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[Andrea Schalley]

*FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS*
*Workshop Epistemic perspective and social cognition*
Annual Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society 2011


DATE: 4 December 2011
LOCATION: Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
CONTACT PERSON: Andrea Schalley
CONTACT EMAIL: a.schalley at griffith.edu.au
ALS 2011 WEB SITE:    <http://law.anu.edu.au/coast/events/langfest/als.htm>
ALS 2011 SUBMISSION WEB SITE:
<http://langfest.anu.edu.au/index.php/als/ALS2011/schedConf/cfp>


*EXTENDED CALL DEADLINE*: 23 June 2011


*WORKSHOP TITLE:*
Epistemic perspective and social cognition


*WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION:*
Social cognition is the capacity to represent and reason about agents
and events in our social universe, and to interact with others by
building a shared mental world (e.g. Goody 1995; Enfield & Levinson
2006). This workshop will look at how social cognition categories are
grammaticalised across the world’s languages, and will in particular
focus on the nexus of social cognition and epistemic perspective (cf.,
amongst others, Evans 2007). This includes, but is by no means limited
to, the tracking of contents of other minds, the expression of knowledge
sources (such as mirative and evidential marking), representations and
reports of others’ speech and thoughts, or how social group role
descriptors (such as kinship systems) depend on epistemic perspective.

The workshop aims at bringing together researchers working in this new
exciting area of typological research. We invite contributions that are
evidence-based treatments of the epistemic perspective and social
cognition nexus in a single language, but also those that showcase
cross-linguistic comparisons or present overviews of a subarea such as
the ones mentioned above. In addition, we welcome methodological
discussions and presentations of fieldwork tasks used for such purposes.
It is our hope that the workshop will invigorate and instigate a broad
interest in the study of social cognition and how it is encoded in
natural language.

References:
Enfield, Nick J., and Stephen C. Levinson (eds.) 2006. Roots of Human
Sociality: Culture, Cognition and Interaction. Oxford: Berg.
Evans, Nicholas 2007. View with a view: Towards a typology of multiple
perspective. Proceedings of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 2005, 93-120.
Goody, Esther N. (ed.) 1995. Social Intelligence and Interaction.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.


*SUBMISSIONS:*
We invite submissions of abstracts of no more than 200 words (with up to
100 more words for references and examples). Please follow the
submissions guidelines and submit electronically at
<http://langfest.anu.edu.au/index.php/als/ALS2011/schedConf/cfp>.
Presentations consist of a 20-minute lecture-style presentation followed
by 10 minutes for questions/responses.


*MEETING DESCRIPTION:*
This half-day workshop is part of the Annual Conference of the
Australian Linguistic Society (ALS 2011), the yearly meeting of the
society. It will run alongside five other workshops (one of them a
closely related one on “Modality in the Indigenous languages of
Australia and PNG”) and general sessions.

ALS 2011 is one of the events held as part of LangFest 2011, a series of
events about language, languages and their relationship with the world
held in Canberra, Australia. LangFest 2011 runs from 27 November 2011
until 9 December 2011. For more information on LangFest 2011, including
information on the different events, the registration process,
accommodation, transport, venues, visas, and the location, please cf.
<http://law.anu.edu.au/coast/events/langfest/conference.htm>.


*ORGANISERS:*
The workshop is organized by the Australian Research Council Discovery
project “Social Cognition and Language”
(<http://chl.anu.edu.au/linguistics/projects/soccog/>).
Workshop convenors are Barbara Kelly (University of Melbourne) and
Andrea Schalley (Griffith University).




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Dr Andrea Schalley
Lecturer in Linguistics
School of Languages and Linguistics
Nathan Campus, Griffith University
Nathan, Brisbane, QLD 4111
AUSTRALIA
Ph: +61 7 3735-4428
Fax: +61 7 3735-6766
Email: a.schalley at griffith.edu.au