From fg-fgw at uva.nl Fri Nov 2 12:28:02 2007 From: fg-fgw at uva.nl (fg-fgw) Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2007 13:28:02 +0100 Subject: First announcement ICFG13 and IPCFG4 2008 Message-ID: First Announcement ICFG13 13th International Conference on Functional Grammar University of Westminster, London, Great Britain 3-6 September 2008 preceded by IPCFG4 4th International Postgraduate Course on Functional Grammar University of Westminster, London, Great Britain 1-3 September 2008 Background Since 1984, there has been a highly successful biennial series of International Conferences on Functional Grammar (ICFG). The first twelve conferences took place in 1984 - ICFG1 Amsterdam - UvA 1986 - ICFG2 Antwerp 1988 - ICFG3 Amsterdam - VU 1990 - ICFG4 Copenhagen 1992 - ICFG5 Antwerp 1994 - ICFG6 York 1996 - ICFG7 Córdoba 1998 - ICFG8 Amsterdam - VU 2000 - ICFG9 Madrid - UNED 2002 - ICFG10 Amsterdam - UvA 2004 - ICFG11 Gijón 2006 - ICFG12 São José do Rio Preto The aim of ICFG is to further elaborate the model of Functional Grammar (FG) that was originally proposed by the late Simon Dik. A full treatment of FG may be found in: Dik, Simon C. 1997, The Theory of Functional Grammar. 2 Vols. Ed. by Kees Hengeveld. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. The most recent version of FG is called Functional Discourse Grammar. A sketch of this model may be found in: Hengeveld, Kees & J. Lachlan Mackenzie, 'Functional Discourse Grammar', In: Keith Brown (ed), Encyclopedia of Language and Lingistics, 2nd Edition. Oxford: Elsevier, downloadable from www.functionalgrammar.com/ à Publications à FDG The venue ICFG13 will be hosted by the Harrow School of Computer Science, University of Westminster, at its Harrow Campus (Watford Road, Nothwick Park, Harrow HA1 3TP London, Great Britain). Information about quality, affordable, on campus accommodation at Harrow Campus will be provided in the second circular as well as on our website www.functionalgrammar.com Local organization The local organizing committee consists of Maria Chondrogianni (Chair, Harrow School of Computer Science), Dr Simon Courtenage (School of Informatics), Dr Vassiliki Bouki (Harrow School of Computer Science), Dr Louise Sylvester (School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Languages). The Conference Programme Although the conference programme will host all possible topics related to the further elaboration of F(D)G, the conference will start on Wednesday afternoon 4 September with a special workshop on Computational Applications of Functional Grammar. The length of the papers will be 30 minutes followed by another 10 minutes of discussion. The language of the conference will be English. Apart from the workshop and general sessions, there will be ample room for poster presentations. Programme committee The board of the Functional Grammar Foundation (FGF) has appointed the following programme committee for ICFG12: Marize Dall'Aglio-Hattner (president), Maria Chondrogianni and Kees Hengeveld. The programme committee will evaluate the anonymous abstracts and decide on their inclusion in the conference programme. In case a member of the programme committee submits an abstract, he/she will not evaluate his/her own abstract, but a member of the board of FGF will step in to evaluate the abstract of the committee member involved. Abstracts Given the role the quality of the abstract plays in the selection procedure, each abstract should contain at least the following items: a clearly defined and well-motivated research question; the crucial examples illustrating the relevance of the research question; and the main conclusions the paper arrives at. Abstracts should have a length of approximately 1000 words, i.e. roughly 3 pages, and should not contain the name of the author. References to the literature cited should be given. References containing the name of the author may also be given but will be suppressed before the abstract is sent to the programme committee. Please indicate in the accompanying message whether you want to present a paper or a poster. The deadline for the submission of abstracts of papers and posters is 1 February 2008. Abstracts should be submitted electronically to the international secretary of the FGF at fg-fgw at uva.nl Pre-Conference Course In view of the success of the previous pre-conference courses, an intensive course will be organized in the days preceding the conference to enable linguists unfamiliar with the theory to prepare for the conference. The course will be organized with participants at PhD level in mind. The Fourth International Postgraduate Course on Functional Grammar will focus on the Functional Discourse Grammar model and will also prepare the students for the special conference theme. Please inform your PhD students and colleagues unfamiliar with Functional (Discourse) Grammar of this possibility of getting acquainted with the theory and its applications. The conference and course website offers an online information form, which can be send in to receive future information by those colleagues and students who are not on our mailing list. Further details about registration will be provided in the second circular and on our website www.functionalgrammar.com/ Conference Fee Information on Conference fees will be posted in the second circular, to be published in December 2007. Registration The second circular will contain all details about how to register for ICFG13 and IPCFG4. This information will also be made available on our website www.functionalgrammar.com/ Accommodation Quality cheap on campus accommodation will be offered to all delegates and their guests. More information will be provided in the Conference's second circular. Website All information concerning ICFG13 and IPCFG4 will be made available at www.functionalgrammar.com/. How we try to reach you All information concerning ICFG13 and IPCFG4 is being sent out by email to those who have expressed their interest in the past. If you do not wish to receive any further information, please let us know. How you can reach us The email address for all matters related to the conference programme is: fg-fgw at uva.nl From eitkonen at utu.fi Mon Nov 5 13:58:22 2007 From: eitkonen at utu.fi (Esa Itkonen) Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2007 15:58:22 +0200 Subject: review of Givon (2005) Message-ID: Dear FUNKNETters: In accordance with a wish expressed by a few people, my review of Givon (2005) is now available,namely on my homepage. Thank you Gwen, Hans, Monica, Anders, John, and Betty. (But notice also Aya Katz's review in Studies in Language 31:3). I see myself obligated to agree with Martin Haspelmath (and not for the first time): Let's all go digital! Esa Homepage: http://users.utu.fi/eitkonen From gert.desutter at hogent.be Mon Nov 5 20:34:46 2007 From: gert.desutter at hogent.be (Gert De Sutter) Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2007 21:34:46 +0100 Subject: CFP: Discourse and Grammar 2008 (Ghent, Belgium) [EXTENDED DEADLINE] Message-ID: *Illocutionary force, information structure and subordination between discourse and grammar* Ghent University – University College Ghent May 23-24, 2008 Invited speakers: C. Lehmann, Universität Erfurt, Germany J.C. Verstraete, KULeuven, Belgium A. Verhagen, Leiden University, The Netherlands Call for Papers (*extended deadline: December 1, 2007*) (French version: http://liquid.hogent.be/~disgram/enfrancais/index.htm) Since Matthiessen & Thompson (1988), it has been widely assumed that discourse structure and complex sentence structure have much in common and that the latter is a more grammaticalised way of representing relationships between states of affairs than the former. Both structures consist of a network of relationships between what we could call, avoiding too strong a terminological bias, more and less prominent states of affairs (background/foreground; nucleus/satellite; salient/non-salient; etc.). The issue which this conference wishes to address is the grammatical, pragmatic and semantic status of less prominent states of affairs in discourse and complex sentence structure and more in particular the interaction between grammatical properties of subordination, speech act properties and clausal information structure. In complex sentence structure, less prominent states of affairs are expressed in subordinate clauses, which are widely, but not unanimously, assumed to lack both speech act properties and information structure (cf. Lambrecht 1994; Cristofaro 2003). There are, however, some notable exceptions, viz. clauses which seem to have the grammatical properties of subordinate clauses, but are prominent in the sense that they provide the core of information of the sentence as a whole (Biber 1988). On the other hand, less prominent states of affairs operating as independent clauses in discourse structure, are not usually thought of as being deprived of speech act properties or information structure. It remains to be seen whether this is a tenable position. Conference papers are expected to address one or more of the following questions or another topic within the realm of the conference theme: - Is discourse structure best analysed as binary (salient/non-salient; foreground/background) or as a continuum and what are the criteria? - Is it feasible to describe the relationship between discourse structure and complex sentence structure as iconic? - Is it either necessary or feasible to distinguish between different types of less prominent information (Brandt 1996) such as subsidiary information (Nebeninformation) vs. background information (Hintergrundinformation)? Do we perhaps need to distinguish more types than these? - What is the exact distribution of illocutionary force in discourse? Are less prominent but independent states of affairs endowed with illocutionary force? - What is the role of discourse particles and connective devices in the organisation of the discourse in more and less prominent states of affairs? - Is clausal information structure a property specific to independent clauses? - Should information structure be viewed as a single partition of information within a given utterance? According to some authors, complex sentence structures have only one information structure partition (cf. Mathesius 1975, Komagata 2003), whereas others assume that certain complex sentence types have more than one (Brandt 1996). - If clausal information structure is absent from subordinate clauses, why do syntactic manifestations of information structure (dislocation, clefting) sometimes appear in subordinate clauses? - How can the interaction between clausal information structure and discourse information structure (cf. the difference between clausal topic and discourse topic) be described in a more comprehensive way? - Is there historical evidence of the “loss” of speech act properties or information structure? Can this be linked to a diachronic development from independent to dependent clauses, and if so, is it indeed feasible to describe this process as grammaticalisation (cf. Fischer 2007)? Comparative papers focussing on European languages are particularly welcome and will be favoured during the review process. Anonymous abstracts should be max. 2 pages long and be sent as a Word (.rtf) file to: bart.defrancq at hogent.be before *1 December 2007*. Abstract and paper should be in English or French. Information about the author(s) should be given in the e-mail the abstract is attached to. Notification of acceptance is scheduled to 1 January 2008. More information: http://www.hogent.be/dg2008 Programme committee (provisional): Christelle Cosme (University of Louvain, UCL) Hubert Cuyckens (University of Leuven, KULeuven) Bart Defrancq (University College Ghent) Liesbeth Degand (University of Louvain, UCL) Gert De Sutter (University College Ghent) Pascale Hadermann (Ghent University) Anne-Marie Simon-Vandenbergen (Ghent University) Els Tobback (Ghent University) Dominique Willems (Ghent University) Organising committee (provisional): Joost Buysschaert (University College Ghent) Hubert Cuyckens (University of Leuven, KULeuven) Bart Defrancq (University College Ghent) Liesbeth Degand (University of Louvain, UCL) Gert De Sutter (University College Ghent) Gudrun Rawoens (University of Louvain, UCL/Ghent University) Els Tobback (Ghent University) Dominique Willems (Ghent University) From francisco.ruizdemendoza at unirioja.es Mon Nov 5 23:10:58 2007 From: francisco.ruizdemendoza at unirioja.es (Francisco Ruiz de Mendoza) Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 00:10:58 +0100 Subject: CFP: AESLA 2008 (deadline December 21st) In-Reply-To: <2d7665d60711051508r380f1e85s16bba6f22e0556a6@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: http://www.aesla.uji.es/congresos/en/main_en SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS (Excuses for multiple posting) XXVI AESLA INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE: "FROM APPLIED LINGUISTICS TO THE LINGUISTICS OF THE MIND: ISSUES, PRACTICES AND TRENDS" Dear Colleague, The Spanish Applied Linguistics Association(AESLA) is pleased to announce its 26th Annual Conference to be held at the University of Almería (Spain) on April 3-5, 2008. This International Conference will count on the presence of the following distinguished speakers: - Christopher Sinha, Portsmouth University, GB - Claire Kramsch, University of California at Berkeley, USA - Hans C. Boas, University of Texas at Austin, USA - José Luis Otal, Universitat Jaume I, Castellón, Spain - Lavinia Merilini Barbaressi, Università di Pisa, Italy - Manuel Carreiras, Univesidad de La Laguna, Spain - Marco Casonato, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Italy - Pedro J. Chamizo Domínguez, Universidad de Málaga, Spain The Conference will cover the following areas: - Language acquisition - Language teaching - Language for specific purposes - Language psychology, child language and psycolinguistics - Sociolinguistics - Pragmatics - Discourse analysis - Corpus linguistics, computational linguistics and linguistic engineering - Lexicology and lexicography - Translation and interpreting Proposals (pertaining to the areas mentioned above and max. 500 words, figures and references apart) must be submitted at http://www.aesla.uji.es/congresos/en/main_en no later than December 1st, 2007. Reviewers will evaluate the contributions and will contact the authors regarding acceptance or rejection. Final versions (aprox. 2500 words) will be required to authors within a month from acceptance. Thank you for your interest. We look forward to receiving your proposal. Yours sincerely, Carmen Mª Bretones Callejas University of Almería, Spain aesla at ual.es -- Francisco J. RUIZ-DE-MENDOZA University of La Rioja Department of Modern Philologies c/ San José de Calasanz s/n 26004, Logroño, La Rioja, Spain Tel. (+34) (941) 299430 Fax. (+34) (941) 299419 francisco.ruizdemendoza at unirioja.es http://www.lexicom.es/ From francisco.ruizdemendoza at unirioja.es Tue Nov 6 09:07:24 2007 From: francisco.ruizdemendoza at unirioja.es (Francisco Ruiz de Mendoza) Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 10:07:24 +0100 Subject: Fwd: CFP: AESLA 2008 (deadline December 1st) [correction] Message-ID: *Sorry about the mistake in the previous email message, the deadline is December 1st.* ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Francisco Ruiz de Mendoza Date: Nov 6, 2007 12:08 AM Subject: Fwd: CFP: AESLA 2008 (deadline December 21st) To: cogling-l at mailman.ucsd.edu http://www.aesla.uji.es/congresos/en/main_en SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS (Excuses for multiple posting) XXVI AESLA INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE: "FROM APPLIED LINGUISTICS TO THE LINGUISTICS OF THE MIND: ISSUES, PRACTICES AND TRENDS" Dear Colleague, The Spanish Applied Linguistics Association(AESLA) is pleased to announce its 26th Annual Conference to be held at the University of Almería (Spain) on April 3-5, 2008. This International Conference will count on the presence of the following distinguished speakers: - Christopher Sinha, Portsmouth University, GB - Claire Kramsch, University of California at Berkeley, USA - Hans C. Boas, University of Texas at Austin, USA - José Luis Otal, Universitat Jaume I, Castellón, Spain - Lavinia Merilini Barbaressi, Università di Pisa, Italy - Manuel Carreiras, Univesidad de La Laguna, Spain - Marco Casonato, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Italy - Pedro J. Chamizo Domínguez, Universidad de Málaga, Spain The Conference will cover the following areas: - Language acquisition - Language teaching - Language for specific purposes - Language psychology, child language and psycolinguistics - Sociolinguistics - Pragmatics - Discourse analysis - Corpus linguistics, computational linguistics and linguistic engineering - Lexicology and lexicography - Translation and interpreting *Proposals *(pertaining to the areas mentioned above and *max. 500 words*, figures and references apart) must be submitted at http://www.aesla.uji.es/congresos/en/main_en no later than *December 1st, 2007*. Reviewers will evaluate the contributions and will contact the authors regarding acceptance or rejection. Final versions (aprox. 2500 words) will be required to authors within a month from acceptance. Thank you for your interest. We look forward to receiving your proposal. Yours sincerely, Carmen Mª Bretones Callejas University of Almería, Spain aesla at ual.es -- Francisco J. RUIZ-DE-MENDOZA University of La Rioja Department of Modern Philologies c/ San José de Calasanz s/n 26004, Logroño, La Rioja, Spain Tel. (+34) (941) 299430 Fax. (+34) (941) 299419 francisco.ruizdemendoza at unirioja.es http://www.lexicom.es/ -- Francisco J. RUIZ-DE-MENDOZA University of La Rioja Department of Modern Philologies c/ San José de Calasanz s/n 26004, Logroño, La Rioja, Spain Tel. (+34) (941) 299430 Fax. (+34) (941) 299419 francisco.ruizdemendoza at unirioja.es http://www.lexicom.es/ From c.j.hart at herts.ac.uk Wed Nov 7 09:16:28 2007 From: c.j.hart at herts.ac.uk (Christopher Hart) Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2007 09:16:28 +0000 Subject: 3rd CFP: Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis across Disciplines Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, 3rd Call for Papers: CADAAD'08 Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines (CADAAD) is an ongoing project which aims to foster and promote cross-disciplinary communication in critical discourse research. Following the success of the project’s first international conference hosted at the University of East Anglia in 2006, we are pleased to announce the second international conference CADAAD’08, to be hosted at the *University of Hertfordshire, 10-11 July 2008*. In line with the general aims of the project, we welcome papers both from CDA and neighbouring disciplines such as communication studies, media studies, narrative studies, sociology, philosophy and political science. Abstracts are invited which assess the state of the art and offer new directions for critical discourse research. By new directions we mean i) theoretical/methodological development and/or ii) analysis of contemporary discourses. Theoretical/methodological frameworks sourced from all areas of the social and cognitive sciences are welcome. Papers exploring the following frameworks in linguistics are particularly welcome: * Cognitive Linguistics (Blending, Construction Grammars, Framing, Metaphor) * Corpus Linguistics (Corpus Construction, Data Extraction, Semantic Prosody) * Pragmatics (Presupposition, Relevance Theory, Speech Acts) * Systemic Functional Linguistics (Cohesion and Coherence, Grammatical Metaphor) Analyses of all contemporary discourses are welcome, including those within applied and professional areas such as business, education, environment,health, and law. Papers applying critical analysis to discourses used in the construction of 'minority' vs. 'normality' and other dichotomies are especially welcome. Areas of particular interest include: * Discourse on gender * Discourse of International Law * Discourse on immigration * Discourse of the war on terror * European Union discourse * United Nations and foreign aid discourse Reflecting our commitment to multiplicity in critical approaches to discourse analysis, the following plenary speakers have confirmed their participation: * Professor Piotr Cap (University of Łódź, Poland) * Professor Jonathan Charteris-Black (University of West England, UK) * Professor Teun van Dijk (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain) * Professor Ruth Wodak (Lancaster University, UK) Abstracts of no longer than 400 words should be submitted as MS Word attachment to discourse at cadaad.org by *30 November 2007*. Authors should include their name, affiliation and email address. Successful authors will be notified via email by *15 February 2008*. Papers will be allocated twenty minutes plus ten minutes for questions. Selected proceedings will be published. Please visit http://cadaad.org/cadaad08 for further conference details. -- Christopher Hart Lecturer in English Language and Communication School of Humanities University of Hertfordshire www.hartcda.org.uk From c.j.hart at herts.ac.uk Wed Nov 7 09:43:56 2007 From: c.j.hart at herts.ac.uk (Christopher Hart) Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2007 09:43:56 +0000 Subject: 2nd CFP: Meaning Construction in Critical Discourse Analysis Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, 2nd Call for Papers: Meaning Construction in Critical Discourse Analysis (Theme session at CADAAD'08) Critical discourse analysis (CDA) identifies three analytic stages: description, interpretation and explanation. Halliday's systemic functional linguistics has become synonymous with description-stage analysis of representation in text. And at the explanation stage, CDA is associated with Marxism and Critical Theory. Very little work, however, has been carried out at the interpretation stage, which is concerned with discourse processing. Discourse processing, of course, involves meaning construction as understood in cognitive linguistics or cognitive pragmatics. Cognitive linguistics is a broad paradigm subsuming a number of distinct theories and thus offering a range of potential analytical tools to CDA. But whilst CDA has made use of conceptual metaphor theory, it has not recognised cognitive linguistic approaches to discourse and the input they provide at the interpretation-stage. Similarly, cognitive approaches to pragmatics have not been recognised in CDA. This methodologically-oriented session then, invites papers addressing meaning construction in critical discourse analysis from the perspectives of cognitive linguistics and cognitive pragmatics. As such, papers applying conceptual blending theory, construction grammar, discourse space theory, frame negotiation, mental space theory or relevance theory, for example, are particularly welcome. Please send abstracts of no longer than 400 words to c.j.hart at herts.ac.uk by *30 November 2007*. Authors should include their name, affiliation and email address. Successful authors will be notified via email by *15 February 2008*. For details on CADAAD'08 please visit http://cadaad.org/cadaad08 -- Christopher Hart Lecturer in English Language and Communication School of Humanities University of Hertfordshire www.hartcda.org.uk From timo.honkela at tkk.fi Wed Nov 7 13:28:58 2007 From: timo.honkela at tkk.fi (timo.honkela at tkk.fi) Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2007 15:28:58 +0200 Subject: AKRR'08 CFP: Adaptive Knowledge Representation and Reasoning Message-ID: FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS AKRR'08 - ADAPTIVE KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION AND REASONING Following the successful 2005 conference, AKRR 2008 will be organized in Finland in 17-19 September 2008 at Haikko Manor, Porvoo, 30-40 minutes from Helsinki. The conference site was elected in 2007 by Mercury International to be the best one in Finland. More information will be available at http://www.cis.hut.fi/AKRR08/ Conference site: http://www.haikko.fi/kokoukset/en_GB/presentation/ The conference is co-organized with the ESTSP'08, European Symposium on Time Series Prediction. BACKGROUND In the modern society, knowledge representation and reasoning are underlying building blocks in various kinds of information systems and networks. Knowledge representation and reasoning are also central themes in cognitive science and epistemology. Relevant questions include how do humans know, understand, anticipate, make decisions and collaborate, and, on the other hand, how to analyze, model and simulate complex phenomena in general. Relevant modeling methods include statistical machine learning, artificial neural networks, signal processing, pattern recognition and dynamical systems. AUDIENCE The aim of the AKRR'08 conference is to bring together scientists who study complex phenomena in empirical sciences and scientists who develop computational methods for dealing with complexity. From the empirical sciences, we especially welcome researchers in cognitive science, sociology, educational psychology, economics and medicine. From the methodological sciences, we welcome researchers who develop, for instance, statistical machine learning, dynamical systems theory and adaptive systems. The conference also aims to be relevant for practitioners who encounter complex phenomena continuously and who are looking for new ways to deal with challenges related to management and strategic decision making. SPECIAL THEMES * Adaptive systems in organizational theory and economic sciences * Computational wisdom, modeling emotions and decision making * New generation of semantic web: social and multimodal grounding of knowledge and understanding * Adaptive systems in medical education, research and practice * Adaptive machine translation: towards global connection TOPICS We invite novel high-quality papers that are related to the conference themes including but not limited to: Themes related to empirical sciences * Adaptive, dynamical and probabilistic models and simulations of social and societal structures and processes * Probabilistic and pattern-based reasoning on financial and economical phenomena * Non-symbolic ontologies and adaptive knowledge representation for the web * Emergent and evolutionary representations for creative and design processes * Models of natural language understanding and translation * Learning schemas and language games * Cognitive models of perceptually grounded reasoning processes * Multimodality in cognitive and artificial systems * Analysis and modeling of emotions and decision making * Relationship between individual, social and cultural development * Natural and artificial general intelligence * Analysis and development of conceptual spaces * Emerging representations in active agents * Empirical and theoretical study of practices and activities Methodological themes * Contextuality in statistical analysis and reasoning * Models of temporal processes and reasoning * Knowledge representation and reasoning in non-stationary environments * Spatial representations of knowledge * Analyses of the limitations of logic-based representations and reasoning * Hybrid systems and emergence of symbolic representations * Continuous formal systems * Dynamical systems models of knowledge * Pattern-based reasoning * Unsupervised and reinforcement learning models for knowledge acquisition and representation * Bayesian models of learning and reasoning * Emergent representations based on independent component analysis and self-organizing maps * Biologically inspired computing including artificial immune systems IMPORTANT DATES * Paper submission due: 15 February 2008 * Acceptance notification: 11 April 2008 * Deadline for early registration: 24 June 2008 * Camera-ready paper due: 23 May 2008 * Symposia and conference: 17-19 September 2008 ORGANIZERS Programme committee and conference chair Timo Honkela Helsinki University of Technology Adaptive Informatics Research Centre timo.honkela at tkk.fi Organizing committee chair Olli Simula Helsinki University of Technology Adaptive Informatics Research Centre olli.simula at tkk.fi From Vyv.Evans at brighton.ac.uk Thu Nov 8 15:01:06 2007 From: Vyv.Evans at brighton.ac.uk (Vyvyan Evans) Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2007 15:01:06 -0000 Subject: Language, Communication & Cognition -- FINAL CFP -- Deadline Nov. 26th Message-ID: (apologies for cross-postings) FINAL 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 rls at rice.edu Wed Nov 14 00:39:34 2007 From: rls at rice.edu (Rice Linguistics Society) Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 18:39:34 -0600 Subject: call for papers: Development of Complex Linguistic Structures Message-ID: * * * * * * * * * * CALL FOR PAPERS * * * * * * * * * * Development of Complex Linguistic Structures [poster session] Date: 27-Mar-2008 - 29-Mar-2008 Location: Houston, TX, USA Contact Person: Linda Lanz Web Site: http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~rls/conf.html Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Syntax; Morphology; Typology; Language Acquisition Call Deadline: 31-Jan-2008 Meeting Description Rice Linguistics Society will host a poster session to accompany the 12th Biennial Rice Symposium on Linguistics, to be held March 27-29, 2008 in Houston, Texas on the Rice University campus. Topic The theme for the poster session is ''Development of complex linguistic structures.'' We invite papers from all subfields and theoretical orientations of linguistics that examine complex linguistic structures. Successful abstracts will focus on the origin of complex structure(s) from the perspective of child language acquisition, diachrony, language contact (including pidgin/ creole studies), synchronic change-in-process, or a combination of these factors. Complex structures include but are not limited to complex predicates, complementation, and relativization. These posters should complement the symposium topic of ''The Genesis of Syntactic Complexity: An Interdisciplinary Symposium.'' While the theme of the symposium is limited to syntactic structures, research on any complex linguistic phenomenon will be considered for the poster session. For more information on the symposium, consult http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~eivs/sympo/. Submission Guidelines The deadline for submissions is January 31st, 2008 (5 p.m. CST). Please submit a one-page abstract of 300 words maximum in PDF or MS Word format to rls rice.edu. An additional sheet is permitted for examples, references, and/or figures. The filename should be AUTHORNAME.pdf or AUTHORNAME.doc. If you use MS Word, be sure to use a common linguistics-friendly font, such as Doulos SIL, particularly if your abstract includes IPA. Please include ''poster session'' in the subject. The body of the e- mail should include: 1. Name of author(s) 2. Poster title 3. Institution(s) of author(s) 4. E-mail address(es) of author(s) 5. Postal address(es) of author(s) 6. Phone number for primary author Postal submissions will not be accepted. Poster Presentation Participants will be given a space approximately 6' by 4' to display their work. Registration Registration will be handled through the symposium. Poster presenters are invited to attend all symposium events. For more information, contact rls rice.edu or visit the symposium website at http://www.ruf.rice.edu/ ~eivs/sympo/. Registration details will appear in January 2008. From aberez at umail.ucsb.edu Thu Nov 15 00:08:43 2007 From: aberez at umail.ucsb.edu (Andrea Berez) Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 16:08:43 -0800 Subject: CFP: Workshop on American Indigenous Languages In-Reply-To: <89bfe5de0711141606v68ae8322r85389a5f9f645866@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, Below please find the Call for Papers for the 11th Annual Workshop on American Indigenous Languages, to be held at the University of California, Santa Barbara on May 23 and 24, 2008. The abstract deadline is February 8. Best wishes, Andrea Berez -- ----------------------------- Andrea L. Berez PhD student, Dept. of Linguistics University of California, Santa Barbara http://www.uweb.ucsb.edu/~aberez/ ********************************************************************************************* Workshop on American Indigenous Languages Santa Barbara, CA May 23-24, 2008 The Linguistics department at the University of California, Santa Barbara announces its 11th annual Workshop on American Indigenous Languages (WAIL), which provides a forum for the discussion of theoretical and descriptive studies of the indigenous languages of the Americas. Anonymous abstracts are invited for talks on any topic in linguistics. Talks will be 20 minutes, followed by 10 minutes for discussion. Abstracts should be 500 words or less (excluding examples and/or references) and can be submitted by hard copy or email. Individuals may submit abstracts for one single-authored and one co-authored paper. Please indicate your source(s) and type(s) of data in the abstract (e.g. recordings, texts, conversational, elicited, narrative, etc.). For co-authored papers, please indicate who plans to present the paper as well as who will be in attendance. Special Panel on Language Policy: This year we are welcoming abstracts for a Special Panel on all issues concerning language policy. Talks will be 20 minutes each, followed by a group discussion/question-and-answer period. For email submissions: Include the abstract as an attachment. Please limit your abstracts to the following formats: PDF, RTF, or Microsoft Word document. Include the following information in the body of the email message: (1) your name; (2) affiliation; (3) mailing address; (4) phone number; (5) email address; (6) title of your paper; (7) whether your submission is for the general session or the Special Panel. Send email submissions to: wail.ucsb at gmail.com For hard copy submissions: Please send four copies of your abstract, along with a 3x5 card with the following information: (1) your name; (2) affiliation; (3) mailing address; (4) phone number; (5) email address; (6) title of your paper; (7) whether your submission is for the general session or the Special Panel. Send hard copy submissions to: Workshop on American Indigenous Languages Attn: Joye Kiester or Verónica Muñoz Ledo Department of Linguistics University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93106 DEADLINE FOR RECEIPT OF ABSTRACTS: February 8, 2008 Notification of acceptance will be by email no later than February 29, 2008. General Information: Santa Barbara is situated on the Pacific Ocean near the Santa Yñez Mountains. The UCSB campus is located near the Santa Barbara airport. Participants may also fly into LAX airport in Los Angeles, which is approximately 90 miles southeast of the campus. Shuttle buses run between LAX and Santa Barbara. Information about hotel accommodations will be posted on our website (http://orgs.sa.ucsb.edu/nailsg/). For further information contact the conference coordinators, Joye Kiester and Verónica Muñoz Ledo, at wail.ucsb at gmail.com or (805) 893-3776, or check out our website at http://orgs.sa.ucsb.edu/nailsg/ From alifarghaly at yahoo.com Fri Nov 16 21:34:21 2007 From: alifarghaly at yahoo.com (Ali Farghaly) Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 13:34:21 -0800 Subject: Egypt - INFOS 2008 Message-ID: INFOS 2008: The 6th International Conference on Informatics and Systems Special Track On Natural Language Processing 27 – 28 March, 2008 Cairo, Egypt http://www.fci.cu.edu.eg/INFOS2008/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Natural language processing research is gaining much interest from many parties such as researchers from academia, industry, and government developers, practitioners, and users. The goal of this track session(s) is to provide the participants with an opportunity to exchange ideas, approaches and implementations of computational systems, to highlight the common challenges faced by all practitioners, to assess the state of the art in the field, and to identify promising areas for future collaborative research in the development of NLP resources and systems. Topics ===== The following is a non-exhaustive list of topics covered by the track: * Ontologies and linguistic resources (corpora, electronic dictionaries, treebanks, etc.) * Transliteration, transcription and diacritization * Part of speech tagging * Morphological analysis and generation * Shallow and deep parsing * Machine translation * Word sense and syntactic disambiguation * Semantic analysis * Information retrieval * Information extraction * Question answering * Text clustering and classification * Text summarization * Text and web content mining * Named entity recognition * Arabic script-based language processing Invited Speaker ============ Prof. Ali Farghaly, Senior Member of Technical Staff, Text Group, Oracle USA, CA, and Adjunct Professor of Arabic Linguistics, Monterey Institute of International Studies, Monterey, CA, USA. Track Chair ========= Prof. Khaled Shaalan (Faculty of Computers & Information, Cairo University, Egypt) Program Committee Nahed Aboelhassan (Brandeis University, USA) Fawaz Al-Anzi (Kuwait University, Kuwait) Ibrahim Alkharashi (King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia) Galia Angelova (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria) Achraf Chalabi (Sakhr, Egypt) Chia-Hui Chang (National Central University, Taiwan) Kareem Darwish (Cairo University, Egypt) Mona Diab (Columbia University, USA) Joseph Dichy (Université Lumière-Lyon 2, France) Ahmed Guessoum (Freelance Consultant, Algeria) Nizar Habash (Columbia University, USA) Lamia Hadrich Belguith (Faculty of Economic Sciences and Management of Sfax, Tunisia) Sattar Izwaini (Abu Dhabi University, UAE) Mohammed Kayed (Beni-Sueif University, Egypt) Shereen khoja (Pacific University, USA) Petra Maier-Meyer (FAST, Germany) Farid Meziane (Salford University, UK) Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton, UK) Farhad Oroumchian (University of Wollongong in Dubai, UAE) Ahmed Rafea (American University in Cairo, Egypt) Doaa Samy (Universidad Carlos III Madrid, Spain) Otakar Smrz (Charles University, Czech Republic) Abdelhadi Soudi (Ecole Nationale de l'Industrie Minérale, Morocco) Hissam Tawfik (Liverpool Hope University, UK) Henry Thompson (University of Edinburgh, UK) Imed Zitouni (IBM, USA) Conference URL www.fci.cu.edu.eg/INFOS2008/ Important Dates Full Paper submission due: 30 December 2007 Notification of acceptance: 30 January 2008 Camera ready submissions: 15 February 2008 For Further Information Prof. Khaled Shaalan, kshaalan at fci-cu.edu.eg 28 March, 2008 Add to Calendar ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs From sylvester.osu at wanadoo.fr Sun Nov 18 16:25:31 2007 From: sylvester.osu at wanadoo.fr (Sylvester Osu) Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2007 17:25:31 +0100 Subject: Conference in Tours Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, The program for the conference "Construction of identity and the process of identification" taking place on the 29th & 30th November 2007 at the Université François Rabelais, Tours (France), is now available at http://langrep.univ-tours.fr With the compliments of the season Sylvester Osu Chair, Organizing committee From hougaard at language.sdu.dk Mon Nov 19 14:53:54 2007 From: hougaard at language.sdu.dk (Anders Hougaard) Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 15:53:54 +0100 Subject: LCM3: 3rd cfp Message-ID: CONFERENCE: LANGUAGE, CULTURE AND MIND 3 Odense, 14-16th July 2008 3RD CALL FOR INDIVIDUAL PAPERS NEW! LCM III satellite event: Empirical Methods in Cognitive Linguistics, 7-11th July. 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. Description of the LCM conference series: see bottom. 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 1, 2007 (Extended) * Notification for Theme Sessions : November 1, 2007 (Extended) * First call for Individual Papers and Posters: September 1, 2007 * Second call for Individual Papers and Posters: October 1, 2007 * Third call for Individual Papers and Posters: November 1, 2007 (Delayed) * Deadline for Individual Paper and Poster submissions: January 1, 2008 * Deadline for submitting papers for theme sessions: February 1, 2008 * Notification for Individual Paper, Theme Session paper and Poster submissions: March 1, 2008 SUBMISSION 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 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) Meredith Williams (Johns Hopkins University) CONFERENCE WEBSITE: http://www.lcm.sdu.dk NEW! THEME SESSIONS: Titel: "Social Construction, Psychological Discourse and Neuroimaging" Organizer: Adam Wallwork Titel: "'Doing Science' as a Collaborative Accomplishment of the Mind as Discourse-in-Interaction" Organizer: Gudrun Ziegler Titel: "Lectal and Multilingual Variation: Cognitive and Social Dimensions" Organizers: Raphael Berthele, Dirk Geeraerts, Gitte Kristiansen, Yves Peirsman Titel: "Language, Sociality, and Mind: Lessons from a neurodegenerative disorder" Organizer: Andrea W. Mates Titel:"Bridging the Gap in Cultural Studies: From meaning construction to (inter-)cultural communicative competence" Organizer: Izaskun Elorza & Ovid Carbonell Titel: "Intersubjectivity: Between Personal Experience and Social Life" Organizers: Timothy P. Racine & Jordan Zlatev Titel: "Situating understanding, perception, in social interaction" Organizer: Domenic Berducci Titel: "Chinese Language, Cultural Keywords and Ethno-philosophy" Organizer: Adrian Tien Titel: "(Cross-Cultural Communication)" Organizer: Bert Peeters Titel: "Communicating and Interpreting Policy Meaning" Organizer: Alan Cienki & Dvora Yanow Titel: "Language and Cultural Change in Immigrant and Aboriginal Communities: Transformations at the culture, language, and mind interface" Organizers: Michael Chandler & Cynthia Lightfoot Titel: "Social Life and Meaning Construction" Organizer Paul Thibault Titel: "Discourse and psychology: Emotion, knowledge and institution interaction" Organizer: Jonathan Potter Titel: "Situated, distributed cognition and social structure of shared task performance in high-risk workplaces" Organizer: Lisa Loloma Froholdt Titel: "Social Interaction, Cognition, and Intersubjectivity" Organizers: Thomas Wiben Jensen, Anders R Hougaard & Gitte R Hougaard NEW! SATELLITE EVENT LCM III satellite event: Empirical Methods in Cognitive Linguistics, 7-11th July Organizers: Monica Gonzalez Marquez,Raymond Becker, Anders R Hougaard, Gitte R Hougaard and Todd Oakley More Information follows later! 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 Anne Salazar Orvig Meredith Williams Todd Oakley Jonathan Potter Robin Wooffitt Alan Cienki Cornellia Müller Ewa Dabrowska Edy Veneziano Shaun Gallagher Edwin Hutchins Johannes Wagner THE LCM CONFERENCES: The goals of LCM conferences are to contribute to situating the study of language in a contemporary interdisciplinary dialogue, and to promote a better integration of cognitive and cultural perspectives in empirical and theoretical studies of language. Human natural languages are biologically based, cognitively motivated, affectively rich, socially shared, grammatically organized symbolic systems. They provide the principal semiotic means for the complexity and diversity of human cultural life. As has long been recognized, no single discipline or methodology is sufficient to capture all the dimensions of this complex and multifaceted phenomenon, which lies at the heart of what it is to be human. Theories of cognition and perception, and their neural foundations, are central to many current approaches in language science. However, a genuinely integrative perspective requires that attention also be paid to the foundations of cultural life in social interaction, empathy, mimesis, intersubjectivity, dialogicality, normativity, agentivity and narrativity. Significant theoretical, methodological and empirical advancements across relevant disciplines now provide a realistic basis for such a broadened perspective. This conference will articulate and discuss approaches to human natural language and to diverse genres of language activity which aim to integrate its cultural, social, cognitive, affective and bodily foundations. We call for contributions from scholars and scientists in anthropology, biology, linguistics, philosophy, psychology, semiotics, semantics, discourse analysis, cognitive and neuroscience, who wish both to share their insights and findings, and learn from other disciplines. Preference will be given to submissions which emphasize interdisciplinarity, the interaction between culture, mind and language, and/or multi-methodological approaches in language sciences. ***** Anders R. Hougaard Assistant professor, PhD Center for Social Practises and Cognition (SoPraCon) Institute of Language and Communication University of Southern Denmark, Odense hougaard at language.sdu.dk Phone: +45 65503154 Fax: + 45 65932483. From antti.arppe at helsinki.fi Mon Nov 19 15:42:30 2007 From: antti.arppe at helsinki.fi (Antti Arppe) Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 17:42:30 +0200 Subject: CfP: 3rd Quantitative Investigations in Theoretical Linguistics (QITL-3) Message-ID: [Apologies for cross-postings] 1st Call for Papers: 3rd Quantitative Investigations in Theoretical Linguistics (QITL-3) 2-4 June 2008 Helsinki, Finland Invited speakers: Michael Cysouw, Max Planck Institute/Leipzig Gary Marcus, New York University Richard Sproat, University of Illinois, Urbana/Champaign ----- General and background: The Linguistic Association of Finland (SKY) in association with the Department of General Linguistics at the University of Helsinki will be co-hosting the Third Workshop on Quantitative Investigations in Theoretical Linguistics (QITL-3), to be held on Mon-Wed, 2-4 June, 2008, in Helsinki, Finland. The official website of the workshop is to be found at: http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/sky/tapahtumat/qitl/ This workshop is both a continuation of the two previous QITL events held in Osnabrück, Germany (http://www.cogsci.uni-osnabrueck.de/~qitl/), and the latest in the sequence of summer symposia arranged by SKY (http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/sky/tapahtumia.shtml). ----- Call for Papers: Since the turn of the millenium, the application of quantitative methods on empirical data, with increasing sophistication and complexity, has become widely accepted as central in the development and testing of theoretical hypotheses concerning the nature of natural language and its processing by human beings. However, it is also increasingly recognized that quantitative investigations should be theoretically motivated and anchored, in addition to that linguistic theories and models should be modified or even fundamentally revised, if not also sometimes altogether refuted, to properly reflect the reality of quantitative results. Simply put, quantitative methods and theoretical developments should mutually feed and influence each other. As with the previous two QITL meetings, we invite researchers from all linguistic frameworks engaged in quantitative investigations of theoretical linguistic questions to submit abstracts for 30 minute talks (plus 10 minutes of discussion). The preferred focus is on how one has been able to address a theoretically motivated linguistic question with some quantitative method(s); computational and exploratory approaches may also be of interest if they lead to or shed light on theoretical issues. Furthermore, we welcome studies concerning all media of language use, whether spoken, written or electronic in form. Relevant topics include (but are not by any means limited to) models of lexical, syntactic or pragmatic/prosodic preferences, the nature of linguistic rules/regularities and the lexicon (e.g. morphological productivity), the relationship between language use, linguistic judgements and/or indirect data on language processing, cross-linguistic typological tendencies, first and second language acquisition, diachronic language development, and so forth. Our goal is to continue the workshoppy and conversational form as well as the theoretically and methodologically pluralistic atmosphere of the previous QITL events. Abstracts should be at the maximum 3 pages long (A4, with 12 point Times New Roman or equivalent font and single spacing), including all tables, figures and references (corresponding to approximately 1000-1500 words). Electronic submission (in either PDF, PostScript or RTF format) by e-mail to "qitl-3 at helsinki.fi" is strongly preferred. Each submission will be peer-reviewed by (at least) two members of the program committee. The deadline for submissions is Monday, 11 February 2008. ----- Important Dates: Announcement: 18 October 2007 1st Call for Papers: 19 November 2007 (Monday) Submission deadline: 11 February 2008 (Monday) Notification of acceptance/rejection: week 11/2008 (beginning of March) Event: 2-4 June 2008 (Monday-Wednesday) ----- Program committee: Harald Baayen, University of Alberta Marco Baroni, University of Trento/CIMeC Peter Bosch, University of Osnabrück Michael Cysouw, Max Planck Institute/Leipzig Walter Daelemans, University of Antwerp Stefan Evert, University of Osnabrück Stefan Th. Gries, University of California, Santa Barbara Stefan Grondelaers, Radboud University Nijmegen Jennifer Hay, University of Canterbury Timo Honkela, Helsinki University of Technology Juhani Järvikivi, Max Planck Institute/Nijmegen Brigitte Krenn, Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (ÖFAI) Jonas Kuhn, University of Potsdam Merja Kytö, University of Uppsala Roger Levy, University of California, San Diego Anke Lüdeling, Humboldt University in Berlin Elena Maslova, Bielefeld University Detmar Meurers, Ohio State University Matti Miestamo, University of Helsinki Jussi Niemi, University of Joensuu Martti Vainio, University of Helsinki Yi Xu, University College London ----- Organizing committee: Antti Arppe, University of Helsinki Urpo Nikanne, Åbo Akademi University Kaius Sinnemäki, University of Helsinki ----- Contact information: Contact Email: "qitl-3 at helsinki.fi" Meeting URL: http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/sky/tapahtumat/qitl/ ----- From llshuang at reading.ac.uk Mon Nov 19 18:08:25 2007 From: llshuang at reading.ac.uk (llshuang at reading.ac.uk) Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 18:08:25 +0000 Subject: The syntax and pragmatics of anaphora/new re-issue Message-ID: Dear Colleagues - At the embarassment of self-advertisement, may I take the liberty to let you know that my mymonograph, which develops a pragmatic theory of anaphora, has recently been re-issued in paperback by Cambridge UP. I attach a CUP flyer below. Hope the book will be of interest to your students and libraries. Sorry for this intrusive email and many thanks, Yan. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- New re-issue/2007 Cambridge University Press The Syntax and Pragmatics of Anaphora (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics) Yan Huang This book develops a pragmatic theory of anapohora within the neo-Gricean framework of conversational implicature. Chomsky claims that anaphora reflects underlying principles of innate Universal Grammar, and the view is widely held that only syntactic and semantic factors are crucial to intrasential anaphora. Yan Huang questions the basis of the Government and Binding approach and argues that syntax and pragmatics are interconnected in determining many anaphoric processes. Furthermore, he proposes that the extent to which syntax and pragmatics interact varies typologically. There exists a class of language (such as Chinese, Japanese and Korean)in which pragmatics plays a central role that in familiar European languages is alleged to be played by grammar. Yan Huang's pragmatic theory has far reaching implications for this important issue in theoretical linguistics. Yan Huang (PhD, Cambridge; DPhil, Oxford) is Professor of Theoretical Linguistics at the University of Reading. He has taught linguistics previously at the University of Cambridge and the University of Oxford. His books include _Anaphora: A Cross-linguistic Study_(2000) and _Pragmatics_(2007). He has also published a number of articles and reviews in major international journals of linguistics. '[A]n excellent contribution to the literature on anaphora, pragmatics, and the grammar-pragmatics interface... H[uang]'s book presents a wealth of data, interesting analyses, and intriguing questions for further research.' _Language_ '[T]he book makes a valuable addition to the literature on anaphora, and will prove a rich source of observations, insights and future research topics ... [I]t also makes a significant theoretical contribution to the development of a pragmatic account of certain aspects of anaphora.' _Journal of Linguistics_ 'Huang's outstanding book not only puts forth an explicit theory of the pragmatic factors involved, but can also be compared in rigor and coverage with any available accounts of anaphora.' _Journal of Chinese Linguistics_ 'Huang ... qualif[ies] as one of that rare variety of linguists who is conversant with both the technicalities of syntactic theory and the subtleties of pragmatics. By considering the syntax and pragmatics of anaphora ..., Huang's book makes a significant contribution to the boundary dispute between these two branches of the study of language.' _Journal of Pragmatics_ September 2007 ISBN 0-521-03960-6 (Paperback) -- New book Huang, Y. (2007). Pragmatics. Oxford University Press. Available now through all good bookshops, or direct from Oxford University Press at: http://www.oup.co.uk/isbn/0-19-924368-9 From tgivon at smtp.uoregon.edu Thu Nov 22 02:20:31 2007 From: tgivon at smtp.uoregon.edu (Tom Givon) Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 19:20:31 -0700 Subject: job announcement Message-ID: POSSIBLE JOB OPENING An established linguistics program in Mexico is looking for a norteÑo person to teach in a Masters program tilted towards functionally- and typologically-oriented linguistics, field work, and indigenous languages. This is a good opportunity for a fresh PhD who is interested in the indigenous languages of Meso-America. The salary is low by norteÑo standards (ca. $2,000.00 per month, with yearly incrementation; but incl. free housing!). They would like someone with high motivation and a commitment to 4-5 years (at least) of work in Mexico. There is probably a possibility of longer-term employment. If you are interested, or if know someone else who may fit the profile, do contact me (or let them contact me) at . Peace, TG From Vyv.Evans at brighton.ac.uk Tue Nov 27 09:44:02 2007 From: Vyv.Evans at brighton.ac.uk (Vyvyan Evans) Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 09:44:02 -0000 Subject: ***EXTENDED DEADLINE*** Language, Communication and Cognition Conference (Brighton 2008) Message-ID: *************EXTENDED ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE*************** Due to multiple requests for further time to submit abstracts, the deadline for submission to the Conference on Language, Communication and Cognition (Brighton Aug 4-7 2008) has been extended until Sunday 2nd December 2007. ******************************************************************************* 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: December 2nd 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 c.j.hart at herts.ac.uk Tue Nov 27 16:58:41 2007 From: c.j.hart at herts.ac.uk (Christopher Hart) Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 16:58:41 +0000 Subject: Extended deadline for Meaning Construction in Critical Discourse Analysis Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, ************************ Following author requests the abstract deadline for Meaning Construction in Critical Discourse Analysis (Theme session at CADAAD'08) has been extended to ***10 DECEMBER 2007*** Call for papers below. ************************ Critical discourse analysis (CDA) identifies three analytic stages: description, interpretation and explanation. Halliday's systemic functional linguistics has become synonymous with description-stage analysis of representation in text. And at the explanation stage, CDA is associated with Marxism and Critical Theory. Very little work, however, has been carried out at the interpretation stage, which is concerned with discourse processing. Discourse processing, of course, involves meaning construction as understood in cognitive linguistics or cognitive pragmatics. Cognitive linguistics is a broad paradigm subsuming a number of distinct theories and thus offering a range of potential analytical tools to CDA. But whilst CDA has made use of conceptual metaphor theory, it has not recognised cognitive linguistic approaches to discourse and the input they provide at the interpretation-stage. Similarly, cognitive approaches to pragmatics have not been recognised in CDA. This methodologically-oriented session then, invites papers addressing meaning construction in critical discourse analysis from the perspectives of cognitive linguistics and cognitive pragmatics. As such, papers applying conceptual blending theory, construction grammar, discourse space theory, frame negotiation, mental space theory or relevance theory, for example, are particularly welcome. Please send abstracts of no longer than 400 words to c.j.hart at herts.ac.uk by *10 DECEMBER 2007*. Authors should include their name, affiliation and email address. Successful authors will be notified via email by *15 February 2008*. For details on CADAAD'08 please visit http://cadaad.org/cadaad08 -- Christopher Hart Lecturer in English Language and Communication School of Humanities University of Hertfordshire www.hartcda.org.uk From c.j.hart at herts.ac.uk Tue Nov 27 17:12:42 2007 From: c.j.hart at herts.ac.uk (Christopher Hart) Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 17:12:42 +0000 Subject: Extended deadline for Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis across Disciplines 2008 Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, *********************** Following author requests the abstract deadline for Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis across Disciplines 2008 (CADAAD'08) has been extended to ***10 DECEMBER 2007*** Call for papers below *********************** Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines (CADAAD) is an ongoing project which aims to foster and promote cross-disciplinary communication in critical discourse research. Following the success of the project’s first international conference hosted at the University of East Anglia in 2006, we are pleased to announce the second international conference CADAAD’08, to be hosted at the *University of Hertfordshire, 10-11 July 2008*. In line with the general aims of the project, we welcome papers both from CDA and neighbouring disciplines such as communication studies, media studies, narrative studies, sociology, philosophy and political science. Abstracts are invited which assess the state of the art and offer new directions for critical discourse research. By new directions we mean i) theoretical/methodological development and/or ii) analysis of contemporary discourses. Theoretical/methodological frameworks sourced from all areas of the social and cognitive sciences are welcome. Papers exploring the following frameworks in linguistics are particularly welcome: * Cognitive Linguistics (Blending, Construction Grammars, Framing, Metaphor) * Corpus Linguistics (Corpus Construction, Data Extraction, Semantic Prosody) * Pragmatics (Presupposition, Relevance Theory, Speech Acts) * Systemic Functional Linguistics (Cohesion and Coherence, Grammatical Metaphor) Analyses of all contemporary discourses are welcome, including those within applied and professional areas such as business, education, environment, health, and law. Papers applying critical analysis to discourses used in the construction of 'minority' vs. 'normality' and other dichotomies are especially welcome. Areas of particular interest include: * Discourse on gender * Discourse of International Law * Discourse on immigration * Discourse of the war on terror * European Union discourse * United Nations and foreign aid discourse Reflecting our commitment to multiplicity in critical approaches to discourse analysis, the following plenary speakers have confirmed their participation: * Professor Piotr Cap (University of Łódź, Poland) * Professor Jonathan Charteris-Black (University of West England, UK) * Professor Teun van Dijk (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain) * Professor Ruth Wodak (Lancaster University, UK) Abstracts of no longer than 400 words should be submitted as MS Word attachment to discourse at cadaad.org by *10 DECEMBER 2007*. Authors should include their name, affiliation and email address. Successful authors will be notified via email by *15 February 2008*. Papers will be allocated twenty minutes plus ten minutes for questions. Selected proceedings will be published. Please visit http://cadaad.org/cadaad08 for further conference details. -- Christopher Hart Lecturer in English Language and Communication School of Humanities University of Hertfordshire www.hartcda.org.uk From francisco.ruizdemendoza at unirioja.es Wed Nov 28 19:43:08 2007 From: francisco.ruizdemendoza at unirioja.es (Francisco Ruiz de Mendoza) Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 20:43:08 +0100 Subject: AESLA 2008, Almera, Spain (A BSTRACT DEADLINE: December 20, 2007) Message-ID: EXTENDED ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo Due to multiple requests for further time to submit abstracts, the deadline for submission to the Conference From Applied Linguistics to the Linguistics of the Mind(April 3-5, 2008. Almería, Spain) has been extended until: Thursday 20th December 2007. oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo XXVI AESLA International Conference - From Applied Linguistics to the Linguistics of the Mind: Issues, Practices and Trends. University of Almería, April 3-5 2008, Almería, Spain Website: http://www.aesla.uji.es/congresos/ The aim of this conference is to provide a forum capable of capturing the multidisciplinary nature of most of the research on Applied Linguistics. And thus, to be a commonplace for researchers from different disciplines and subdisciplines whose priority objective is the study of language in all its manifestations. With the title "FROM APPLIED LINGUISTICS TO THE LINGUISTICS OF THE MIND: ISSUES, PRACTICES AND TRENDS" we intend to bring to the memory of all the participants that there is a current issue that has been extensively debated but it is still an advanced research field, that is, the connection between language and mind. Debates about this topic have been controversial and have turned into debates on metaphysics, epistemology, metaphilosophy, etc. But here we intend to reach them from the scientific approach of the linguistic capacity and the mind, and the analysis of its application in different issues, practices and trends. As a whole, we wish the Conference to constitute an active forum for exchange of opinions and ideas, thesis formulation and expositions, just as the start of new trends and lines of investigation on the cardinal points that define the main body of research on Applied Linguistics. The Conference will cover the following areas: • Language acquisition • Language teaching • Language for specific purposes • Language psychology, child language and psycolinguistics • Sociolinguistics • Pragmatics • Discourse analysis • Corpus linguistics, computational linguistics and linguistic engineering • Lexicology and lexicography • Translation and interpreting *There will be a special session on the "European Higher Education Area". The following distinguished scholars will be giving keynote lectures relating to the conference themes: • Christopher Sinha, Portsmouth University, GB • Claire Kramsch, University of California at Berkeley, USA • Hans C. Boas, University of Texas at Austin, USA • José Luis Otal, Universitat Jaume I, Castellón, Spain • Lavinia Merilini Barbaressi, Università di Pisa, Italy • Manuel Carreiras, Univesidad de La Laguna, Spain • Marco Casonato, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Italy • Pedro Chamizo Domínguez, Universidad de Málaga, Spain • Raúl Ávila, Colégio de México, México • Marcelo Berthier, Centro de Investigación Médico-Sanitaria de la Universidad de Málaga, Spain Submission of abstracts: Submissions are solicited for general sessions, round tables and poster sessions. 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 and the kind of presentation (poster, paper or round table). -Abstracts should be submitted through the following website: http://www.aesla.uji.es/congresos/en/proposalsubmission Reviewers will evaluate the contributions and will contact the authors regarding acceptance or rejection. Final versions (aprox. 2500 words) will be required to authors within a month from acceptance for publication. oooooooooooo ABSTRACT DEADLINE: December 20th 2007 oooooooooooo For full details please consult the conference website: http://www.aesla.uji.es/congresos/en/ The conference email address is aesla at ual.es Organisers: The conference is organised by AESLA (Spanish Applied Linguistics Association) and the Department of English and German Philology at the University of Almería with the collaboration of the Departments of Spanish and Latin Philology, the Department of French, General Linguistics and Literary Theory, and the Department of Psychology and Education. Conference chair Carmen M. Bretones Callejas Dpto. Filología Inglesa y Alemana Universidad de Almería Ctra. Sacramento, s/n La Cañada de San Urbano 04120 Almería (Spain) Tf. +34 950 01 54 74 Fax. +34 950 01 54 75 ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo From francisco.ruizdemendoza at unirioja.es Wed Nov 28 19:48:37 2007 From: francisco.ruizdemendoza at unirioja.es (=?iso-8859-1?Q?=22Francisco_Jos=E9_Ruiz_De_Mendoza_Ib=E1=F1ez=22?=) Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 20:48:37 +0100 Subject: AESLA 2008, Almera, Spain (ABS TRACT DEADLINE: December 20, 2007) Message-ID: [Sorry for multiple postings]EXTENDED ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINEoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooDueto multiple requests for further time to submit abstracts, the deadlinefor submission to the Conference From Applied Linguistics to theLinguistics of the Mind(April 3-5, 2008. Almería, Spain) has beenextended until:Thursday 20th December 2007.ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooXXVI AESLA International Conference - From Applied Linguistics to the Linguistics of the Mind: Issues, Practices and Trends.University of Almería, April 3-5 2008, Almería, SpainWebsite: http://www.aesla.uji.es/congresos/Theaim of this conference is to provide a forum capable of capturing themultidisciplinary nature of most of the research on AppliedLinguistics. And thus, to be a commonplace for researchers fromdifferent disciplines and subdisciplines whose priority objective isthe study of language in all its manifestations.With the title "FROM APPLIED LINGUISTICS TO THE LINGUISTICS OFTHE MIND: ISSUES, PRACTICES AND TRENDS" we intend to bring to thememory of all the participants that there is a current issue that hasbeen extensively debated but it is still an advanced research field,that is, the connection between language and mind. Debates about thistopic have been controversial and have turned into debates onmetaphysics, epistemology, metaphilosophy, etc. But here we intend toreach them from the scientific approach of the linguistic capacity andthe mind, and the analysis of its application in different issues,practices and trends. As a whole, we wish the Conference to constitutean active forum for exchange of opinions and ideas, thesis formulationand expositions, just as the start of new trends and lines ofinvestigation on the cardinal points that define the main body ofresearch on Applied Linguistics.The Conference will cover the following areas:•    Language acquisition•    Language teaching•    Language for specific purposes•    Language psychology, child language and psycolinguistics•    Sociolinguistics•    Pragmatics•    Discourse analysis•    Corpus linguistics, computational linguistics and  linguistic engineering•    Lexicology and lexicography•    Translation and interpreting*There will be a special session on the "European Higher Education Area". The following distinguished scholars will be giving keynote lectures relating to the conference themes:•    Christopher Sinha, Portsmouth University, GB•    Claire Kramsch, University of California at Berkeley, USA •    Hans C. Boas, University of Texas at Austin, USA•    José Luis Otal, Universitat Jaume I, Castellón, Spain •    Lavinia Merilini Barbaressi, Università di Pisa, Italy•    Manuel Carreiras, Univesidad de La Laguna, Spain•    Marco Casonato, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Italy•    Pedro Chamizo Domínguez, Universidad de Málaga, Spain•    Raúl Ávila, Colégio de México, México•    Marcelo Berthier, Centro de Investigación Médico-Sanitaria de la Universidad de Málaga, SpainSubmission of abstracts:Submissions are solicited for general sessions, round tables and poster sessions.  The abstract guidelines for all sessions areas follows:-Abstracts should not exceed 500 words - references are excluded from this count-Abstracts should clearly indicate a presentation title and the kind of presentation (poster, paper or round table).-Abstracts should be submitted through the following website: http://www.aesla.uji.es/congresos/en/proposalsubmissionReviewerswill evaluate the contributions and will contact the authors regarding acceptance or rejection. Final versions (aprox. 2500 words) will berequired to authors within a month from acceptance for publication.oooooooooooo ABSTRACT DEADLINE: December 20th 2007 ooooooooooooFor full details please consult the conference website: http://www.aesla.uji.es/congresos/en/The conference email address is aesla at ual.esOrganisers:Theconference is organised by AESLA (Spanish Applied LinguisticsAssociation) and the Department of English and German Philology at theUniversity of Almería with the collaboration of the Departments ofSpanish and Latin Philology, the Department of French, GeneralLinguistics and Literary Theory, and the Department of Psychology andEducation.Conference chairCarmen M. Bretones CallejasDpto. Filología Inglesa y AlemanaUniversidad de AlmeríaCtra. Sacramento, s/nLa Cañada de San Urbano04120 Almería (Spain)Tf.   +34 950 01 54 74Fax. +34 950 01 54 75ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo From fg-fgw at uva.nl Fri Nov 2 12:28:02 2007 From: fg-fgw at uva.nl (fg-fgw) Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2007 13:28:02 +0100 Subject: First announcement ICFG13 and IPCFG4 2008 Message-ID: First Announcement ICFG13 13th International Conference on Functional Grammar University of Westminster, London, Great Britain 3-6 September 2008 preceded by IPCFG4 4th International Postgraduate Course on Functional Grammar University of Westminster, London, Great Britain 1-3 September 2008 Background Since 1984, there has been a highly successful biennial series of International Conferences on Functional Grammar (ICFG). The first twelve conferences took place in 1984 - ICFG1 Amsterdam - UvA 1986 - ICFG2 Antwerp 1988 - ICFG3 Amsterdam - VU 1990 - ICFG4 Copenhagen 1992 - ICFG5 Antwerp 1994 - ICFG6 York 1996 - ICFG7 C?rdoba 1998 - ICFG8 Amsterdam - VU 2000 - ICFG9 Madrid - UNED 2002 - ICFG10 Amsterdam - UvA 2004 - ICFG11 Gij?n 2006 - ICFG12 S?o Jos? do Rio Preto The aim of ICFG is to further elaborate the model of Functional Grammar (FG) that was originally proposed by the late Simon Dik. A full treatment of FG may be found in: Dik, Simon C. 1997, The Theory of Functional Grammar. 2 Vols. Ed. by Kees Hengeveld. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. The most recent version of FG is called Functional Discourse Grammar. A sketch of this model may be found in: Hengeveld, Kees & J. Lachlan Mackenzie, 'Functional Discourse Grammar', In: Keith Brown (ed), Encyclopedia of Language and Lingistics, 2nd Edition. Oxford: Elsevier, downloadable from www.functionalgrammar.com/ ? Publications ? FDG The venue ICFG13 will be hosted by the Harrow School of Computer Science, University of Westminster, at its Harrow Campus (Watford Road, Nothwick Park, Harrow HA1 3TP London, Great Britain). Information about quality, affordable, on campus accommodation at Harrow Campus will be provided in the second circular as well as on our website www.functionalgrammar.com Local organization The local organizing committee consists of Maria Chondrogianni (Chair, Harrow School of Computer Science), Dr Simon Courtenage (School of Informatics), Dr Vassiliki Bouki (Harrow School of Computer Science), Dr Louise Sylvester (School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Languages). The Conference Programme Although the conference programme will host all possible topics related to the further elaboration of F(D)G, the conference will start on Wednesday afternoon 4 September with a special workshop on Computational Applications of Functional Grammar. The length of the papers will be 30 minutes followed by another 10 minutes of discussion. The language of the conference will be English. Apart from the workshop and general sessions, there will be ample room for poster presentations. Programme committee The board of the Functional Grammar Foundation (FGF) has appointed the following programme committee for ICFG12: Marize Dall'Aglio-Hattner (president), Maria Chondrogianni and Kees Hengeveld. The programme committee will evaluate the anonymous abstracts and decide on their inclusion in the conference programme. In case a member of the programme committee submits an abstract, he/she will not evaluate his/her own abstract, but a member of the board of FGF will step in to evaluate the abstract of the committee member involved. Abstracts Given the role the quality of the abstract plays in the selection procedure, each abstract should contain at least the following items: a clearly defined and well-motivated research question; the crucial examples illustrating the relevance of the research question; and the main conclusions the paper arrives at. Abstracts should have a length of approximately 1000 words, i.e. roughly 3 pages, and should not contain the name of the author. References to the literature cited should be given. References containing the name of the author may also be given but will be suppressed before the abstract is sent to the programme committee. Please indicate in the accompanying message whether you want to present a paper or a poster. The deadline for the submission of abstracts of papers and posters is 1 February 2008. Abstracts should be submitted electronically to the international secretary of the FGF at fg-fgw at uva.nl Pre-Conference Course In view of the success of the previous pre-conference courses, an intensive course will be organized in the days preceding the conference to enable linguists unfamiliar with the theory to prepare for the conference. The course will be organized with participants at PhD level in mind. The Fourth International Postgraduate Course on Functional Grammar will focus on the Functional Discourse Grammar model and will also prepare the students for the special conference theme. Please inform your PhD students and colleagues unfamiliar with Functional (Discourse) Grammar of this possibility of getting acquainted with the theory and its applications. The conference and course website offers an online information form, which can be send in to receive future information by those colleagues and students who are not on our mailing list. Further details about registration will be provided in the second circular and on our website www.functionalgrammar.com/ Conference Fee Information on Conference fees will be posted in the second circular, to be published in December 2007. Registration The second circular will contain all details about how to register for ICFG13 and IPCFG4. This information will also be made available on our website www.functionalgrammar.com/ Accommodation Quality cheap on campus accommodation will be offered to all delegates and their guests. More information will be provided in the Conference's second circular. Website All information concerning ICFG13 and IPCFG4 will be made available at www.functionalgrammar.com/. How we try to reach you All information concerning ICFG13 and IPCFG4 is being sent out by email to those who have expressed their interest in the past. If you do not wish to receive any further information, please let us know. How you can reach us The email address for all matters related to the conference programme is: fg-fgw at uva.nl From eitkonen at utu.fi Mon Nov 5 13:58:22 2007 From: eitkonen at utu.fi (Esa Itkonen) Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2007 15:58:22 +0200 Subject: review of Givon (2005) Message-ID: Dear FUNKNETters: In accordance with a wish expressed by a few people, my review of Givon (2005) is now available,namely on my homepage. Thank you Gwen, Hans, Monica, Anders, John, and Betty. (But notice also Aya Katz's review in Studies in Language 31:3). I see myself obligated to agree with Martin Haspelmath (and not for the first time): Let's all go digital! Esa Homepage: http://users.utu.fi/eitkonen From gert.desutter at hogent.be Mon Nov 5 20:34:46 2007 From: gert.desutter at hogent.be (Gert De Sutter) Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2007 21:34:46 +0100 Subject: CFP: Discourse and Grammar 2008 (Ghent, Belgium) [EXTENDED DEADLINE] Message-ID: *Illocutionary force, information structure and subordination between discourse and grammar* Ghent University ? University College Ghent May 23-24, 2008 Invited speakers: C. Lehmann, Universit?t Erfurt, Germany J.C. Verstraete, KULeuven, Belgium A. Verhagen, Leiden University, The Netherlands Call for Papers (*extended deadline: December 1, 2007*) (French version: http://liquid.hogent.be/~disgram/enfrancais/index.htm) Since Matthiessen & Thompson (1988), it has been widely assumed that discourse structure and complex sentence structure have much in common and that the latter is a more grammaticalised way of representing relationships between states of affairs than the former. Both structures consist of a network of relationships between what we could call, avoiding too strong a terminological bias, more and less prominent states of affairs (background/foreground; nucleus/satellite; salient/non-salient; etc.). The issue which this conference wishes to address is the grammatical, pragmatic and semantic status of less prominent states of affairs in discourse and complex sentence structure and more in particular the interaction between grammatical properties of subordination, speech act properties and clausal information structure. In complex sentence structure, less prominent states of affairs are expressed in subordinate clauses, which are widely, but not unanimously, assumed to lack both speech act properties and information structure (cf. Lambrecht 1994; Cristofaro 2003). There are, however, some notable exceptions, viz. clauses which seem to have the grammatical properties of subordinate clauses, but are prominent in the sense that they provide the core of information of the sentence as a whole (Biber 1988). On the other hand, less prominent states of affairs operating as independent clauses in discourse structure, are not usually thought of as being deprived of speech act properties or information structure. It remains to be seen whether this is a tenable position. Conference papers are expected to address one or more of the following questions or another topic within the realm of the conference theme: - Is discourse structure best analysed as binary (salient/non-salient; foreground/background) or as a continuum and what are the criteria? - Is it feasible to describe the relationship between discourse structure and complex sentence structure as iconic? - Is it either necessary or feasible to distinguish between different types of less prominent information (Brandt 1996) such as subsidiary information (Nebeninformation) vs. background information (Hintergrundinformation)? Do we perhaps need to distinguish more types than these? - What is the exact distribution of illocutionary force in discourse? Are less prominent but independent states of affairs endowed with illocutionary force? - What is the role of discourse particles and connective devices in the organisation of the discourse in more and less prominent states of affairs? - Is clausal information structure a property specific to independent clauses? - Should information structure be viewed as a single partition of information within a given utterance? According to some authors, complex sentence structures have only one information structure partition (cf. Mathesius 1975, Komagata 2003), whereas others assume that certain complex sentence types have more than one (Brandt 1996). - If clausal information structure is absent from subordinate clauses, why do syntactic manifestations of information structure (dislocation, clefting) sometimes appear in subordinate clauses? - How can the interaction between clausal information structure and discourse information structure (cf. the difference between clausal topic and discourse topic) be described in a more comprehensive way? - Is there historical evidence of the ?loss? of speech act properties or information structure? Can this be linked to a diachronic development from independent to dependent clauses, and if so, is it indeed feasible to describe this process as grammaticalisation (cf. Fischer 2007)? Comparative papers focussing on European languages are particularly welcome and will be favoured during the review process. Anonymous abstracts should be max. 2 pages long and be sent as a Word (.rtf) file to: bart.defrancq at hogent.be before *1 December 2007*. Abstract and paper should be in English or French. Information about the author(s) should be given in the e-mail the abstract is attached to. Notification of acceptance is scheduled to 1 January 2008. More information: http://www.hogent.be/dg2008 Programme committee (provisional): Christelle Cosme (University of Louvain, UCL) Hubert Cuyckens (University of Leuven, KULeuven) Bart Defrancq (University College Ghent) Liesbeth Degand (University of Louvain, UCL) Gert De Sutter (University College Ghent) Pascale Hadermann (Ghent University) Anne-Marie Simon-Vandenbergen (Ghent University) Els Tobback (Ghent University) Dominique Willems (Ghent University) Organising committee (provisional): Joost Buysschaert (University College Ghent) Hubert Cuyckens (University of Leuven, KULeuven) Bart Defrancq (University College Ghent) Liesbeth Degand (University of Louvain, UCL) Gert De Sutter (University College Ghent) Gudrun Rawoens (University of Louvain, UCL/Ghent University) Els Tobback (Ghent University) Dominique Willems (Ghent University) From francisco.ruizdemendoza at unirioja.es Mon Nov 5 23:10:58 2007 From: francisco.ruizdemendoza at unirioja.es (Francisco Ruiz de Mendoza) Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 00:10:58 +0100 Subject: CFP: AESLA 2008 (deadline December 21st) In-Reply-To: <2d7665d60711051508r380f1e85s16bba6f22e0556a6@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: http://www.aesla.uji.es/congresos/en/main_en SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS (Excuses for multiple posting) XXVI AESLA INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE: "FROM APPLIED LINGUISTICS TO THE LINGUISTICS OF THE MIND: ISSUES, PRACTICES AND TRENDS" Dear Colleague, The Spanish Applied Linguistics Association(AESLA) is pleased to announce its 26th Annual Conference to be held at the University of Almer?a (Spain) on April 3-5, 2008. This International Conference will count on the presence of the following distinguished speakers: - Christopher Sinha, Portsmouth University, GB - Claire Kramsch, University of California at Berkeley, USA - Hans C. Boas, University of Texas at Austin, USA - Jos? Luis Otal, Universitat Jaume I, Castell?n, Spain - Lavinia Merilini Barbaressi, Universit? di Pisa, Italy - Manuel Carreiras, Univesidad de La Laguna, Spain - Marco Casonato, Universit? di Milano-Bicocca, Italy - Pedro J. Chamizo Dom?nguez, Universidad de M?laga, Spain The Conference will cover the following areas: - Language acquisition - Language teaching - Language for specific purposes - Language psychology, child language and psycolinguistics - Sociolinguistics - Pragmatics - Discourse analysis - Corpus linguistics, computational linguistics and linguistic engineering - Lexicology and lexicography - Translation and interpreting Proposals (pertaining to the areas mentioned above and max. 500 words, figures and references apart) must be submitted at http://www.aesla.uji.es/congresos/en/main_en no later than December 1st, 2007. Reviewers will evaluate the contributions and will contact the authors regarding acceptance or rejection. Final versions (aprox. 2500 words) will be required to authors within a month from acceptance. Thank you for your interest. We look forward to receiving your proposal. Yours sincerely, Carmen M? Bretones Callejas University of Almer?a, Spain aesla at ual.es -- Francisco J. RUIZ-DE-MENDOZA University of La Rioja Department of Modern Philologies c/ San Jos? de Calasanz s/n 26004, Logro?o, La Rioja, Spain Tel. (+34) (941) 299430 Fax. (+34) (941) 299419 francisco.ruizdemendoza at unirioja.es http://www.lexicom.es/ From francisco.ruizdemendoza at unirioja.es Tue Nov 6 09:07:24 2007 From: francisco.ruizdemendoza at unirioja.es (Francisco Ruiz de Mendoza) Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 10:07:24 +0100 Subject: Fwd: CFP: AESLA 2008 (deadline December 1st) [correction] Message-ID: *Sorry about the mistake in the previous email message, the deadline is December 1st.* ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Francisco Ruiz de Mendoza Date: Nov 6, 2007 12:08 AM Subject: Fwd: CFP: AESLA 2008 (deadline December 21st) To: cogling-l at mailman.ucsd.edu http://www.aesla.uji.es/congresos/en/main_en SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS (Excuses for multiple posting) XXVI AESLA INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE: "FROM APPLIED LINGUISTICS TO THE LINGUISTICS OF THE MIND: ISSUES, PRACTICES AND TRENDS" Dear Colleague, The Spanish Applied Linguistics Association(AESLA) is pleased to announce its 26th Annual Conference to be held at the University of Almer?a (Spain) on April 3-5, 2008. This International Conference will count on the presence of the following distinguished speakers: - Christopher Sinha, Portsmouth University, GB - Claire Kramsch, University of California at Berkeley, USA - Hans C. Boas, University of Texas at Austin, USA - Jos? Luis Otal, Universitat Jaume I, Castell?n, Spain - Lavinia Merilini Barbaressi, Universit? di Pisa, Italy - Manuel Carreiras, Univesidad de La Laguna, Spain - Marco Casonato, Universit? di Milano-Bicocca, Italy - Pedro J. Chamizo Dom?nguez, Universidad de M?laga, Spain The Conference will cover the following areas: - Language acquisition - Language teaching - Language for specific purposes - Language psychology, child language and psycolinguistics - Sociolinguistics - Pragmatics - Discourse analysis - Corpus linguistics, computational linguistics and linguistic engineering - Lexicology and lexicography - Translation and interpreting *Proposals *(pertaining to the areas mentioned above and *max. 500 words*, figures and references apart) must be submitted at http://www.aesla.uji.es/congresos/en/main_en no later than *December 1st, 2007*. Reviewers will evaluate the contributions and will contact the authors regarding acceptance or rejection. Final versions (aprox. 2500 words) will be required to authors within a month from acceptance. Thank you for your interest. We look forward to receiving your proposal. Yours sincerely, Carmen M? Bretones Callejas University of Almer?a, Spain aesla at ual.es -- Francisco J. RUIZ-DE-MENDOZA University of La Rioja Department of Modern Philologies c/ San Jos? de Calasanz s/n 26004, Logro?o, La Rioja, Spain Tel. (+34) (941) 299430 Fax. (+34) (941) 299419 francisco.ruizdemendoza at unirioja.es http://www.lexicom.es/ -- Francisco J. RUIZ-DE-MENDOZA University of La Rioja Department of Modern Philologies c/ San Jos? de Calasanz s/n 26004, Logro?o, La Rioja, Spain Tel. (+34) (941) 299430 Fax. (+34) (941) 299419 francisco.ruizdemendoza at unirioja.es http://www.lexicom.es/ From c.j.hart at herts.ac.uk Wed Nov 7 09:16:28 2007 From: c.j.hart at herts.ac.uk (Christopher Hart) Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2007 09:16:28 +0000 Subject: 3rd CFP: Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis across Disciplines Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, 3rd Call for Papers: CADAAD'08 Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines (CADAAD) is an ongoing project which aims to foster and promote cross-disciplinary communication in critical discourse research. Following the success of the project?s first international conference hosted at the University of East Anglia in 2006, we are pleased to announce the second international conference CADAAD?08, to be hosted at the *University of Hertfordshire, 10-11 July 2008*. In line with the general aims of the project, we welcome papers both from CDA and neighbouring disciplines such as communication studies, media studies, narrative studies, sociology, philosophy and political science. Abstracts are invited which assess the state of the art and offer new directions for critical discourse research. By new directions we mean i) theoretical/methodological development and/or ii) analysis of contemporary discourses. Theoretical/methodological frameworks sourced from all areas of the social and cognitive sciences are welcome. Papers exploring the following frameworks in linguistics are particularly welcome: * Cognitive Linguistics (Blending, Construction Grammars, Framing, Metaphor) * Corpus Linguistics (Corpus Construction, Data Extraction, Semantic Prosody) * Pragmatics (Presupposition, Relevance Theory, Speech Acts) * Systemic Functional Linguistics (Cohesion and Coherence, Grammatical Metaphor) Analyses of all contemporary discourses are welcome, including those within applied and professional areas such as business, education, environment,health, and law. Papers applying critical analysis to discourses used in the construction of 'minority' vs. 'normality' and other dichotomies are especially welcome. Areas of particular interest include: * Discourse on gender * Discourse of International Law * Discourse on immigration * Discourse of the war on terror * European Union discourse * United Nations and foreign aid discourse Reflecting our commitment to multiplicity in critical approaches to discourse analysis, the following plenary speakers have confirmed their participation: * Professor Piotr Cap (University of Ł?dź, Poland) * Professor Jonathan Charteris-Black (University of West England, UK) * Professor Teun van Dijk (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain) * Professor Ruth Wodak (Lancaster University, UK) Abstracts of no longer than 400 words should be submitted as MS Word attachment to discourse at cadaad.org by *30 November 2007*. Authors should include their name, affiliation and email address. Successful authors will be notified via email by *15 February 2008*. Papers will be allocated twenty minutes plus ten minutes for questions. Selected proceedings will be published. Please visit http://cadaad.org/cadaad08 for further conference details. -- Christopher Hart Lecturer in English Language and Communication School of Humanities University of Hertfordshire www.hartcda.org.uk From c.j.hart at herts.ac.uk Wed Nov 7 09:43:56 2007 From: c.j.hart at herts.ac.uk (Christopher Hart) Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2007 09:43:56 +0000 Subject: 2nd CFP: Meaning Construction in Critical Discourse Analysis Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, 2nd Call for Papers: Meaning Construction in Critical Discourse Analysis (Theme session at CADAAD'08) Critical discourse analysis (CDA) identifies three analytic stages: description, interpretation and explanation. Halliday's systemic functional linguistics has become synonymous with description-stage analysis of representation in text. And at the explanation stage, CDA is associated with Marxism and Critical Theory. Very little work, however, has been carried out at the interpretation stage, which is concerned with discourse processing. Discourse processing, of course, involves meaning construction as understood in cognitive linguistics or cognitive pragmatics. Cognitive linguistics is a broad paradigm subsuming a number of distinct theories and thus offering a range of potential analytical tools to CDA. But whilst CDA has made use of conceptual metaphor theory, it has not recognised cognitive linguistic approaches to discourse and the input they provide at the interpretation-stage. Similarly, cognitive approaches to pragmatics have not been recognised in CDA. This methodologically-oriented session then, invites papers addressing meaning construction in critical discourse analysis from the perspectives of cognitive linguistics and cognitive pragmatics. As such, papers applying conceptual blending theory, construction grammar, discourse space theory, frame negotiation, mental space theory or relevance theory, for example, are particularly welcome. Please send abstracts of no longer than 400 words to c.j.hart at herts.ac.uk by *30 November 2007*. Authors should include their name, affiliation and email address. Successful authors will be notified via email by *15 February 2008*. For details on CADAAD'08 please visit http://cadaad.org/cadaad08 -- Christopher Hart Lecturer in English Language and Communication School of Humanities University of Hertfordshire www.hartcda.org.uk From timo.honkela at tkk.fi Wed Nov 7 13:28:58 2007 From: timo.honkela at tkk.fi (timo.honkela at tkk.fi) Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2007 15:28:58 +0200 Subject: AKRR'08 CFP: Adaptive Knowledge Representation and Reasoning Message-ID: FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS AKRR'08 - ADAPTIVE KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION AND REASONING Following the successful 2005 conference, AKRR 2008 will be organized in Finland in 17-19 September 2008 at Haikko Manor, Porvoo, 30-40 minutes from Helsinki. The conference site was elected in 2007 by Mercury International to be the best one in Finland. More information will be available at http://www.cis.hut.fi/AKRR08/ Conference site: http://www.haikko.fi/kokoukset/en_GB/presentation/ The conference is co-organized with the ESTSP'08, European Symposium on Time Series Prediction. BACKGROUND In the modern society, knowledge representation and reasoning are underlying building blocks in various kinds of information systems and networks. Knowledge representation and reasoning are also central themes in cognitive science and epistemology. Relevant questions include how do humans know, understand, anticipate, make decisions and collaborate, and, on the other hand, how to analyze, model and simulate complex phenomena in general. Relevant modeling methods include statistical machine learning, artificial neural networks, signal processing, pattern recognition and dynamical systems. AUDIENCE The aim of the AKRR'08 conference is to bring together scientists who study complex phenomena in empirical sciences and scientists who develop computational methods for dealing with complexity. From the empirical sciences, we especially welcome researchers in cognitive science, sociology, educational psychology, economics and medicine. From the methodological sciences, we welcome researchers who develop, for instance, statistical machine learning, dynamical systems theory and adaptive systems. The conference also aims to be relevant for practitioners who encounter complex phenomena continuously and who are looking for new ways to deal with challenges related to management and strategic decision making. SPECIAL THEMES * Adaptive systems in organizational theory and economic sciences * Computational wisdom, modeling emotions and decision making * New generation of semantic web: social and multimodal grounding of knowledge and understanding * Adaptive systems in medical education, research and practice * Adaptive machine translation: towards global connection TOPICS We invite novel high-quality papers that are related to the conference themes including but not limited to: Themes related to empirical sciences * Adaptive, dynamical and probabilistic models and simulations of social and societal structures and processes * Probabilistic and pattern-based reasoning on financial and economical phenomena * Non-symbolic ontologies and adaptive knowledge representation for the web * Emergent and evolutionary representations for creative and design processes * Models of natural language understanding and translation * Learning schemas and language games * Cognitive models of perceptually grounded reasoning processes * Multimodality in cognitive and artificial systems * Analysis and modeling of emotions and decision making * Relationship between individual, social and cultural development * Natural and artificial general intelligence * Analysis and development of conceptual spaces * Emerging representations in active agents * Empirical and theoretical study of practices and activities Methodological themes * Contextuality in statistical analysis and reasoning * Models of temporal processes and reasoning * Knowledge representation and reasoning in non-stationary environments * Spatial representations of knowledge * Analyses of the limitations of logic-based representations and reasoning * Hybrid systems and emergence of symbolic representations * Continuous formal systems * Dynamical systems models of knowledge * Pattern-based reasoning * Unsupervised and reinforcement learning models for knowledge acquisition and representation * Bayesian models of learning and reasoning * Emergent representations based on independent component analysis and self-organizing maps * Biologically inspired computing including artificial immune systems IMPORTANT DATES * Paper submission due: 15 February 2008 * Acceptance notification: 11 April 2008 * Deadline for early registration: 24 June 2008 * Camera-ready paper due: 23 May 2008 * Symposia and conference: 17-19 September 2008 ORGANIZERS Programme committee and conference chair Timo Honkela Helsinki University of Technology Adaptive Informatics Research Centre timo.honkela at tkk.fi Organizing committee chair Olli Simula Helsinki University of Technology Adaptive Informatics Research Centre olli.simula at tkk.fi From Vyv.Evans at brighton.ac.uk Thu Nov 8 15:01:06 2007 From: Vyv.Evans at brighton.ac.uk (Vyvyan Evans) Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2007 15:01:06 -0000 Subject: Language, Communication & Cognition -- FINAL CFP -- Deadline Nov. 26th Message-ID: (apologies for cross-postings) FINAL 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 rls at rice.edu Wed Nov 14 00:39:34 2007 From: rls at rice.edu (Rice Linguistics Society) Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 18:39:34 -0600 Subject: call for papers: Development of Complex Linguistic Structures Message-ID: * * * * * * * * * * CALL FOR PAPERS * * * * * * * * * * Development of Complex Linguistic Structures [poster session] Date: 27-Mar-2008 - 29-Mar-2008 Location: Houston, TX, USA Contact Person: Linda Lanz Web Site: http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~rls/conf.html Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Syntax; Morphology; Typology; Language Acquisition Call Deadline: 31-Jan-2008 Meeting Description Rice Linguistics Society will host a poster session to accompany the 12th Biennial Rice Symposium on Linguistics, to be held March 27-29, 2008 in Houston, Texas on the Rice University campus. Topic The theme for the poster session is ''Development of complex linguistic structures.'' We invite papers from all subfields and theoretical orientations of linguistics that examine complex linguistic structures. Successful abstracts will focus on the origin of complex structure(s) from the perspective of child language acquisition, diachrony, language contact (including pidgin/ creole studies), synchronic change-in-process, or a combination of these factors. Complex structures include but are not limited to complex predicates, complementation, and relativization. These posters should complement the symposium topic of ''The Genesis of Syntactic Complexity: An Interdisciplinary Symposium.'' While the theme of the symposium is limited to syntactic structures, research on any complex linguistic phenomenon will be considered for the poster session. For more information on the symposium, consult http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~eivs/sympo/. Submission Guidelines The deadline for submissions is January 31st, 2008 (5 p.m. CST). Please submit a one-page abstract of 300 words maximum in PDF or MS Word format to rls rice.edu. An additional sheet is permitted for examples, references, and/or figures. The filename should be AUTHORNAME.pdf or AUTHORNAME.doc. If you use MS Word, be sure to use a common linguistics-friendly font, such as Doulos SIL, particularly if your abstract includes IPA. Please include ''poster session'' in the subject. The body of the e- mail should include: 1. Name of author(s) 2. Poster title 3. Institution(s) of author(s) 4. E-mail address(es) of author(s) 5. Postal address(es) of author(s) 6. Phone number for primary author Postal submissions will not be accepted. Poster Presentation Participants will be given a space approximately 6' by 4' to display their work. Registration Registration will be handled through the symposium. Poster presenters are invited to attend all symposium events. For more information, contact rls rice.edu or visit the symposium website at http://www.ruf.rice.edu/ ~eivs/sympo/. Registration details will appear in January 2008. From aberez at umail.ucsb.edu Thu Nov 15 00:08:43 2007 From: aberez at umail.ucsb.edu (Andrea Berez) Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 16:08:43 -0800 Subject: CFP: Workshop on American Indigenous Languages In-Reply-To: <89bfe5de0711141606v68ae8322r85389a5f9f645866@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, Below please find the Call for Papers for the 11th Annual Workshop on American Indigenous Languages, to be held at the University of California, Santa Barbara on May 23 and 24, 2008. The abstract deadline is February 8. Best wishes, Andrea Berez -- ----------------------------- Andrea L. Berez PhD student, Dept. of Linguistics University of California, Santa Barbara http://www.uweb.ucsb.edu/~aberez/ ********************************************************************************************* Workshop on American Indigenous Languages Santa Barbara, CA May 23-24, 2008 The Linguistics department at the University of California, Santa Barbara announces its 11th annual Workshop on American Indigenous Languages (WAIL), which provides a forum for the discussion of theoretical and descriptive studies of the indigenous languages of the Americas. Anonymous abstracts are invited for talks on any topic in linguistics. Talks will be 20 minutes, followed by 10 minutes for discussion. Abstracts should be 500 words or less (excluding examples and/or references) and can be submitted by hard copy or email. Individuals may submit abstracts for one single-authored and one co-authored paper. Please indicate your source(s) and type(s) of data in the abstract (e.g. recordings, texts, conversational, elicited, narrative, etc.). For co-authored papers, please indicate who plans to present the paper as well as who will be in attendance. Special Panel on Language Policy: This year we are welcoming abstracts for a Special Panel on all issues concerning language policy. Talks will be 20 minutes each, followed by a group discussion/question-and-answer period. For email submissions: Include the abstract as an attachment. Please limit your abstracts to the following formats: PDF, RTF, or Microsoft Word document. Include the following information in the body of the email message: (1) your name; (2) affiliation; (3) mailing address; (4) phone number; (5) email address; (6) title of your paper; (7) whether your submission is for the general session or the Special Panel. Send email submissions to: wail.ucsb at gmail.com For hard copy submissions: Please send four copies of your abstract, along with a 3x5 card with the following information: (1) your name; (2) affiliation; (3) mailing address; (4) phone number; (5) email address; (6) title of your paper; (7) whether your submission is for the general session or the Special Panel. Send hard copy submissions to: Workshop on American Indigenous Languages Attn: Joye Kiester or Ver?nica Mu?oz Ledo Department of Linguistics University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93106 DEADLINE FOR RECEIPT OF ABSTRACTS: February 8, 2008 Notification of acceptance will be by email no later than February 29, 2008. General Information: Santa Barbara is situated on the Pacific Ocean near the Santa Y?ez Mountains. The UCSB campus is located near the Santa Barbara airport. Participants may also fly into LAX airport in Los Angeles, which is approximately 90 miles southeast of the campus. Shuttle buses run between LAX and Santa Barbara. Information about hotel accommodations will be posted on our website (http://orgs.sa.ucsb.edu/nailsg/). For further information contact the conference coordinators, Joye Kiester and Ver?nica Mu?oz Ledo, at wail.ucsb at gmail.com or (805) 893-3776, or check out our website at http://orgs.sa.ucsb.edu/nailsg/ From alifarghaly at yahoo.com Fri Nov 16 21:34:21 2007 From: alifarghaly at yahoo.com (Ali Farghaly) Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 13:34:21 -0800 Subject: Egypt - INFOS 2008 Message-ID: INFOS 2008: The 6th International Conference on Informatics and Systems Special Track On Natural Language Processing 27 ? 28 March, 2008 Cairo, Egypt http://www.fci.cu.edu.eg/INFOS2008/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Natural language processing research is gaining much interest from many parties such as researchers from academia, industry, and government developers, practitioners, and users. The goal of this track session(s) is to provide the participants with an opportunity to exchange ideas, approaches and implementations of computational systems, to highlight the common challenges faced by all practitioners, to assess the state of the art in the field, and to identify promising areas for future collaborative research in the development of NLP resources and systems. Topics ===== The following is a non-exhaustive list of topics covered by the track: * Ontologies and linguistic resources (corpora, electronic dictionaries, treebanks, etc.) * Transliteration, transcription and diacritization * Part of speech tagging * Morphological analysis and generation * Shallow and deep parsing * Machine translation * Word sense and syntactic disambiguation * Semantic analysis * Information retrieval * Information extraction * Question answering * Text clustering and classification * Text summarization * Text and web content mining * Named entity recognition * Arabic script-based language processing Invited Speaker ============ Prof. Ali Farghaly, Senior Member of Technical Staff, Text Group, Oracle USA, CA, and Adjunct Professor of Arabic Linguistics, Monterey Institute of International Studies, Monterey, CA, USA. Track Chair ========= Prof. Khaled Shaalan (Faculty of Computers & Information, Cairo University, Egypt) Program Committee Nahed Aboelhassan (Brandeis University, USA) Fawaz Al-Anzi (Kuwait University, Kuwait) Ibrahim Alkharashi (King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia) Galia Angelova (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria) Achraf Chalabi (Sakhr, Egypt) Chia-Hui Chang (National Central University, Taiwan) Kareem Darwish (Cairo University, Egypt) Mona Diab (Columbia University, USA) Joseph Dichy (Universit? Lumi?re-Lyon 2, France) Ahmed Guessoum (Freelance Consultant, Algeria) Nizar Habash (Columbia University, USA) Lamia Hadrich Belguith (Faculty of Economic Sciences and Management of Sfax, Tunisia) Sattar Izwaini (Abu Dhabi University, UAE) Mohammed Kayed (Beni-Sueif University, Egypt) Shereen khoja (Pacific University, USA) Petra Maier-Meyer (FAST, Germany) Farid Meziane (Salford University, UK) Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton, UK) Farhad Oroumchian (University of Wollongong in Dubai, UAE) Ahmed Rafea (American University in Cairo, Egypt) Doaa Samy (Universidad Carlos III Madrid, Spain) Otakar Smrz (Charles University, Czech Republic) Abdelhadi Soudi (Ecole Nationale de l'Industrie Min?rale, Morocco) Hissam Tawfik (Liverpool Hope University, UK) Henry Thompson (University of Edinburgh, UK) Imed Zitouni (IBM, USA) Conference URL www.fci.cu.edu.eg/INFOS2008/ Important Dates Full Paper submission due: 30 December 2007 Notification of acceptance: 30 January 2008 Camera ready submissions: 15 February 2008 For Further Information Prof. Khaled Shaalan, kshaalan at fci-cu.edu.eg 28 March, 2008 Add to Calendar ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs From sylvester.osu at wanadoo.fr Sun Nov 18 16:25:31 2007 From: sylvester.osu at wanadoo.fr (Sylvester Osu) Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2007 17:25:31 +0100 Subject: Conference in Tours Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, The program for the conference "Construction of identity and the process of identification" taking place on the 29th & 30th November 2007 at the Universit? Fran?ois Rabelais, Tours (France), is now available at http://langrep.univ-tours.fr With the compliments of the season Sylvester Osu Chair, Organizing committee From hougaard at language.sdu.dk Mon Nov 19 14:53:54 2007 From: hougaard at language.sdu.dk (Anders Hougaard) Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 15:53:54 +0100 Subject: LCM3: 3rd cfp Message-ID: CONFERENCE: LANGUAGE, CULTURE AND MIND 3 Odense, 14-16th July 2008 3RD CALL FOR INDIVIDUAL PAPERS NEW! LCM III satellite event: Empirical Methods in Cognitive Linguistics, 7-11th July. 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. Description of the LCM conference series: see bottom. 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 1, 2007 (Extended) * Notification for Theme Sessions : November 1, 2007 (Extended) * First call for Individual Papers and Posters: September 1, 2007 * Second call for Individual Papers and Posters: October 1, 2007 * Third call for Individual Papers and Posters: November 1, 2007 (Delayed) * Deadline for Individual Paper and Poster submissions: January 1, 2008 * Deadline for submitting papers for theme sessions: February 1, 2008 * Notification for Individual Paper, Theme Session paper and Poster submissions: March 1, 2008 SUBMISSION 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 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) Meredith Williams (Johns Hopkins University) CONFERENCE WEBSITE: http://www.lcm.sdu.dk NEW! THEME SESSIONS: Titel: "Social Construction, Psychological Discourse and Neuroimaging" Organizer: Adam Wallwork Titel: "'Doing Science' as a Collaborative Accomplishment of the Mind as Discourse-in-Interaction" Organizer: Gudrun Ziegler Titel: "Lectal and Multilingual Variation: Cognitive and Social Dimensions" Organizers: Raphael Berthele, Dirk Geeraerts, Gitte Kristiansen, Yves Peirsman Titel: "Language, Sociality, and Mind: Lessons from a neurodegenerative disorder" Organizer: Andrea W. Mates Titel:"Bridging the Gap in Cultural Studies: From meaning construction to (inter-)cultural communicative competence" Organizer: Izaskun Elorza & Ovid Carbonell Titel: "Intersubjectivity: Between Personal Experience and Social Life" Organizers: Timothy P. Racine & Jordan Zlatev Titel: "Situating understanding, perception, in social interaction" Organizer: Domenic Berducci Titel: "Chinese Language, Cultural Keywords and Ethno-philosophy" Organizer: Adrian Tien Titel: "(Cross-Cultural Communication)" Organizer: Bert Peeters Titel: "Communicating and Interpreting Policy Meaning" Organizer: Alan Cienki & Dvora Yanow Titel: "Language and Cultural Change in Immigrant and Aboriginal Communities: Transformations at the culture, language, and mind interface" Organizers: Michael Chandler & Cynthia Lightfoot Titel: "Social Life and Meaning Construction" Organizer Paul Thibault Titel: "Discourse and psychology: Emotion, knowledge and institution interaction" Organizer: Jonathan Potter Titel: "Situated, distributed cognition and social structure of shared task performance in high-risk workplaces" Organizer: Lisa Loloma Froholdt Titel: "Social Interaction, Cognition, and Intersubjectivity" Organizers: Thomas Wiben Jensen, Anders R Hougaard & Gitte R Hougaard NEW! SATELLITE EVENT LCM III satellite event: Empirical Methods in Cognitive Linguistics, 7-11th July Organizers: Monica Gonzalez Marquez,Raymond Becker, Anders R Hougaard, Gitte R Hougaard and Todd Oakley More Information follows later! 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 Anne Salazar Orvig Meredith Williams Todd Oakley Jonathan Potter Robin Wooffitt Alan Cienki Cornellia M?ller Ewa Dabrowska Edy Veneziano Shaun Gallagher Edwin Hutchins Johannes Wagner THE LCM CONFERENCES: The goals of LCM conferences are to contribute to situating the study of language in a contemporary interdisciplinary dialogue, and to promote a better integration of cognitive and cultural perspectives in empirical and theoretical studies of language. Human natural languages are biologically based, cognitively motivated, affectively rich, socially shared, grammatically organized symbolic systems. They provide the principal semiotic means for the complexity and diversity of human cultural life. As has long been recognized, no single discipline or methodology is sufficient to capture all the dimensions of this complex and multifaceted phenomenon, which lies at the heart of what it is to be human. Theories of cognition and perception, and their neural foundations, are central to many current approaches in language science. However, a genuinely integrative perspective requires that attention also be paid to the foundations of cultural life in social interaction, empathy, mimesis, intersubjectivity, dialogicality, normativity, agentivity and narrativity. Significant theoretical, methodological and empirical advancements across relevant disciplines now provide a realistic basis for such a broadened perspective. This conference will articulate and discuss approaches to human natural language and to diverse genres of language activity which aim to integrate its cultural, social, cognitive, affective and bodily foundations. We call for contributions from scholars and scientists in anthropology, biology, linguistics, philosophy, psychology, semiotics, semantics, discourse analysis, cognitive and neuroscience, who wish both to share their insights and findings, and learn from other disciplines. Preference will be given to submissions which emphasize interdisciplinarity, the interaction between culture, mind and language, and/or multi-methodological approaches in language sciences. ***** Anders R. Hougaard Assistant professor, PhD Center for Social Practises and Cognition (SoPraCon) Institute of Language and Communication University of Southern Denmark, Odense hougaard at language.sdu.dk Phone: +45 65503154 Fax: + 45 65932483. From antti.arppe at helsinki.fi Mon Nov 19 15:42:30 2007 From: antti.arppe at helsinki.fi (Antti Arppe) Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 17:42:30 +0200 Subject: CfP: 3rd Quantitative Investigations in Theoretical Linguistics (QITL-3) Message-ID: [Apologies for cross-postings] 1st Call for Papers: 3rd Quantitative Investigations in Theoretical Linguistics (QITL-3) 2-4 June 2008 Helsinki, Finland Invited speakers: Michael Cysouw, Max Planck Institute/Leipzig Gary Marcus, New York University Richard Sproat, University of Illinois, Urbana/Champaign ----- General and background: The Linguistic Association of Finland (SKY) in association with the Department of General Linguistics at the University of Helsinki will be co-hosting the Third Workshop on Quantitative Investigations in Theoretical Linguistics (QITL-3), to be held on Mon-Wed, 2-4 June, 2008, in Helsinki, Finland. The official website of the workshop is to be found at: http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/sky/tapahtumat/qitl/ This workshop is both a continuation of the two previous QITL events held in Osnabr?ck, Germany (http://www.cogsci.uni-osnabrueck.de/~qitl/), and the latest in the sequence of summer symposia arranged by SKY (http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/sky/tapahtumia.shtml). ----- Call for Papers: Since the turn of the millenium, the application of quantitative methods on empirical data, with increasing sophistication and complexity, has become widely accepted as central in the development and testing of theoretical hypotheses concerning the nature of natural language and its processing by human beings. However, it is also increasingly recognized that quantitative investigations should be theoretically motivated and anchored, in addition to that linguistic theories and models should be modified or even fundamentally revised, if not also sometimes altogether refuted, to properly reflect the reality of quantitative results. Simply put, quantitative methods and theoretical developments should mutually feed and influence each other. As with the previous two QITL meetings, we invite researchers from all linguistic frameworks engaged in quantitative investigations of theoretical linguistic questions to submit abstracts for 30 minute talks (plus 10 minutes of discussion). The preferred focus is on how one has been able to address a theoretically motivated linguistic question with some quantitative method(s); computational and exploratory approaches may also be of interest if they lead to or shed light on theoretical issues. Furthermore, we welcome studies concerning all media of language use, whether spoken, written or electronic in form. Relevant topics include (but are not by any means limited to) models of lexical, syntactic or pragmatic/prosodic preferences, the nature of linguistic rules/regularities and the lexicon (e.g. morphological productivity), the relationship between language use, linguistic judgements and/or indirect data on language processing, cross-linguistic typological tendencies, first and second language acquisition, diachronic language development, and so forth. Our goal is to continue the workshoppy and conversational form as well as the theoretically and methodologically pluralistic atmosphere of the previous QITL events. Abstracts should be at the maximum 3 pages long (A4, with 12 point Times New Roman or equivalent font and single spacing), including all tables, figures and references (corresponding to approximately 1000-1500 words). Electronic submission (in either PDF, PostScript or RTF format) by e-mail to "qitl-3 at helsinki.fi" is strongly preferred. Each submission will be peer-reviewed by (at least) two members of the program committee. The deadline for submissions is Monday, 11 February 2008. ----- Important Dates: Announcement: 18 October 2007 1st Call for Papers: 19 November 2007 (Monday) Submission deadline: 11 February 2008 (Monday) Notification of acceptance/rejection: week 11/2008 (beginning of March) Event: 2-4 June 2008 (Monday-Wednesday) ----- Program committee: Harald Baayen, University of Alberta Marco Baroni, University of Trento/CIMeC Peter Bosch, University of Osnabr?ck Michael Cysouw, Max Planck Institute/Leipzig Walter Daelemans, University of Antwerp Stefan Evert, University of Osnabr?ck Stefan Th. Gries, University of California, Santa Barbara Stefan Grondelaers, Radboud University Nijmegen Jennifer Hay, University of Canterbury Timo Honkela, Helsinki University of Technology Juhani J?rvikivi, Max Planck Institute/Nijmegen Brigitte Krenn, Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (?FAI) Jonas Kuhn, University of Potsdam Merja Kyt?, University of Uppsala Roger Levy, University of California, San Diego Anke L?deling, Humboldt University in Berlin Elena Maslova, Bielefeld University Detmar Meurers, Ohio State University Matti Miestamo, University of Helsinki Jussi Niemi, University of Joensuu Martti Vainio, University of Helsinki Yi Xu, University College London ----- Organizing committee: Antti Arppe, University of Helsinki Urpo Nikanne, ?bo Akademi University Kaius Sinnem?ki, University of Helsinki ----- Contact information: Contact Email: "qitl-3 at helsinki.fi" Meeting URL: http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/sky/tapahtumat/qitl/ ----- From llshuang at reading.ac.uk Mon Nov 19 18:08:25 2007 From: llshuang at reading.ac.uk (llshuang at reading.ac.uk) Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 18:08:25 +0000 Subject: The syntax and pragmatics of anaphora/new re-issue Message-ID: Dear Colleagues - At the embarassment of self-advertisement, may I take the liberty to let you know that my mymonograph, which develops a pragmatic theory of anaphora, has recently been re-issued in paperback by Cambridge UP. I attach a CUP flyer below. Hope the book will be of interest to your students and libraries. Sorry for this intrusive email and many thanks, Yan. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- New re-issue/2007 Cambridge University Press The Syntax and Pragmatics of Anaphora (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics) Yan Huang This book develops a pragmatic theory of anapohora within the neo-Gricean framework of conversational implicature. Chomsky claims that anaphora reflects underlying principles of innate Universal Grammar, and the view is widely held that only syntactic and semantic factors are crucial to intrasential anaphora. Yan Huang questions the basis of the Government and Binding approach and argues that syntax and pragmatics are interconnected in determining many anaphoric processes. Furthermore, he proposes that the extent to which syntax and pragmatics interact varies typologically. There exists a class of language (such as Chinese, Japanese and Korean)in which pragmatics plays a central role that in familiar European languages is alleged to be played by grammar. Yan Huang's pragmatic theory has far reaching implications for this important issue in theoretical linguistics. Yan Huang (PhD, Cambridge; DPhil, Oxford) is Professor of Theoretical Linguistics at the University of Reading. He has taught linguistics previously at the University of Cambridge and the University of Oxford. His books include _Anaphora: A Cross-linguistic Study_(2000) and _Pragmatics_(2007). He has also published a number of articles and reviews in major international journals of linguistics. '[A]n excellent contribution to the literature on anaphora, pragmatics, and the grammar-pragmatics interface... H[uang]'s book presents a wealth of data, interesting analyses, and intriguing questions for further research.' _Language_ '[T]he book makes a valuable addition to the literature on anaphora, and will prove a rich source of observations, insights and future research topics ... [I]t also makes a significant theoretical contribution to the development of a pragmatic account of certain aspects of anaphora.' _Journal of Linguistics_ 'Huang's outstanding book not only puts forth an explicit theory of the pragmatic factors involved, but can also be compared in rigor and coverage with any available accounts of anaphora.' _Journal of Chinese Linguistics_ 'Huang ... qualif[ies] as one of that rare variety of linguists who is conversant with both the technicalities of syntactic theory and the subtleties of pragmatics. By considering the syntax and pragmatics of anaphora ..., Huang's book makes a significant contribution to the boundary dispute between these two branches of the study of language.' _Journal of Pragmatics_ September 2007 ISBN 0-521-03960-6 (Paperback) -- New book Huang, Y. (2007). Pragmatics. Oxford University Press. Available now through all good bookshops, or direct from Oxford University Press at: http://www.oup.co.uk/isbn/0-19-924368-9 From tgivon at smtp.uoregon.edu Thu Nov 22 02:20:31 2007 From: tgivon at smtp.uoregon.edu (Tom Givon) Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 19:20:31 -0700 Subject: job announcement Message-ID: POSSIBLE JOB OPENING An established linguistics program in Mexico is looking for a norte?o person to teach in a Masters program tilted towards functionally- and typologically-oriented linguistics, field work, and indigenous languages. This is a good opportunity for a fresh PhD who is interested in the indigenous languages of Meso-America. The salary is low by norte?o standards (ca. $2,000.00 per month, with yearly incrementation; but incl. free housing!). They would like someone with high motivation and a commitment to 4-5 years (at least) of work in Mexico. There is probably a possibility of longer-term employment. If you are interested, or if know someone else who may fit the profile, do contact me (or let them contact me) at . Peace, TG From Vyv.Evans at brighton.ac.uk Tue Nov 27 09:44:02 2007 From: Vyv.Evans at brighton.ac.uk (Vyvyan Evans) Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 09:44:02 -0000 Subject: ***EXTENDED DEADLINE*** Language, Communication and Cognition Conference (Brighton 2008) Message-ID: *************EXTENDED ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE*************** Due to multiple requests for further time to submit abstracts, the deadline for submission to the Conference on Language, Communication and Cognition (Brighton Aug 4-7 2008) has been extended until Sunday 2nd December 2007. ******************************************************************************* 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: December 2nd 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 c.j.hart at herts.ac.uk Tue Nov 27 16:58:41 2007 From: c.j.hart at herts.ac.uk (Christopher Hart) Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 16:58:41 +0000 Subject: Extended deadline for Meaning Construction in Critical Discourse Analysis Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, ************************ Following author requests the abstract deadline for Meaning Construction in Critical Discourse Analysis (Theme session at CADAAD'08) has been extended to ***10 DECEMBER 2007*** Call for papers below. ************************ Critical discourse analysis (CDA) identifies three analytic stages: description, interpretation and explanation. Halliday's systemic functional linguistics has become synonymous with description-stage analysis of representation in text. And at the explanation stage, CDA is associated with Marxism and Critical Theory. Very little work, however, has been carried out at the interpretation stage, which is concerned with discourse processing. Discourse processing, of course, involves meaning construction as understood in cognitive linguistics or cognitive pragmatics. Cognitive linguistics is a broad paradigm subsuming a number of distinct theories and thus offering a range of potential analytical tools to CDA. But whilst CDA has made use of conceptual metaphor theory, it has not recognised cognitive linguistic approaches to discourse and the input they provide at the interpretation-stage. Similarly, cognitive approaches to pragmatics have not been recognised in CDA. This methodologically-oriented session then, invites papers addressing meaning construction in critical discourse analysis from the perspectives of cognitive linguistics and cognitive pragmatics. As such, papers applying conceptual blending theory, construction grammar, discourse space theory, frame negotiation, mental space theory or relevance theory, for example, are particularly welcome. Please send abstracts of no longer than 400 words to c.j.hart at herts.ac.uk by *10 DECEMBER 2007*. Authors should include their name, affiliation and email address. Successful authors will be notified via email by *15 February 2008*. For details on CADAAD'08 please visit http://cadaad.org/cadaad08 -- Christopher Hart Lecturer in English Language and Communication School of Humanities University of Hertfordshire www.hartcda.org.uk From c.j.hart at herts.ac.uk Tue Nov 27 17:12:42 2007 From: c.j.hart at herts.ac.uk (Christopher Hart) Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 17:12:42 +0000 Subject: Extended deadline for Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis across Disciplines 2008 Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, *********************** Following author requests the abstract deadline for Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis across Disciplines 2008 (CADAAD'08) has been extended to ***10 DECEMBER 2007*** Call for papers below *********************** Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines (CADAAD) is an ongoing project which aims to foster and promote cross-disciplinary communication in critical discourse research. Following the success of the project?s first international conference hosted at the University of East Anglia in 2006, we are pleased to announce the second international conference CADAAD?08, to be hosted at the *University of Hertfordshire, 10-11 July 2008*. In line with the general aims of the project, we welcome papers both from CDA and neighbouring disciplines such as communication studies, media studies, narrative studies, sociology, philosophy and political science. Abstracts are invited which assess the state of the art and offer new directions for critical discourse research. By new directions we mean i) theoretical/methodological development and/or ii) analysis of contemporary discourses. Theoretical/methodological frameworks sourced from all areas of the social and cognitive sciences are welcome. Papers exploring the following frameworks in linguistics are particularly welcome: * Cognitive Linguistics (Blending, Construction Grammars, Framing, Metaphor) * Corpus Linguistics (Corpus Construction, Data Extraction, Semantic Prosody) * Pragmatics (Presupposition, Relevance Theory, Speech Acts) * Systemic Functional Linguistics (Cohesion and Coherence, Grammatical Metaphor) Analyses of all contemporary discourses are welcome, including those within applied and professional areas such as business, education, environment, health, and law. Papers applying critical analysis to discourses used in the construction of 'minority' vs. 'normality' and other dichotomies are especially welcome. Areas of particular interest include: * Discourse on gender * Discourse of International Law * Discourse on immigration * Discourse of the war on terror * European Union discourse * United Nations and foreign aid discourse Reflecting our commitment to multiplicity in critical approaches to discourse analysis, the following plenary speakers have confirmed their participation: * Professor Piotr Cap (University of ??d?, Poland) * Professor Jonathan Charteris-Black (University of West England, UK) * Professor Teun van Dijk (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain) * Professor Ruth Wodak (Lancaster University, UK) Abstracts of no longer than 400 words should be submitted as MS Word attachment to discourse at cadaad.org by *10 DECEMBER 2007*. Authors should include their name, affiliation and email address. Successful authors will be notified via email by *15 February 2008*. Papers will be allocated twenty minutes plus ten minutes for questions. Selected proceedings will be published. Please visit http://cadaad.org/cadaad08 for further conference details. -- Christopher Hart Lecturer in English Language and Communication School of Humanities University of Hertfordshire www.hartcda.org.uk From francisco.ruizdemendoza at unirioja.es Wed Nov 28 19:43:08 2007 From: francisco.ruizdemendoza at unirioja.es (Francisco Ruiz de Mendoza) Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 20:43:08 +0100 Subject: AESLA 2008, Almera, Spain (A BSTRACT DEADLINE: December 20, 2007) Message-ID: EXTENDED ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo Due to multiple requests for further time to submit abstracts, the deadline for submission to the Conference From Applied Linguistics to the Linguistics of the Mind(April 3-5, 2008. Almer?a, Spain) has been extended until: Thursday 20th December 2007. oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo XXVI AESLA International Conference - From Applied Linguistics to the Linguistics of the Mind: Issues, Practices and Trends. University of Almer?a, April 3-5 2008, Almer?a, Spain Website: http://www.aesla.uji.es/congresos/ The aim of this conference is to provide a forum capable of capturing the multidisciplinary nature of most of the research on Applied Linguistics. And thus, to be a commonplace for researchers from different disciplines and subdisciplines whose priority objective is the study of language in all its manifestations. With the title "FROM APPLIED LINGUISTICS TO THE LINGUISTICS OF THE MIND: ISSUES, PRACTICES AND TRENDS" we intend to bring to the memory of all the participants that there is a current issue that has been extensively debated but it is still an advanced research field, that is, the connection between language and mind. Debates about this topic have been controversial and have turned into debates on metaphysics, epistemology, metaphilosophy, etc. But here we intend to reach them from the scientific approach of the linguistic capacity and the mind, and the analysis of its application in different issues, practices and trends. As a whole, we wish the Conference to constitute an active forum for exchange of opinions and ideas, thesis formulation and expositions, just as the start of new trends and lines of investigation on the cardinal points that define the main body of research on Applied Linguistics. The Conference will cover the following areas: ? Language acquisition ? Language teaching ? Language for specific purposes ? Language psychology, child language and psycolinguistics ? Sociolinguistics ? Pragmatics ? Discourse analysis ? Corpus linguistics, computational linguistics and linguistic engineering ? Lexicology and lexicography ? Translation and interpreting *There will be a special session on the "European Higher Education Area". The following distinguished scholars will be giving keynote lectures relating to the conference themes: ? Christopher Sinha, Portsmouth University, GB ? Claire Kramsch, University of California at Berkeley, USA ? Hans C. Boas, University of Texas at Austin, USA ? Jos? Luis Otal, Universitat Jaume I, Castell?n, Spain ? Lavinia Merilini Barbaressi, Universit? di Pisa, Italy ? Manuel Carreiras, Univesidad de La Laguna, Spain ? Marco Casonato, Universit? di Milano-Bicocca, Italy ? Pedro Chamizo Dom?nguez, Universidad de M?laga, Spain ? Ra?l ?vila, Col?gio de M?xico, M?xico ? Marcelo Berthier, Centro de Investigaci?n M?dico-Sanitaria de la Universidad de M?laga, Spain Submission of abstracts: Submissions are solicited for general sessions, round tables and poster sessions. 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 and the kind of presentation (poster, paper or round table). -Abstracts should be submitted through the following website: http://www.aesla.uji.es/congresos/en/proposalsubmission Reviewers will evaluate the contributions and will contact the authors regarding acceptance or rejection. Final versions (aprox. 2500 words) will be required to authors within a month from acceptance for publication. oooooooooooo ABSTRACT DEADLINE: December 20th 2007 oooooooooooo For full details please consult the conference website: http://www.aesla.uji.es/congresos/en/ The conference email address is aesla at ual.es Organisers: The conference is organised by AESLA (Spanish Applied Linguistics Association) and the Department of English and German Philology at the University of Almer?a with the collaboration of the Departments of Spanish and Latin Philology, the Department of French, General Linguistics and Literary Theory, and the Department of Psychology and Education. Conference chair Carmen M. Bretones Callejas Dpto. Filolog?a Inglesa y Alemana Universidad de Almer?a Ctra. Sacramento, s/n La Ca?ada de San Urbano 04120 Almer?a (Spain) Tf. +34 950 01 54 74 Fax. +34 950 01 54 75 ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo From francisco.ruizdemendoza at unirioja.es Wed Nov 28 19:48:37 2007 From: francisco.ruizdemendoza at unirioja.es (=?iso-8859-1?Q?=22Francisco_Jos=E9_Ruiz_De_Mendoza_Ib=E1=F1ez=22?=) Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 20:48:37 +0100 Subject: AESLA 2008, Almera, Spain (ABS TRACT DEADLINE: December 20, 2007) Message-ID: [Sorry for multiple postings]EXTENDED ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINEoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooDueto multiple requests for further time to submit abstracts, the deadlinefor submission to the Conference From Applied Linguistics to theLinguistics of the Mind(April 3-5, 2008. Almer?a, Spain) has beenextended until:Thursday 20th December 2007.ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooXXVI AESLA International Conference - From Applied Linguistics to the Linguistics of the Mind: Issues, Practices and Trends.University of Almer?a, April 3-5 2008, Almer?a, SpainWebsite: http://www.aesla.uji.es/congresos/Theaim of this conference is to provide a forum capable of capturing themultidisciplinary nature of most of the research on AppliedLinguistics. And thus, to be a commonplace for researchers fromdifferent disciplines and subdisciplines whose priority objective isthe study of language in all its manifestations.With the title "FROM APPLIED LINGUISTICS TO THE LINGUISTICS OFTHE MIND: ISSUES, PRACTICES AND TRENDS" we intend to bring to thememory of all the participants that there is a current issue that hasbeen extensively debated but it is still an advanced research field,that is, the connection between language and mind. Debates about thistopic have been controversial and have turned into debates onmetaphysics, epistemology, metaphilosophy, etc. But here we intend toreach them from the scientific approach of the linguistic capacity andthe mind, and the analysis of its application in different issues,practices and trends. As a whole, we wish the Conference to constitutean active forum for exchange of opinions and ideas, thesis formulationand expositions, just as the start of new trends and lines ofinvestigation on the cardinal points that define the main body ofresearch on Applied Linguistics.The Conference will cover the following areas:???? Language acquisition???? Language teaching???? Language for specific purposes???? Language psychology, child language and psycolinguistics???? Sociolinguistics???? Pragmatics???? Discourse analysis???? Corpus linguistics, computational linguistics and? linguistic engineering???? Lexicology and lexicography???? Translation and interpreting*There will be a special session on the "European Higher Education Area". The following distinguished scholars will be giving keynote lectures relating to the conference themes:???? Christopher Sinha, Portsmouth University, GB???? Claire Kramsch, University of California at Berkeley, USA ???? Hans C. Boas, University of Texas at Austin, USA???? Jos? Luis Otal, Universitat Jaume I, Castell?n, Spain ???? Lavinia Merilini Barbaressi, Universit? di Pisa, Italy???? Manuel Carreiras, Univesidad de La Laguna, Spain???? Marco Casonato, Universit? di Milano-Bicocca, Italy???? Pedro Chamizo Dom?nguez, Universidad de M?laga, Spain???? Ra?l ?vila, Col?gio de M?xico, M?xico???? Marcelo Berthier, Centro de Investigaci?n M?dico-Sanitaria de la Universidad de M?laga, SpainSubmission of abstracts:Submissions are solicited for general sessions, round tables and poster sessions.? The abstract guidelines for all sessions areas follows:-Abstracts should not exceed 500 words - references are excluded from this count-Abstracts should clearly indicate a presentation title and the kind of presentation (poster, paper or round table).-Abstracts should be submitted through the following website:?http://www.aesla.uji.es/congresos/en/proposalsubmissionReviewerswill evaluate the contributions and will contact the authors regarding?acceptance or rejection. Final versions (aprox. 2500 words) will berequired to authors within a month from acceptance for publication.oooooooooooo ABSTRACT DEADLINE: December 20th 2007 ooooooooooooFor full details please consult the conference website: http://www.aesla.uji.es/congresos/en/The conference email address is aesla at ual.esOrganisers:Theconference is organised by AESLA (Spanish Applied LinguisticsAssociation) and the Department of English and German Philology at theUniversity of Almer?a with the collaboration of the Departments ofSpanish and Latin Philology, the Department of French, GeneralLinguistics and Literary Theory, and the Department of Psychology andEducation.Conference chairCarmen M. Bretones CallejasDpto. Filolog?a Inglesa y AlemanaUniversidad de Almer?aCtra. Sacramento, s/nLa Ca?ada de San Urbano04120 Almer?a (Spain)Tf.?? +34 950 01 54 74Fax. +34 950 01 54 75ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo