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[Andrea Schalley]

*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>


*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 
<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).



-- 
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