electronic mail message containing the information presented on the COVER PAGE; and (3) five hard-copies of CAMERA-READY PROCEEDINGS CONTRIBUTION (described at http://psych.wisc.edu/CogSci98/conf.html). (1) POSTAL MAIL ONE HARD-COPY OF COVER PAGE PROVIDING THE SEVEN ITEMS (a - g) LISTED BELOW: Provide the following information on a cover page, and mail the hard-copy of the cover page with the five copies of the camera-ready Proceedings contribution. (a) Author Information: Name, affiliation, full mailing address, email address, telephone number, and fax number of all authors. (b) Presenter/Organizer's Name: Name of person who will be making the presentation, or in the case of a symposium, the name of the organizer. (c) Title: The title of the presentation. (d) Presentation Format Preference: Indicate whether the first preference is presentation as a standard spoken paper, standard poster, abstract poster, or symposium. If first preference is standard spoken paper, you must also indicate whether you are willing to make a standard poster presentation or an abstract poster presentation if your submission cannot be accepted for a standard spoken paper. (e) Keywords: A list of FIVE keywords (to be used for indexing as well as assignment of reviewers) (f) Marr Prize Eligibility: Indicate whether the proposal should be considered for a David Marr Memorial Prize. Papers with a student first-author are eligible. (g) 150-word Summary (2) EMAIL THE INFORMATION PROVIDED FOR THE COVER PAGE (items (a) through (g) described above), in the body of an email message, to CS98PROG at MACC.WISC.EDU. Use the presenter's last name as the subject heading of the email. (3) POSTAL MAIL FIVE HARD-COPIES OF THE CAMERA-READY PROCEEDINGS CONTRIBUTION: Strictly follow the instructions provided at http://psych.wisc.edu/CogSci98/conf.html, which are also being postal mailed to society members. For standard spoken papers and standard posters, the entire contribution (including figures, references, everything) can be no longer than six pages. For abstract posters and symposia, the entire contribution can be no longer than one page. POSTAL MAIL ADDRESS: CogSci98 c/o Dr. Morton Ann Gernsbacher 1202 W. Johnson Street University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison, WI 53706-1611 USA Deadline for RECEIPT of all submission materials is February 6, 1998 (for standard paper, standard poster, and symposium submissions) and March 6, 1998 (for abstract posters). Authors whose submissions are accepted on the program and will appear in the Proceedings will be notified in time to return final versions of their camera-ready Proceedings contributions by late April. PROPOSALS THAT DO NOT CONTAIN ALL OF THE ABOVE INFORMATION OR DO NOT FIT ALL THE SPECIFICATIONS DESCRIBED IN THE INSTRUCTIONS (available at http://psych.wisc.edu/CogSci98/conf.html) WILL BE RETURNED WITHOUT REVIEW. For information about conference registration and housing, contact CS98REG at MACC.WISC.EDU after December 1, 1997. Please DO NOT direct queries about conference registration, housing, parking on campus, or lodging to any other email address. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Morton Ann Gernsbacher, Ph.D. Sir Frederic C. Bartlett Professor University of Wisconsin-Madison 1202 W. Johnson Street Madison, WI 53706-1611 (608) 262-6989 [fax (608) 262-4029] MAGernsb at facstaff.wisc.edu http://psych.wisc.edu/lang/index.html From harder at COCO.IHI.KU.DK Wed Nov 19 14:08:07 1997 From: harder at COCO.IHI.KU.DK (harder at COCO.IHI.KU.DK) Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 08:08:07 -0600 Subject: No subject Message-ID: >Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 14:05:48 +0100 (MET) >From: Nina Gronnum >X-Sender: ng at rask >To: harder at coco.ihi.ku.dk > > > >K?re Peter - vil du v?re s?d at viderebefordre nedenst?ende til FUNKNET? > >tak, nina > >------------------------------------------------------------------ > >Faculty of Humanities, >University of Copenhagen > >invites applications for a > >PROFESSORSHIP IN LINGUISTICS > >at the Department of General and Applied Linguistics to be >filled by August 1st, 1998 or as soon as possible. > >Applicants must be able to document excellent contributions to >linguistic theory and empirical research in one or several >languages, including a typological perspective. Furthermore, >applicants must be prepared to undertake teaching and >supervision, especially within the field of general >linguistics. Applicants must have experience in research >supervision and collaborative research and will be expected to >assume a role in the everyday life of the Department, also >with respect to administrative duties. > >Since the successful applicant must be able to participate in >all departmental and Faculty activities, including examination >and administration, it is required that if he or she is >without previous knowledge of Danish, he or she must acquire >adequate knowledge of the language within two years at most, a >condition of permanent appointment. > >Applications must include full information and documentation >of the applicant's scholarly qualifications and teaching >experience. Applications should include a full list of >publications and should specify which publications the >applicant wishes to be taken into account in the evaluation of >his or her scholarly, teaching and other qualifications. >Three copies of these publications should be included in the >application. Material in electronic form - such as discs - is >not accepted. > >The appointment committee is only required to take the >specified research material into account to the extent that it >is necessary to make an assessment of the applicant's >qualifications and it may also consider research material >which has not been specified. In such cases the applicant >will be notified. > >The names of the members of the appointment committee will be >sent to the applicants. The complete recommendation made by >the committee will be sent to all the applicants. Information >on other applicants must be treated confidentially. > >The professorship is a tenured position under the Ministry of >Education. The annual salary is approximately 430.000 DKK >after contribution to the pension scheme. > >Further information about the position may be obtained from >Esther Glahn, Director of the Department of General and >Applied Linguistics, tel. +45 35 32 86 41, fax +45 35 32 86 >35. > >Applications should be addressed to the Rector of the >University of Copenhagen with reference to J.nr. 401-211- >21/97-4226 and sent to the Humanities Faculty, Njalsgade 80, >DK-2300 Copenhagen S, Denmark, so that they reach the Faculty >no later than January 15th, 1998 at noon. > > >____________________________________________ > >Nina Groennum >Institute of General and Applied Linguistics >University of Copenhagen > > > From tpayne at OREGON.UOREGON.EDU Thu Nov 20 14:32:21 1997 From: tpayne at OREGON.UOREGON.EDU (Thomas E Payne) Date: Thu, 20 Nov 1997 06:32:21 -0800 Subject: Describing Morphosyntax Message-ID: For those who may be interested in a basic, hopefully readable, guide to describing the grammars of little-studied languages, please consider Describing morphosyntax: A guide for field linguists. This book is now available from Cambridge University Press at a very reasonable introductory price. Check it out at: http://www.cup.org/Titles/58/0521582245.html The introductory price is quite a bit less than what is listed on this page. Call their 800 number for details. Thanks! Tom Payne From spikeg at OWLNET.RICE.EDU Fri Nov 21 20:16:19 1997 From: spikeg at OWLNET.RICE.EDU (Spike Gildea) Date: Fri, 21 Nov 1997 14:16:19 -0600 Subject: (fwd) 8th Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse Message-ID: >>From "Rachel R. W. Robertson" Subject: 8th Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse Call for Proposals Eighth Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse (co-sponsor: University of Wisconsin - Madison) Wednesday through Friday, July 29 - 31, 1998 The Edgewater Hotel (near the University of Wisconsin - Madison campus) * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * We are pleased to announce the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse. The Society for Text and Discourse is an international society of researchers who investigate all aspects of discourse processing and text analysis. (See our web site: http://www.psyc.memphis.edu/ST&D/ST&D.htm.) The purpose of the Society is to consolidate research in discourse processing and to enhance communication among researchers in different disciplines. Therefore, we invite scholars from various disciplines (e.g., psychology, linguistics, artificial intelligence, education, sociology, anthropology, communications, and philosophy) to attend and participate in the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse. The Eighth Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse will be held the two days preceding the annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (which is being hosted by the University of Wisconsin - Madison, August 1 - 4). The meeting will begin with a welcome reception, Wednesday evening, July 29th, in the Rigadoon Room of The Edgewater Hotel, overlooking Lake Mendota. Spoken papers and invited addresses will begin the morning of Thursday, July 30 and end the afternoon of Friday, July 31. A poster session will be held Thursday evening, July 30. All events of the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse will occur in The Edgewater Hotel. We are very pleased to announce a special feature of this year's annual meeting: Elizabeth Bates, Douglas Biber, Tom Giv?n, Jane Oakhill, and Eve Sweetser each will be giving an invited address. We hope that you, too, will join us by submitting a proposal for participation in the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse and by attending what we believe will be an excellent meeting. This announcement contains four pieces of information: 1. How to submit a proposal for presentation at the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse. 2. How to submit an entry for the OUTSTANDING STUDENT PAPER AWARD and the JASON ALBRECHT AWARD to be awarded at the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse. 3. How to reserve hotel lodging for the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse. 4. How to register for the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse. For further information, about the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse, contact Rachel Robertson, Conference Manager, by phone at (608) 262-6989, or e-mail at textdis at macc.wisc.edu. ***************************************** ***************************************** 1. How to Submit a Proposal for the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse Presentations at the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse can be in the form of POSTERS and SPOKEN PAPERS. The deadline for submitting proposals for both presentation formats is March 9, 1998. Note that this is a "receipt deadline" (proposals must be received on or before that date). Authors will be notified whether their proposed presentations are accepted before April 13, 1998. Please note that all presentations must be based on research that is completed at the time that the proposal is submitted. For POSTER and PAPER presentations, please submit the following BY E-MAIL to textdis at macc.wisc.edu. Please place information within the body of the e-mail message, DO NOT USE ATTACHMENTS OR ENCLOSED DOCUMENTS. The subject heading should contain the last name of the first author and the title of the proposal, in the format LAST NAME, TITLE (e.g., Gernsbacher, The benefits of becoming a member of the Society for Text and Discourse). Each submission must be in the body of a separate e-mail message. Please use the following format. A. AUTHOR INFORMATION For every author on the submission, provide: Name Affiliation Full mailing address E-mail address Telephone number B. PRESENTER NAME (name of the person who will be making the presentation) C. PRESENTATION FORMAT PREFERENCE Choose one of the following options: Spoken only Poster only Preference for spoken but would be willing to do a poster (Note that the number of time slots for spoken presentations will be limited.) D. STATEMENT verifying that the research that will be presented has been completed (as of the date that the proposal is submitted). E. PRESENTATION INFORMATION The title of the presentation Authors' names and affiliations A 2-page summary of the presentation A 75-word abstract of the presentation Incomplete submissions will not be reviewed. If for some reason you cannot send your submission by e-mail, please contact the conference manager, Rachel Robertson, Department of Psychology, 1202 W. Johnson St., Madison, WI 53706, phone: (608) 262-6989, fax: (608) 262-4029, textdis at macc.wisc.edu. Confirmation of submissions will be sent within a week of receipt. ***************************************** 2. How to Submit an Entry for the OUTSTANDING STUDENT PAPER AWARD or the JASON ALBRECHT OUTSTANDING YOUNG SCIENTIST AWARD Each year the Governing Board of the Society for Text and Discourse holds a competition for the best spoken paper submitted and presented by a graduate student. Up to two Outstanding Student Paper Awards will be given. Recipients of the award receive a commemorative (framed) certificate and a check for $150. At last year's annual conference, the Governing Board of the Society for Text and Discourse introduced the Jason Albrecht Outstanding Young Scientist Award. This award, in honor of Jason Albrecht, a promising young text and discourse researcher who passed away in 1996, will be presented to the best spoken paper submitted and presented that is based on a doctoral dissertation. Entries for the Outstanding Student Paper Award or the Jason Albrecht Outstanding Young Scientist Award must be submitted IN ADDITION to regular submissions for the conference (i.e., persons who submit entries for the Outstanding Student Paper Award or the Jason Albrecht Award must ALSO submit "regular" proposals for inclusion in the program). The deadline for submitting entries for the Outstanding Student Paper Award and the Jason Albrecht Outstanding Young Scientist Award is also March 9, 1998. Recipients will be notified April 13, 1998. For these award submissions, please submit the following BY EMAIL to textdis at macc.wisc.edu. Please place the required information (listed below) inside the body of the email message. DO NOT USE ATTACHMENTS OR ENCLOSED DOCUMENTS. The subject heading for entries for the Outstanding Student Paper Award should contain the acronym OSPA followed by the last name of the student submitting the proposal (e.g., OSPA, Sundermeier). The subject heading for entries for the Jason Albrecht Outstanding Young Scientist Award should contain the acronym JAOYSA followed by the last name of the student submitting the proposal (e.g., JAOYSA, Linderholm). The submission must be in the body of the e-mail in the following format. A. THE TITLE OF THE PRESENTATION B. A 2-page SUMMARY of the presentation C. For papers co-authored with the student's advisor(s) a statement from the major advisor that, in the case of the Outstanding Student Paper Award the work is primarily the student's or, in the case of the Jason Albrecht Outstanding Young Scientist Award the presentation is based on the student's dissertation. Evaluation of entries for these two competitions will be blind. Therefore, DO NOT include any information for the first two items listed above that will identify the author of the entry. Other identifying necessary (e.g., the student's name in the subject heading and the statement from the advisor in the case of co-authoring) will be removed prior to the evaluation. Incomplete submissions will not be reviewed. If for some reason you cannot send your submission by e-mail, please contact the conference manager, Rachel Robertson, Department of Psychology, 1202 W. Johnson St., Madison, WI 53706, phone: (608) 262-6989, fax: (608) 262-4029, textdis at macc.wisc.edu. Confirmation of submissions will be sent within a week of receipt. ***************************************** 3. How to Reserve Hotel Lodging for the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse All sessions will be held at The Edgewater Hotel, 666 Wisconsin Avenue, Madison, WI 53703. Participants of the Society for Text and Discourse meeting will receive a special group rate for hotel rooms at The Edgewater Hotel. The rate is $79 per night for single or double occupancy and $99 for a lake front double. Amenities at The Edgewater Hotel include free airport shuttle, free indoor parking, complimentary health club passes and transportation, private voice-mail messaging, business services, morning coffee served in the guest lobby and nightly turn-down with pillow mint, ice refill, weather forecast and list of events. Check-in time is 3:00 p.m. and check-out time is noon. We also have a small block of rooms reserved at the Madison Inn, 601 Langdon St., which is two blocks from The Edgewater Hotel. The special group rate for rooms at the Madison Inn are $52 for single occupancy and $60 for double occupancy. To reserve lodging and secure the special group rates, you must reply by e-mail, phone, fax or mail using the form below by June 26 (receipt date). Confirmations of reservations will be sent within a week of receipt. To reply by e-mail include the information in the form below in an e-mail message to textdis at macc.wisc.edu. In the subject heading type Reservations - YOUR LAST NAME. To phone in your reservation call Rachel Robertson at (608) 262-6989 and be prepared to give the information included in the form below. To fax your reservation, fax the form below to Rachel Robertson at (608) 262-4029. To mail your reservation, send the following form to: Rachel Robertson, Department of Psychology, 1202 W. Johnson St., Madison, WI 53706. HOTEL ROOM RESERVATION FORM Eighth Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse Name: E-mail address: Phone: Mailing address: # of people in the room: Name(s) of other occupant(s): Hotel choice (The Edgewater Hotel or The Madison Inn): If arriving after 6:00 p.m. provide credit card type (Visa, Mastercard, etc. Note: The Edgewater Hotel does not take Discover): and credit card number: Arrival date: Check-out date: Indicate the type of room you want [single (one queen-sized bed), double (two full-sized beds), lake front double (Edgewater Only - two full sized beds, larger room with two vanities)]: Would you prefer smoking or non-smoking? ***************************************** 4. How to Register for the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse To register, please fill out the form below. Send the completed form with a check made out to the Society for Text and Discourse, to the address listed below. There will be on-site registration available; however, the on-site registration rates are $30 for members and $45 for non-members. If you are not a member of the Society, please consider joining now. Membership includes a subscription to the Society's journal, Discourse Processes. Registration and Membership Form Eighth Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse Name: Affiliation: Address: City, State, Country: Telephone: Fax: Email: Please list any information that you prefer not to have listed in the Society's membership directory (Name, Address, Telephone, Fax, E-mail Address, etc.): Registration Please indicate whether you are a Society Member ($25) or Non-Member ($40): Membership Please indicate whether you are applying for: Regular Membership (USA or CANADA) $75, Foreign Membership (outside USA or CANADA) $85, Special Membership (does not include Discourse Processes) $15 If you are getting a Special Membership, please let us know: if you are a student, if you are on the editorial board of Discourse Processes, if your spouse is a member and subscribes to the journal, or if you have already renewed your subscription directly with the publisher. Make checks payable to the Society for Text and Discourse. United States currency only. Mail to: Roger J. Kreuz Secretary/Treasurer, Society for Text and Discourse Department of Psychology Campus Box 526400 The University of Memphis Memphis, TN 38152-6400 USA ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Rachel R.W. Robertson Department of Psychology 1202 W. Johnson St. Madison, WI 53706 (608) 262-6989 From MAGernsb at FACSTAFF.WISC.EDU Mon Nov 24 01:36:36 1997 From: MAGernsb at FACSTAFF.WISC.EDU (Morton Ann Gernsbacher) Date: Sun, 23 Nov 1997 20:36:36 -0500 Subject: CogSci98; Please post! Message-ID: CogSci98 -- Call for Submissions Twentieth Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society August 1 - 4, 1998; University of Wisconsin-Madison http://psych.wisc.edu/CogSci98/conf.html We are pleased to announce CogSci98, the Twentieth Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, to be held in Madison, Wisconsin, August 1-4, 1998. Because the field of cognitive science exists to promote cross-disciplinary integration of concepts, methods, epistemologies, and data, and the empirical and theoretical base of cognitive science can shed light on the nature of such an interdisciplinary enterprise, CogSci98 will focus on Interdisciplinarity. This focus will be manifested in the following four ways: First, one plenary session will be dedicated to the topic of interdisciplinarity. Second, several invited tutorial symposia designed to provide breadth of interest will be offered. Third, presentations from the Cognitive Science Society membership that address interdisciplinarity as an object of empirical and theoretical research are hereby encouraged for one strand of the conference program. And fourth, all submissions for spoken presentations (i.e., symposia and spoken papers) will be evaluated for their ability to transcend their disciplinary boundaries and truly address the breadth of the community of cognitive scientists, in addition to being evaluated for their technical and theoretical merit (see review criteria below); thus, more general papers and symposia will have a higher priority for scheduling on the spoken program, and more specialized topics will be assigned to poster sessions. This call solicits submissions for four forms of presentation: STANDARD SPOKEN PAPERS: 20-minute spoken presentations, which if accepted will be published as 6-page papers in the Proceedings; STANDARD POSTERS: standard poster presentations, which if accepted will be published as 6-page papers in the Proceedings; ABSTRACT POSTERS: poster presentations, which are guaranteed to be published in the Proceedings as one-page abstracts but can be submitted only by members of the Cognitive Science Society. The deadline for submitting proposals for abstract posters is one month later than that for standard paper and poster presentations, so that persons who would like to become members of the Society may do so prior to submitting their abstract posters. Please see http://www.umich.edu/~cogsci for information about membership in the Cognitive Science Society, or contact the Executive Officer of the Cognitive Science Society, Inc., Colleen Seifert of the University of Michigan at (313) 764-4253; fax (313) 763-7480 (Attn: Prof. Seifert); email cogsci at umich.edu. SYMPOSIA: 90-minute spoken presentations, including three or more well-integrated talks on a common topic and possibly a discussant, which if accepted will be published as one-page abstracts in the Proceedings. Submissions for standard spoken papers, standard posters, and symposia will be reviewed according to the following criteria: Technical/Theoretical Merit; Relevance to a Broad Audience of Cognitive Science Researchers; Clarity of Presentation; Significance; and Originality. ALL submissions for standard spoken papers, standard posters, abstract posters, and symposia require three pieces of information to be submitted, two by postal mail and one by electronic mail. The three components are (1) one hard-copy of a COVER PAGE (described below); (2) one electronic mail message containing the information presented on the COVER PAGE; and (3) five hard-copies of CAMERA-READY PROCEEDINGS CONTRIBUTION (described at http://psych.wisc.edu/CogSci98/conf.html). (1) POSTAL MAIL ONE HARD-COPY OF COVER PAGE PROVIDING THE SEVEN ITEMS (a - g) LISTED BELOW: Provide the following information on a cover page, and mail the hard-copy of the cover page with the five copies of the camera-ready Proceedings contribution. (a) Author Information: Name, affiliation, full mailing address, email address, telephone number, and fax number of all authors. (b) Presenter/Organizer's Name: Name of person who will be making the presentation, or in the case of a symposium, the name of the organizer. (c) Title: The title of the presentation. (d) Presentation Format Preference: Indicate whether the first preference is presentation as a standard spoken paper, standard poster, abstract poster, or symposium. If first preference is standard spoken paper, you must also indicate whether you are willing to make a standard poster presentation or an abstract poster presentation if your submission cannot be accepted for a standard spoken paper. (e) Keywords: A list of FIVE keywords (to be used for indexing as well as assignment of reviewers) (f) Marr Prize Eligibility: Indicate whether the proposal should be considered for a David Marr Memorial Prize. Papers with a student first-author are eligible. (g) 150-word Summary (2) EMAIL THE INFORMATION PROVIDED FOR THE COVER PAGE (items (a) through (g) described above), in the body of an email message, to CS98PROG at MACC.WISC.EDU. Use the presenter's last name as the subject heading of the email. (3) POSTAL MAIL FIVE HARD-COPIES OF THE CAMERA-READY PROCEEDINGS CONTRIBUTION: Strictly follow the instructions provided at http://psych.wisc.edu/CogSci98/conf.html, which are also being postal mailed to society members. For standard spoken papers and standard posters, the entire contribution (including figures, references, everything) can be no longer than six pages. For abstract posters and symposia, the entire contribution can be no longer than one page. POSTAL MAIL ADDRESS: CogSci98 c/o Dr. Morton Ann Gernsbacher 1202 W. Johnson Street University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison, WI 53706-1611 USA Deadline for RECEIPT of all submission materials is February 6, 1998 (for standard paper, standard poster, and symposium submissions) and March 6, 1998 (for abstract posters). Authors whose submissions are accepted on the program and will appear in the Proceedings will be notified in time to return final versions of their camera-ready Proceedings contributions by late April. PROPOSALS THAT DO NOT CONTAIN ALL OF THE ABOVE INFORMATION OR DO NOT FIT ALL THE SPECIFICATIONS DESCRIBED IN THE INSTRUCTIONS (available at http://psych.wisc.edu/CogSci98/conf.html) WILL BE RETURNED WITHOUT REVIEW. For information about conference registration and housing, contact CS98REG at MACC.WISC.EDU after December 1, 1997. Please DO NOT direct queries about conference registration, housing, parking on campus, or lodging to any other email address. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Morton Ann Gernsbacher, Ph.D. Sir Frederic C. Bartlett Professor University of Wisconsin-Madison 1202 W. Johnson Street Madison, WI 53706-1611 (608) 262-6989 [fax (608) 262-4029] MAGernsb at facstaff.wisc.edu http://psych.wisc.edu/lang/index.html From bobwyatt at GEOCITIES.COM Mon Nov 24 13:47:23 1997 From: bobwyatt at GEOCITIES.COM (Bob Wyatt) Date: Mon, 24 Nov 1997 11:47:23 -0200 Subject: speech function tagging and discourse anaylysis Message-ID: Dear list colleagues, I am a PhD candidate in Applied Linguistics at the Catholic U. of S. Paulo, Brazil. I have been working on text analysis with a focus on the identification and classification of speech functions and the clause mood choices used to realize them. The nature of this work has required me to develop a set of tags for classifying both speech functions and text types. As a result, I'm looking for publications on tagging, the classification of indirect speech acts, markedness theory and those which deal with marked and unmarked forms. Although I have a basic idea of what may be essential to my bibliography (Brown & Levinson, Halliday, Hasan, Martin, O'Donnell, ...) , I would appreciate any suggestions you might have, especially concerning current work related to topics above. Best Wishes, Bob PS - This message is being posted on several lists. My apologies if you receive multiple copies. -- Bob Wyatt MA Applied Linguistics Distance Education Group, COGEAE, PUC/SP, Brazil Homepage http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/8604 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From fling11 at EMDUCMS1.SIS.UCM.ES Fri Nov 28 16:17:57 1997 From: fling11 at EMDUCMS1.SIS.UCM.ES (Marta Carretero) Date: Fri, 28 Nov 1997 17:17:57 +0100 Subject: conventional implicature? Message-ID: Dear 'funknetters': I am a teacher of linguistics at the Universidad Complutense, Madrid, and one of my subjects is pragmatics, of which my students are 5th year undergraduates. Now I am teaching cooperation and implicature, as in Grice's proposal, and soon I will come across the notion of 'conventional implicature'. I am beginning to think that what comes under the label 'conventional implicature' (for instance, BUT and HOWEVER carry the 'implicature' that what follows will run counter to expectations) could well be included in the LEXICAL MEANING of these items, since these 'implicatures' are independent of context and persist in all the uses of these words. I would appreciate it very much if some of you could send me messages about your views on this subject. Thank you very much in advance. Marta Carretero Departamento de Filologia Inglesa Facultad de Filologia - Edificio A Universidad Complutense 28040 - Madrid. From barlow at RUF.RICE.EDU Fri Nov 28 19:13:30 1997 From: barlow at RUF.RICE.EDU (Michael Barlow) Date: Fri, 28 Nov 1997 13:13:30 -0600 Subject: Germanic Linguistics Message-ID: Forwarded message from Gregor Hens ------------------------------------------------------------------- The Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures at The Ohio State University is pleased to announce the fourth Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference to be held in Columbus, Ohio, USA on April 17-19, 1998. Abstracts are hereby invited for thirty-minute papers in all areas of linguistics dealing with any Germanic language, past and present. All abstracts will be evaluated anonymously, by a panel of reviewers. Please send five copies of a one-page abstract (font size 12). On the abstract include the title of the proposed paper but do not include the author's name. Attach a three-by-five inch index card with the following information: author(s), academic affiliation(s), title of paper, postal address, e-mail, phone, and fax (if available). Deadline for submissions is January 2, 1998. Send your abstracts to: GLAC 4 Conference Committee Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures 314 Cunz Hall 1841 Millikin Rd. Columbus, OH 43210-1229 Tel. (614) 292-6985 Fax. (614) 292-8510 For more information send e-mail to glac4 at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu _________________________________________ Gregor Hens Indiana-Purdue-Ohio State Studienprogramm G?stehaus der Universit?t Nr. 405 Rothenbaumchaussee 34 D-20148 Hamburg -40-418741 (phone) -40-452792 (fax) hens.1 at osu.edu From DZIEGELE at VAXC.CC.MONASH.EDU.AU Sun Nov 30 08:56:16 1997 From: DZIEGELE at VAXC.CC.MONASH.EDU.AU (Debra Ziegeler) Date: Sun, 30 Nov 1997 19:56:16 +1100 Subject: conventional implicatures Message-ID: Referring to Marta Carretero's question on the semantic content of conventional implicatures, I would not think that such items could be said to contain lexical meaning, since the most frequently cited ones appear to function as grammatical connectives and discourse particles. Although many may be shown to have grammaticalised from former lexical items, such as BUT from a preposition in Old English meaning 'outside of' (see Traugott 1995 in Stein & Wright (eds.),and certainly the original lexical semantics of HOWEVER is transparent, in present-day uses the semantic content must surely be the result of the continual and gradual reinforcement of conversational implicatures as a process of their grammaticalisation. But the question remains whether all context- independent items must neccessarily have a lexical function. Debra Ziegeler From mccay at REDESTB.ES Sun Nov 30 17:21:52 1997 From: mccay at REDESTB.ES (Alan R. King) Date: Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:21:52 +0100 Subject: conventional implicature? Message-ID: I rarely contribute to this list, generally preferring to 'lurk' (a lovely word)! Looking at Marta Carretero's question, it is unclear whether she is fully familiar with Grice's theory on the subject and proposes to question it (a quite valid position, I'm sure), or is asking for clarification on just what Grice argues. Thus it is difficult to know on what level to attempt to answer the question to be most useful. The whole point of Grice's argument is that the conventional implicatures he posits are CONVENTIONAL. As I understand it, the fact that "these 'implicatures' are independent of context", to the extent that this is the case, is part and parcel of their conventionality. (I have hedged the preceding statement since it can be argued that ALL meanings are, to a certain extent, subject to contextual compatibility no matter how conventional!) What needs to be kept clear is what we wish to mean by the term "conventional". It goes without saying that standard, lexical meanings are by definition conventional; language understood as a system (of any kind) is per se conventional. The point raised by Grice was precisely whether all conventional meanings need be considered intrinsic parts of the "code" (i.e. 'lexical'...), are whether some are basic and others are 'acquired' secondarily by processes which he referred to as 'conventional implicature' (in addition to still other meanings which arise strictly in context, viz. his 'conversational implicatures'. Marta also says that the meanings that Grice ascribes to conventional implicature "persist in all the uses of these words". I think that here Grice would disagree and claim that which the meanings in question are often automatically (i.e. conventionally) assumed, they are nonetheless 'defeasible'. I recommend a careful reading of the chapter on implicature in Levinson's excellent book _Pragmatics_ for clarification of Grice's basic idea. Alan R. 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