From lieven at eva.mpg.de Tue May 3 20:27:38 2011 From: lieven at eva.mpg.de (Elena Lieven) Date: Tue, 3 May 2011 21:27:38 +0100 Subject: Ambridge & Lieven: Child Language Acquisition: Contrasting Theoretical Approaches Message-ID: Dear all, With apologies for the shameless self-promotion, we (Ben Ambridge & Elena Lieven) would like to inform you that our new textbook (/Child Language Acquisition: Contrasting Theoretical Approaches/, Cambridge University Press) is out now (paperback/hardback/Kindle). As the name implies, our aim in writing the book was to compare the competing theoretical accounts of all the major language-acquisition phenomena, in as even-handed and comprehensive a manner as possible. We therefore hope that this will be a useful textbook for course-leaders of /all/ theoretical persuasions! If you teach a course on language acquisition, why not request a free inspection copy from Cambridge University Press? (links for inspection copies/purchase are below.) *Table of Contents* 1. Introduction 2. Speech perception, segmentation and production 3. Learning word meanings 4. Theoretical approaches to grammar acquisition 5. Inflection 6. Simple syntax 7. Movement and complex syntax 8. Binding, quantification and control 9. Related debates and conclusions. *Summary:* Is children's language acquisition based on innate linguistic structures or built from cognitive and communicative skills? This book summarises the major theoretical debates in all of the core domains of child language acquisition research (phonology, word-learning, inflectional morphology, syntax and binding) and includes a complete introduction to the two major contrasting theoretical approaches: generativist and constructivist. For each debate, the predictions of the competing accounts are closely and even-handedly evaluated against the empirical data. The result is an evidence-based review of the central issues in language acquisition research that will constitute a valuable resource for students, teachers, course-builders and researchers alike *Cambridge University Press - to request a free inspection copy or purchase (though usually cheaper at Amazon)* UK: http://www.cambridge.org/gb/knowledge/isbn/item5741469/?site_locale=en_GB USA: http://www.cambridge.org/us/knowledge/isbn/item5741469/?site_locale=en_US Elsewhere: http://www.cambridge.org/us/knowledge/location/ *Amazon* UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Child-Language-Acquisition-Contrasting-Theoretical/dp/0521745233/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1300707811&sr=8-1 USA: http://www.amazon.com/Child-Language-Acquisition-Contrasting-Theoretical/dp/0521745233/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1300708318&sr=8-1 -- Elena Lieven Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Deutscher Platz 6 D-04103 Leipzig Germany Tel.+49-(0)341-3550 404 +49-(0)341-3550 400 (Department Coordinator: Henriette Zeidler) Fax.+49-(0)341-3550 444 and Max Planck Child Study Centre School of Psychological Sciences University of Manchester Manchester M13 9PL UK Tel.+44-(0)161-275 2580 +44-(0)161-275 2444 (Research Secretary: Mickie Glover) Fax.+44-(0)161-275 8587 From wilcox at unm.edu Thu May 5 14:03:58 2011 From: wilcox at unm.edu (Sherman Wilcox) Date: Thu, 5 May 2011 08:03:58 -0600 Subject: Digital Life - Syria holding reporter at center of Twitter campaign Message-ID: Dear fellow FunkNetters, Some of you may have seen this story about the captured Al Jazeera reporter Dorothy Parvaz: http://digitallife.today.com/_news/2011/05/04/6585986-syria-holding-reporter-at-center-of-twitter-campaign Dorothy is the sister of Dan Parvaz. Dan is a doctoral student in linguistics at the University of New Mexico. Dan works as a computational linguist at Mitre Corporation. The family is asking people to contact the Syrian government and politely request her release. For people in the US, the Syrian Embassy in Washington DC contact information is: as1 at syrembassy.net or by phone 202-232-6313 ext. 139 Thank you for your help, -- Sherman Wilcox Professor Department of Linguistics University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM 871131 From mohd.zaidi2007 at hotmail.co.uk Sun May 8 15:20:41 2011 From: mohd.zaidi2007 at hotmail.co.uk (M Z) Date: Sun, 8 May 2011 16:20:41 +0100 Subject: phonological information of a structure in a given language..is it better to be represented as a tree-structure format or not? Message-ID: Dear All, Is there some studies arguing against the idea of representing phonological information in general (and prosodic information in particular) in tree-structure format as we have been doing with syntactic structure, for example? Any help appreciated... Thank you in advance From a.schalley at griffith.edu.au Tue May 10 04:42:52 2011 From: a.schalley at griffith.edu.au (Andrea Schalley) Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 14:42:52 +1000 Subject: Workshop =?windows-1252?Q?=93Epistemic_perspective_and_social_cognition=94=2C_?=Dec 2011, Australia Message-ID: *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: ALS 2011 SUBMISSION WEB SITE: *CALL DEADLINE: 31 May 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 . 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. . *ORGANISERS:* The workshop is organized by the Australian Research Council Discovery project “Social Cognition and Language” (). Workshop convenors are Barbara Kelly (University of Melbourne) and Andrea Schalley (Griffith University). -- 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 From kemmer at rice.edu Sun May 15 23:18:14 2011 From: kemmer at rice.edu (Suzanne Kemmer) Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 11:18:14 +1200 Subject: CFP: Tracking Language Change in Specialized and Professional Genres (Clavier 11) Message-ID: CLAVIER 11 International Conference (Apologies for cross postings) CLAVIER 11 TRACKING LANGUAGE CHANGE IN SPECIALISED AND PROFESSIONAL GENRES Modena, 24-26 November 2011 The international conference ‘Tracking Language Change in Specialised and Professional Genres’, hosted by the CLAVIER Group, will take place in Modena on 24-26 November 2011. The nature of genres has always been defined as both static and dynamic, functioning as discursive action within particular social, historical and cultural contexts but open to individual and collective creativity and innovation. Corpora can be powerful tools in tracking this kind of change, as clearly shown by a well-established tradition in historical linguistics, where growing interest has been shown in the diachronic analysis of specialized genres. Elements of change, however, can also be seen at work in contemporary discourse. As a consequence, there is an increasing need for diachronic approaches that may help map changes brought about for example by new technologies or globalization. Nowadays, with the recession of the traditional constraints of geography on social and cultural arrangements brought about by globalization, new cultural and linguistic interconnections are being established, for example in academic and professional settings. This state of things can account both for the emergence of new ‘globalizing genres’, and for the implementation of a series of adaptations to the existing ones, as possible solutions to guarantee the success and survival of different genres in an era which celebrates the need for a ‘global reach’. The conference intends to focus on such issues in order to provide a better definition of the methods of investigation of language change, the tools, the approaches, the new perspectives, bringing together two complementary strands of linguistic investigation - corpus analysis and genre analysis. The conference purports to describe the extent to which language resources and generic resources are creatively exploited in discourse, variously responding to or determining new socio-cultural scenarios, with a special interest in technological developments which have radically changed the way specialized knowledge is disseminated. In particular, contributions are invited, focusing on textual, intertextual, organizational aspects of genres, as well as on interdiscursivity and other aspects which contextualize genres as reflections of changing disciplinary and professional cultures, investigating how their integrity is negotiated and exploited, in the following domains: · Academic · Professional · Institutional The conference is held by the CLAVIER (Corpus and Language Variation In English Research) group, a research centre founded by the Universities of Bergamo, Firenze, Modena and Reggio Emilia, Roma “La Sapienza”, and Siena, currently based in Modena. One of the purposes of the 2011 CLAVIER conference is to reinforce national and international cooperation with scholars and research centres that can widen and complement the interest in language variation both in quantitative and qualitative terms. Plenaries Plenary speakers who have accepted to participate are: Dawn Archer (University of Central Lancashire) Winnie Cheng (Hong Kong Polytechnic University – Hong Kong) Marianne Hundt (University of Zurich) The conference will start early in the afternoon on the first day and close around lunchtime on the third day, after a roundtable in which participants and invited speakers will discuss theoretical and methodological issues emerged from the papers presented in the previous sessions. The colleagues who have agreed to take part in the round table are: Jan Engberg (Aarhus School of Business) Giuliana Garzone (Università degli Studi di Milano) Maurizio Gotti (University of Bergamo) Josef Schmied (Chemnitz University of Technology) Paul Thompson (University of Birmingham) Elena Tognini-Bonelli (University of Siena) Geoffrey Williams (University of South Brittany). Presentation Guidelines Papers will be allotted 20 minutes, plus 10 minutes for discussion. Working Language: English Contributions will be accepted on condition that they are relevant to the special theme of the Conference. Abstract Submission Please send your anonymous abstract totalling no more than 500 words by June 20th to the following address: clavier11 unimore.it Please do not include any self-identifying information on the abstract; indicate only the title and the abstract itself. On a separate cover sheet, include: Title: Format: (paper/ poster) Author(s): Affiliation(s): Postal mailing address (for primary author): E-mail (for primary author): Important dates June 20th: Deadline for receipt of abstracts July 11th: Notifications of acceptance July 26th: Deadline for early bird registration July 29th: Preliminary Programme Organizing committee: Marina Bondi – Silvia Cavalieri - Giuliana Diani - Franca Poppi Scientific Committee: Julia Bamford (Napoli) - Marina Bondi (Modena e Reggio Emilia) – Gabriella Del Lungo (Firenze) - Marina Dossena (Bergamo) – Franca Poppi (Modena e Reggio Emilia) - Rita Salvi (Roma) – Elena Tognini Bonelli (Siena) For any additional information, please contact Franca Poppi: franca.poppi unimore.it or visit the Conference web-site at: http://clavier.sltt.unimore.it/on-line/Home.html Prof. Franca Poppi Associate Professor of English Linguistics University of Modena and Reggio Emilia Faculty of Arts and Humanities Largo Sant'Eufemia, 19 41121 Modena Italy tel. + 39 059 2055946 From federica.damilano at gmail.com Mon May 16 17:01:00 2011 From: federica.damilano at gmail.com (Federica Da Milano) Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 19:01:00 +0200 Subject: International workshop "Space and language: on deixis" Message-ID: [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call, it has been posted to several relevant mailing lists. Please redistribute within your own group or among colleagues, thank you very much!] Date: 9-June-2011 – 10 June-2011-05-15 Location: Milan, Italy Contact: Federica Da Milano Contact Email: federica.damilano at unimib.it Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics, linguistic typology, anthropological linguistics Meeting description: The workshop aims to contribute to the discussion on the current trends in linguistic research on spatial deixis from different perspectives: anthropological, linguistic and cognitive. Program 9th June 15.00: opening 15.15 William Hanks Comparative deictic systems 16.15 Nick Enfield The human ethology of deixis: observing deixis as a tool for navigating social space 17.15 Michele Prandi Ground-anchored deixis: theoretical and empirical implications 10th June 9.30: Maurizio Gnerre Interactive indexical implementations of ideophones in narrative genres 10.30 Federica Da Milano/Ignazio Putzu/Paolo Ramat Deixis from a cognitive and linguistic point of view: a case study 11.30 Ellen Fricke Origo, gesture, and space: the impact of co-speech gestures on linguistic deixis theories 12.30 Konstanze Jungbluth Positions – constellations – practices: Referring to the space in front of the hearer From kemmer at rice.edu Thu May 19 00:38:28 2011 From: kemmer at rice.edu (Suzanne Kemmer) Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 12:38:28 +1200 Subject: CFP: Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis - wide range of approaches welcome Message-ID: Dear colleagues, The fourth international conference Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis across Disciplines (CADAAD) will take place at the University of Minho in Braga, Portugal 4-6 July 2012. The following distinguished scholars have confirmed their participation as plenary speakers: · Professor Paul Chilton (Lancaster University) · Dr Michal Krzyzanowski (Lancaster University) · Professor Michelle Lazar (National University of Singapore) · Professor Juana Marín Arrese (Universidad Complutense Madrid) · Professor Teun van Dijk (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) CADAAD conferences are intended to promote current directions and new developments in cross-disciplinary critical discourse research. We welcome papers dealing with any contemporary social, scientific, political, economic, or professional discourse/genre. Possible topics include but are not limited to the following: · (New) Media discourse · Party political discourse · Advertising · Discourses of war and terrorism · Discourses of discrimination and inequality · Power, ideology and dominance in institutional discourse · Identity in discourse · Education discourses · Environmental discourses · Health communication · Language and the law We especially welcome papers which re-examine existing frameworks for critical discourse research and/or which highlight and apply new methodologies sourced from anywhere across the humanities, social and cognitive sciences including but without being limited to: · Sociolinguistics · Functional Linguistics · Cognitive Linguistics · Corpus Linguistics · Pragmatics and Argumentation Theory · Conversation and Discourse Analysis · Discursive Psychology · Multimodality · Media Studies · Communication Studies · Political Science Papers will be allocated 20 minutes with 10 minutes for questions. The language of the conference is English. Abstracts of no more than 300 words including references should be sent as MS Word attachment to c.j.hart at herts.ac.uk before 18 December 2011. Please include in the body of the email but not in the abstract your name, affiliation and email address. Notifications of acceptance will be communicated by 1 February 2012. Further information is available at www.cadaad.net/cadaad_2012. For any other inquiries please contact Chris Hart (c.j.hart at herts.ac.uk) or the local organiser, Zara Simões Pinto Coelho (zara at ics.uminho.pt). Kind regards, Chris Hart Dr Christopher Hart Senior Lecturer in English Language and Communication University of Hertfordshire go.herts.ac.uk/cjhart From v.evans at bangor.ac.uk Fri May 20 09:50:42 2011 From: v.evans at bangor.ac.uk (Vyv Evans) Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 10:50:42 +0100 Subject: Language, time and the Amondawa Message-ID: Dear all, Colleagues may be interested in the following story just published by the BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13452711 It relates to findings by Chris Sinha and colleagues on the lexicalisation and conceptualisation of time by the Amondawa, a remote tribe in Western Amazonia. The findings have potential implications for issues pertaining to cross-linguistic and cross-cultural differences, and universals (or the lack of them) in the domain of time. The full paper has recently been published in Language & Cognition. Institutional and individual subscribers to the journal will be able to download the paper electronically. The journal website is here: www.languageandcognition.net Best wishes, Vyv -- Prof. Vyv Evans Professor of Linguistics www.vyvevans.net Head of School School of Linguistics & English Language Bangor University www.bangor.ac.uk/linguistics General Editor of 'Language & Cognition' A Mouton de Gruyter journal www.languageandcognition.net From phonosemantics at earthlink.net Fri May 20 17:00:48 2011 From: phonosemantics at earthlink.net (jess tauber) Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 13:00:48 -0400 Subject: Language, time and the Amondawa Message-ID: This reminds me a little of the way Yahgan deals with number. The only true numerals are 1,2,3, matching the singular, dual, trial marking in the grammar. Yet 'number' is pervasive throughout the (classical 19th C.) language. Number higher than 3 tends to rely on ranges rather than specific positions, and even here it seems the system differentiated whether the value was arrived at by addition, by subtraction, or existed neutrally. Anatomically based terms could be ambiguous (for ex. 5 and 10 relative to the fingers of the hands). There were several different terms for 'halves' differentiating how the halves were physically produced. Time as an abstract notion was also absent- a year was a winter, and terms for spring also occur used for new occurrences, so perhaps the beginnings of an abstract system? It is a question as to whether consolidated 'day' and 'month' terms existed abstractly except in the minds of the missionaries who recorded and described the language- the language divided day/night into different salient parts, and the lunar cycle also. Names for seasons were usually attached to the events transpiring within them- crab season, canoe-bark season, and so on. Color terms in Yahgan were generally binary. The second term defined darkness, whiteness, or reddishness, and then the first acted to more precisely specify it. So yellowish-red was aia-lush, or bile-red. So the underlying set is just black, white, red. Jess Tauber phonosemantics at earthlink.net From dan at daneverett.org Fri May 20 17:08:31 2011 From: dan at daneverett.org (Daniel Everett) Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 13:08:31 -0400 Subject: Language, time and the Amondawa In-Reply-To: <28574273.1305910849534.JavaMail.root@wamui-junio.atl.sa.earthlink.net> Message-ID: Amondawa is a subgroup of the Kawahiv, also including at least the Juma, the Parintintin, and the Tenharim (where Levi-Strauss worked). Waud Kracke, of the U of Illinois, Chicago, is the principal academic authority on the culture of the Kawahiv and speaks the language fluently. SIL has translated a New Testament into the language (for the Tenharim). The Kawahiv are traditional enemies of the Pirahas (who refer to them regularly as bogeymen to scare children "The Kawahiv are going to get you!"). Testing these results should be straightforward. I know of at least one planned set of replication experiments planned for this summer. This is an interesting paper. However, Pierre Pica, in the BBC news report, raises some interesting questions. Both Mundurucu, where Pica works, and Amondawa are Tupi-Guarani (Aryon Rodrigues actually places Mundurucu and Satere-Mawe in a separate Mundurucu family of the Tupi phylum, but I am not sure if he has published on that). It is always good to look at culture and language simultaneously. Jeanette Sakel and I offer some methodological suggestions on how to do the latter in our forthcoming textbook, Linguistic Fieldwork: A Student Guide, to appear next academic year in the CUP red series. Dan On May 20, 2011, at 1:00 PM, jess tauber wrote: > This reminds me a little of the way Yahgan deals with number. The only true numerals are 1,2,3, matching the singular, dual, trial marking in the grammar. Yet 'number' is pervasive throughout the (classical 19th C.) language. Number higher than 3 tends to rely on ranges rather than specific positions, and even here it seems the system differentiated whether the value was arrived at by addition, by subtraction, or existed neutrally. Anatomically based terms could be ambiguous (for ex. 5 and 10 relative to the fingers of the hands). There were several different terms for 'halves' differentiating how the halves were physically produced. > > Time as an abstract notion was also absent- a year was a winter, and terms for spring also occur used for new occurrences, so perhaps the beginnings of an abstract system? It is a question as to whether consolidated 'day' and 'month' terms existed abstractly except in the minds of the missionaries who recorded and described the language- the language divided day/night into different salient parts, and the lunar cycle also. Names for seasons were usually attached to the events transpiring within them- crab season, canoe-bark season, and so on. > > Color terms in Yahgan were generally binary. The second term defined darkness, whiteness, or reddishness, and then the first acted to more precisely specify it. So yellowish-red was aia-lush, or bile-red. So the underlying set is just black, white, red. > > Jess Tauber > phonosemantics at earthlink.net > From paul at benjamins.com Fri May 27 18:30:09 2011 From: paul at benjamins.com (Paul Peranteau) Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 14:30:09 -0400 Subject: New Benjamins title: Givon - Ute Reference Grammar Message-ID: Ute Reference Grammar By T. *Givón*, University of Oregon Culture and Language Use 3 2011. xxiii, 441 pp. Hardbound 978 90 272 0284 0 / EUR 110.00 / USD 165.00 Paperback 978 90 272 0285 7 / EUR 36.00 / USD 54.00 e-Book - Available from e-book platforms 978 90 272 8741 0 / EUR 110.00 / USD 165.00 Ute is a Uto-Aztecan language of the northern-most (Numic) sub-family. It is currently spoken on three Indian reservations in western Colorado and eastern Utah. Like most native languages in North America, Ute is severely endangered, and this book is part of the effort toward its preservation. The description given here is based on 35 years of work on the Southern Ute Reservation in Southwest Colorado. Typologically, Ute offers a cluster of intriguing features -- nominalization of all subordinate clauses, pragmatically-controlled word order, an evolving system of pronominal suffixes, remnants of a noun-classifier system, a constantly expanding system of post-positions, and more -- all viewed best from a perspective of ongoing historical change. While the book is a comprehensive description of the grammar as used now by Ute elders, it also describes a language in the midst of historical change. It is the first of a three-volume set which also includes a collection of oral texts and a dictionary. Ute speakers and tribal members on the three Ute reservations may find this volume a step-by-step introduction to the grammar of their language -- how words are combined into meaningful clauses, and how clauses in turn are combined into coherent communication. Linguists may find here a detailed description of a beautiful language, an account informed by communicative use, language universals, and diachronic change. Table of contents Table of contents i--xvii Preface xix--xx Foreword xxi--xxii Namu-máy-vaa-tu- xxiii--xxiv Chapter 1. Introduction 1--14 Chapter 2. Sound system and orthography 15--32 Chapter 3. Word classes and word structure 33--62 Chapter 4. Simple clauses: Verb types, participant roles, and grammatical relations 63--92 Chapter 5. The diachrony of Ute case-marking 93--116 Chapter 6. Tense, aspect, modality and negation 117--154 Chapter 7. Noun phrases-I: Referential coherence 155--192 Chapter 8. Noun phrases-II: Larger noun modifiers 193--212 Chapter 9. Verbal complements 213--230 Chapter 10. De-Transitive Voice 231--262 Chapter 11. The diachrony of Ute passives 263--272 Chapter 12. Relative clauses 273--292 Chapter 13. Contrastive focus and emphasis 293--302 Chapter 14. Non-declarative speech acts 303--334 Chapter 15. Possession 335--346 Chapter 16. Comparative constructions 347--356 Chapter 17. Adverbial clauses 357--388 Chapter 18. Clause chaining and discourse coherence 389--404 Chapter 19. Lexical derivation patterns 405--426 Chapter 20. Interjections 427--430 Bibliography 431--434 Index -- Paul M. Peranteau John Benjamins Publishing 763 N 24th Street Philadelphia PA USA Ph: 215 769-3444 Fax: 215 769-3446 From gudrun.ziegler at web.de Sun May 29 14:02:24 2011 From: gudrun.ziegler at web.de (Gudrun Ziegler) Date: Sun, 29 May 2011 16:02:24 +0200 Subject: Now available: Thematic Issue: Education and Professional Development of Language Teachers Message-ID: Dear colleagues, chers collègues, the following is a new publication which might be of interest for you. NewIssue - ForumSprache - Spring 2011 - Thematic Issue: Education and Professional Development of Language Teachers in Europe Get ForumSprache: http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/hueber/forum http://www.hueber.de/forum-sprache/?lang=en >>From the editorial of the thematic issue: This new issue of ForumSprache again has a central topic: education and professional development of language teachers in Europe. Gudrun Ziegler’s paper introduces the topic by outlining the main results of a European project, which was run in 2009; her article also puts the following contributions from Hungary, Luxemburg, Spain, Switzerland, Rumania, and the UK into context. In our section on „language policy“ Alicia Fuentes-Calles (Barcelona) introduces LINGUAPAX, a UNESCO initiative to foster peace education and multilingualism worldwide. ForumSprache firmly supports both goals. The two contributions in the „Best Practice“ section of ForumSprache are relevant for all languages. Ursula Stohler (Prague) and Daniel Henseler (Fribourg) show how task-based learning and creative activities can enhance university courses in literature. Their examples are taken from Russian, but the procedures suggested may be applied to other literary texts as well. Cornelia Brückner (Berlin) discusses the impact of digital media, in particular social networks and internet communication, on language learning. Again, the activities she describes in the areas of microblogging and social networks can be used with any language. Neue Ausgabe - ForumSprache - Frühling 2011 - Themenheft: Ausbildung und Professionalisierung von Sprachlehrkräften in Europa Get ForumSprache: http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/hueber/forum http://www.hueber.de/forum-sprache/?lang=en Aus dem Editorial des Themenhefts: Die neue Ausgabe von ForumSprache besitzt einen thematischen Schwerpunkt: Ausbildung und Professionalisierung von Sprachlehrkräften in Europa. Das Schwerpunktthema wird im ersten Beitrag von Gudrun Ziegler genauer vorgestellt. Dabei greift sie auf Ergebnisse eines europäischen Projekts zurück, das im Auftrag der Europäischen Kommission 2009 durchgeführt wurde. Die weiteren Beiträge zum Thema sind im besten Sinne europäisch und stammen aus Großbritannien, Luxemburg, der Schweiz, Spanien, Rumänien und Ungarn. Der sprachenpolitische Beitrag dieser Ausgabe widmet sich der Initiative LINGUAPAX der UNESCO. Alicia Fuentes-Calles (Barcelona) erläutert die Ziele von LINGUAPAX, die Friedenserziehung und Förderung der Mehrsprachigkeit verbinden. ForumSprache möchte beide Ziele nachdrücklich unterstützen. Auch die beiden Beiträge zu „Best Practice“ sind mehrsprachig relevant. Ursula Stohler (Prag) und Daniel Henseler (Fribourg) zeigen am Beispiel des Russischen, wie Handlungsorientierung im Umgang mit Texten im universitären Literaturunterricht umgesetzt werden kann. Daraus ergeben sich vielfältige Anregungen für die Textarbeit mit anderen Literaturen. Cornelia Brückner (Berlin) beschäftigt sich mit den Anforderungen, die die neuen Medien und vor allem die Sozialen Netzwerke an den Fremdsprachenunterricht stellen. Sie zeigt an Beispielen, mit welchen Aufgaben die Internetkommunikation und die Formen des Microblogging sinnvoll für das Sprachenlernen genutzt werden können. In der Rubrik „Workshop“ und dem angeschlossenen YouTube-Kanal finden Sie drei neue und die vorerst letzten Videoclips von Pascale Caemerbeke (Paris) zu ausgewählten Lieblingswörtern im Französischen. Die beiden Französischlehrkräfte Yana Nebolsina und Richard Moreau (beide Luxemburg) sind unserem Aufruf gefolgt und stellen ihre Unterrichtsideen zum Lieblingswort Macha’s (le pompon) und zur Lieblingsäußerung Elizabeth’s (oui mais) zur Verfügung. ___________________________________________________________ From kemmer at rice.edu Mon May 30 10:55:57 2011 From: kemmer at rice.edu (Suzanne Kemmer) Date: Mon, 30 May 2011 22:55:57 +1200 Subject: Final call: First Asia Pacific Corpus Linguistics conference, Auckland Message-ID: **Apologies for cross-posting** This is the final call for papers for the (first) Asia Pacific Corpus Linguistics Conference, which will be held at the University of Auckland in New Zealand from February 15th to 19th, 2012. The abstracts received so far have come from the Americas and Europe, as well as the Asia Pacific region. The extended deadline for submissions is June 15th. Submissions in the form of a 300-word abstract can be for: a 15-minute paper (plus discussion); a poster; a 3-hour or 6-hour workshop Abstracts can be submitted (and modified) at linguistlist.org/confcustom/apclc2012 Keynote speakers: Averil Coxhead, University of Victoria, Wellington. Yukio Tono, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies Special invited speakers are: Susan Conrad, Portland State University Tony McEnery, University of Lancaster Conference email: apclc at corpling.com Conference website: www.corpling.com/conf Organisers Michael BARLOW, University of Auckland Helen BASTURKMEN, University of Auckland Yukio TONO, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies Advisory Committee Monika BEDNAREK, University of Sydney Budsaba KANOKSILAPATHAM, Silpakorn University Howard CHEN, National Taiwan Normal University Winnie CHENG, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Hong Thu DAO, Vietnam National University Danilo DAYAG, De La Salle University, Manila Lynne FLOWERDEW, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Paul GERAGHTY, University of the South Pacific Michael HAUGH, Griffith University Anping HE, Guangzhou Nornal University San San HNIN TUN, INALCO Huaqing HONG, Nanyang Technological University Hitoshi ISAHARA, Toyohashi University of Technology CK JUNG, Seoul National University Ummul KHAIR AHMAD, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia Mohammad Abid KHAN, University of Peshawar Deny Arnos KWARY, Aarhus University Dushyanthi MENDIS, University of Columbo Ute ROEMER, University of Michigan Niladri SEKHAR DASH, Indian Statistical Institute Jiajin XU, Beijing Foreign Studies University Yogendra YADAVA, Nepal Language Technology Kendra --- Michael Barlow Assoc. Prof. DALSL. University of Auckland www.michaelbarlow.com Asia Pacific Corpus Linguistics Conference corpling.com/conf _______________________________________________ From twood at uwc.ac.za Tue May 31 11:33:23 2011 From: twood at uwc.ac.za (Tahir Wood) Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 13:33:23 +0200 Subject: Searle question Message-ID: I wonder if anyone can enlighten me concerning Searle's (1969) distinction between regulative and constitutive rules. It has been said that this distinction goes back to Kant, although in Searle's case it has also been said it comes via the influence of Rawls and his 1955 paper 'Two concepts of rules'. What I find a little puzzling is the fact that Searle's argument is very close to that of Rawls, where regulative corresponds roughly to 'summary' and constitutive corresponds to 'practice' in Rawls. But why does he use terms that have been derived from Kant for this, rather than just adopting Rawls's terminology? Kant's use of the terms regulative and constitutive and their distinction is fairly sparse and scattered. And it refers to a distinction that (as far as I can see) is very different from that of Searle and Rawls. For Kant 'constitutive' refers to the use of the categories and it concerns their application in empirical judgments (Understanding); whereas the 'regulative' principle (of Reason) operates only on the Understanding, never upon empirical realities themselves. There must be some reason why Searle chose Kant's terminology but applied it to Rawls's distinction, with which it seems to have so little in common. If anyone could shed light on this, and especially if there are any references to works that do so, I would be very grateful. Tahir -------------- next part -------------- All Email originating from UWC is covered by disclaimer http://www.uwc.ac.za/emaildisclaimer From lise.menn at Colorado.EDU Tue May 31 19:33:33 2011 From: lise.menn at Colorado.EDU (Lise Menn) Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 13:33:33 -0600 Subject: Linguistic Institute 2011, Boulder CO - don't postpone! And please relay to students & colleagues! Message-ID: On behalf of the Linguistic Institute (being held in Boulder, Colorado - the most beautiful place in the U.S. to spend 4 weeks of your summer): > Dear Funknet members, > > The Linguistic Institute 2011 will take place July 7-August 2 on the > campus of the University of Colorado at Boulder, with major > sponsorship by the Linguistic Society of America and the university. > Courses are being taught by over 100 outstanding international > visiting faculty members. 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There will be many workshops, courses and lectures of > interest to functionalists, including a plenary talk by evolutionary > anthropologist Terence Deacon, and courses and workshops on > information structure, sociophonetics, sociolinguistics of > endangered languages and the interactional foundations of language. > > Online registration is open through July 5th at the Institute > website: https://verbs.colorado.edu/LSA2011/index.html. > > CAMPUS HOUSING RESERVATIONS CAN BE MADE THROUGH JUNE 13, 2011. > > Laura Michaelis-Cummings > Associate Professor > Department of Linguistics > University of Colorado > 295UCB > Boulder, CO 80309 > > Lise Menn Home Office: 303-444-4274 1625 Mariposa Ave Fax: 303-413-0017 Boulder CO 80302 http://spot.colorado.edu/~menn/index.html Professor Emerita of Linguistics Fellow, Institute of Cognitive Science University of Colorado Secretary, AAAS Section Z [Linguistics] Fellow, Linguistic Society of America Campus Mail Address: UCB 594, Institute for Cognitive Science Campus Physical Address: CINC 234 1777 Exposition Ave, Boulder From lieven at eva.mpg.de Tue May 3 20:27:38 2011 From: lieven at eva.mpg.de (Elena Lieven) Date: Tue, 3 May 2011 21:27:38 +0100 Subject: Ambridge & Lieven: Child Language Acquisition: Contrasting Theoretical Approaches Message-ID: Dear all, With apologies for the shameless self-promotion, we (Ben Ambridge & Elena Lieven) would like to inform you that our new textbook (/Child Language Acquisition: Contrasting Theoretical Approaches/, Cambridge University Press) is out now (paperback/hardback/Kindle). As the name implies, our aim in writing the book was to compare the competing theoretical accounts of all the major language-acquisition phenomena, in as even-handed and comprehensive a manner as possible. We therefore hope that this will be a useful textbook for course-leaders of /all/ theoretical persuasions! If you teach a course on language acquisition, why not request a free inspection copy from Cambridge University Press? (links for inspection copies/purchase are below.) *Table of Contents* 1. Introduction 2. Speech perception, segmentation and production 3. Learning word meanings 4. Theoretical approaches to grammar acquisition 5. Inflection 6. Simple syntax 7. Movement and complex syntax 8. Binding, quantification and control 9. Related debates and conclusions. *Summary:* Is children's language acquisition based on innate linguistic structures or built from cognitive and communicative skills? This book summarises the major theoretical debates in all of the core domains of child language acquisition research (phonology, word-learning, inflectional morphology, syntax and binding) and includes a complete introduction to the two major contrasting theoretical approaches: generativist and constructivist. For each debate, the predictions of the competing accounts are closely and even-handedly evaluated against the empirical data. The result is an evidence-based review of the central issues in language acquisition research that will constitute a valuable resource for students, teachers, course-builders and researchers alike *Cambridge University Press - to request a free inspection copy or purchase (though usually cheaper at Amazon)* UK: http://www.cambridge.org/gb/knowledge/isbn/item5741469/?site_locale=en_GB USA: http://www.cambridge.org/us/knowledge/isbn/item5741469/?site_locale=en_US Elsewhere: http://www.cambridge.org/us/knowledge/location/ *Amazon* UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Child-Language-Acquisition-Contrasting-Theoretical/dp/0521745233/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1300707811&sr=8-1 USA: http://www.amazon.com/Child-Language-Acquisition-Contrasting-Theoretical/dp/0521745233/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1300708318&sr=8-1 -- Elena Lieven Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Deutscher Platz 6 D-04103 Leipzig Germany Tel.+49-(0)341-3550 404 +49-(0)341-3550 400 (Department Coordinator: Henriette Zeidler) Fax.+49-(0)341-3550 444 and Max Planck Child Study Centre School of Psychological Sciences University of Manchester Manchester M13 9PL UK Tel.+44-(0)161-275 2580 +44-(0)161-275 2444 (Research Secretary: Mickie Glover) Fax.+44-(0)161-275 8587 From wilcox at unm.edu Thu May 5 14:03:58 2011 From: wilcox at unm.edu (Sherman Wilcox) Date: Thu, 5 May 2011 08:03:58 -0600 Subject: Digital Life - Syria holding reporter at center of Twitter campaign Message-ID: Dear fellow FunkNetters, Some of you may have seen this story about the captured Al Jazeera reporter Dorothy Parvaz: http://digitallife.today.com/_news/2011/05/04/6585986-syria-holding-reporter-at-center-of-twitter-campaign Dorothy is the sister of Dan Parvaz. Dan is a doctoral student in linguistics at the University of New Mexico. Dan works as a computational linguist at Mitre Corporation. The family is asking people to contact the Syrian government and politely request her release. For people in the US, the Syrian Embassy in Washington DC contact information is: as1 at syrembassy.net or by phone 202-232-6313 ext. 139 Thank you for your help, -- Sherman Wilcox Professor Department of Linguistics University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM 871131 From mohd.zaidi2007 at hotmail.co.uk Sun May 8 15:20:41 2011 From: mohd.zaidi2007 at hotmail.co.uk (M Z) Date: Sun, 8 May 2011 16:20:41 +0100 Subject: phonological information of a structure in a given language..is it better to be represented as a tree-structure format or not? Message-ID: Dear All, Is there some studies arguing against the idea of representing phonological information in general (and prosodic information in particular) in tree-structure format as we have been doing with syntactic structure, for example? Any help appreciated... Thank you in advance From a.schalley at griffith.edu.au Tue May 10 04:42:52 2011 From: a.schalley at griffith.edu.au (Andrea Schalley) Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 14:42:52 +1000 Subject: Workshop =?windows-1252?Q?=93Epistemic_perspective_and_social_cognition=94=2C_?=Dec 2011, Australia Message-ID: *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: ALS 2011 SUBMISSION WEB SITE: *CALL DEADLINE: 31 May 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 . 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. . *ORGANISERS:* The workshop is organized by the Australian Research Council Discovery project ?Social Cognition and Language? (). Workshop convenors are Barbara Kelly (University of Melbourne) and Andrea Schalley (Griffith University). -- 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 From kemmer at rice.edu Sun May 15 23:18:14 2011 From: kemmer at rice.edu (Suzanne Kemmer) Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 11:18:14 +1200 Subject: CFP: Tracking Language Change in Specialized and Professional Genres (Clavier 11) Message-ID: CLAVIER 11 International Conference (Apologies for cross postings) CLAVIER 11 TRACKING LANGUAGE CHANGE IN SPECIALISED AND PROFESSIONAL GENRES Modena, 24-26 November 2011 The international conference ?Tracking Language Change in Specialised and Professional Genres?, hosted by the CLAVIER Group, will take place in Modena on 24-26 November 2011. The nature of genres has always been defined as both static and dynamic, functioning as discursive action within particular social, historical and cultural contexts but open to individual and collective creativity and innovation. Corpora can be powerful tools in tracking this kind of change, as clearly shown by a well-established tradition in historical linguistics, where growing interest has been shown in the diachronic analysis of specialized genres. Elements of change, however, can also be seen at work in contemporary discourse. As a consequence, there is an increasing need for diachronic approaches that may help map changes brought about for example by new technologies or globalization. Nowadays, with the recession of the traditional constraints of geography on social and cultural arrangements brought about by globalization, new cultural and linguistic interconnections are being established, for example in academic and professional settings. This state of things can account both for the emergence of new ?globalizing genres?, and for the implementation of a series of adaptations to the existing ones, as possible solutions to guarantee the success and survival of different genres in an era which celebrates the need for a ?global reach?. The conference intends to focus on such issues in order to provide a better definition of the methods of investigation of language change, the tools, the approaches, the new perspectives, bringing together two complementary strands of linguistic investigation - corpus analysis and genre analysis. The conference purports to describe the extent to which language resources and generic resources are creatively exploited in discourse, variously responding to or determining new socio-cultural scenarios, with a special interest in technological developments which have radically changed the way specialized knowledge is disseminated. In particular, contributions are invited, focusing on textual, intertextual, organizational aspects of genres, as well as on interdiscursivity and other aspects which contextualize genres as reflections of changing disciplinary and professional cultures, investigating how their integrity is negotiated and exploited, in the following domains: ? Academic ? Professional ? Institutional The conference is held by the CLAVIER (Corpus and Language Variation In English Research) group, a research centre founded by the Universities of Bergamo, Firenze, Modena and Reggio Emilia, Roma ?La Sapienza?, and Siena, currently based in Modena. One of the purposes of the 2011 CLAVIER conference is to reinforce national and international cooperation with scholars and research centres that can widen and complement the interest in language variation both in quantitative and qualitative terms. Plenaries Plenary speakers who have accepted to participate are: Dawn Archer (University of Central Lancashire) Winnie Cheng (Hong Kong Polytechnic University ? Hong Kong) Marianne Hundt (University of Zurich) The conference will start early in the afternoon on the first day and close around lunchtime on the third day, after a roundtable in which participants and invited speakers will discuss theoretical and methodological issues emerged from the papers presented in the previous sessions. The colleagues who have agreed to take part in the round table are: Jan Engberg (Aarhus School of Business) Giuliana Garzone (Universit? degli Studi di Milano) Maurizio Gotti (University of Bergamo) Josef Schmied (Chemnitz University of Technology) Paul Thompson (University of Birmingham) Elena Tognini-Bonelli (University of Siena) Geoffrey Williams (University of South Brittany). Presentation Guidelines Papers will be allotted 20 minutes, plus 10 minutes for discussion. Working Language: English Contributions will be accepted on condition that they are relevant to the special theme of the Conference. Abstract Submission Please send your anonymous abstract totalling no more than 500 words by June 20th to the following address: clavier11 unimore.it Please do not include any self-identifying information on the abstract; indicate only the title and the abstract itself. On a separate cover sheet, include: Title: Format: (paper/ poster) Author(s): Affiliation(s): Postal mailing address (for primary author): E-mail (for primary author): Important dates June 20th: Deadline for receipt of abstracts July 11th: Notifications of acceptance July 26th: Deadline for early bird registration July 29th: Preliminary Programme Organizing committee: Marina Bondi ? Silvia Cavalieri - Giuliana Diani - Franca Poppi Scientific Committee: Julia Bamford (Napoli) - Marina Bondi (Modena e Reggio Emilia) ? Gabriella Del Lungo (Firenze) - Marina Dossena (Bergamo) ? Franca Poppi (Modena e Reggio Emilia) - Rita Salvi (Roma) ? Elena Tognini Bonelli (Siena) For any additional information, please contact Franca Poppi: franca.poppi unimore.it or visit the Conference web-site at: http://clavier.sltt.unimore.it/on-line/Home.html Prof. Franca Poppi Associate Professor of English Linguistics University of Modena and Reggio Emilia Faculty of Arts and Humanities Largo Sant'Eufemia, 19 41121 Modena Italy tel. + 39 059 2055946 From federica.damilano at gmail.com Mon May 16 17:01:00 2011 From: federica.damilano at gmail.com (Federica Da Milano) Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 19:01:00 +0200 Subject: International workshop "Space and language: on deixis" Message-ID: [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call, it has been posted to several relevant mailing lists. Please redistribute within your own group or among colleagues, thank you very much!] Date: 9-June-2011 ? 10 June-2011-05-15 Location: Milan, Italy Contact: Federica Da Milano Contact Email: federica.damilano at unimib.it Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics, linguistic typology, anthropological linguistics Meeting description: The workshop aims to contribute to the discussion on the current trends in linguistic research on spatial deixis from different perspectives: anthropological, linguistic and cognitive. Program 9th June 15.00: opening 15.15 William Hanks Comparative deictic systems 16.15 Nick Enfield The human ethology of deixis: observing deixis as a tool for navigating social space 17.15 Michele Prandi Ground-anchored deixis: theoretical and empirical implications 10th June 9.30: Maurizio Gnerre Interactive indexical implementations of ideophones in narrative genres 10.30 Federica Da Milano/Ignazio Putzu/Paolo Ramat Deixis from a cognitive and linguistic point of view: a case study 11.30 Ellen Fricke Origo, gesture, and space: the impact of co-speech gestures on linguistic deixis theories 12.30 Konstanze Jungbluth Positions ? constellations ? practices: Referring to the space in front of the hearer From kemmer at rice.edu Thu May 19 00:38:28 2011 From: kemmer at rice.edu (Suzanne Kemmer) Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 12:38:28 +1200 Subject: CFP: Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis - wide range of approaches welcome Message-ID: Dear colleagues, The fourth international conference Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis across Disciplines (CADAAD) will take place at the University of Minho in Braga, Portugal 4-6 July 2012. The following distinguished scholars have confirmed their participation as plenary speakers: ? Professor Paul Chilton (Lancaster University) ? Dr Michal Krzyzanowski (Lancaster University) ? Professor Michelle Lazar (National University of Singapore) ? Professor Juana Mar?n Arrese (Universidad Complutense Madrid) ? Professor Teun van Dijk (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) CADAAD conferences are intended to promote current directions and new developments in cross-disciplinary critical discourse research. We welcome papers dealing with any contemporary social, scientific, political, economic, or professional discourse/genre. Possible topics include but are not limited to the following: ? (New) Media discourse ? Party political discourse ? Advertising ? Discourses of war and terrorism ? Discourses of discrimination and inequality ? Power, ideology and dominance in institutional discourse ? Identity in discourse ? Education discourses ? Environmental discourses ? Health communication ? Language and the law We especially welcome papers which re-examine existing frameworks for critical discourse research and/or which highlight and apply new methodologies sourced from anywhere across the humanities, social and cognitive sciences including but without being limited to: ? Sociolinguistics ? Functional Linguistics ? Cognitive Linguistics ? Corpus Linguistics ? Pragmatics and Argumentation Theory ? Conversation and Discourse Analysis ? Discursive Psychology ? Multimodality ? Media Studies ? Communication Studies ? Political Science Papers will be allocated 20 minutes with 10 minutes for questions. The language of the conference is English. Abstracts of no more than 300 words including references should be sent as MS Word attachment to c.j.hart at herts.ac.uk before 18 December 2011. Please include in the body of the email but not in the abstract your name, affiliation and email address. Notifications of acceptance will be communicated by 1 February 2012. Further information is available at www.cadaad.net/cadaad_2012. For any other inquiries please contact Chris Hart (c.j.hart at herts.ac.uk) or the local organiser, Zara Sim?es Pinto Coelho (zara at ics.uminho.pt). Kind regards, Chris Hart Dr Christopher Hart Senior Lecturer in English Language and Communication University of Hertfordshire go.herts.ac.uk/cjhart From v.evans at bangor.ac.uk Fri May 20 09:50:42 2011 From: v.evans at bangor.ac.uk (Vyv Evans) Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 10:50:42 +0100 Subject: Language, time and the Amondawa Message-ID: Dear all, Colleagues may be interested in the following story just published by the BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13452711 It relates to findings by Chris Sinha and colleagues on the lexicalisation and conceptualisation of time by the Amondawa, a remote tribe in Western Amazonia. The findings have potential implications for issues pertaining to cross-linguistic and cross-cultural differences, and universals (or the lack of them) in the domain of time. The full paper has recently been published in Language & Cognition. Institutional and individual subscribers to the journal will be able to download the paper electronically. The journal website is here: www.languageandcognition.net Best wishes, Vyv -- Prof. Vyv Evans Professor of Linguistics www.vyvevans.net Head of School School of Linguistics & English Language Bangor University www.bangor.ac.uk/linguistics General Editor of 'Language & Cognition' A Mouton de Gruyter journal www.languageandcognition.net From phonosemantics at earthlink.net Fri May 20 17:00:48 2011 From: phonosemantics at earthlink.net (jess tauber) Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 13:00:48 -0400 Subject: Language, time and the Amondawa Message-ID: This reminds me a little of the way Yahgan deals with number. The only true numerals are 1,2,3, matching the singular, dual, trial marking in the grammar. Yet 'number' is pervasive throughout the (classical 19th C.) language. Number higher than 3 tends to rely on ranges rather than specific positions, and even here it seems the system differentiated whether the value was arrived at by addition, by subtraction, or existed neutrally. Anatomically based terms could be ambiguous (for ex. 5 and 10 relative to the fingers of the hands). There were several different terms for 'halves' differentiating how the halves were physically produced. Time as an abstract notion was also absent- a year was a winter, and terms for spring also occur used for new occurrences, so perhaps the beginnings of an abstract system? It is a question as to whether consolidated 'day' and 'month' terms existed abstractly except in the minds of the missionaries who recorded and described the language- the language divided day/night into different salient parts, and the lunar cycle also. Names for seasons were usually attached to the events transpiring within them- crab season, canoe-bark season, and so on. Color terms in Yahgan were generally binary. The second term defined darkness, whiteness, or reddishness, and then the first acted to more precisely specify it. So yellowish-red was aia-lush, or bile-red. So the underlying set is just black, white, red. Jess Tauber phonosemantics at earthlink.net From dan at daneverett.org Fri May 20 17:08:31 2011 From: dan at daneverett.org (Daniel Everett) Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 13:08:31 -0400 Subject: Language, time and the Amondawa In-Reply-To: <28574273.1305910849534.JavaMail.root@wamui-junio.atl.sa.earthlink.net> Message-ID: Amondawa is a subgroup of the Kawahiv, also including at least the Juma, the Parintintin, and the Tenharim (where Levi-Strauss worked). Waud Kracke, of the U of Illinois, Chicago, is the principal academic authority on the culture of the Kawahiv and speaks the language fluently. SIL has translated a New Testament into the language (for the Tenharim). The Kawahiv are traditional enemies of the Pirahas (who refer to them regularly as bogeymen to scare children "The Kawahiv are going to get you!"). Testing these results should be straightforward. I know of at least one planned set of replication experiments planned for this summer. This is an interesting paper. However, Pierre Pica, in the BBC news report, raises some interesting questions. Both Mundurucu, where Pica works, and Amondawa are Tupi-Guarani (Aryon Rodrigues actually places Mundurucu and Satere-Mawe in a separate Mundurucu family of the Tupi phylum, but I am not sure if he has published on that). It is always good to look at culture and language simultaneously. Jeanette Sakel and I offer some methodological suggestions on how to do the latter in our forthcoming textbook, Linguistic Fieldwork: A Student Guide, to appear next academic year in the CUP red series. Dan On May 20, 2011, at 1:00 PM, jess tauber wrote: > This reminds me a little of the way Yahgan deals with number. The only true numerals are 1,2,3, matching the singular, dual, trial marking in the grammar. Yet 'number' is pervasive throughout the (classical 19th C.) language. Number higher than 3 tends to rely on ranges rather than specific positions, and even here it seems the system differentiated whether the value was arrived at by addition, by subtraction, or existed neutrally. Anatomically based terms could be ambiguous (for ex. 5 and 10 relative to the fingers of the hands). There were several different terms for 'halves' differentiating how the halves were physically produced. > > Time as an abstract notion was also absent- a year was a winter, and terms for spring also occur used for new occurrences, so perhaps the beginnings of an abstract system? It is a question as to whether consolidated 'day' and 'month' terms existed abstractly except in the minds of the missionaries who recorded and described the language- the language divided day/night into different salient parts, and the lunar cycle also. Names for seasons were usually attached to the events transpiring within them- crab season, canoe-bark season, and so on. > > Color terms in Yahgan were generally binary. The second term defined darkness, whiteness, or reddishness, and then the first acted to more precisely specify it. So yellowish-red was aia-lush, or bile-red. So the underlying set is just black, white, red. > > Jess Tauber > phonosemantics at earthlink.net > From paul at benjamins.com Fri May 27 18:30:09 2011 From: paul at benjamins.com (Paul Peranteau) Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 14:30:09 -0400 Subject: New Benjamins title: Givon - Ute Reference Grammar Message-ID: Ute Reference Grammar By T. *Giv?n*, University of Oregon Culture and Language Use 3 2011. xxiii, 441 pp. Hardbound 978 90 272 0284 0 / EUR 110.00 / USD 165.00 Paperback 978 90 272 0285 7 / EUR 36.00 / USD 54.00 e-Book - Available from e-book platforms 978 90 272 8741 0 / EUR 110.00 / USD 165.00 Ute is a Uto-Aztecan language of the northern-most (Numic) sub-family. It is currently spoken on three Indian reservations in western Colorado and eastern Utah. Like most native languages in North America, Ute is severely endangered, and this book is part of the effort toward its preservation. The description given here is based on 35 years of work on the Southern Ute Reservation in Southwest Colorado. Typologically, Ute offers a cluster of intriguing features -- nominalization of all subordinate clauses, pragmatically-controlled word order, an evolving system of pronominal suffixes, remnants of a noun-classifier system, a constantly expanding system of post-positions, and more -- all viewed best from a perspective of ongoing historical change. While the book is a comprehensive description of the grammar as used now by Ute elders, it also describes a language in the midst of historical change. It is the first of a three-volume set which also includes a collection of oral texts and a dictionary. Ute speakers and tribal members on the three Ute reservations may find this volume a step-by-step introduction to the grammar of their language -- how words are combined into meaningful clauses, and how clauses in turn are combined into coherent communication. Linguists may find here a detailed description of a beautiful language, an account informed by communicative use, language universals, and diachronic change. Table of contents Table of contents i--xvii Preface xix--xx Foreword xxi--xxii Namu-m?y-vaa-tu- xxiii--xxiv Chapter 1. Introduction 1--14 Chapter 2. Sound system and orthography 15--32 Chapter 3. Word classes and word structure 33--62 Chapter 4. Simple clauses: Verb types, participant roles, and grammatical relations 63--92 Chapter 5. The diachrony of Ute case-marking 93--116 Chapter 6. Tense, aspect, modality and negation 117--154 Chapter 7. Noun phrases-I: Referential coherence 155--192 Chapter 8. Noun phrases-II: Larger noun modifiers 193--212 Chapter 9. Verbal complements 213--230 Chapter 10. De-Transitive Voice 231--262 Chapter 11. The diachrony of Ute passives 263--272 Chapter 12. Relative clauses 273--292 Chapter 13. Contrastive focus and emphasis 293--302 Chapter 14. Non-declarative speech acts 303--334 Chapter 15. Possession 335--346 Chapter 16. Comparative constructions 347--356 Chapter 17. Adverbial clauses 357--388 Chapter 18. Clause chaining and discourse coherence 389--404 Chapter 19. Lexical derivation patterns 405--426 Chapter 20. Interjections 427--430 Bibliography 431--434 Index -- Paul M. Peranteau John Benjamins Publishing 763 N 24th Street Philadelphia PA USA Ph: 215 769-3444 Fax: 215 769-3446 From gudrun.ziegler at web.de Sun May 29 14:02:24 2011 From: gudrun.ziegler at web.de (Gudrun Ziegler) Date: Sun, 29 May 2011 16:02:24 +0200 Subject: Now available: Thematic Issue: Education and Professional Development of Language Teachers Message-ID: Dear colleagues, chers coll?gues, the following is a new publication which might be of interest for you. NewIssue - ForumSprache - Spring 2011 - Thematic Issue: Education and Professional Development of Language Teachers in Europe Get ForumSprache: http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/hueber/forum http://www.hueber.de/forum-sprache/?lang=en >>From the editorial of the thematic issue: This new issue of ForumSprache again has a central topic: education and professional development of language teachers in Europe. Gudrun Ziegler?s paper introduces the topic by outlining the main results of a European project, which was run in 2009; her article also puts the following contributions from Hungary, Luxemburg, Spain, Switzerland, Rumania, and the UK into context. In our section on ?language policy? Alicia Fuentes-Calles (Barcelona) introduces LINGUAPAX, a UNESCO initiative to foster peace education and multilingualism worldwide. ForumSprache firmly supports both goals. The two contributions in the ?Best Practice? section of ForumSprache are relevant for all languages. Ursula Stohler (Prague) and Daniel Henseler (Fribourg) show how task-based learning and creative activities can enhance university courses in literature. Their examples are taken from Russian, but the procedures suggested may be applied to other literary texts as well. Cornelia Br?ckner (Berlin) discusses the impact of digital media, in particular social networks and internet communication, on language learning. Again, the activities she describes in the areas of microblogging and social networks can be used with any language. Neue Ausgabe - ForumSprache - Fr?hling 2011 - Themenheft: Ausbildung und Professionalisierung von Sprachlehrkr?ften in Europa Get ForumSprache: http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/hueber/forum http://www.hueber.de/forum-sprache/?lang=en Aus dem Editorial des Themenhefts: Die neue Ausgabe von ForumSprache besitzt einen thematischen Schwerpunkt: Ausbildung und Professionalisierung von Sprachlehrkr?ften in Europa. Das Schwerpunktthema wird im ersten Beitrag von Gudrun Ziegler genauer vorgestellt. Dabei greift sie auf Ergebnisse eines europ?ischen Projekts zur?ck, das im Auftrag der Europ?ischen Kommission 2009 durchgef?hrt wurde. Die weiteren Beitr?ge zum Thema sind im besten Sinne europ?isch und stammen aus Gro?britannien, Luxemburg, der Schweiz, Spanien, Rum?nien und Ungarn. Der sprachenpolitische Beitrag dieser Ausgabe widmet sich der Initiative LINGUAPAX der UNESCO. Alicia Fuentes-Calles (Barcelona) erl?utert die Ziele von LINGUAPAX, die Friedenserziehung und F?rderung der Mehrsprachigkeit verbinden. ForumSprache m?chte beide Ziele nachdr?cklich unterst?tzen. Auch die beiden Beitr?ge zu ?Best Practice? sind mehrsprachig relevant. Ursula Stohler (Prag) und Daniel Henseler (Fribourg) zeigen am Beispiel des Russischen, wie Handlungsorientierung im Umgang mit Texten im universit?ren Literaturunterricht umgesetzt werden kann. Daraus ergeben sich vielf?ltige Anregungen f?r die Textarbeit mit anderen Literaturen. Cornelia Br?ckner (Berlin) besch?ftigt sich mit den Anforderungen, die die neuen Medien und vor allem die Sozialen Netzwerke an den Fremdsprachenunterricht stellen. Sie zeigt an Beispielen, mit welchen Aufgaben die Internetkommunikation und die Formen des Microblogging sinnvoll f?r das Sprachenlernen genutzt werden k?nnen. In der Rubrik ?Workshop? und dem angeschlossenen YouTube-Kanal finden Sie drei neue und die vorerst letzten Videoclips von Pascale Caemerbeke (Paris) zu ausgew?hlten Lieblingsw?rtern im Franz?sischen. Die beiden Franz?sischlehrkr?fte Yana Nebolsina und Richard Moreau (beide Luxemburg) sind unserem Aufruf gefolgt und stellen ihre Unterrichtsideen zum Lieblingswort Macha?s (le pompon) und zur Lieblings?u?erung Elizabeth?s (oui mais) zur Verf?gung. ___________________________________________________________ From kemmer at rice.edu Mon May 30 10:55:57 2011 From: kemmer at rice.edu (Suzanne Kemmer) Date: Mon, 30 May 2011 22:55:57 +1200 Subject: Final call: First Asia Pacific Corpus Linguistics conference, Auckland Message-ID: **Apologies for cross-posting** This is the final call for papers for the (first) Asia Pacific Corpus Linguistics Conference, which will be held at the University of Auckland in New Zealand from February 15th to 19th, 2012. The abstracts received so far have come from the Americas and Europe, as well as the Asia Pacific region. The extended deadline for submissions is June 15th. Submissions in the form of a 300-word abstract can be for: a 15-minute paper (plus discussion); a poster; a 3-hour or 6-hour workshop Abstracts can be submitted (and modified) at linguistlist.org/confcustom/apclc2012 Keynote speakers: Averil Coxhead, University of Victoria, Wellington. Yukio Tono, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies Special invited speakers are: Susan Conrad, Portland State University Tony McEnery, University of Lancaster Conference email: apclc at corpling.com Conference website: www.corpling.com/conf Organisers Michael BARLOW, University of Auckland Helen BASTURKMEN, University of Auckland Yukio TONO, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies Advisory Committee Monika BEDNAREK, University of Sydney Budsaba KANOKSILAPATHAM, Silpakorn University Howard CHEN, National Taiwan Normal University Winnie CHENG, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Hong Thu DAO, Vietnam National University Danilo DAYAG, De La Salle University, Manila Lynne FLOWERDEW, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Paul GERAGHTY, University of the South Pacific Michael HAUGH, Griffith University Anping HE, Guangzhou Nornal University San San HNIN TUN, INALCO Huaqing HONG, Nanyang Technological University Hitoshi ISAHARA, Toyohashi University of Technology CK JUNG, Seoul National University Ummul KHAIR AHMAD, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia Mohammad Abid KHAN, University of Peshawar Deny Arnos KWARY, Aarhus University Dushyanthi MENDIS, University of Columbo Ute ROEMER, University of Michigan Niladri SEKHAR DASH, Indian Statistical Institute Jiajin XU, Beijing Foreign Studies University Yogendra YADAVA, Nepal Language Technology Kendra --- Michael Barlow Assoc. Prof. DALSL. University of Auckland www.michaelbarlow.com Asia Pacific Corpus Linguistics Conference corpling.com/conf _______________________________________________ From twood at uwc.ac.za Tue May 31 11:33:23 2011 From: twood at uwc.ac.za (Tahir Wood) Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 13:33:23 +0200 Subject: Searle question Message-ID: I wonder if anyone can enlighten me concerning Searle's (1969) distinction between regulative and constitutive rules. It has been said that this distinction goes back to Kant, although in Searle's case it has also been said it comes via the influence of Rawls and his 1955 paper 'Two concepts of rules'. What I find a little puzzling is the fact that Searle's argument is very close to that of Rawls, where regulative corresponds roughly to 'summary' and constitutive corresponds to 'practice' in Rawls. But why does he use terms that have been derived from Kant for this, rather than just adopting Rawls's terminology? Kant's use of the terms regulative and constitutive and their distinction is fairly sparse and scattered. And it refers to a distinction that (as far as I can see) is very different from that of Searle and Rawls. For Kant 'constitutive' refers to the use of the categories and it concerns their application in empirical judgments (Understanding); whereas the 'regulative' principle (of Reason) operates only on the Understanding, never upon empirical realities themselves. There must be some reason why Searle chose Kant's terminology but applied it to Rawls's distinction, with which it seems to have so little in common. If anyone could shed light on this, and especially if there are any references to works that do so, I would be very grateful. 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