Call for Papers: 8th International Columbia School Conference

[Nancy Stern]

CALL FOR PAPERS

8th International Columbia School Conference
on the Interaction of
Linguistic Form and Meaning with Human Behavior

Special session:  Functional linguistics in language education

February 14-16, 2004
New York City


Papers are invited on any aspect of linguistic analysis in which the postulation of meaningful signals plays a central role in explaining the distribution of linguistic forms.  A special session will be devoted to functional linguistics in language education.

The Columbia School is a group of linguists developing the theoretical framework originally established by the late William Diver.  Language is seen as a symbolic tool whose structure is shaped both by its communicative function and by the characteristics of its human users.  Grammatical analyses account for the distribution of linguistic forms as an interaction between linguistic meaning and pragmatic and functional factors such as inference, ease of processing, and iconicity.  Phonological analyses explain the syntagmatic and paradigmatic distribution of phonological units within signals, also drawing on both communicative function and human physiological and psychological characteristics.

Please submit:

•    3 copies of a one-page anonymous abstract (optional second page for references, examples, tables, etc.) to the address below.
•    A 3x5 inch index card with the following information:
    -    Title of paper
    -    Author’s name and affiliation
    -    Address, phone, e-mail, for notification

E-mailed abstracts should include all the above information, which will be deleted before the abstracts are reviewed.

Address for abstracts and other correspondence:
Joseph Davis, Asst. Professor
School of Education, R 6/207
City College
New York, NY  10031
E-mail jdavis at ccny.cuny.edu

DEADLINE FOR RECEIPT OF ABSTRACTS:  30 SEPTEMBER 2003

The language of the conference is English.  Papers delivered in languages other than English will be considered.


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The support of
The Columbia School Linguistic Society
is gratefully acknowledged

www.csling.org
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Selected Columbia School bibliography:

Contini-Morava, Ellen, and Barbara Sussman Goldberg.  1995.  Meaning as Explanation:  Advances in Linguistic Sign Theory.  Berlin:  Mouton de Gruyter.  (Selections.)
Huffman, Alan.  1997.  The Categories of Grammar:  French lui and le.  Amsterdam:  John Benjamins.
Huffman, Alan.  2001.  “The Linguistics of William Diver and the Columbia School.”  WORD 52:1, 29-68.
Reid, Wallis.  1991.  Verb and Noun Number in English:  A Functional Explanation.  London:  Longman.
Reid, Wallis, Ricardo Otheguy, and Nancy Stern (eds.).  2002.   Signal, Meaning, and Message:  Perspectives on Sign-Based Linguistics.  Amsterdam:  John Benjamins.
Tobin, Yishai.  1997.  Phonology as Human Behavior:  Theoretical Implications and Clinical Applications.  Durham:  Duke U Press.