Call for Papers

[Nancy Stern]

*CALL FOR PAPERS*

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11th International Columbia School Conference on the Interaction of
Linguistic Form and Meaning with Human Behavior

October 13-15, 2012

Rutgers University

New Brunswick, New Jersey



Papers are invited which propose language-specific analyses of natural
discourse data within any framework in which languages are viewed as
semiotic systems.   Particularly encouraged are submissions that advance
semantic hypotheses to account for the distribution of linguistic form.

The Columbia School is a group of linguists developing the theoretical
framework originally established by the late William Diver.  Language is
seen as a symbolic tool whose structure is shaped both by its communicative
function and by the characteristics of its human users. Grammatical
analyses account for the distribution of linguistic forms as an interaction
between linguistic meaning and pragmatic and functional factors such as
inference, ease of processing, and iconicity.  Phonological analyses
explain the syntagmatic and paradigmatic distribution of phonological units
within signals, also drawing on both communicative function and human
physiological and psychological characteristics.

Abstracts should be sent as an email attachment to
conf2012 at csling.orgfollowing these guidelines:

*The subject of the email should be:  CS Abstract 2012

*In the body of the email, please include:  (1) Author name(s) and
affiliation(s); (2) Title of the paper; (3) Email addresses and telephone
numbers of all authors.

*The abstract, containing only the title of the paper and the text of the
abstract, should be sent as an attachment (PDF, RTF, or Word format).  The
abstract should be no more than 300 words, although references and/or data
may be added to that limit.

DEADLINE FOR RECEIPT OF ABSTRACTS:   April 30, 2012

The language of the conference is English.  Papers delivered in languages
other than English will be considered.
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The support of the Columbia School Linguistic Society (www.csling.org) is
gratefully acknowledged.

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*Selected Columbia School bibliography:*

Contini-Morava, Ellen, Robert S. Kirsner, and Betsy Rodríguez-Bachiller
(eds.).  2005.  *Cognitive and Communicative Approaches to Linguistic
Analysis*. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

Contini-Morava, Ellen, and Barbara Sussman Goldberg (eds.).  1995.  *Meaning
as Explanation:  Advances in Linguistic Sign Theory*.  Berlin:  Mouton
deGruyter.

Davis, Joseph, Radmila Gorup, and Nancy Stern (eds.).  2006.  *Advances in*
*Functional Linguistics: Columbia School beyond its origins*.
Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.



Huffman, Alan.  1997.  *The Categories of Grammar:  French* lui *and* le.
Amsterdam/Philadelphia:  John Benjamins.



Huffman, Alan.  2001.  “The Linguistics of William Diver and the Columbia
School.”  *WORD* 52:1, 29-68.



Huffman, Alan and Joseph Davis. 2012.  *Language:  Communication and Human
Behavior. The Linguistic Essays of William Diver*.  Leiden/Boston: Brill.



Reid, Wallis.  2011.  ‘The Communicative Function of English Verb Number.”
*Natural Language and Linguistic Theory* 29: 1087-1146.



Reid, Wallis.  1991.  *Verb and Noun Number in English:  A Functional
Explanation*.  London:  Longman.



Reid, Wallis, Ricardo Otheguy, and Nancy Stern (eds.).  2002.   *Signal,
Meaning, and Message:  Perspectives on Sign-Based Linguistics*.
Amsterdam/Philadelphia:  John Benjamins.



Tobin, Yishai.  1997.  *Phonology as Human Behavior:  Theoretical
Implications and Clinical Applications*.  Durham:  Duke U Press.



For more information, please write to conf2012 at csling.org