From francisco.ruizdemendoza at unirioja.es Wed Aug 1 14:55:04 2007 From: francisco.ruizdemendoza at unirioja.es (=?iso-8859-1?Q?=22Francisco_Jos=E9_Ruiz_De_Mendoza_Ib=E1=F1ez=22?=) Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2007 16:55:04 +0200 Subject: ANNUAL REVIEW OF COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS 5 (2007) Message-ID: Dear colleagues: The Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics, vol. 5 (2007) is now in press. Below is the provisional table of contents. You may also refer to: http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=ARCL%205 We are now preparing vol. 6 (2008). Note that, as with previous volumes, submissions for volume 6 should reach us by November 30, 2007. Later subsimissions, even if evaluated positively, may not be considered for ARCL-6 (2008). We encourage electronic submissions to: cc: "Annual Review" The attached file should be a simple text file, a Word file (Mac or Windows), or a Rich Text Format (RTF) file. The Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics (published under the auspices of the Spanish Cognitive Linguistics Association) aims to establish itself as an international forum for the publication of high-quality original research on all areas of linguistic enquiry from a cognitive perspective. Fruitful debate is encouraged with neighboring academic disciplines as well as with other approaches to language study, particularly functionally-oriented ones. ========================================================================== ANNUAL REVIEW OF COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS VOLUME 5 (2007) Articles Before and after: Relations of anteriority and posteriority along 'paths' of conceptual structure Angeliki Athanasiadou A bi-polar theory of nominal and clause structure and function Jerry T. Ball Subject-object switching and the Igbo lexicon Chinedu Uchechukwu Italian split intransitivity and image schemas: The cognitive linguistics – neuroscience interface Natalya I. Stolova Confrontation or complementarity? Metaphor in language use and cognitive metaphor theory Lynne Cameron Lexical templates within a functional cognitive theory of meaning Ricardo Mairal Usón and Pamela Faber "Image" metaphors and connotations in everyday language Alice Deignan 'Saved by the reflexive': Evidence from coercion via reflexives in verbless complement clauses in English and Spanish Francisco Gonzalvez-García Interview Dirk Geeraerts. Cognitive sociolinguistics and the sociology of Cognitive Linguistics Juana I. Marín-Arrese Review Radden Günter, Klaus-Michael Köpcke, Thomas Berg and Peter Siemund (eds.). 2007. Aspects of Meaning Construction. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 298 pp. Reviewed by Annalisa Baicchi Francisco J. RUIZ DE MENDOZA Universidad de La Rioja Departamento de Filologías Modernas Edificio de Filología c/San José de Calasanz s/n Campus Universitario 26004, Logroño, La Rioja, Spain Tel.: 34 (941) 299433 / (941) 299430 FAX.: 34 (941) 299419 e-mail: francisco.ruizdemendoza at unirioja.es From hougaard at language.sdu.dk Fri Aug 3 10:57:24 2007 From: hougaard at language.sdu.dk (Anders Hougaard) Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2007 12:57:24 +0200 Subject: LCM 3 Message-ID: CONFERENCE: LANGUAGE, CULTURE AND MIND 3 3rd and final THEME SESSIONS CALL The LCM committee and local organizers call for theme session proposals for the third conference in the series Language, Culture and Mind. The conference will be held in modern and comfortable conference facilities in ODENSE 14TH-16TH JULY, 2008. The conference aims at establishing an interdisciplinary forum for an integration of cognitive, social and cultural perspectives in theoretical and empirical studies of language and communication. The special theme of the conference is Social Life and Meaning Construction. We call for contributions from scholars and scientists in anthropology, biology, linguistics, philosophy, psychology, semiotics, semantics, social interaction, 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 social life, culture, mind and language, and/or multi-methodological approaches in language and communication sciences. Dates *First call for Theme Sessions: April 1, 2007 * Second call for Theme Sessions: May 1, 2007 * Third call for Theme Sessions: June 1, 2007 * Deadline for Theme Sessions submissions: September, 2007 NOTICE EXTENSION! * Notification for Theme Sessions : October 1, 2007 NOTICE EXTENSION! NOTICE: calls for the general session and for posters will be made later. Submissions guidelines Max. 500 words (including references) To be submitted to lcm at language.sdu.dk Submissions will be evaluated according to their * Relevance * Quality * Coherence * Originality * Organization Once your suggestion is approved, you will need to arrange for Theme Session Contributors for your theme. They will need to submit abstracts for their contributions and as Theme Session Organizer you will be responsible for their review. More than one person may organize a theme. NOTICE: The LCM reserves the right to reject papers accepted by Theme Session reviewers. However, this right will only be exercised if accepted papers deviate too far from the goals of LCM with respect to their content and/or quality. Plenary speakers: Michael Chandler (University of British Columbia) Alessandro Duranti (University of California at Los Angeles) Derek Edwards (University of Loughborough) Marianne Gullberg (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics) Esa Itkonen (University of Turku) Conference Website: http://www.lcm.sdu.dk Earlier LCM conferences: 1st LCM conference: Portsmouth 2004 2nd LCM conference: Paris 2006 The international LCM committee: Raphael Berthele Carlos Cornejo Caroline David Merlin Donald Barbara Fultner Anders R. Hougaard Jean Lassègue John A Lucy Aliyah Morgenstern Eve Pinsker Vera da Silva Sinha Chris Sinha The local organizing committee: Center for Social Practises and Cognition (SoPraCon): Rineke Brouwer Dennis Day Annette Grindsted Anders R. Hougaard Gitte R. Hougaard (Director) Kristian Mortensen Scientific Committee (incomplete list) Anne Salazar Orvig Meredith Williams Todd Oakley Jonathan Potter Robin Wooffitt Alan Cienki Cornellia Müller Ewa Dabrowska Edy Veneziano Shaun Gallagher Edwin Hutchins ***** Anders R. Hougaard Assistant professor, PhD Institute of Language and Communication University of Southern Denmark, Odense hougaard at language.sdu.dk Phone: +45 65503154 Fax: + 45 65932483 From hilpert at rice.edu Mon Aug 6 23:53:17 2007 From: hilpert at rice.edu (Martin Hilpert) Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 23:53:17 -0000 Subject: from temporal to non-temporal Message-ID: Dear Funknetters, I am interested in temporal expressions (such as tense markers or temporal adverbs) that have acquired non-temporal meanings. Well-known examples of this are English concessive 'while' and causal 'since'. I'd like to hear off- list from people studying such elements in other languages. As long as there will be enough responses I could be coerced into organizing some sort of joint effort. Thanks, --Martin ------------------------------ Martin Hilpert Rice University Department of Linguistics MS 23 6100 Main Street 77005-1892 Houston TX Tel (001) 713 3482822 Fax (001) 713 3484718 http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~hilpert From guillermosotovergara at gmail.com Tue Aug 7 17:41:27 2007 From: guillermosotovergara at gmail.com (Guillermo Soto Vergara) Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2007 13:41:27 -0400 Subject: FUNKNET Digest, Vol 47, Issue 3 In-Reply-To: <20070807170123.AE3C8DEF68@amanita.mail.rice.edu> Message-ID: Hi, Martin: In Spanish you can use the adverb "entonces" (then) as a conjunction/discourse marker meaning consequence, 'in that case', etc. You can use it in if-clauses: Si te gusta Discovery Kids, entonces conoces bien que es "Lazytown" (If you like Discovery Kids, then you surely know Lazytown). The preposition "desde" (since) can be used in topicalizations to mean the speaker's point of view, perspective, opinion: Desde mi punto de vista, estás en lo cierto. (From my point of view, you are right). The adverb "mientras" (while) can be used as a discourse marker meaning "instead", "by contrast": Juan estudia, mientras que tú no haces nada de provecho (Diccionario de la Real Academia Española) (John studies/ is studying, by contrast you don't do anything worthwile) It also can be used in constructions "the more... the more": Mientras más tiene, más desea ((Diccionario de la Real Academia Española)) (The more he/she has, the more he/she wants) Regards, Guillermo Soto Universidad de Chile gsoto at uchile.cl On 8/7/07, funknet-request at mailman.rice.edu wrote: > Send FUNKNET mailing list submissions to > funknet at mailman.rice.edu > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/funknet > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > funknet-request at mailman.rice.edu > > You can reach the person managing the list at > funknet-owner at mailman.rice.edu > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of FUNKNET digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. from temporal to non-temporal (hilpert at rice.edu) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 23:53:17 -0000 > From: > Subject: [FUNKNET] from temporal to non-temporal > To: > Message-ID: <20070806235317.66F191DB02 at fungible9.mail.rice.edu> > > Dear Funknetters, > > I am interested in temporal expressions (such as tense markers or temporal > adverbs) that have acquired non-temporal meanings. Well-known examples of > this are English concessive 'while' and causal 'since'. I'd like to hear off- > list from people studying such elements in other languages. As long as there > will be enough responses I could be coerced into organizing some sort of > joint effort. > > Thanks, --Martin > > > > ------------------------------ > Martin Hilpert > Rice University > Department of Linguistics MS 23 > 6100 Main Street > 77005-1892 Houston TX > Tel (001) 713 3482822 > Fax (001) 713 3484718 > http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~hilpert > > > > > > End of FUNKNET Digest, Vol 47, Issue 3 > ************************************** > From jscheibm at odu.edu Thu Aug 9 15:21:43 2007 From: jscheibm at odu.edu (Joanne Scheibman) Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2007 11:21:43 -0400 Subject: Job notice: Asst Prof linguistics/TESOL Message-ID: Assistant Professor, Linguistics: TESOL. The Department of English at Old Dominion University invites applications for a tenure track appointment in linguistics with a specialty in TESOL to teach undergraduate, M.A., and Ph.D. courses. Required: Ph.D. in Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, or Educational Linguistics by August 15, 2008; qualified to teach courses in TESOL methods, first and second language acquisition, and other linguistics courses as needed; evidence of scholarly potential and good teaching. International experience, ability to teach language and communication across cultures, and experience in distance learning a plus. Salary commensurate with experience. Send letter of application, curriculum vitae, and 3 letters of reference to Dr. David Metzger, Chair, Department of English, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA 23529. Review of applicants will begin November 1, 2007. Old Dominion University is an affirmative action/equal opportunity institution and encourages applications from women and minority candidates. From b3kaboo at yahoo.com Mon Aug 13 09:31:51 2007 From: b3kaboo at yahoo.com (Rebekka Siemens) Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 02:31:51 -0700 Subject: Post Announcement and Call Message-ID: Please post the attached announcement and call. --------------------------------- Yahoo! oneSearch: Finally, mobile search that gives answers, not web links. From b3kaboo at yahoo.com Tue Aug 14 08:09:29 2007 From: b3kaboo at yahoo.com (Rebekka Siemens) Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 01:09:29 -0700 Subject: Announcing InField Message-ID: *** Apologies for cross-postings *** FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PROPOSALS The Department of Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, is pleased to announce the first: INSTITUTE ON FIELD LINGUISTICS AND LANGUAGE DOCUMENTATION (InField) Workshops: June 23rd - July 3, 2008 Field Training: July 7-August 1st, 2008 UC Santa Barbara Campus The Institute on Field Linguistics and Language Documentation is designed for field linguists, graduate students, and language activists to receive training in current techniques and issues in language documentation, language maintenance, and language revitalization. The WORKSHOP portion of the institute will offer workshops of differing lengths on a variety of topics such as technologies, archiving, life in the field, ethics, orthographies, and lexicography. A special curriculum designed specifically for native speakers interested in documenting their own languages will include workshops on basic linguistics, materials development, how to provide technical support to a community, and successful models of language maintenance and revitalization. The FIELD TRAINING portion of the institute will be intensive, based on a traditional graduate course in field methods, but will specifically incorporate the techiques and technologies of the workshops into the course. We anticipate running two or three courses on different languages simultaneously. FOR MORE INFORMATION ON HOW TO BE INVOVLED, VISIT OUR WEBSITE: http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/faculty/infield/ CALL FOR PROPOSALS FOR InField WORKSHOPS: If you would like to offer a workshop, please submit a (short!) proposal by September 15th. See the website for details on submitting proposals. CHECK THE WEBSITES FOR FUTURE UPDATES; THE FINAL CURRICULUM WILL BE CIRCULATED IN THE FALL --------------------------------- Pinpoint customers who are looking for what you sell. From b3kaboo at yahoo.com Tue Aug 14 08:10:41 2007 From: b3kaboo at yahoo.com (Rebekka Siemens) Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 01:10:41 -0700 Subject: InField Call for Proposals Message-ID: CALL FOR PROPOSALS Workshops on Language Documentation, Maintenance, and Revitalization to be held as part of InField: Institute on Field Linguistics and Language Documentation University of California, Santa Barbara June 23rd ¨C July 3rd, 2008 The Organizing Committee of InField solicits applications for workshops in language documentation, language maintenance, and/or language revitalization to be held as part of the Institute on Field Linguistics and Language Documentation, at the University of California, Santa Barbara, June 23rd ¨C July 3rd, 2008. We particularly seek proposals from current practitioners in this area, who would like to teach a workshop of two to eight hours in length to an audience of practicing linguists, graduate students in linguistics, and/or language activists with an interest in documenting, maintaining, or revitalizing a language. For a full description of InField, including workshops currently being planned, visit the website at http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/faculty/infield. The proposal should include a statement of the topic of the proposed workshop, the rationale for including it as part of InField, the proposed length of the workshop, and a brief description of the workshop content and how it would be taught. Please keep proposals to a maximum of two-pages in length. Please include also a statement of qualifications of the instructor. Workshop instructors will receive reimbursement for travel, room and board, and a modest honorarium. 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From andrea.schalley at une.edu.au Tue Aug 14 16:02:36 2007 From: andrea.schalley at une.edu.au (Andrea Schalley) Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 18:02:36 +0200 Subject: CIL 18 workshop on Linguistic Studies of Ontology: Call for abstracts Message-ID: **************************************************************** Final call for abstracts: Extended Deadline August 31, 2007 —LINGUISTIC STUDIES OF ONTOLOGY— From Lexical Semantics to Formal Ontologies and Back Workshop at the 18th INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF LINGUISTS (CIL 18) Korea University, Seoul, Republic of Korea July 21-26, 2008 **************************************************************** —DESCRIPTION— Recent developments in the study of ontology have important implications for cognitive science, knowledge engineering, and theoretical linguistics. In particular, research on lexical ontology deals with how concepts are lexicalized and organized across languages and cultures. This workshop aims to explore this new departure in linguistic studies by building upon the three important premises assumed in Fellbaum (1998), Schalley and Zaefferer (2007), and Huang et al. (2007): First, that lexicalized concepts have a special status in every language (as opposed to concepts that require complex coding), second that lexically coded concepts can be shared by different languages, and third that lexicalization universals are relevant for the construction of cross-lingually portable formal ontologies. Topics of this workshop include foundational issues pertaining to the relation between formal ontology and linguistic ontologies, as well as descriptive issues pertaining to the interface between conceptual ontologies and lexica. In particular, we would like to focus on the following issues during this workshop: - Cross-lingual portability of upper-ontologies - Ontology-based approaches to comparative linguistics - Ontology enrichment: from concept formation via complex coding to lexicalisation - Possible relevance of formal ontological principles (e.g. Roles cannot subsume Types) to psychological/linguistic reality REFERENCES Fellbaum, Christiane. 1998. WordNet: An electronic lexical database. MIT Press. Huang, Chu-Ren et al. Eds. 2007. Ontologies and the Lexicon. Cambridge University Press. Schalley, Andrea C. and Zaefferer, Dietmar. Eds. 2007. Ontolinguistics. Mouton de Gruyter. —SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS— A two-page abstract including everything should be sent electronically to both and . An MS Word and/or .pdf file may be accepted. —IMPORTANT DATES— Extended Deadline for Abstract Submission: August 31, 2007 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: November 30, 2007 Submission of accepted abstract for publication in the proceedings: February 15, 2008 Submission of final paper to be published in CIL18 CD: September 30, 2008 For more information, visit the website () or contact the organizer at . —ORGANIZER— Chu-Ren Huang Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica Nankang, Taipei, Taiwan E-mail address: Fax: 886-2-27856622, Tel: 886-2-26523108 —PROGRAM COMMITTEE— Christiane Fellbaum (Princeton) Shu-kai Hsieh (I-Lan) Chu-Ren Huang (Taipei) Alessandro Lenci (Pisa) Adam Pease (San Francisco) Alessandro Oltramari (Trento) Laurent Prévot (Toulouse) James Pustejovsky (Brandies) Andrea C. Schalley (Armidale) Piek Vossen (Amsterdam) Dietmar Zaefferer (Munich) From els603 at bangor.ac.uk Wed Aug 15 12:52:42 2007 From: els603 at bangor.ac.uk (June Luchjenbroers) Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 13:52:42 +0100 Subject: Final schedule: UK-Cognitive Linguistics conference, Cardiff Message-ID: SORRY FOR CROSS POSTINGS..... Hi all.... Here is the full (and we think final) schedule for papers to be given at the coming UK-Cognitive Linguistics conference, Cardiff. 27 -- 30 August, 2007. For more information about this conference: http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/encap/ncdl/index.html We hope to see you there ;-) June & Michelle ====================== Monday (27th August) 1pm Signing In (registration open till 5pm) 4:45 Official Opening 5:00 Plenary: Vyvyan Evans "Towards a cognitively realistic account of meaning-construction" 7:30 Welcome Reception (wine and buffet) Tuesday (28th August) 9am Plenary: Lynne Cameron "The Discourse Dynamics of Metaphor" 10:30 Morning Tea/coffee Parallel Session #1 [11am – 1pm] Room 1 11am JACINTO, Joana, Subjectivity and Modality in Portuguese 11:30 SAMBRE, Paul, Nesting polyphony in subjectification noon KRAWCZAK, Karolina, (Inter)subjectification and objectification: All paths lead to conceptualization 12:30 VAN VLIET, Sarah, Subjectivity and the use of proper nouns versus pronouns Room 2 11am SANTARPIA, Alfonso, The effect of linguistic metaphors of the body on the relaxation physiological markers in real time 11:30 NEAGU, Mariana, Motion Metaphors of Time in Romanian noon SHINOHARA, Kazuko, A. NAKAYAMA, & J. NAKANO, Synaesthetic metaphors in Japanese: an experimental study on the direction of extension. 12:30 STAUM, Laura & CASASANTO, Daniel, Should liberals use conservatives' metaphors? Cognitive Linguistics meets Sociolinguistics Room 3 11am BROCCIAS, Cristiano, Conceptual links and the availability of asymmetric and non-inheriting resultative constructions 11:30 WANG, Ben Pin-Yung & SU, Lily I-wen, On the polysemy of V-KAI constructions: Forces and perspectives in Chinese resultative verbs noon BASILIO, Margarida & OLIVEIRA, Claudia, A computational approach for evaluating the semantics of Adj-Noun constructions 12:30 EGAN, Thomas, Goal as targeted alternative: the case of the to-infinitive Room 4 11am PAAVOLAINEN, Teemu, Cognitive Linguistics and the Ecology of Theatrical Performance 11:30 SING, Christine, "I think we agree, the past is over": Spatio-temporal metaphors in American Political Discourse noon MILOTOVA, Hana, Persuasive Power of Metaphor in Short Business Presentations 12:30 WERMUTH, Cornelia, Instrumentality vs. pseudo-instrumentality in medical classification rubrics 1 – 2:30pm LUNCH Parallel Session #2 [2:30 – 4; 4:30 – 5:30pm] Room 1 2:30 NABESHIMA, Kojiro Subjectivity: In relation to Developmental Studies and Metaphor Studies 3pm ENDO, Tomoko Establishment of intersubjectivity through showing sharedness: a::: in Japanese conversation 3:30 MARÍN-ARRESE, Juana Stance and Subjectivity/Intersubjectivity in Discourses. A Corpus Study Room 2 2:30 SHIBASAKI, Reijirou Homographic Disambiguation in Japanese: A Blending Approach 3pm FENTON, Brandon Thinking of You: Conceptual Integration and Identity 3:30 BIERWIACZONEK, Boguslaw Conceptual and Neural Blending in the Interpretation of Proverbs Room 3 2:30 ZAINON Hamzah, Zaitul & ABD RAHIM, Normaliza Interruptions in The Conversations Amongst Malay Children: A Pragmatic Analysis 3pm REUBER, Markus & GRAGERA, Antonio The grammaticalization of neurophysiological conceptual phenomena: a shift in the focus of cognitive linguistics. 3:30 PLUG, Leendert Applied Cognitive Linguistics: Metaphoric conceptualisation and the differential diagnosis of seizure disorders Room 4 2:30 MINAMI, Yusuke, Elaborating two types of construal: The case of tough sentences in English and Japanese 3pm KOPYTOWSKA, Monica, Framing global compassion in view of genocide and famine 3:30 KAAL, Anna & DORST, Lettie, Metaphor in discourse: beyond the boundaries of MIP 4pm Afternoon Tea/coffee Room 1 4:30 BELIËN, Maaike Dutch adpositions and grammatical constituency: A cognitive-grammar analysis 5pm CALUDE, Andreea The Demonstrative Cleft in Spoken English Room 2 4:30 PONTEROTTO, Diane Cross-cultural variation in cognitive metaphor theory: Implications for translation studies 5pm RASULIC, Katarina On Cross-Linguistic Conceptual Blends: A Case Study Room 3 4:30 KRISTIANSEN, Gitte On the Necessity of a Cognitive Sociolinguistics: The Case of Lectal Varieties and Language Acquisition 5pm CRIBB, Michael Semantic consistency and pragmatic relevance in the construction of coherence in non-native extended spoken discourse Room 4 4:30 CALVO CORTÉS, Why taking aboard what should be taken on board?' 5pm TIMOFEEVA, Maria, Introspective View of Language 5:30pm Plenary: Arie Verhagen "'All constructions are symbols' - but are all constructional symbols created equal?" 8pm Conference Dinner =============================================== Wednesday (29th August) 9am Plenary: Seana Coulson "Spatial Construals of Time" 10:30 Morning Tea/coffee Parallel Session #3 [11am – 1pm] Room 1 11am LORENZETTI, Maria, Emerging Lexical Complexity through Conceptual Blending: The Case of the English Verb See in the Implicit Object Construction 11:30 VIBERG, Ake, Cognitive linguistics and corpus-based contrastive analysis: The Swedish verbs of Possession in contrastive and topological perspective. noon DELORGE, Martine The diachronic evolution of the aan-construction with Dutch verbs of reception 12:30 WOOD, Tess From degrees to quantities and back Room 2 11am BEECHING, Kate The application of a cognitive model to semantic change - ‘buttiness’ 11:30 HOLOBUT, Agata Designer Descriptions noon MAREK, Ku´zniak A few words in defence of pleonasms 12:30 SMITH, Andrew The Cognitive Origins of Linguistic Complexity Room 3 11am TURULA, Anna Frame shifting, conceptual refocusing and episodic memory in FL grammar pedagogy 11:30 JENKINS, Diana Cognitive linguistics' Home away from Home: a place for cognitive linguistics in an EFL teacher training course noon ALEJO González, Rafael L2 Spanish acquisition of English phrasal verbs: A Cognitive Linguistic analysis of L1 influence 12:30 SKOUFAKI, Sophia Reassessing the effectiveness of L2 idiom presentation in metaphoric groups Room 4 11am HART, Christopher Cognitive linguistics in critical discourse analysis: Mental spaces, blended spaces & discourse spaces in immigration rhetoric. 11:30 PASCUAL, Esther Fictive interaction: Face-to-face conversation as a frame in ordinary and legal thought noon WITCZAK-PLISIECKA, Iwona A cognitive grammar account of the deontic shall in the legal context 12:30 LUCHJENBROERS, June & ALDRIDGE, Michelle Children in Court: A cognitive linguistic and legal consideration of the gulf between a (child) rape victim's rights and what jurors hear. 1 – 2:30pm LUNCH 2 – 2:30pm POSTER SESSION Parallel Session #4 [2:30 – 4pm] Room 1 2:30 PARDESHI, Prashant & SHINOHARA, Kazuko A time to make sense of markedness in the space-to- time mappings 3pm GUIJARRO-FUENTES, Pedro, K. COVENTRY & B. VALDES Spatial Relations and Linguistic Relativity 3:30 MATSUNAKA, Yoshihiro & SHINOHARA, Kazuko Cognition and representation of frontal space: an analysis of Japanese spatial terms Room 2 2:30 HOEFLER, Stefan The cognitive origin of symbolism and grammaticalisation: A usage-based model of language evolution 3pm WENGELIN, Sarah & RODRIQUEZ REDONDO, Sue Metaphorical mappings of transitivity in Spanish Sign Language 3:30 BIERWIACZONEK, Boguslaw Neural Substrates of Metonymy Room 3 2:30 ROEHR, Karen The role of category structure in second language learning 3pm BARNDEN, John A Metaphor arising in a Classroom Virtual Role-Playing Context 3:30 TAWILAPAKUL, Upsorn The Use of English Tenses by Thai University Students Room 4 2:30 CAPPELLE, Bert Phrasal verb derivations: competence and performance 3pm JEONG, Ja-Yeon The semantics of four Korean motion verbs of “separation”: A usage-based study 3:30 BARKER, Emma J. & GAIZAUSKAS, Robert Understanding Background Texts: Products and Processes 4pm Afternoon Tea/coffee 4:30 Plenary: Klaus-Uwe Panther "Motivating grammatical and natural gender agreement in German" 6 – 7pm UK-CLA Meeting =============================================== Thursday (30th August) Parallel Session #5 [8:45am notices; 9 – 11am] Room 1 9am OHASHI, Hiroshi Epistemic Conditionals in English and Japanese 9:30 ARITA, Setsuko Two Japanese Adverbials and Conditionals 10am BEREZOWSKI, Leszek Indefinite article rhetoric 10:30 COUNIHAN, Marian `all' vs `if': How discourse function explains logical reasoning Room 2 9am BERENDT, Erich The Ideas of Ideas: Cognitive metaphoric patterns in English & Japanese in expressing ideas/ kangae 9:30 WALLINGTON, Alan Metaphor as Bricolage 10am DABROWSKA, Ewa The effects of frequency and neighbourhood density on adult speakers' productivity with Polish case inflections: An empirical test of usage-based approaches to morphology. 10:30 PLUG, Leendert Phonetics and pragmatics in Usage-based Phonology: On the representation of some Dutch phrases Room 3 9am EDWARDES, Martin Why Me? Cognition at the Origins of Grammar 9:30 BÖGER, Claudia & SKILTERS, Jurgis Embodied semantic structures in movement execution and language 10am BOWIE, Jill Language Evolution: Insights from spoken discourse 10:30 GEERAERTS, Dirk, M. GOYENS, & A. BLOEM, The birth of emotion. A diachronic study Room 4 9am BORN STEINBERGER-ELIAS, Margarethe How to measure text legibility: a cognitive linguistics approach to brazilian portuguese texts 9:30 LUKES, Dominik Discourse-level constructions and frame analysis of policy discourse: case of evaluation of university teaching. 10am ZIEM, Alexander Given and New: the role of default values in a frame semantic approach to word meaning 10:30 VOLKOVA, Tatiana Diplomatic Discourse Function in Intercultural Communication 11:00 Morning Tea/coffee Parallel Session #6 [11:30am – 1pm] Room 1 11:30 ISRAEL, Michael Care, Mind, Bother and Cope: on the usage-based nature of polarity sensitivity noon LANGLOTZ, Andreas Dynamic interactive categorization and the adaptability of linguistic meaning 12:30 CHANG, Vincent T Minimal structure and scalar implicature of visual meaning in multimodal discourse Room 2 11:30 Musgrove, Tim Contextual search based on a cognitive model of query meaning noon Divjak, Dagmar & Gries, Stefan Clusters in the mind? Converging evidence from near-synonymy in Russian 12:30 Janicki, Karol Is Pluto a planet? Can a linguist have an answer? Room 3 11:30 CHANG, Kyle How do Second Language Learners Comprehend Syntactically Ambiguous Sentences in Chinese? noon AZUMA, Masumi How does knowledge of the mother tongue affect the interpretation of figurative expressions? 12:30 CASASANTO, Daniel & LOZANO, Sandra Meaning and Motor Action Room 4 11:30 PASMA, Trijntje Metaphor identification: the application of a reliable method to Dutch natural discourse noon DORST, Lettie & KAAL, Anna Metaphor in discourse: from theory to application and back again 12:30 AFONSO, Susana The role of context in language and perception 1 – 2pm LUNCH 2pm Plenary: Chris Sinha (Wany Sampiao, Vera da Silva Sinha & Jörg Zinken) "Time is not (always) space " 3:30pm CLOSE =============================================== POSTERS: Abd Rahim, Normaliza & Zainon Hamzah, Zaitul Interaction Pattern Amongst Asperger Children Altman, Magda Ancient and modern views on proprioception and the body schema Bierwiaczonek, Boguslaw Neural Substrates of Metonymy Broccias, Cristiano A network analysis of (oriented) –ly adjunct constructions Chang, Vincent Relevance, pragmatic inference, and discourse topic – A crosslinguistic analysis, a universal account Da Milano, Federica The relationship between spatial and temporal language in the sino-japanese environment. Duda, Katie The Punchline as protest: Conceptual blends in anti-globalization activism Endo, Tomoko Epistemic Expressions in Chinese Conversation Handl, Susanne & Graf, Eva-Maria From unanalyzable chunks to prefabricated units: Stages and types of language processing in L1. Lukes, Dominik Hypostasis, schema negotiation and other dynamic phenomena in the “inventory of linguistic units” Marín-Arrese, Juana Passive and Construal: Non-optionality in agented passives Mauri, Caterina How hierarchical may a conceptual space be? The case of coordination relations Núñez-Perucha, Begona The study of figurative language in context: discursive constraints and pragmatic effects Russo, Irene The modulation of adjectival meanings in Italian and in English: a corpus- based analysis of sweet and its antonyms Thiering, Martin The Construction of Topological Mental Spaces Vikram, Amitabh Solving Prepositional ambiguity: A lexical Filtering device for Haarautii Simple sentences Voskoboynyk, Valentyna Cognitive analysis of derived economic terms-adjectives: Types of frames Wallington, Alan What a shambles!: A non-blending Account of My surgeon is a Butcher -- This mail sent through http://webmail.bangor.ac.uk -- Gall y neges e-bost hon, ac unrhyw atodiadau a anfonwyd gyda hi, gynnwys deunydd cyfrinachol ac wedi eu bwriadu i'w defnyddio'n unig gan y sawl y cawsant eu cyfeirio ato (atynt). Os ydych wedi derbyn y neges e-bost hon trwy gamgymeriad, rhowch wybod i'r anfonwr ar unwaith a dilëwch y neges. 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Message-ID: (apologies for cross-postings) SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS Conference on LANGUAGE, COMMUNICATION AND COGNITION University of Brighton, August 4th-7th 2008, Brighton, UK Website: www.languageandcognition.net The conference on Language, Communication and Cognition aims to promote an interdisciplinary, comparative, multi-methodological approach to the study of language, communication and cognition, informed by method and practice as developed in Cognitive Linguistics. The objective is to contribute to our understanding of language as a key aspect of human cognition, using converging and multi-disciplinary methodologies, based upon cross-linguistic, cross-cultural, and cross-population comparisons. The conference will address the following themes: -Language, creativity and imagination -Language in use -Meaning and grammar -Communication, conceptualisation and gesture -Language and its influence on thought -Language acquisition and conceptual development -Origins and evolution of language and mind Keynote speakers The following distinguished scholars will be giving keynote lectures relating to the conference themes: Lera Boroditsky, Stanford University Herbert H. Clark, Stanford University Adele Goldberg, Princeton University Sotaro Kita, Birmingham University George Lakoff, University of California, Berkeley Michael Tomasello, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig Theme Sessions In addition to a General Session and a Poster Session, there will be 6 specially-convened theme sessions, with specially invited discussants. These are as follows: 1. The socio-cultural, cognitive and neurological bases of metaphor Discussants: George Lakoff and Vyv Evans 2. Cognitive and social processes in language use Discussants: Herbert Clark and Paul Hopper 3. Constructional approaches to grammar and first language acquisition Discussants: Adele Goldberg and Eve Clark 4. The role of gesture in communication and cognition Discussants: Sotaro Kita and Alan Cienki 5. The social and cognitive bases of language evolution Discussants: Chris Sinha and Michael Tomasello 6. Linguistic relativity: Evidence and methods Discussants: Lera Boroditsky and Dan Slobin Submission of abstracts Submissions are solicited for the general session, the theme sessions, and the poster session. The abstract guidelines for all sessions are as follows: --Abstracts should not exceed 500 words - references are excluded from this count --Abstracts should clearly indicate a presentation title --Abstracts should be anonymous for purposes of blind peer-review --Abstracts should be formatted as Word, RTF or PDF documents --Abstracts should be submitted electronically to LCC at brighton.ac.uk Please include the following information in the main body of your email: --title and name of author(s) --affiliation --email address for correspondence --presentation title --3-5 keywords --preferred session for presentation: either general session, poster session, or theme session (please specify theme session number or title) Please include the following information in the subject header of your email: --"Abstract Submission - author(s) name(s)" ABSTRACT DEADLINE: November 26th 2007 For full details please consult the conference website: http://www.languageandcognition.net Organisers The conference is organised by Vyv Evans and Stéphanie Pourcel Contact The conference email address is LCC at brighton.ac.uk Web details are available at: www.languageandcognition.net From Nino.Amiridze at let.uu.nl Sat Aug 25 10:11:35 2007 From: Nino.Amiridze at let.uu.nl (Amiridze, Nino) Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 12:11:35 +0200 Subject: Second Call for Abstracts: Morphological Variation and Change in Languages of the Caucasus Message-ID: [Apologies for multiple posting] --------------------------------------------------------------------- MORPHOLOGICAL VARIATION AND CHANGE IN LANGUAGES OF THE CAUCASUS Workshop at the 13th International Morphology Meeting February 3rd-6th, 2008, Vienna, Austria http://www.let.uu.nl/~nino.amiridze/personal/organization/mvclc.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Abstracts ================== A great diversity of languages is spoken in the Caucasus, most of which have rich inflectional systems, on the noun (e.g. North-East Caucasian), on the verb (e.g. North-West Caucasian), or both (e.g. South Caucasian). The Caucasus offers rich material for studying genetically diverse languages being in close contact for centuries, e.g. Georgian (South Caucasian) with Abkhaz (North-West Caucasian); Ossetian (Indo-European) and Batsbi (North-East Caucasian); Armenian (Indo-European) with Azeri (Turkic); or Kumyk (Turkic) with major North-East Caucasian languages of Daghestan; or, for a much shorter period, the languages indigenous to the region being in contact with the unrelated Russian and Turkish. While much is known about the contemporary grammar of individual languages of the Caucasus, much less can be said with regard to the various contact situations and their impact on the morphosyntax of individual languages. Our workshop aims to broaden the knowledge on this subject. We invite researchers working on morphological variation and change in the languages spoken in the Caucasus to submit abstracts for participation in the workshop, planned to be held at the 13th International Morphology Meeting. We would like to invite contributions dealing with contact-induced morphological changes in any language of the Caucasus region. This includes investigations of changes driven by influence from any other language of the region, irrespective of the genetic affiliation of the languages in contact. Of great interest are not only inter-family, but also somewhat more subtle intra-family contacts, such as contacts between various North-East Caucasian languages spoken in adjacent areas or neighboring villages. Contributions exploring morphological variation and language-internal morphological changes are also welcome. Invited Speakers ================ * Alice C. Harris. SUNY Stony Brook. * Johanna Nichols. University of California, Berkeley. * Vladimir Plungian. Russian Academy of Sciences. Important Dates =============== Abstract submission: September 17, 2007 Notification: October 31, 2007 Workshop: February 3rd-6th, 2008 (The exact date will be announced later) Organizers ========== * Nino Amiridze, Utrecht University (The Netherlands) * Michael Daniel, Moscow State University (Russia) * Silvia Kutscher, University of Cologne (Germany) Publication =========== If after the workshop there will be interest in publishing either a proceedings or a special journal issue, then the organizers will take responsibility of finding a suitable forum and will act as editors. Submission ========== Abstracts (in English, maximum 3 pages, including data and references) have to be submitted electronically as portable document format (.pdf) or Microsoft Word (.doc) files via the EasyChair conference management system: http://www.easychair.org/MVCLC2008/. If you do not have an EasyChair account, click on the button "I have no EasyChair Account" on that page and follow the instructions. When you receive a password, you can enter the site and upload your abstract. Workshop Web Page ================= http://www.let.uu.nl/~nino.amiridze/personal/organization/mvclc.html From loenneke at ICSI.Berkeley.EDU Mon Aug 27 18:02:23 2007 From: loenneke at ICSI.Berkeley.EDU (Birte Loenneker-Rodman) Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 11:02:23 -0700 Subject: First announcement GCLA/DGKL 2008 (Cognitive Linguistics, Germany) Message-ID: First announcement GCLA/DGKL 2008 Call for papers Third international conference of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association Leipzig, September, 25 - 27, 2008 The third international conference of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association (GCLA/DGKL) will take place in Leipzig, Germany, from September, 25 to 27, 2008. It is organized by the Linguistics Department at the Institute of English and American Studies at Leipzig University. Special theme: Converging Evidence Topics: Submissions are invited for papers addressing - from various perspectives - any facet of cognitive linguistics research, including research on meaning, conceptual structure, conceptual operations, cognitive processing, grammar, acquisition, language use, discourse function, and other issues. Papers supporting their arguments by various methodologies or drawing on evidence from various fields are especially welcome, though others are not excluded. The conference languages are English and German. Submissions: Submissions may offer any of the following: 1. theme session; 2. paper presentation; 3. poster presentation; 4. paper or poster. Abstract submission will be by e-mail attachment in RTF format (max. 500 words on one page). Detailed submission guidelines will be published in the next call and on the conference web page, http://webapp.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/~DGKL/GCLA_08/. Conference schedule: Talks are scheduled in 30 minute slots: 20 minutes presentation, 5 minutes for discussion and 5 minutes to change sessions and/or change speakers. We anticipate 3 parallel sessions of regular papers, plus plenary lectures, plus 1 - 2 workshops. Keynote speakers: To be announced. Important dates: August, 2007: First Call for papers, posters and theme sessions 10th November 2007: Deadline for theme sessions 1st December 2007: Deadline for paper and poster submissions March, 2008: Notification of acceptance 25 - 27th September, 2008: Third GCLA/DGKL-Conference Local organizing committee: Doris Schönefeld Institut für Anglistik, Universität Leipzig Beethovenstraße 15 04107 Leipzig doris.schoenefeld at ruhr-uni-bochum.de From abogacka at ifa.amu.edu.pl Mon Aug 27 16:03:19 2007 From: abogacka at ifa.amu.edu.pl (Anna Bogacka) Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 18:03:19 +0200 Subject: PSiCL call for papers Message-ID: CALL FOR PAPERS Submissions of papers in all subdisciplines of linguistics are welcome for publication in Poznań Studies in Contemporary Linguistics. DESCRIPTION OF THE JOURNAL * an international journal devoted to theoretical and methodological issues in linguistic research * publishes outstanding research in contemporary linguistics, presenting a wide range of perspectives on linguistic theories and interdisciplinary study of language * a forum for the exchange of ideas between disciplines, fields of study and theoretical frameworks * a forum for both established and young scholars * eclectic, but rigorous * published by the School of English, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland * 34 years of experience in publishing linguistic papers * editor: Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kolaczyk WHY SUBMIT * contributions subject to anonymous reviews by international experts * fast, fair and constructive peer review * online publication by our new partner, Versita Central European Science Publishers * volume 43(2) planned for publication in December 2007, starting with the year 2008, four issues per year * rejection rate: 25% * abstracting: CSA Linguistic and Language Behaviour Abstracts ( www.csa.com ), Bibliographie Linguistique/Linguistic Bibliorgraphy Online ( www.blonline.nl ), MLA International Bibliography, Linguistic Abstracts Online PSiCL web page: http://www.ifa.amu.edu.pl/psicl/ Our web page at Versita: http://www.versita.com/science/socialsciences/psicl.html From hopper at cmu.edu Fri Aug 31 00:29:23 2007 From: hopper at cmu.edu (Paul Hopper) Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 20:29:23 -0400 Subject: Winfred Lehmann, Carol Justus Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, Two people who should be remembered for their contributions to functional linguistics died on August 1, 2007, on the same day: Winfred Lehmann (91) and his student Carol Justus (67). Both lived in Austin, Texas. They were instrumental in organizing the LSA’s Linguistic Institute at the State University of New York in Oswego, NY, in the summer of 1976. This Institute pulled together the burgeoning field of functional linguistics and launched the typological-pragmatic orientation that has become a major focus for modern linguistics. Carol was the director and the energizing force that saw in the scattered work of a number of heterodox linguists of the time a force that would challenge the formalist mainstream. She corralled Joseph Greenberg as Institute Professor and Win Lehmann as Collitz Professor and Associate Director, and proclaimed Typology and Universals as the theme of the Institute. She brought in Talmy (Tom) Givon, Sandy Thompson, Joan Bybee, Bernard Comrie, Marianne Mithun, Paul Hopper, Charles Li, Linda Waugh and others as faculty, a nexus that resulted, down the years, in a significant reorientation of linguistics. To it are owed, ultimately, Funknet, the book series Typo! logical Studies in Language, and many individual publications. Carol was an Indo-Europeanist and Hittitologist in her own right, and made many contributions to the study of writing systems, early Indo-European, and the Hittite language. Functionalism’s debt to Carol Justus is enormous and little recognized. Win Lehmann, a Germanist and Indo-Europeanist, was a towering figure in 20th century linguistics, whose full obituary has yet to be written. He is the only person to have been president of both the major U.S. organizations of language scholars, the Linguistic Society of America and the Modern Language Association. He received honors from Germany for his contributions to the study of German and from the Indian government for his studies of Sanskrit. As a young officer in the Second World War he directed Japanese language instruction for the U.S. army and was active in the decoding of Japanese dispatches. During the 1976 LSA Institute he supervised a lecture series which became the influential collection ‘Syntactic Typology: Studies in the Phenomenology of Language’. He pioneered the application of typological methods to historical linguistics. His textbooks ‘Descriptive Linguistics: An Introduction’ and ‘Historical Linguistics’ introduced an entire generation of linguists to ! the two major divisions of the discipline. Paul Hopper From francisco.ruizdemendoza at unirioja.es Wed Aug 1 14:55:04 2007 From: francisco.ruizdemendoza at unirioja.es (=?iso-8859-1?Q?=22Francisco_Jos=E9_Ruiz_De_Mendoza_Ib=E1=F1ez=22?=) Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2007 16:55:04 +0200 Subject: ANNUAL REVIEW OF COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS 5 (2007) Message-ID: Dear colleagues: The Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics, vol. 5 (2007) is now in press. Below is the provisional table of contents. You may also refer to: http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=ARCL%205 We are now preparing vol. 6 (2008). Note that, as with previous volumes, submissions for volume 6 should reach us by November 30, 2007. Later subsimissions, even if evaluated positively, may not be considered for ARCL-6 (2008). We encourage electronic submissions to: cc: "Annual Review" The attached file should be a simple text file, a Word file (Mac or Windows), or a Rich Text Format (RTF) file. The Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics (published under the auspices of the Spanish Cognitive Linguistics Association) aims to establish itself as an international forum for the publication of high-quality original research on all areas of linguistic enquiry from a cognitive perspective. Fruitful debate is encouraged with neighboring academic disciplines as well as with other approaches to language study, particularly functionally-oriented ones. ========================================================================== ANNUAL REVIEW OF COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS VOLUME 5 (2007) Articles Before and after: Relations of anteriority and posteriority along 'paths' of conceptual structure Angeliki Athanasiadou A bi-polar theory of nominal and clause structure and function Jerry T. Ball Subject-object switching and the Igbo lexicon Chinedu Uchechukwu Italian split intransitivity and image schemas: The cognitive linguistics ? neuroscience interface Natalya I. Stolova Confrontation or complementarity? Metaphor in language use and cognitive metaphor theory Lynne Cameron Lexical templates within a functional cognitive theory of meaning Ricardo Mairal Us?n and Pamela Faber "Image" metaphors and connotations in everyday language Alice Deignan 'Saved by the reflexive': Evidence from coercion via reflexives in verbless complement clauses in English and Spanish Francisco Gonzalvez-Garc?a Interview Dirk Geeraerts. Cognitive sociolinguistics and the sociology of Cognitive Linguistics Juana I. Mar?n-Arrese Review Radden G?nter, Klaus-Michael K?pcke, Thomas Berg and Peter Siemund (eds.). 2007. Aspects of Meaning Construction. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 298 pp. Reviewed by Annalisa Baicchi Francisco J. RUIZ DE MENDOZA Universidad de La Rioja Departamento de Filolog?as Modernas Edificio de Filolog?a c/San Jos? de Calasanz s/n Campus Universitario 26004, Logro?o, La Rioja, Spain Tel.: 34 (941) 299433 / (941) 299430 FAX.: 34 (941) 299419 e-mail: francisco.ruizdemendoza at unirioja.es From hougaard at language.sdu.dk Fri Aug 3 10:57:24 2007 From: hougaard at language.sdu.dk (Anders Hougaard) Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2007 12:57:24 +0200 Subject: LCM 3 Message-ID: CONFERENCE: LANGUAGE, CULTURE AND MIND 3 3rd and final THEME SESSIONS CALL The LCM committee and local organizers call for theme session proposals for the third conference in the series Language, Culture and Mind. The conference will be held in modern and comfortable conference facilities in ODENSE 14TH-16TH JULY, 2008. The conference aims at establishing an interdisciplinary forum for an integration of cognitive, social and cultural perspectives in theoretical and empirical studies of language and communication. The special theme of the conference is Social Life and Meaning Construction. We call for contributions from scholars and scientists in anthropology, biology, linguistics, philosophy, psychology, semiotics, semantics, social interaction, 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 social life, culture, mind and language, and/or multi-methodological approaches in language and communication sciences. Dates *First call for Theme Sessions: April 1, 2007 * Second call for Theme Sessions: May 1, 2007 * Third call for Theme Sessions: June 1, 2007 * Deadline for Theme Sessions submissions: September, 2007 NOTICE EXTENSION! * Notification for Theme Sessions : October 1, 2007 NOTICE EXTENSION! NOTICE: calls for the general session and for posters will be made later. Submissions guidelines Max. 500 words (including references) To be submitted to lcm at language.sdu.dk Submissions will be evaluated according to their * Relevance * Quality * Coherence * Originality * Organization Once your suggestion is approved, you will need to arrange for Theme Session Contributors for your theme. They will need to submit abstracts for their contributions and as Theme Session Organizer you will be responsible for their review. More than one person may organize a theme. NOTICE: The LCM reserves the right to reject papers accepted by Theme Session reviewers. However, this right will only be exercised if accepted papers deviate too far from the goals of LCM with respect to their content and/or quality. Plenary speakers: Michael Chandler (University of British Columbia) Alessandro Duranti (University of California at Los Angeles) Derek Edwards (University of Loughborough) Marianne Gullberg (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics) Esa Itkonen (University of Turku) Conference Website: http://www.lcm.sdu.dk Earlier LCM conferences: 1st LCM conference: Portsmouth 2004 2nd LCM conference: Paris 2006 The international LCM committee: Raphael Berthele Carlos Cornejo Caroline David Merlin Donald Barbara Fultner Anders R. Hougaard Jean Lass?gue John A Lucy Aliyah Morgenstern Eve Pinsker Vera da Silva Sinha Chris Sinha The local organizing committee: Center for Social Practises and Cognition (SoPraCon): Rineke Brouwer Dennis Day Annette Grindsted Anders R. Hougaard Gitte R. Hougaard (Director) Kristian Mortensen Scientific Committee (incomplete list) Anne Salazar Orvig Meredith Williams Todd Oakley Jonathan Potter Robin Wooffitt Alan Cienki Cornellia M?ller Ewa Dabrowska Edy Veneziano Shaun Gallagher Edwin Hutchins ***** Anders R. Hougaard Assistant professor, PhD Institute of Language and Communication University of Southern Denmark, Odense hougaard at language.sdu.dk Phone: +45 65503154 Fax: + 45 65932483 From hilpert at rice.edu Mon Aug 6 23:53:17 2007 From: hilpert at rice.edu (Martin Hilpert) Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 23:53:17 -0000 Subject: from temporal to non-temporal Message-ID: Dear Funknetters, I am interested in temporal expressions (such as tense markers or temporal adverbs) that have acquired non-temporal meanings. Well-known examples of this are English concessive 'while' and causal 'since'. I'd like to hear off- list from people studying such elements in other languages. As long as there will be enough responses I could be coerced into organizing some sort of joint effort. Thanks, --Martin ------------------------------ Martin Hilpert Rice University Department of Linguistics MS 23 6100 Main Street 77005-1892 Houston TX Tel (001) 713 3482822 Fax (001) 713 3484718 http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~hilpert From guillermosotovergara at gmail.com Tue Aug 7 17:41:27 2007 From: guillermosotovergara at gmail.com (Guillermo Soto Vergara) Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2007 13:41:27 -0400 Subject: FUNKNET Digest, Vol 47, Issue 3 In-Reply-To: <20070807170123.AE3C8DEF68@amanita.mail.rice.edu> Message-ID: Hi, Martin: In Spanish you can use the adverb "entonces" (then) as a conjunction/discourse marker meaning consequence, 'in that case', etc. You can use it in if-clauses: Si te gusta Discovery Kids, entonces conoces bien que es "Lazytown" (If you like Discovery Kids, then you surely know Lazytown). The preposition "desde" (since) can be used in topicalizations to mean the speaker's point of view, perspective, opinion: Desde mi punto de vista, est?s en lo cierto. (From my point of view, you are right). The adverb "mientras" (while) can be used as a discourse marker meaning "instead", "by contrast": Juan estudia, mientras que t? no haces nada de provecho (Diccionario de la Real Academia Espa?ola) (John studies/ is studying, by contrast you don't do anything worthwile) It also can be used in constructions "the more... the more": Mientras m?s tiene, m?s desea ((Diccionario de la Real Academia Espa?ola)) (The more he/she has, the more he/she wants) Regards, Guillermo Soto Universidad de Chile gsoto at uchile.cl On 8/7/07, funknet-request at mailman.rice.edu wrote: > Send FUNKNET mailing list submissions to > funknet at mailman.rice.edu > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/funknet > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > funknet-request at mailman.rice.edu > > You can reach the person managing the list at > funknet-owner at mailman.rice.edu > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of FUNKNET digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. from temporal to non-temporal (hilpert at rice.edu) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 23:53:17 -0000 > From: > Subject: [FUNKNET] from temporal to non-temporal > To: > Message-ID: <20070806235317.66F191DB02 at fungible9.mail.rice.edu> > > Dear Funknetters, > > I am interested in temporal expressions (such as tense markers or temporal > adverbs) that have acquired non-temporal meanings. Well-known examples of > this are English concessive 'while' and causal 'since'. I'd like to hear off- > list from people studying such elements in other languages. As long as there > will be enough responses I could be coerced into organizing some sort of > joint effort. > > Thanks, --Martin > > > > ------------------------------ > Martin Hilpert > Rice University > Department of Linguistics MS 23 > 6100 Main Street > 77005-1892 Houston TX > Tel (001) 713 3482822 > Fax (001) 713 3484718 > http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~hilpert > > > > > > End of FUNKNET Digest, Vol 47, Issue 3 > ************************************** > From jscheibm at odu.edu Thu Aug 9 15:21:43 2007 From: jscheibm at odu.edu (Joanne Scheibman) Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2007 11:21:43 -0400 Subject: Job notice: Asst Prof linguistics/TESOL Message-ID: Assistant Professor, Linguistics: TESOL. The Department of English at Old Dominion University invites applications for a tenure track appointment in linguistics with a specialty in TESOL to teach undergraduate, M.A., and Ph.D. courses. Required: Ph.D. in Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, or Educational Linguistics by August 15, 2008; qualified to teach courses in TESOL methods, first and second language acquisition, and other linguistics courses as needed; evidence of scholarly potential and good teaching. International experience, ability to teach language and communication across cultures, and experience in distance learning a plus. Salary commensurate with experience. Send letter of application, curriculum vitae, and 3 letters of reference to Dr. David Metzger, Chair, Department of English, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA 23529. Review of applicants will begin November 1, 2007. Old Dominion University is an affirmative action/equal opportunity institution and encourages applications from women and minority candidates. From b3kaboo at yahoo.com Mon Aug 13 09:31:51 2007 From: b3kaboo at yahoo.com (Rebekka Siemens) Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 02:31:51 -0700 Subject: Post Announcement and Call Message-ID: Please post the attached announcement and call. --------------------------------- Yahoo! oneSearch: Finally, mobile search that gives answers, not web links. From b3kaboo at yahoo.com Tue Aug 14 08:09:29 2007 From: b3kaboo at yahoo.com (Rebekka Siemens) Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 01:09:29 -0700 Subject: Announcing InField Message-ID: *** Apologies for cross-postings *** FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PROPOSALS The Department of Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, is pleased to announce the first: INSTITUTE ON FIELD LINGUISTICS AND LANGUAGE DOCUMENTATION (InField) Workshops: June 23rd - July 3, 2008 Field Training: July 7-August 1st, 2008 UC Santa Barbara Campus The Institute on Field Linguistics and Language Documentation is designed for field linguists, graduate students, and language activists to receive training in current techniques and issues in language documentation, language maintenance, and language revitalization. The WORKSHOP portion of the institute will offer workshops of differing lengths on a variety of topics such as technologies, archiving, life in the field, ethics, orthographies, and lexicography. A special curriculum designed specifically for native speakers interested in documenting their own languages will include workshops on basic linguistics, materials development, how to provide technical support to a community, and successful models of language maintenance and revitalization. The FIELD TRAINING portion of the institute will be intensive, based on a traditional graduate course in field methods, but will specifically incorporate the techiques and technologies of the workshops into the course. We anticipate running two or three courses on different languages simultaneously. FOR MORE INFORMATION ON HOW TO BE INVOVLED, VISIT OUR WEBSITE: http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/faculty/infield/ CALL FOR PROPOSALS FOR InField WORKSHOPS: If you would like to offer a workshop, please submit a (short!) proposal by September 15th. See the website for details on submitting proposals. CHECK THE WEBSITES FOR FUTURE UPDATES; THE FINAL CURRICULUM WILL BE CIRCULATED IN THE FALL --------------------------------- Pinpoint customers who are looking for what you sell. From b3kaboo at yahoo.com Tue Aug 14 08:10:41 2007 From: b3kaboo at yahoo.com (Rebekka Siemens) Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 01:10:41 -0700 Subject: InField Call for Proposals Message-ID: CALL FOR PROPOSALS Workshops on Language Documentation, Maintenance, and Revitalization to be held as part of InField: Institute on Field Linguistics and Language Documentation University of California, Santa Barbara June 23rd ?C July 3rd, 2008 The Organizing Committee of InField solicits applications for workshops in language documentation, language maintenance, and/or language revitalization to be held as part of the Institute on Field Linguistics and Language Documentation, at the University of California, Santa Barbara, June 23rd ?C July 3rd, 2008. We particularly seek proposals from current practitioners in this area, who would like to teach a workshop of two to eight hours in length to an audience of practicing linguists, graduate students in linguistics, and/or language activists with an interest in documenting, maintaining, or revitalizing a language. For a full description of InField, including workshops currently being planned, visit the website at http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/faculty/infield. The proposal should include a statement of the topic of the proposed workshop, the rationale for including it as part of InField, the proposed length of the workshop, and a brief description of the workshop content and how it would be taught. Please keep proposals to a maximum of two-pages in length. Please include also a statement of qualifications of the instructor. Workshop instructors will receive reimbursement for travel, room and board, and a modest honorarium. Proposals should be submitted to infield at linguistics.ucsb.edu. Deadline for proposals: September 15, 2007 --------------------------------- Park yourself in front of a world of choices in alternative vehicles. Visit the Yahoo! Auto Green Center. From andrea.schalley at une.edu.au Tue Aug 14 16:02:36 2007 From: andrea.schalley at une.edu.au (Andrea Schalley) Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 18:02:36 +0200 Subject: CIL 18 workshop on Linguistic Studies of Ontology: Call for abstracts Message-ID: **************************************************************** Final call for abstracts: Extended Deadline August 31, 2007 ?LINGUISTIC STUDIES OF ONTOLOGY? From Lexical Semantics to Formal Ontologies and Back Workshop at the 18th INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF LINGUISTS (CIL 18) Korea University, Seoul, Republic of Korea July 21-26, 2008 **************************************************************** ?DESCRIPTION? Recent developments in the study of ontology have important implications for cognitive science, knowledge engineering, and theoretical linguistics. In particular, research on lexical ontology deals with how concepts are lexicalized and organized across languages and cultures. This workshop aims to explore this new departure in linguistic studies by building upon the three important premises assumed in Fellbaum (1998), Schalley and Zaefferer (2007), and Huang et al. (2007): First, that lexicalized concepts have a special status in every language (as opposed to concepts that require complex coding), second that lexically coded concepts can be shared by different languages, and third that lexicalization universals are relevant for the construction of cross-lingually portable formal ontologies. Topics of this workshop include foundational issues pertaining to the relation between formal ontology and linguistic ontologies, as well as descriptive issues pertaining to the interface between conceptual ontologies and lexica. In particular, we would like to focus on the following issues during this workshop: - Cross-lingual portability of upper-ontologies - Ontology-based approaches to comparative linguistics - Ontology enrichment: from concept formation via complex coding to lexicalisation - Possible relevance of formal ontological principles (e.g. Roles cannot subsume Types) to psychological/linguistic reality REFERENCES Fellbaum, Christiane. 1998. WordNet: An electronic lexical database. MIT Press. Huang, Chu-Ren et al. Eds. 2007. Ontologies and the Lexicon. Cambridge University Press. Schalley, Andrea C. and Zaefferer, Dietmar. Eds. 2007. Ontolinguistics. Mouton de Gruyter. ?SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS? A two-page abstract including everything should be sent electronically to both and . An MS Word and/or .pdf file may be accepted. ?IMPORTANT DATES? Extended Deadline for Abstract Submission: August 31, 2007 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: November 30, 2007 Submission of accepted abstract for publication in the proceedings: February 15, 2008 Submission of final paper to be published in CIL18 CD: September 30, 2008 For more information, visit the website () or contact the organizer at . ?ORGANIZER? Chu-Ren Huang Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica Nankang, Taipei, Taiwan E-mail address: Fax: 886-2-27856622, Tel: 886-2-26523108 ?PROGRAM COMMITTEE? Christiane Fellbaum (Princeton) Shu-kai Hsieh (I-Lan) Chu-Ren Huang (Taipei) Alessandro Lenci (Pisa) Adam Pease (San Francisco) Alessandro Oltramari (Trento) Laurent Pr?vot (Toulouse) James Pustejovsky (Brandies) Andrea C. Schalley (Armidale) Piek Vossen (Amsterdam) Dietmar Zaefferer (Munich) From els603 at bangor.ac.uk Wed Aug 15 12:52:42 2007 From: els603 at bangor.ac.uk (June Luchjenbroers) Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 13:52:42 +0100 Subject: Final schedule: UK-Cognitive Linguistics conference, Cardiff Message-ID: SORRY FOR CROSS POSTINGS..... Hi all.... Here is the full (and we think final) schedule for papers to be given at the coming UK-Cognitive Linguistics conference, Cardiff. 27 -- 30 August, 2007. For more information about this conference: http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/encap/ncdl/index.html We hope to see you there ;-) June & Michelle ====================== Monday (27th August) 1pm Signing In (registration open till 5pm) 4:45 Official Opening 5:00 Plenary: Vyvyan Evans "Towards a cognitively realistic account of meaning-construction" 7:30 Welcome Reception (wine and buffet) Tuesday (28th August) 9am Plenary: Lynne Cameron "The Discourse Dynamics of Metaphor" 10:30 Morning Tea/coffee Parallel Session #1 [11am ? 1pm] Room 1 11am JACINTO, Joana, Subjectivity and Modality in Portuguese 11:30 SAMBRE, Paul, Nesting polyphony in subjectification noon KRAWCZAK, Karolina, (Inter)subjectification and objectification: All paths lead to conceptualization 12:30 VAN VLIET, Sarah, Subjectivity and the use of proper nouns versus pronouns Room 2 11am SANTARPIA, Alfonso, The effect of linguistic metaphors of the body on the relaxation physiological markers in real time 11:30 NEAGU, Mariana, Motion Metaphors of Time in Romanian noon SHINOHARA, Kazuko, A. NAKAYAMA, & J. NAKANO, Synaesthetic metaphors in Japanese: an experimental study on the direction of extension. 12:30 STAUM, Laura & CASASANTO, Daniel, Should liberals use conservatives' metaphors? Cognitive Linguistics meets Sociolinguistics Room 3 11am BROCCIAS, Cristiano, Conceptual links and the availability of asymmetric and non-inheriting resultative constructions 11:30 WANG, Ben Pin-Yung & SU, Lily I-wen, On the polysemy of V-KAI constructions: Forces and perspectives in Chinese resultative verbs noon BASILIO, Margarida & OLIVEIRA, Claudia, A computational approach for evaluating the semantics of Adj-Noun constructions 12:30 EGAN, Thomas, Goal as targeted alternative: the case of the to-infinitive Room 4 11am PAAVOLAINEN, Teemu, Cognitive Linguistics and the Ecology of Theatrical Performance 11:30 SING, Christine, "I think we agree, the past is over": Spatio-temporal metaphors in American Political Discourse noon MILOTOVA, Hana, Persuasive Power of Metaphor in Short Business Presentations 12:30 WERMUTH, Cornelia, Instrumentality vs. pseudo-instrumentality in medical classification rubrics 1 ? 2:30pm LUNCH Parallel Session #2 [2:30 ? 4; 4:30 ? 5:30pm] Room 1 2:30 NABESHIMA, Kojiro Subjectivity: In relation to Developmental Studies and Metaphor Studies 3pm ENDO, Tomoko Establishment of intersubjectivity through showing sharedness: a::: in Japanese conversation 3:30 MAR?N-ARRESE, Juana Stance and Subjectivity/Intersubjectivity in Discourses. A Corpus Study Room 2 2:30 SHIBASAKI, Reijirou Homographic Disambiguation in Japanese: A Blending Approach 3pm FENTON, Brandon Thinking of You: Conceptual Integration and Identity 3:30 BIERWIACZONEK, Boguslaw Conceptual and Neural Blending in the Interpretation of Proverbs Room 3 2:30 ZAINON Hamzah, Zaitul & ABD RAHIM, Normaliza Interruptions in The Conversations Amongst Malay Children: A Pragmatic Analysis 3pm REUBER, Markus & GRAGERA, Antonio The grammaticalization of neurophysiological conceptual phenomena: a shift in the focus of cognitive linguistics. 3:30 PLUG, Leendert Applied Cognitive Linguistics: Metaphoric conceptualisation and the differential diagnosis of seizure disorders Room 4 2:30 MINAMI, Yusuke, Elaborating two types of construal: The case of tough sentences in English and Japanese 3pm KOPYTOWSKA, Monica, Framing global compassion in view of genocide and famine 3:30 KAAL, Anna & DORST, Lettie, Metaphor in discourse: beyond the boundaries of MIP 4pm Afternoon Tea/coffee Room 1 4:30 BELI?N, Maaike Dutch adpositions and grammatical constituency: A cognitive-grammar analysis 5pm CALUDE, Andreea The Demonstrative Cleft in Spoken English Room 2 4:30 PONTEROTTO, Diane Cross-cultural variation in cognitive metaphor theory: Implications for translation studies 5pm RASULIC, Katarina On Cross-Linguistic Conceptual Blends: A Case Study Room 3 4:30 KRISTIANSEN, Gitte On the Necessity of a Cognitive Sociolinguistics: The Case of Lectal Varieties and Language Acquisition 5pm CRIBB, Michael Semantic consistency and pragmatic relevance in the construction of coherence in non-native extended spoken discourse Room 4 4:30 CALVO CORT?S, Why taking aboard what should be taken on board?' 5pm TIMOFEEVA, Maria, Introspective View of Language 5:30pm Plenary: Arie Verhagen "'All constructions are symbols' - but are all constructional symbols created equal?" 8pm Conference Dinner =============================================== Wednesday (29th August) 9am Plenary: Seana Coulson "Spatial Construals of Time" 10:30 Morning Tea/coffee Parallel Session #3 [11am ? 1pm] Room 1 11am LORENZETTI, Maria, Emerging Lexical Complexity through Conceptual Blending: The Case of the English Verb See in the Implicit Object Construction 11:30 VIBERG, Ake, Cognitive linguistics and corpus-based contrastive analysis: The Swedish verbs of Possession in contrastive and topological perspective. noon DELORGE, Martine The diachronic evolution of the aan-construction with Dutch verbs of reception 12:30 WOOD, Tess From degrees to quantities and back Room 2 11am BEECHING, Kate The application of a cognitive model to semantic change - ?buttiness? 11:30 HOLOBUT, Agata Designer Descriptions noon MAREK, Ku?zniak A few words in defence of pleonasms 12:30 SMITH, Andrew The Cognitive Origins of Linguistic Complexity Room 3 11am TURULA, Anna Frame shifting, conceptual refocusing and episodic memory in FL grammar pedagogy 11:30 JENKINS, Diana Cognitive linguistics' Home away from Home: a place for cognitive linguistics in an EFL teacher training course noon ALEJO Gonz?lez, Rafael L2 Spanish acquisition of English phrasal verbs: A Cognitive Linguistic analysis of L1 influence 12:30 SKOUFAKI, Sophia Reassessing the effectiveness of L2 idiom presentation in metaphoric groups Room 4 11am HART, Christopher Cognitive linguistics in critical discourse analysis: Mental spaces, blended spaces & discourse spaces in immigration rhetoric. 11:30 PASCUAL, Esther Fictive interaction: Face-to-face conversation as a frame in ordinary and legal thought noon WITCZAK-PLISIECKA, Iwona A cognitive grammar account of the deontic shall in the legal context 12:30 LUCHJENBROERS, June & ALDRIDGE, Michelle Children in Court: A cognitive linguistic and legal consideration of the gulf between a (child) rape victim's rights and what jurors hear. 1 ? 2:30pm LUNCH 2 ? 2:30pm POSTER SESSION Parallel Session #4 [2:30 ? 4pm] Room 1 2:30 PARDESHI, Prashant & SHINOHARA, Kazuko A time to make sense of markedness in the space-to- time mappings 3pm GUIJARRO-FUENTES, Pedro, K. COVENTRY & B. VALDES Spatial Relations and Linguistic Relativity 3:30 MATSUNAKA, Yoshihiro & SHINOHARA, Kazuko Cognition and representation of frontal space: an analysis of Japanese spatial terms Room 2 2:30 HOEFLER, Stefan The cognitive origin of symbolism and grammaticalisation: A usage-based model of language evolution 3pm WENGELIN, Sarah & RODRIQUEZ REDONDO, Sue Metaphorical mappings of transitivity in Spanish Sign Language 3:30 BIERWIACZONEK, Boguslaw Neural Substrates of Metonymy Room 3 2:30 ROEHR, Karen The role of category structure in second language learning 3pm BARNDEN, John A Metaphor arising in a Classroom Virtual Role-Playing Context 3:30 TAWILAPAKUL, Upsorn The Use of English Tenses by Thai University Students Room 4 2:30 CAPPELLE, Bert Phrasal verb derivations: competence and performance 3pm JEONG, Ja-Yeon The semantics of four Korean motion verbs of ?separation?: A usage-based study 3:30 BARKER, Emma J. & GAIZAUSKAS, Robert Understanding Background Texts: Products and Processes 4pm Afternoon Tea/coffee 4:30 Plenary: Klaus-Uwe Panther "Motivating grammatical and natural gender agreement in German" 6 ? 7pm UK-CLA Meeting =============================================== Thursday (30th August) Parallel Session #5 [8:45am notices; 9 ? 11am] Room 1 9am OHASHI, Hiroshi Epistemic Conditionals in English and Japanese 9:30 ARITA, Setsuko Two Japanese Adverbials and Conditionals 10am BEREZOWSKI, Leszek Indefinite article rhetoric 10:30 COUNIHAN, Marian `all' vs `if': How discourse function explains logical reasoning Room 2 9am BERENDT, Erich The Ideas of Ideas: Cognitive metaphoric patterns in English & Japanese in expressing ideas/ kangae 9:30 WALLINGTON, Alan Metaphor as Bricolage 10am DABROWSKA, Ewa The effects of frequency and neighbourhood density on adult speakers' productivity with Polish case inflections: An empirical test of usage-based approaches to morphology. 10:30 PLUG, Leendert Phonetics and pragmatics in Usage-based Phonology: On the representation of some Dutch phrases Room 3 9am EDWARDES, Martin Why Me? Cognition at the Origins of Grammar 9:30 B?GER, Claudia & SKILTERS, Jurgis Embodied semantic structures in movement execution and language 10am BOWIE, Jill Language Evolution: Insights from spoken discourse 10:30 GEERAERTS, Dirk, M. GOYENS, & A. BLOEM, The birth of emotion. A diachronic study Room 4 9am BORN STEINBERGER-ELIAS, Margarethe How to measure text legibility: a cognitive linguistics approach to brazilian portuguese texts 9:30 LUKES, Dominik Discourse-level constructions and frame analysis of policy discourse: case of evaluation of university teaching. 10am ZIEM, Alexander Given and New: the role of default values in a frame semantic approach to word meaning 10:30 VOLKOVA, Tatiana Diplomatic Discourse Function in Intercultural Communication 11:00 Morning Tea/coffee Parallel Session #6 [11:30am ? 1pm] Room 1 11:30 ISRAEL, Michael Care, Mind, Bother and Cope: on the usage-based nature of polarity sensitivity noon LANGLOTZ, Andreas Dynamic interactive categorization and the adaptability of linguistic meaning 12:30 CHANG, Vincent T Minimal structure and scalar implicature of visual meaning in multimodal discourse Room 2 11:30 Musgrove, Tim Contextual search based on a cognitive model of query meaning noon Divjak, Dagmar & Gries, Stefan Clusters in the mind? Converging evidence from near-synonymy in Russian 12:30 Janicki, Karol Is Pluto a planet? Can a linguist have an answer? Room 3 11:30 CHANG, Kyle How do Second Language Learners Comprehend Syntactically Ambiguous Sentences in Chinese? noon AZUMA, Masumi How does knowledge of the mother tongue affect the interpretation of figurative expressions? 12:30 CASASANTO, Daniel & LOZANO, Sandra Meaning and Motor Action Room 4 11:30 PASMA, Trijntje Metaphor identification: the application of a reliable method to Dutch natural discourse noon DORST, Lettie & KAAL, Anna Metaphor in discourse: from theory to application and back again 12:30 AFONSO, Susana The role of context in language and perception 1 ? 2pm LUNCH 2pm Plenary: Chris Sinha (Wany Sampiao, Vera da Silva Sinha & J?rg Zinken) "Time is not (always) space " 3:30pm CLOSE =============================================== POSTERS: Abd Rahim, Normaliza & Zainon Hamzah, Zaitul Interaction Pattern Amongst Asperger Children Altman, Magda Ancient and modern views on proprioception and the body schema Bierwiaczonek, Boguslaw Neural Substrates of Metonymy Broccias, Cristiano A network analysis of (oriented) ?ly adjunct constructions Chang, Vincent Relevance, pragmatic inference, and discourse topic ? A crosslinguistic analysis, a universal account Da Milano, Federica The relationship between spatial and temporal language in the sino-japanese environment. Duda, Katie The Punchline as protest: Conceptual blends in anti-globalization activism Endo, Tomoko Epistemic Expressions in Chinese Conversation Handl, Susanne & Graf, Eva-Maria From unanalyzable chunks to prefabricated units: Stages and types of language processing in L1. Lukes, Dominik Hypostasis, schema negotiation and other dynamic phenomena in the ?inventory of linguistic units? Mar?n-Arrese, Juana Passive and Construal: Non-optionality in agented passives Mauri, Caterina How hierarchical may a conceptual space be? The case of coordination relations N??ez-Perucha, Begona The study of figurative language in context: discursive constraints and pragmatic effects Russo, Irene The modulation of adjectival meanings in Italian and in English: a corpus- based analysis of sweet and its antonyms Thiering, Martin The Construction of Topological Mental Spaces Vikram, Amitabh Solving Prepositional ambiguity: A lexical Filtering device for Haarautii Simple sentences Voskoboynyk, Valentyna Cognitive analysis of derived economic terms-adjectives: Types of frames Wallington, Alan What a shambles!: A non-blending Account of My surgeon is a Butcher -- This mail sent through http://webmail.bangor.ac.uk -- Gall y neges e-bost hon, ac unrhyw atodiadau a anfonwyd gyda hi, gynnwys deunydd cyfrinachol ac wedi eu bwriadu i'w defnyddio'n unig gan y sawl y cawsant eu cyfeirio ato (atynt). Os ydych wedi derbyn y neges e-bost hon trwy gamgymeriad, rhowch wybod i'r anfonwr ar unwaith a dil?wch y neges. 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Message-ID: (apologies for cross-postings) SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS Conference on LANGUAGE, COMMUNICATION AND COGNITION University of Brighton, August 4th-7th 2008, Brighton, UK Website: www.languageandcognition.net The conference on Language, Communication and Cognition aims to promote an interdisciplinary, comparative, multi-methodological approach to the study of language, communication and cognition, informed by method and practice as developed in Cognitive Linguistics. The objective is to contribute to our understanding of language as a key aspect of human cognition, using converging and multi-disciplinary methodologies, based upon cross-linguistic, cross-cultural, and cross-population comparisons. The conference will address the following themes: -Language, creativity and imagination -Language in use -Meaning and grammar -Communication, conceptualisation and gesture -Language and its influence on thought -Language acquisition and conceptual development -Origins and evolution of language and mind Keynote speakers The following distinguished scholars will be giving keynote lectures relating to the conference themes: Lera Boroditsky, Stanford University Herbert H. Clark, Stanford University Adele Goldberg, Princeton University Sotaro Kita, Birmingham University George Lakoff, University of California, Berkeley Michael Tomasello, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig Theme Sessions In addition to a General Session and a Poster Session, there will be 6 specially-convened theme sessions, with specially invited discussants. These are as follows: 1. The socio-cultural, cognitive and neurological bases of metaphor Discussants: George Lakoff and Vyv Evans 2. Cognitive and social processes in language use Discussants: Herbert Clark and Paul Hopper 3. Constructional approaches to grammar and first language acquisition Discussants: Adele Goldberg and Eve Clark 4. The role of gesture in communication and cognition Discussants: Sotaro Kita and Alan Cienki 5. The social and cognitive bases of language evolution Discussants: Chris Sinha and Michael Tomasello 6. Linguistic relativity: Evidence and methods Discussants: Lera Boroditsky and Dan Slobin Submission of abstracts Submissions are solicited for the general session, the theme sessions, and the poster session. The abstract guidelines for all sessions are as follows: --Abstracts should not exceed 500 words - references are excluded from this count --Abstracts should clearly indicate a presentation title --Abstracts should be anonymous for purposes of blind peer-review --Abstracts should be formatted as Word, RTF or PDF documents --Abstracts should be submitted electronically to LCC at brighton.ac.uk Please include the following information in the main body of your email: --title and name of author(s) --affiliation --email address for correspondence --presentation title --3-5 keywords --preferred session for presentation: either general session, poster session, or theme session (please specify theme session number or title) Please include the following information in the subject header of your email: --"Abstract Submission - author(s) name(s)" ABSTRACT DEADLINE: November 26th 2007 For full details please consult the conference website: http://www.languageandcognition.net Organisers The conference is organised by Vyv Evans and St?phanie Pourcel Contact The conference email address is LCC at brighton.ac.uk Web details are available at: www.languageandcognition.net From Nino.Amiridze at let.uu.nl Sat Aug 25 10:11:35 2007 From: Nino.Amiridze at let.uu.nl (Amiridze, Nino) Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 12:11:35 +0200 Subject: Second Call for Abstracts: Morphological Variation and Change in Languages of the Caucasus Message-ID: [Apologies for multiple posting] --------------------------------------------------------------------- MORPHOLOGICAL VARIATION AND CHANGE IN LANGUAGES OF THE CAUCASUS Workshop at the 13th International Morphology Meeting February 3rd-6th, 2008, Vienna, Austria http://www.let.uu.nl/~nino.amiridze/personal/organization/mvclc.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Abstracts ================== A great diversity of languages is spoken in the Caucasus, most of which have rich inflectional systems, on the noun (e.g. North-East Caucasian), on the verb (e.g. North-West Caucasian), or both (e.g. South Caucasian). The Caucasus offers rich material for studying genetically diverse languages being in close contact for centuries, e.g. Georgian (South Caucasian) with Abkhaz (North-West Caucasian); Ossetian (Indo-European) and Batsbi (North-East Caucasian); Armenian (Indo-European) with Azeri (Turkic); or Kumyk (Turkic) with major North-East Caucasian languages of Daghestan; or, for a much shorter period, the languages indigenous to the region being in contact with the unrelated Russian and Turkish. While much is known about the contemporary grammar of individual languages of the Caucasus, much less can be said with regard to the various contact situations and their impact on the morphosyntax of individual languages. Our workshop aims to broaden the knowledge on this subject. We invite researchers working on morphological variation and change in the languages spoken in the Caucasus to submit abstracts for participation in the workshop, planned to be held at the 13th International Morphology Meeting. We would like to invite contributions dealing with contact-induced morphological changes in any language of the Caucasus region. This includes investigations of changes driven by influence from any other language of the region, irrespective of the genetic affiliation of the languages in contact. Of great interest are not only inter-family, but also somewhat more subtle intra-family contacts, such as contacts between various North-East Caucasian languages spoken in adjacent areas or neighboring villages. Contributions exploring morphological variation and language-internal morphological changes are also welcome. Invited Speakers ================ * Alice C. Harris. SUNY Stony Brook. * Johanna Nichols. University of California, Berkeley. * Vladimir Plungian. Russian Academy of Sciences. Important Dates =============== Abstract submission: September 17, 2007 Notification: October 31, 2007 Workshop: February 3rd-6th, 2008 (The exact date will be announced later) Organizers ========== * Nino Amiridze, Utrecht University (The Netherlands) * Michael Daniel, Moscow State University (Russia) * Silvia Kutscher, University of Cologne (Germany) Publication =========== If after the workshop there will be interest in publishing either a proceedings or a special journal issue, then the organizers will take responsibility of finding a suitable forum and will act as editors. Submission ========== Abstracts (in English, maximum 3 pages, including data and references) have to be submitted electronically as portable document format (.pdf) or Microsoft Word (.doc) files via the EasyChair conference management system: http://www.easychair.org/MVCLC2008/. If you do not have an EasyChair account, click on the button "I have no EasyChair Account" on that page and follow the instructions. When you receive a password, you can enter the site and upload your abstract. Workshop Web Page ================= http://www.let.uu.nl/~nino.amiridze/personal/organization/mvclc.html From loenneke at ICSI.Berkeley.EDU Mon Aug 27 18:02:23 2007 From: loenneke at ICSI.Berkeley.EDU (Birte Loenneker-Rodman) Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 11:02:23 -0700 Subject: First announcement GCLA/DGKL 2008 (Cognitive Linguistics, Germany) Message-ID: First announcement GCLA/DGKL 2008 Call for papers Third international conference of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association Leipzig, September, 25 - 27, 2008 The third international conference of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association (GCLA/DGKL) will take place in Leipzig, Germany, from September, 25 to 27, 2008. It is organized by the Linguistics Department at the Institute of English and American Studies at Leipzig University. Special theme: Converging Evidence Topics: Submissions are invited for papers addressing - from various perspectives - any facet of cognitive linguistics research, including research on meaning, conceptual structure, conceptual operations, cognitive processing, grammar, acquisition, language use, discourse function, and other issues. Papers supporting their arguments by various methodologies or drawing on evidence from various fields are especially welcome, though others are not excluded. The conference languages are English and German. Submissions: Submissions may offer any of the following: 1. theme session; 2. paper presentation; 3. poster presentation; 4. paper or poster. Abstract submission will be by e-mail attachment in RTF format (max. 500 words on one page). Detailed submission guidelines will be published in the next call and on the conference web page, http://webapp.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/~DGKL/GCLA_08/. Conference schedule: Talks are scheduled in 30 minute slots: 20 minutes presentation, 5 minutes for discussion and 5 minutes to change sessions and/or change speakers. We anticipate 3 parallel sessions of regular papers, plus plenary lectures, plus 1 - 2 workshops. Keynote speakers: To be announced. Important dates: August, 2007: First Call for papers, posters and theme sessions 10th November 2007: Deadline for theme sessions 1st December 2007: Deadline for paper and poster submissions March, 2008: Notification of acceptance 25 - 27th September, 2008: Third GCLA/DGKL-Conference Local organizing committee: Doris Sch?nefeld Institut f?r Anglistik, Universit?t Leipzig Beethovenstra?e 15 04107 Leipzig doris.schoenefeld at ruhr-uni-bochum.de From abogacka at ifa.amu.edu.pl Mon Aug 27 16:03:19 2007 From: abogacka at ifa.amu.edu.pl (Anna Bogacka) Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 18:03:19 +0200 Subject: PSiCL call for papers Message-ID: CALL FOR PAPERS Submissions of papers in all subdisciplines of linguistics are welcome for publication in Pozna? Studies in Contemporary Linguistics. DESCRIPTION OF THE JOURNAL * an international journal devoted to theoretical and methodological issues in linguistic research * publishes outstanding research in contemporary linguistics, presenting a wide range of perspectives on linguistic theories and interdisciplinary study of language * a forum for the exchange of ideas between disciplines, fields of study and theoretical frameworks * a forum for both established and young scholars * eclectic, but rigorous * published by the School of English, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland * 34 years of experience in publishing linguistic papers * editor: Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kolaczyk WHY SUBMIT * contributions subject to anonymous reviews by international experts * fast, fair and constructive peer review * online publication by our new partner, Versita Central European Science Publishers * volume 43(2) planned for publication in December 2007, starting with the year 2008, four issues per year * rejection rate: 25% * abstracting: CSA Linguistic and Language Behaviour Abstracts ( www.csa.com ), Bibliographie Linguistique/Linguistic Bibliorgraphy Online ( www.blonline.nl ), MLA International Bibliography, Linguistic Abstracts Online PSiCL web page: http://www.ifa.amu.edu.pl/psicl/ Our web page at Versita: http://www.versita.com/science/socialsciences/psicl.html From hopper at cmu.edu Fri Aug 31 00:29:23 2007 From: hopper at cmu.edu (Paul Hopper) Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 20:29:23 -0400 Subject: Winfred Lehmann, Carol Justus Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, Two people who should be remembered for their contributions to functional linguistics died on August 1, 2007, on the same day: Winfred Lehmann (91) and his student Carol Justus (67). Both lived in Austin, Texas. They were instrumental in organizing the LSA?s Linguistic Institute at the State University of New York in Oswego, NY, in the summer of 1976. This Institute pulled together the burgeoning field of functional linguistics and launched the typological-pragmatic orientation that has become a major focus for modern linguistics. Carol was the director and the energizing force that saw in the scattered work of a number of heterodox linguists of the time a force that would challenge the formalist mainstream. She corralled Joseph Greenberg as Institute Professor and Win Lehmann as Collitz Professor and Associate Director, and proclaimed Typology and Universals as the theme of the Institute. She brought in Talmy (Tom) Givon, Sandy Thompson, Joan Bybee, Bernard Comrie, Marianne Mithun, Paul Hopper, Charles Li, Linda Waugh and others as faculty, a nexus that resulted, down the years, in a significant reorientation of linguistics. To it are owed, ultimately, Funknet, the book series Typo! logical Studies in Language, and many individual publications. Carol was an Indo-Europeanist and Hittitologist in her own right, and made many contributions to the study of writing systems, early Indo-European, and the Hittite language. Functionalism?s debt to Carol Justus is enormous and little recognized. Win Lehmann, a Germanist and Indo-Europeanist, was a towering figure in 20th century linguistics, whose full obituary has yet to be written. He is the only person to have been president of both the major U.S. organizations of language scholars, the Linguistic Society of America and the Modern Language Association. He received honors from Germany for his contributions to the study of German and from the Indian government for his studies of Sanskrit. As a young officer in the Second World War he directed Japanese language instruction for the U.S. army and was active in the decoding of Japanese dispatches. During the 1976 LSA Institute he supervised a lecture series which became the influential collection ?Syntactic Typology: Studies in the Phenomenology of Language?. He pioneered the application of typological methods to historical linguistics. His textbooks ?Descriptive Linguistics: An Introduction? and ?Historical Linguistics? introduced an entire generation of linguists to ! the two major divisions of the discipline. Paul Hopper