Second Call for Language, Culture & Mind Conference - Paris 2006

[Jordan Zlatev]

SECOND CALL FOR
LANGUAGE CULTURE AND MIND CONFERENCE (LCM 2)

INTEGRATING PERSPECTIVES AND METHODOLOGIES IN THE STUDY OF LANGUAGE

PARIS 17-20 JULY 2006

The second `Language Culture and Mind' Conference (LCM 2) will be
held in Paris in July 2006, following the successful first LCM
conference in Portsmouth in 2004. The goals of LCM conferences are to
contribute to situating the study of language in a contemporary
interdisciplinary dialogue, and to promote a better integration of
cognitive and cultural perspectives in empirical and theoretical
studies of language.

The second edition will be held at the École Nationale Supérieure des
Télécommunications (ENST), 46 rue Barrault, 75013 Paris France.
Further information concerning the organization, accommodation and
fees will be provided as soon as available at the site of the
conference: http://www.lcm2006.net 

PROVISIONAL TIMETABLE
Deadline for submissions:  January 15 (for further detail see
underneath)
Notification to authors by March 30, 2006
Pre-registration by April 15, 2006

PRESENTATION
Human natural languages are biologically based, cognitively
motivated, affectively rich, socially shared, grammatically organized
symbolic systems. They provide the principal semiotic means for the
complexity and diversity of human cultural life. As has long been
recognized, no single discipline or methodology is sufficient to
capture all the dimensions of this complex and multifaceted
phenomenon, which lies at the heart of what it is to be human.

In the recent past, perception and cognition have been the basis of
general unifying models of language and language activity. However, a
genuine integrative perspective should also involve such essential
modalities of human action as: empathy, mimesis, intersubjectivity,
normativity, agentivity and narrativity. Significant theoretical,
methodological and empirical advancements in the relevant disciplines
now provide a realistic basis for such a broadened perspective.

This conference will articulate and discuss approaches to human
natural language and to diverse genres of language activity which aim
to integrate its cultural, social, cognitive and bodily foundations.
We call for contributions from scholars and scientists in
anthropology, biology, linguistics, philosophy, psychology,
semiotics, semantics, discourse analysis, cognitive and neuroscience,
who wish both to impart their insights and findings, and learn from
other disciplines. Preference will be given to submissions which
emphasize interdisciplinarity, the interaction between culture, mind
and language, and/or multi-methodological approaches in language
sciences.

Topics include but are not limited to the relation between language
and:
- biological and cultural co-evolution 
- comparative study of communication systems, whether animal or
artificial
- cognitive and cultural schematization 
- emergence in ontogeny and phylogeny 
- multi-modal communication
- normativity 
- thought, emotion and consciousness
- perception and categorization
- empathy and intersubjectivity
- imitation and mimesis
- symbolic activity
- discourse genres in language evolution and ontogeny
- sign, text and literacy

Further information about LCM 2 will be presented at
http://www.lcm2006.net.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Caroline David (Université de Montpellier)
Jean-Louis Dessalles (École Nationale Supérieure des
Télécommunications, Paris)
Jean Lassègue (CNRS, Paris)
Victor Rosenthal (Inserm-EHESS, Paris)
Chris Sinha (University of Portsmouth)
Yves-Marie Visetti (CNRS, Paris)
Joerg Zinken (University of Portsmouth)
Jordan Zlatev (Lund University)

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
(current composition)
Iraide Ibarretxe Antunano (University of Zaragoza)
Jocelyn Benoist (Université de Paris 1)
Raphael Berthele (Université de Fribourg, Switzerland)
Per Aage Brandt, (Case Western Reserve University)
Peer F. Bundgård (Aarhus Universitet)
Seana Coulson, (Department of Cognitive Science, UCSD)
Jules Davidoff (Goldsmith's, University of London)
Jean-Pierre Durafour (University of Tubingen)
Michel de Fornel (EHESS, Paris)
Vyvyan Evans, (University of Sussex, Grande-Bretagne)
Dirk Geeraerts, (Department of Linguistics, Katholieke Universiteit
Leuven, Belgique)
Clarisse Herrenschmidt (CNRS-Laboratoire Anthropologie Sociale,
Paris)
Chris Knight (University of Edinburgh)
Bernard Laks (Université de Paris 10-Nanterre)
Sandra Laugier (Université d'Amiens)
Maarten Lemmens, (Université Lille III)
Lorenza Mondada (Université Lyon II)
François Nemo (Université Orléans)
Domenico Parisi (CNR, Roma)
David Piotrowski (CREA, Paris)
Stéphane Robert (CNRS, Paris)
François Rastier (CNRS-Modico, Paris)
Lucien Scubla (Ecole Polytechnique, Paris)
Göran Sonesson (Lund, Semiotics)
John Stewart (Université de Technologie de Compiègne)
Frederik Stjernfelt (University of Copenhagen)
Wolfgang Wildgen (University of Bremen)

SUBMISSIONS

Submissions are solicited either for oral presentations or for poster
sessions. They will be reviewed by members of the International
Scientific Committee. Oral presentations should last 20 minutes (plus
10 minutes discussion). All submissions should follow the abstract
guidelines below.

Submissions should be in English. Abstracts should not exceed 1200
words (about two A4 pages), single-spaced, font size 12 pt or larger,
with 2.5 cm margins on all sides. Any diagrams and references must
fit on this two page submission.

Head material (at the top of the first page):

- Title of the paper,
- Author name(s),
- Author affiliation(s) in brief (1 line),
- Email address of principal author
- Type of submission (oral presentation, poster)

Abstracts should be emailed to submission at lcm2006.net as an
ATTACHMENT (i.e. not included in the message) preferably as a MS Word
document, but in PDF or postscript format if it is necessary to
include a diagram or figure.

Abstracts should be submitted by January 15, 2006. Notification of
acceptance by March 30, 2006. All abstracts will be reviewed by
members of the International Scientific Committee.