From c.hart at lancaster.ac.uk Tue Oct 1 10:07:27 2013 From: c.hart at lancaster.ac.uk (Hart, Christopher) Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2013 10:07:27 +0000 Subject: 2nd CfP: UK Cognitive Linguistics Conference 5 Message-ID: Dear colleagues (apologies for cross-posting), The 5th UK Cognitive Linguistics Conference will take place at Lancaster University, 29-31 July 2014. We invite the submission of abstracts (for paper or poster presentations) addressing all aspects of cognitive linguistics. The conference aims to cover a broad range of research concerned with language and cognition. We will be especially interested in promoting strongly empirical work. To this end, we intend to organise (some of) the papers into thematic sessions, with our plenary speakers acting as discussants. The themes will be: * Embodiment * Gesture * Typology and constructional analyses of the languages of the world * Acquisition * Corpora and statistical methods * Metaphor and discourse In addition to these themes, submissions on other aspects of the field are also welcome. These include but are not restricted to: * Domains and frame semantics * Categorisation, prototypes and polysemy * Mental spaces and conceptual blending * Language evolution * Linguistic variation and language change * Cognitive linguistic approaches to language teaching Cognitive linguistics is by definition highly interdisciplinary, and so in addition to primarily linguistic research, we also invite submissions that are based on disciplines such as (cognitive and social) psychology, cognitive and neuroscience, anthropology, primatology, biology, and discourse and communication studies. Talks will be 20 minutes plus 10 minutes for questions and discussion. There will also be a poster session. The language of the conference is English. Abstracts of no more than 300 words (excluding references) should be submitted using EasyChair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ukclc5. Participants are allowed to submit abstracts for no more than one single-authored paper and one joint-authored paper. All abstracts will be subject to double-blind peer review by an international scientific committee. Since 2012 UK-CLA publishes selected conference presentations in the series 'Selected Papers from UK-CLA Meetings' (ISSN 2046-9144); UK-CLC5 will continue this tradition. The deadline for abstract submission is 20 December 2013. Notification of acceptance will be communicated by 1 February 2014. Abstracts must be strictly anonymous, and should be submitted in plain text and/or PDF format. If you need to use phonetic characters, please make sure that they are displayed correctly. Submissions: To be able to submit an abstract you must use your existing EasyChair login details. If you have not registered with EasyChair before, please do so using the link above. Once you have created an account or signed in please follow the following steps: * Click on the 'New Submission' link at the top of the page. * Agree to the terms and conditions (if prompted). * Fill in the relevant information about the author or authors. * Give the title of the paper in the 'Title' box and then (a) enter or paste your abstract into the 'Abstract' box (please remember that this is plain text only) and/or (b) upload your abstract as a PDF file by clicking 'Choose File' under 'Upload Paper.' * At the top of your abstract, indicate whether you would prefer an oral presentation, a poster, or either. Please do this by entering 'oral presentation', 'poster', or 'oral presentation/poster' at the top of your abstract, above the title. * Type three or more keywords into the 'Keywords' box (these will help us choose suitable reviewers for your abstract, as well as a possible thematic session for your paper). * When you are done, please press 'Submit' at the very bottom of the page. Key Dates and Information: Abstract deadline: 20 December 2013 Decisions communicated by: 1 February 2014 Early bird registration opens: 1 February 2014 Early bird registration closes: 15 March 2014 Registration closes: 1 June 2014 Conference dates: 29-31 July 2014 For further information visit http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/fass/events/uk-clc5/ or contact the organisers at: uk-clc5 at languageandcognition.net Dr Christopher Hart Senior Lecturer in Cognitive Linguistics and Discourse Department of Linguistics and English Language Lancaster University www.hartcda.org.uk www.cadaad.net From fjn at u.washington.edu Wed Oct 2 16:43:07 2013 From: fjn at u.washington.edu (Frederick J Newmeyer) Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2013 09:43:07 -0700 Subject: may be > maybe Message-ID: Can anybody point me to a literature reference on the grammaticalization of 'may be' to 'maybe' in the history of English? Thanks, Fritz Frederick J. Newmeyer Professor Emeritus, University of Washington Adjunct Professor, U of British Columbia and Simon Fraser U [for my postal address, please contact me by e-mail] From Freek.VanDeVelde at arts.kuleuven.be Wed Oct 2 19:00:37 2013 From: Freek.VanDeVelde at arts.kuleuven.be (Freek Van de Velde) Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2013 19:00:37 +0000 Subject: FUNKNET Digest, Vol 121, Issue 2 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Hi Fritz, The grammaticalization of 'maybe' is discussed in Olga Fischer's book 'Morphosyntactic change. Functional and formal perspectives' (OUP, 2007), in Chapter 6. And there could be something in Toril Swan's book 'Sentence adverbials in English: a synchronic and diachronic investigation' (Novus Verlag, 1988) as well, though I am not sure. Best regards, Freek. --- Freek Van de Velde http://wwwling.arts.kuleuven.be/qlvl/freek.htm -----Original Message----- From: funknet-bounces at mailman.rice.edu [mailto:funknet-bounces at mailman.rice.edu] On Behalf Of funknet-request at mailman.rice.edu Sent: woensdag 2 oktober 2013 19:00 To: funknet at mailman.rice.edu Subject: FUNKNET Digest, Vol 121, Issue 2 Send FUNKNET mailing list submissions to funknet at mailman.rice.edu To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/funknet or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to funknet-request at mailman.rice.edu You can reach the person managing the list at funknet-owner at mailman.rice.edu When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of FUNKNET digest..." Today's Topics: 1. may be > maybe (Frederick J Newmeyer) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2013 09:43:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Frederick J Newmeyer Subject: [FUNKNET] may be > maybe To: Funknet Message-ID: Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Can anybody point me to a literature reference on the grammaticalization of 'may be' to 'maybe' in the history of English? Thanks, Fritz Frederick J. Newmeyer Professor Emeritus, University of Washington Adjunct Professor, U of British Columbia and Simon Fraser U [for my postal address, please contact me by e-mail] End of FUNKNET Digest, Vol 121, Issue 2 *************************************** From v.evans at bangor.ac.uk Thu Oct 3 21:15:13 2013 From: v.evans at bangor.ac.uk (Vyv Frederick Evans) Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2013 21:15:13 +0000 Subject: NEW BOOK: Language & Time Message-ID: ***************NEW BOOK************* Language and Time: A Cognitive Linguistics Approach Vyvyan Evans Published by Cambridge University Press (Published Oct 3rd 2013 by Cambridge UK; 31st Oct 2013 by Cambridge USA) Using language and thought to fix events in time is one of the most complex computational feats that humans perform. In the first book-length taxonomy of temporal frames of reference, Vyvyan Evans provides an overview of the role of space in structuring human representations of time. Challenging the assumption that time is straightforwardly structured in terms of space, he shows that while space is important for temporal representation, time is nevertheless separate and distinguishable from it. Evans argues for three distinct temporal frames of reference in language and cognition and evaluates the nature of temporal reference from a cross-linguistic perspective. His central thesis is that the hallmark of temporal reference is transience, a property unique to the domain of time. This important study has implications not only for the relationship between space and time, but also for that between language and figurative thought, and the nature of linguistically-mediated meaning construction. "Time is at once familiar and mysterious. Its status in the physical universe may be uncertain and contested, cultural conceptions of it may vary dramatically, but time is fundamental to all human experience. Vyv Evans furnishes linguists and other researchers with important new tools for thought about this fascinating domain." Professor Chris Sinha, President of the International Cognitive Linguistics Association Full details available on publisher's website: www.cambridge.org/9781107043800 Sample chapter available on author's website: http://www.vyvevans.net Professor/Yr Athro Vyv Evans Professor of/Yr Athro Linguistics www.vyvevans.net Prifysgol Bangor University Rhif Elusen Gofrestredig 1141565 - Registered Charity No. 1141565 Gall y neges e-bost hon, ac unrhyw atodiadau a anfonwyd gyda hi, gynnwys deunydd cyfrinachol ac wedi eu bwriadu i'w defnyddio'n unig gan y sawl y cawsant eu cyfeirio ato (atynt). Os ydych wedi derbyn y neges e-bost hon trwy gamgymeriad, rhowch wybod i'r anfonwr ar unwaith a dilewch y neges. Os na fwriadwyd anfon y neges atoch chi, rhaid i chi beidio a defnyddio, cadw neu ddatgelu unrhyw wybodaeth a gynhwysir ynddi. 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From Freek.VanDeVelde at arts.kuleuven.be Fri Oct 4 19:58:32 2013 From: Freek.VanDeVelde at arts.kuleuven.be (Freek Van de Velde) Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2013 19:58:32 +0000 Subject: Workshop at Evolang X: Extended deadline Message-ID: EvolangX Workshop: How Grammaticalization Processes Create Grammar: From Historical Corpus Data to Agent-Based Models CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS NOW OPEN (see further below) EXTENDED DEADLINE: *1 March 2013* Convenors: Luc Steels, Freek Van de Velde and Remi van Trijp Date and Location: 14 April 2013, Vienna, as part of the Evolang-X Conference in Vienna Theme of the workshop: Recently the scientific study of language origins and evolution has seen three important breakthroughs. First, a growing number of corpora of historical language data has become available. Although initially these corpora have been used to examine surface features only (for example the frequency and distribution of word occurrences), advances in statistical language processing now allow for the thorough examination of aspects of grammar, for example, how syntactic structure has progressively arisen in the history of Indo-European languages or how constructional choices have undergone change (e.g. Krug 2000; Bybee 2010; Sommerer 2010; Van de Velde 2010; Traugott & Trousdale, forthc.; Hilpert & Gries, ms.). Second, agent-based models of the cognitive and cultural processes underlying the emergence and evolution of language have made a significant leap forward by using sophisticated, and therefore more realistic, representations of grammar and language processing (e.g. Van Trijp 2012; Beuls & Steels 2013), so that we can now go way beyond the lexicon-oriented experiments characteristic for the field a decade ago. Finally, selectionist theorizing, which has given such tremendous power to evolutionary biology, is being applied increasingly to understand language evolution at the cultural level (Croft 2000; Ritt 2004; Mufwene 2008; Rosenbach et al. 2008; Landsbergen et al. 2010; Steels 2011). Researchers are beginning to look more closely at what selectionist criteria could drive the origins and change in grammatical paradigms and how new language strategies could arise through exaptation, recombination or mutation of existing strategies. The selectionist criteria are primarily based on achieving enough expressive power, maximizing communicative success, and minimizing cognitive effort (Van Trijp 2013). The confluence of these three trends is beginning to give us sophisticated agent-based models which are empirically grounded in real corpus data and framed in a well-established theory of cultural evolution, thus leading to comprehensive scientific models of the grammaticalization processes underlying language emergence and evolution. All this is tremendously exciting. The goal of this workshop is to alert the community of researchers in language evolution to this important development and to show concrete research achievements demonstrating the current state of the art. It will act as a forum for exchanging tools and it will inquire what kind of open problems might be amenable to this approach, given the currently available data and the state of the art in computational linguistics tools for agent-based modeling. The workshop is intended to enable a deeper dialog between two communities (historical linguistics and computational linguistics) so that we can productively combine the very long tradition of empirical research from historical linguistics with the rigorous formalization and validation through simulation as practiced in agent-based modeling. The workshop will as much as possible be based on real case studies. For example, how can we explain the current messy state of the German article system, given that old High German had a much clearer system? (van Trijp 2013) Is this development based on random drift or are there selectionist forces at work? How can we explain that Indo-European languages progressively developed a rich constituent structure with an increasing number of syntactic categories, a gradual incorporation of ‘floating’ words into phrases, and a loss of grammatical agreement? (Van de Velde 2009)? How can we explain the emergence of quantifiers out of adjectives? How can we explain the rise of a case system (Beuls & Steels 2013). General research questions that are to be addressed: 1. What are the processes that cause variation in populations of speakers? 2. What are the processes that select variants to become dominant in a speech community? 3. How do language strategies give rise to language systems? 4. Which cognitive functions must the brain support in order to implement language strategies? 5. What are good tools for doing empirically driven agent-based modeling? Call for Submissions We invite contributions (10′ talk + 5′ discussion) to one of the following three sessions in the workshop: 1. Case Studies: historical data of emergence and evolution of grammatical phenomena and concrete agent-based models, or steps towards them. 2. Tools: What is the state-of-the-art for historical linguistics corpora and tools extracting trends in grammatical evolution? What tools are available for building realistic agent-based models of grammaticalization? 3. Cultural evolution theory: Which results from theoretical research in evolutionary biology can be exapted to advance cultural evolutionary linguistics? Format of the submission. An extended abstract of *max. 4 pages (including references)* adhering to the Evolang stylesheet. Submissions should be e-mailed to info at fcg-net.org with the subject “Evolang workshop submission”. Important Dates * Deadline for submission: 1 March 2014, 23:59 CE * Notification of acceptance: 15 March 2014 * Final submission: 1 April 2014 References · Beuls, Katrien & Luc Steels. 2013. ‘Agent-based models of strategies for the emergence and evolution of grammatical agreement’. PLoS ONE 8(3), e58960. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0058960. · Bybee, Joan L. 2010. Language, Usage and Cognition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. · Croft, William. 2000. Explaining language change. An evolutionary approach. Harlow: Longman. · Hilpert, Martin & Stefan Th, Gries. Manuscript. ‘Quantitative approaches to diachronic corpus linguistics’. In: Merja Kytö & Päivi Pahta (eds.), The Cambridge handbook of English historical linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. · Krug, Manfred. 2000. Emerging English modals: a corpus-based study of grammaticalization. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. · Frank Landsbergen, Robert Lachlan, Carel ten Cate & Arie Verhagen. ‘A cultural evolutionary model of patterns in semantic change’. Linguistics 48: 363-390. · Ritt, Nikolaus. 2004. Selfish Sounds. A Darwinian Approach to Language Change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. · Rosenbach, Anette. 2008. ‘Language Change as Cultural Evolution: Evolutionary Approaches to Language Change’. In: Regine Eckardt, Gerhard Jäger and Tonjes Veenstra (eds.), Variation, Selection, Development. Probing the Evolutionary Model of Language Chang. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 23-72. · Sommerer, L. 2011. ‘Old English se: from demonstrative to article. A usage-based study of nominal determination and category emergence’. PhD thesis, University of Vienna. · Steels, Luc. 2011. ‘Modeling the cultural evolution of language’. Physics of Life Review 8: 339-356. · Traugott, Elizabeth & Graeme Trousdale. Forthcoming. Constructionalization and constructional change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. · Van de Velde, Freek. 2009. De nominale constituent. Structuur en geschiedenis. Leuven: Leuven University Press. · Van de Velde, Freek. 2010. ‘The emergence of the determiner in the Dutch NP’. Linguistics 48: 263-299. · van Trijp, Remi. 2012. ‘Not as awful as it seems: explaining German case through computational experiments in Fluid Construction grammar. In: Proceedings of the 13th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 829-839. · van Trijp, Remi. 2013. ‘Linguistic assessment criteria for explaining language change: a case study on syncretism in German definite articles’. Language Dynamics and Change 3(1): 105-132. From Freek.VanDeVelde at arts.kuleuven.be Fri Oct 4 20:31:56 2013 From: Freek.VanDeVelde at arts.kuleuven.be (Freek Van de Velde) Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2013 20:31:56 +0000 Subject: Workshop at Evolang X: Extended deadline In-Reply-To: <5B16B08BAD5E9F4A8A8B12FD94B994C1108CFB5C@ICTS-S-MBX5.luna.kuleuven.be> Message-ID: Correction: extended deadline 1 March *2014* of course. Op 4 Oct 2013 om 21:58 heeft "Freek Van de Velde" > het volgende geschreven: EvolangX Workshop: How Grammaticalization Processes Create Grammar: From Historical Corpus Data to Agent-Based Models CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS NOW OPEN (see further below) EXTENDED DEADLINE: *1 March 2013* Convenors: Luc Steels, Freek Van de Velde and Remi van Trijp Date and Location: 14 April 2013, Vienna, as part of the Evolang-X Conference in Vienna Theme of the workshop: Recently the scientific study of language origins and evolution has seen three important breakthroughs. First, a growing number of corpora of historical language data has become available. Although initially these corpora have been used to examine surface features only (for example the frequency and distribution of word occurrences), advances in statistical language processing now allow for the thorough examination of aspects of grammar, for example, how syntactic structure has progressively arisen in the history of Indo-European languages or how constructional choices have undergone change (e.g. Krug 2000; Bybee 2010; Sommerer 2010; Van de Velde 2010; Traugott & Trousdale, forthc.; Hilpert & Gries, ms.). Second, agent-based models of the cognitive and cultural processes underlying the emergence and evolution of language have made a significant leap forward by using sophisticated, and therefore more realistic, representations of grammar and language processing (e.g. Van Trijp 2012; Beuls & Steels 2013), so that we can now go way beyond the lexicon-oriented experiments characteristic for the field a decade ago. Finally, selectionist theorizing, which has given such tremendous power to evolutionary biology, is being applied increasingly to understand language evolution at the cultural level (Croft 2000; Ritt 2004; Mufwene 2008; Rosenbach et al. 2008; Landsbergen et al. 2010; Steels 2011). Researchers are beginning to look more closely at what selectionist criteria could drive the origins and change in grammatical paradigms and how new language strategies could arise through exaptation, recombination or mutation of existing strategies. The selectionist criteria are primarily based on achieving enough expressive power, maximizing communicative success, and minimizing cognitive effort (Van Trijp 2013). The confluence of these three trends is beginning to give us sophisticated agent-based models which are empirically grounded in real corpus data and framed in a well-established theory of cultural evolution, thus leading to comprehensive scientific models of the grammaticalization processes underlying language emergence and evolution. All this is tremendously exciting. The goal of this workshop is to alert the community of researchers in language evolution to this important development and to show concrete research achievements demonstrating the current state of the art. It will act as a forum for exchanging tools and it will inquire what kind of open problems might be amenable to this approach, given the currently available data and the state of the art in computational linguistics tools for agent-based modeling. The workshop is intended to enable a deeper dialog between two communities (historical linguistics and computational linguistics) so that we can productively combine the very long tradition of empirical research from historical linguistics with the rigorous formalization and validation through simulation as practiced in agent-based modeling. The workshop will as much as possible be based on real case studies. For example, how can we explain the current messy state of the German article system, given that old High German had a much clearer system? (van Trijp 2013) Is this development based on random drift or are there selectionist forces at work? How can we explain that Indo-European languages progressively developed a rich constituent structure with an increasing number of syntactic categories, a gradual incorporation of ‘floating’ words into phrases, and a loss of grammatical agreement? (Van de Velde 2009)? How can we explain the emergence of quantifiers out of adjectives? How can we explain the rise of a case system (Beuls & Steels 2013). General research questions that are to be addressed: 1. What are the processes that cause variation in populations of speakers? 2. What are the processes that select variants to become dominant in a speech community? 3. How do language strategies give rise to language systems? 4. Which cognitive functions must the brain support in order to implement language strategies? 5. What are good tools for doing empirically driven agent-based modeling? Call for Submissions We invite contributions (10′ talk + 5′ discussion) to one of the following three sessions in the workshop: 1. Case Studies: historical data of emergence and evolution of grammatical phenomena and concrete agent-based models, or steps towards them. 2. Tools: What is the state-of-the-art for historical linguistics corpora and tools extracting trends in grammatical evolution? What tools are available for building realistic agent-based models of grammaticalization? 3. Cultural evolution theory: Which results from theoretical research in evolutionary biology can be exapted to advance cultural evolutionary linguistics? Format of the submission. An extended abstract of *max. 4 pages (including references)* adhering to the Evolang stylesheet. Submissions should be e-mailed to info at fcg-net.org with the subject “Evolang workshop submission”. Important Dates * Deadline for submission: 1 March 2014, 23:59 CE * Notification of acceptance: 15 March 2014 * Final submission: 1 April 2014 References · Beuls, Katrien & Luc Steels. 2013. ‘Agent-based models of strategies for the emergence and evolution of grammatical agreement’. PLoS ONE 8(3), e58960. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0058960. · Bybee, Joan L. 2010. Language, Usage and Cognition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. · Croft, William. 2000. Explaining language change. An evolutionary approach. Harlow: Longman. · Hilpert, Martin & Stefan Th, Gries. Manuscript. ‘Quantitative approaches to diachronic corpus linguistics’. In: Merja Kytö & Päivi Pahta (eds.), The Cambridge handbook of English historical linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. · Krug, Manfred. 2000. Emerging English modals: a corpus-based study of grammaticalization. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. · Frank Landsbergen, Robert Lachlan, Carel ten Cate & Arie Verhagen. ‘A cultural evolutionary model of patterns in semantic change’. Linguistics 48: 363-390. · Ritt, Nikolaus. 2004. Selfish Sounds. A Darwinian Approach to Language Change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. · Rosenbach, Anette. 2008. ‘Language Change as Cultural Evolution: Evolutionary Approaches to Language Change’. In: Regine Eckardt, Gerhard Jäger and Tonjes Veenstra (eds.), Variation, Selection, Development. Probing the Evolutionary Model of Language Chang. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 23-72. · Sommerer, L. 2011. ‘Old English se: from demonstrative to article. A usage-based study of nominal determination and category emergence’. PhD thesis, University of Vienna. · Steels, Luc. 2011. ‘Modeling the cultural evolution of language’. Physics of Life Review 8: 339-356. · Traugott, Elizabeth & Graeme Trousdale. Forthcoming. Constructionalization and constructional change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. · Van de Velde, Freek. 2009. De nominale constituent. Structuur en geschiedenis. Leuven: Leuven University Press. · Van de Velde, Freek. 2010. ‘The emergence of the determiner in the Dutch NP’. Linguistics 48: 263-299. · van Trijp, Remi. 2012. ‘Not as awful as it seems: explaining German case through computational experiments in Fluid Construction grammar. In: Proceedings of the 13th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 829-839. · van Trijp, Remi. 2013. ‘Linguistic assessment criteria for explaining language change: a case study on syncretism in German definite articles’. Language Dynamics and Change 3(1): 105-132. From c.hart at lancaster.ac.uk Mon Oct 7 09:38:38 2013 From: c.hart at lancaster.ac.uk (Christopher Hart) Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2013 10:38:38 +0100 Subject: 3rd CfP: CADAAD 2014 Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, We are glad to announce that the 5th Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis across Disciplines Conference (CADAAD) will take place 1-3 September 2014 and will be hosted by ELTE University, Budapest, Hungary. CADAAD conferences are intended to promote current directions and new developments in cross-disciplinary critical discourse research. We welcome papers which, from a critical-analytical perspective, deal with contemporary social, scientific, political, economic, or professional discourses and genres. Possible topics include but are by no means limited to the following: • (New) Media discourse • Party political discourse • Advertising • Discourses of war and terrorism • Power, ideology and dominance in institutional discourse • Identity in discourse • Education discourses • Environmental discourses • Health communication • Business communication • Language and the law • *Discourses of inequality, discrimination and othering* • *Global economic discourses and discourses of the financial crisis* • *Discourses of political protest and civil (dis)order* • *Neoliberalism and the new divides* • *Anti-EU discourses* Papers addressing the highlighted topics are especially welcome. In giving weight to these topics we wish to call to attention some of the most pressing problems currently facing Europe. We hope that CADAAD 2014 will provide a publically visible forum for critically reflecting on these issues. We welcome papers which approach topics such as listed above from theoretical and analytical perspectives sourced from anywhere across the humanities, social and cognitive sciences, including but without being limited to the following: • Sociolinguistics • Multimodality • Media and Mass Communication Studies • Functional Linguistics • Cognitive Linguistics • Corpus Linguistics • Pragmatics and Argumentation Theory • Conversation and Discourse Analysis • Ethnography of Communication • Discursive Psychology • Political Science We especially welcome papers which re-examine existing theoretical frameworks and/or which highlight and apply new methodologies. Reflecting the diversity of topics and approaches in critical discourse studies, the following distinguished guests have confirmed their participation as plenary speakers: • PROFESSOR RUTH WODAK (Lancaster University) • PROFESSOR THEO VAN LEEUWEN (University of Technology Sydney) • PROFESSOR LILIE CHOULIARAKI (London School of Economics) • PROFESSOR ANDREAS MUSOLFF (University of East Anglia) • PROFESSOR CRISPIN THURLOW (University of Washington) All papers will be allocated 20 minutes plus 10 minutes for questions. The language of the conference is English. Abstracts of 250-350 words excluding references should be sent as MS Word attachment to cadaad2014 at gmail.com before 1 December 2013. Please include in the body of the email but not in the abstract itself (1) your name, (2) affiliation and (3) email address. Notifications of acceptance will be communicated by 1 March 2014. In addition to individual papers, panel proposals may also be submitted. A list of our new panels are available at http://cadaad2014.elte.hu/ and at http://cadaad.net/cadaad_2014. We are planning to offer a small number of bursaries to be applied for by delegates who come from disadvantaged circumstances. Application information will be provided on our website later this year. Selected papers are planned to be published in a thematically constrained volume to be submitted to an international publisher. Other selected papers will appear in a proceedings issue of the CADAAD journal. For further information please visit our new conference website at http://cadaad2014.elte.hu/ or http://cadaad.net/cadaad_2014 and our new Facebook page at facebook.com/Cadaad2014. Best regards, Christopher Hart, CADAAD, Lancaster University Tamás Eitler, CADAAD 2014 Local Organising Committee, ELTE University, Budapest From jordan.zlatev at ling.lu.se Mon Oct 7 18:42:38 2013 From: jordan.zlatev at ling.lu.se (Jordan Zlatev) Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2013 18:42:38 +0000 Subject: IACS-2014, First Call for Papers Message-ID: With apologies for multiple postings! *********************************************************************** First Call for Papers First International Association for Cognitive Semiotics (IACS) Conference, IACS-2014 September 25-27, 2014 Lund, Sweden http://conference.sol.lu.se/en/iacs-2014 IACS-2014 at semiotik.lu.se The First International Association for Cognitive Semiotics (IACS) Conference (IACS-2014) will be held in September 25-27, at Lund University, Sweden. Founded in Aarhus, Denmark, on May 29, 2013, The International Association for Cognitive Semiotics aims at the further establishment of Cognitive Semiotics as the trans-disciplinary study of meaning, combining concepts, theories and methods from the humanities and the social and natural sciences. Central topics are the evolution, development of, and interaction between different semiotic resources such as language, gestures and pictorial representations. Plenary speakers * Søren Brier, Copenhagen Business School http://www.cbs.dk/en/research/departments-and-centres/department-of-international-business-communication/staff/sbibc * Merlin Donald, Queens University http://www.queensu.ca/psychology/MerlinDonald.html * Brian MacWhinney, Carnegie Mellon University http://psyling.psy.cmu.edu/ * Cornelia Müller, European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) http://www.europa-uni.de/en/forschung/vcgs/dmc/Graduiertenschule/0_Professoren/mueller/index.html * Raymond Tallis http://www.raymondtallis.com/ Theme of the conference: Establishing Cognitive Semiotics Over the past two decades or so, a number of researchers from semiotics, linguistics, cognitive science and related fields, from several European and North American research centres, have experienced the needs to combine theoretical knowledge and methodological expertise in order to be able to tackle challenging questions concerning the nature of meaning, the role of consciousness, the unique cognitive features of humankind, the interaction of nature and nurture in development, and the interplay of biological and cultural evolution in phylogeny. The product of these collaborations has been the emergence of the field of Cognitive Semiotics, with its journal (http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/cogsem) and academic association. The conference aims both to celebrate this, and to look forward into possibilities for further development. We invite the submission of 400 word abstracts for one of the three categories: 1. Oral presentations (20 min presentation + 5 minute discussion) 2. Posters (at a dedicated poster session) 3. Theme sessions (3 to 6 thematically linked oral presentations, introduced by a discussant. The individual abstracts should be preceded by an abstract for the theme session as a whole. In case the theme session is not accepted, individual abstracts will be reviewed as submissions for oral presentations.) The abstracts can be related, though need not be restricted, to the following topics: * Biological and cultural evolution of human cognitive specificity * Cognitive linguistics and phenomenology * Communication across cultural barriers * Cross-species comparative semiotics * Evolutionary perspectives on altruism * Experimental semiotics * Iconicity in language and other semiotic resources * Intersubjectivity and mimesis in evolution and development * Multimodality * Narrativity across different media * Semantic typology and linguistic relativity * Semiosis (sense-making) in social interaction * Semiotic and cognitive development in children * Sign use and cognition * Signs, affordances, and other meanings * Speech and gesture * The comparative semiotics of iconicity and indexicality * The evolution of language Abstracts should be submitted at the site: http://conference.sol.lu.se/en/iacs-2014 Important dates * Deadline for abstract submission (theme sessions): 31 Dec 2013 * Deadline for abstract submission (oral presentations, posters): 1 Feb 2014 * Notification of acceptance (theme sessions): 15 Feb 2014 * Notification of acceptance (oral presentations, posters): 1 April 2014 * Last date for early registration: 1 July 2014 Local organizing committee * Mats Andrén * Johan Blomberg * Anna Redei Cabak * Sara Lenninger * Göran Sonesson * Jordan Zlatev Jordan Zlatev, Professor Lund University, Centre for Languages and Literature Box 201, 221 00 Lund, Sweden Centre for Cognitive Semiotics (CCS), Deputy research director http://project.sol.lu.se/en/ccs/ The Public Journal of Semiotics (PJOS), Editor-in-Chief http://pjos.org International Association for Cognitive Semiotics (IACS), President From anne.salazar-orvig at univ-paris3.fr Thu Oct 10 02:50:55 2013 From: anne.salazar-orvig at univ-paris3.fr (Anne Salazar Orvig) Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2013 04:50:55 +0200 Subject: International conference on the acquisition of referring expression Message-ID: Dear colleagues Please find attached the complete version of the program of the conference on acquisition of referring expressions to be held in Paris, October 25th and 26th. You can also visit the conference site (www.univ-paris3.fr/aeref-2013) or write to aeref2013 at univ-paris3.fr Registration on line is still open. Thank you in advance Best regards Anne Salazar Orvig ILPGA Université Sorbonne Nouvelle EA 1483 - Recherche sur le français contemporain CLESTHIA From bischoff.st at gmail.com Thu Oct 10 13:31:22 2013 From: bischoff.st at gmail.com (s.t. Bischoff) Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2013 09:31:22 -0400 Subject: 2 Jobs: SLA & Rhet-Comp Message-ID: Please see the call below... The Department of English at the University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez (UPRM) is seeking two applicants for tenure-track positions at the level of Assistant Professor (with a starting salary of $62,256) starting July 1, 2014. The requirements for each position are: (1) Doctoral degree in Second Language Acquisition (SLA) or related field. Teaching, research experience and a track record of academic publishing is expected. Knowledge of Spanish is necessary. The candidate is expected to teach ESL courses across skill levels as well as periodically teach linguistics courses. (2) Doctoral degree in Rhetoric and Composition or related field. Teaching, research experience and a track record of academic publishing is expected. Knowledge of Spanish is desirable. The candidate is expected to teach primarily advanced English courses to first year students whose first language is Spanish as well as technical writing, public speaking and other communications courses. Interested candidates should send cover letter, curriculum vitae, and copies of peer-reviewed publications by email to english at uprm.edu no later than November 27, 2013. In addition, they should mail a copy of their doctoral transcript and two letters of recommendation postmarked by November 27, 2013 to the following address: Dr. Rosita Rivera Interim Director Department of English University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez Campus PO Box 9265 Mayagüez, Puerto Rico 00681-9265 Applications or materials received after November 27, 2013 will not be considered. From dylan.glynn at univ-paris8.fr Mon Oct 14 22:05:53 2013 From: dylan.glynn at univ-paris8.fr (Dylan Glynn) Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 00:05:53 +0200 Subject: CfP Theme Session - Corpus-based Approaches to Semantics and Pragmatics Message-ID: Theme Session: Corpus-based Approaches to Semantics and Pragmatics at the 47th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea 11 – 14 September 2014, Poznań, Poland
 http://sle2014.eu/ www.dsglynn.univ-paris8.fr/corpus_semantics.html Description: This theme session brings together research employing corpus-based methods in the study of semantics and pragmatics. The focus will be methodological and restricted to corpus-driven, as opposed to corpus-illustrated, research. Small sample research and qualitative studies in gesture, discourse and conversation analysis are also welcome. The last 25 years have seen a dramatic growth in observation-based studies in semantics and pragmatics. Indeed, with technological advances in corpus methods, in both Cognitive and Functional Linguistics, the use of such methods can currently be seen as one of the principle approaches to meaning structure. In Cognitive and Functional circles, Dirven et al (1982), Schmid (1993, 2000), Geeraerts et al. (1994, 1999), Scheibman (2002), Kärkkäinen (2003), Gries (2003), Gries & Stefanowitsch (2006) Szmrecsanyi (2006), Bednarek (2006), Cornillie (2007), Englebretson (2007) Hilpert (2008), Gilquin (2009), and Glynn & Fischer (2010), Breban (2010), Divjak (2010) Dziwirek & Lewandowska (2010) are just a few of the large number of works representation this trend. What ties these diverse studies together is the systematic use of contextualised observational data to understand the conceptual and functional motivations behind language structure. Two corpus-driven approaches emerge across these traditions. The first is formal, based on collocations of lexemes and lexemes and constructions. This method examines formal patterns in observational data and interprets this as indicative of semantico-pragmatic structures. Being based on formal co-occurrence, the approach is methodological related to latent semantic analysis and vector space modelling in computational linguistics. The second approach includes profile-based analysis or multifactorial feature analysis and is based on the close manual annotation of semantico-pragmatic features of a language sample. This second approach is closely related to sentiment analysis in the computational tradition. The theme session will bring together researchers interested in developing methods, such as these and others, for the analysis of semantics and pragmatics. Methods / keywords: Conversation, discourse and gesture analysis Collocations, collostructions, concordances Multifactorial feature analysis (profile-based approach / sentiment analysis / content analysis) Latent semantic analysis and vector space modelling For further information Dylan Glynn (dglynn at univ-paris8.fr) Guillaume Desagulier (gdesagulier at univ-paris8.fr) Abstracts: Abstracts must be submitted twice. First a short abstract (300 words) will be submitted to the theme session convenors and second a longer abstract (500 words) will be submitted to the conference itself. It is essential that the abstracts follow strict guideless for structure. 1. Introduce briefly the problem and question / hypothesis. 2. Summarise briefly the method and data employed to answer question / test hypothesis. 3. Summarise briefly the results or expected results. Please submit abstracts in a modifiable file format such as .rft, .doc, .docx or .odt Submit abstracts to the convenors Dylan Glynn: dglynn at univ-paris8.fr Guillaume Desagulier: gdesagulier at univ-paris8.fr Dates: Short Abstract for theme session: 20th Nov. 2013 Acceptance to theme session: 25th Nov. 2013 Longer abstract for SLE: 15th Jan 2014 Acceptance to SLE: 31st March 2014 References Bednarek, M. 2006. Evaluation in Media Discourse. Continuum: London. Breban, T. 2010. English Adjectives of Comparison. Mouton: Berlin. Cornillie, B. 2007. Evidentiality and Epistemic Modality in Spanish. Mouton: Berlin. Dirven, R. et al. 1982. Scene of Linguistic Action and its Perspectivization. Benjamins: Amsterdam. Divjak, D. 2010. Structuring the Lexicon. Mouton: Berlin. Dziwirek, K. & Lewandowska, B. 2010. Complex Emotions and Grammatical Mismatches. Mouton: Berlin. Englebretson, R. 2007. Stancetaking in Discourse. Benjamins: Amsterdam. Geeraerts et al. 1994. Structure of Lexical Variation. Mouton: Berlin. Geeraerts et al. 1999. Convergentie en Divergentie in de Nederlandse Woordenschat. Meertens: Amsterdam. Gilquin, G. 2010. Corpus, Cognition and Causative Constructions. Benjamins: Amsterdam. Glynn, D. & Fischer, K. 2010. Quantitative Methods in Cognitive Semantics. Mouton: Berlin. Gries, St. Th. & Stefanowitsch, A. 2006. Corpora in Cognitive Linguistics. Mouton: Berlin. Gries, St. Th. 2003. Multifactorial Analysis in Corpus Linguistics. Continuum: London. Hilpert, M. 2008. Germanic Future Constructions. Benjamins: Amsterdam. Kärkkäinen, E. 2003. Epistemic Stance in English Conversation. Benjamins: Amsterdam. Scheibman, J. 2002. Point of View and Grammar. Benjamins: Amsterdam. Schmid, H. J. 2000. English Abstract Nouns as Conceptual Shells. Mouton: Berlin. Schmid, H. J. 1993. Kategorisierung als Grundprinzip einer differenzierten Bedeutungsbeschreibung. Niemeyer: Tübingen. Szmrecsanyi, B. 2006. Morphosyntactic Persistence in Spoken English. Mouton: Berlin. From tmarghet at cogsci.ucsd.edu Wed Oct 16 22:21:27 2013 From: tmarghet at cogsci.ucsd.edu (Tyler Marghetis) Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 15:21:27 -0700 Subject: 2nd CfP: Sixth Conference of the International Society of Gesture Studies (ISGS 6) Message-ID: *apologies for cross-posting* Dear colleagues, The International Society for Gesture Studies (ISGS) is pleased to announce the *Sixth Conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies: Gesture in Interaction*. It will be held on the campus of the University of California, San Diego, July 8-11, 2014. *The deadline for abstract submission is November 15, 2013.* *The conference website is: isgs.ucsd.edu* Devoted to the study of multimodality in communication, the ISGS is an interdisciplinary group of researchers including anthropologists, cognitive scientists, computer scientists, linguists, neuroscientists, psychologists, and semioticians. The Society convenes for a major international conference every two years, and the 2014 meeting will be the 6th. We invite abstracts that address any aspect of the study of gesture and multimodality, including but not limited to: the relationship between sign and gesture; the cognitive and neural underpinnings of gesture; the contribution of gesture to language production and comprehension; the role of gesture in situated language use; and how gesture mediates interaction in the social, cultural, and technological world. We welcome papers on any aspect of bodily communication and are open to all theoretical and disciplinary perspectives. *Plenary Speakers* Herbert Clark, Stanford University Susan Wagner Cook, University of Iowa Marjorie H. Goodwin, UCLA Marianne Gullberg, Lund University Asli Özyürek, MPI Nijmegen and Radboud University Andy Wilson, Microsoft Research *Abstract Submission* We invite abstracts of no more than 500 words. Abstracts must report previously unpublished work. Three kinds of presentation are available: Paper presentations: Paper presentations will be 25 minutes, with 20 minutes for presentation and 5 minutes for discussion. Thematic Panels: Papers that address a common theme may be submitted as a Thematic Panel. Panels should consist of four talks, which must be submitted individually as Paper Presentations. Each individual abstract should indicate the name of the proposed Thematic Panel. Poster presentation: Poster presentations are an opportunity for more extended interaction. Posters will be displayed during poster sessions, with ample opportunity for discussion. *Please submit your abstracts at the following site: http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/ISGS2014* * * *For more information, please see the conference website: isgs.ucsd.edu* * * *Important Dates* September 1, 2013: Submission Opens *November 15, 2013: Submission Deadline* December 15, 2013: Notification of Acceptance January 15, 2014: Registration Opens July 8 - 11, 2014: Conference *Conference Language* The conference language will be English. American Sign Language (ASL) interpreters will be available. *Organization and Coordination Committee* Carol Padden, Department of Communication, UC San Diego Seana Coulson, Department of Cognitive Science, UC San Diego John Haviland, Department of Anthropology, UC San Diego Tyler Marghetis, Department of Cognitive Science, UC San Diego Sharon Seegers, Center for Research in Language, UC San Diego -- Tyler Marghetis Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Cognitive Science University of California, San Diego tmarghet at cogsci.ucsd.edu http://www.cogsci.ucsd.edu/~tmarghet/ From langconf at bu.edu Thu Oct 17 20:41:13 2013 From: langconf at bu.edu (BUCLD) Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2013 16:41:13 -0400 Subject: BUCLD 38 Preregistration Message-ID: 38th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development November 1-3, 2013 Keynote Speaker: Elena Lieven, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology / University of Manchester Plenary Speaker: CANCELED: Heather van der Lely, Harvard University Unfortunately, Heather van der Lely's plenary address has been cancelled for health reasons. We regret that we cannot hear her address and wish her the best in recovery. Symposia: Saturday - 'Resolving A Learnability Paradox in the Acquisition of Verb Argument Structure: What have we learned in the last 25 years' Ben Ambridge (University of Liverpool) (organizer) Adele Goldberg (Princeton University) Joshua Hartshorne (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) & Jesse Snedeker (Harvard University) Steven Pinker (Harvard University) Sunday - 'A new approach to language learning: filtering through the processor' Helen Goodluck (University of York) (organizer) Lyn Frazier (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) Colin Phillips (University of Maryland, College Park) We would like to remind you that the deadline to pre-register for BUCLD 38 is Tuesday, October 23, 2013. By pre-registering not only will you receive a reduced rate for the conference, but you will also be able to check-in at the registration desk quickly and proceed to the various exciting talks without waiting in line. Regular full-price registration will continue to be available online from Thursday, October 24 through Tuesday, October 29. To register, please visit the following website: http://www.bu.edu/bucld/conference-info/registration/ For general information on the conference including the full schedule, please visit: http://www.bu.edu/bucld Also, you can register for the Society for Language Development Symposium "Mechanisms of Word Learning" on Thursday October 31, 1-6pm through our website. The SLD would also like to announce their student award. Please see their website for more information: http://www.bcs.rochester.edu/sld/symposium.html From maarten.lemmens at univ-lille3.fr Sat Oct 19 20:33:08 2013 From: maarten.lemmens at univ-lille3.fr (Maarten Lemmens) Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2013 22:33:08 +0200 Subject: JOB openings in English linguistics, Lille 3, France (URGENT) Message-ID: !!! URGENT JOB NOTICE !!! *Answer needed before Oct. 24, 16h00 (Paris time) 2013 (see below)* http://www.univ-lille3.fr Pending approval, The University of Lille 3, France, will have two, possibly three tenure track positions available track position in English Linguistics, with the following profile: 1) English linguistics (preference for, but not exclusion to, syntax or diachrony) 2) English linguistics and didactics (ESL) and/or language acquisition 3) English linguistics and translation (French) REQUIREMENTS The candidate must hold a PhD, or be sure to have a PhD in hand by December 1, 2013 at the latest, in the field of English Linguistics (or comparable, with good command of English) and have demonstrated expertise in this domain, through quality publication and solid teaching experience. The ideal candidate will engage in the further expansion of the STL research center at the Université Lille 3 (http://stl.recherche.univ-lille3.fr/). Normal teaching load is about 7 hours per week (2 terms of 13 weeks) and concerns English linguistics classes, or possibly also English for non-specialists (ESP) (mostly undergraduate level), and translation (for position 3). Hiring will be done at the level of "Maître de Conférences" (MCF) with a monthly salary scale ranging from 2,058 to 3,722 (before taxes and withholdings), depending on the number of years of experience at MCF level (i.e. most positions for which a PhD is required). Initially, there is no requirement that candidates speak French fluently, but it is preferred that they at least have a sufficient working knowledge to understand the procedures. The successful candidate must be authorized to work legally in France by Sept. 1, 2014, the start date of the position. PROCEDURE Candidates who are interested in this position should contact Maarten Lemmens (maarten.lemmens at univ-lille3.fr) and Ilse Depaetere (ilse.depraetere at univ-lille3.fr) AS SOON AS POSSIBLE; please send along your CV too. Moreover, the first official step for candidates is to register on-line for the QUALIFICATION by *October 24, 2011, 16:00* (Parisian time) on the official site of the Ministère de l'Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche; https://www.galaxie.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr/ensup/candidats.html (on the right, you'll also see a link to the "calendrier" with important dates for the qualification MCF). You choose to qualify in "section 11" (anglais) and you may additionally ask for a qualification in section 7 (sciences de language). Many people do ask for a double qualification to be safe. The idea is that you need to get the qualification MCF before you can apply for a job as an MCF. People who hold a position of rank similar to MCF could apply without the qualification, but it is safer to follow the usual official procedure, which is open to all nationalities anyway. This is not yet the final application (will be in December or January), but without the online registration you cannot proceed to the next level (sending your file to the two evaluators that have been designated to you). Do not hesitate to contact Maarten Lemmens or Ilse Depraetere should you have any questions on this position or on the official procedure. M. Lemmens will be traveling (China) the next two weeks, so may have limited access to internet. -- Maarten (=Martin) Lemmens Professeur en linguistique et didactique des langues Université Lille 3, B.P. 60149, 59653 Villeneuve d'Ascq Cedex, France Bureau B4.138; tél.: +33 (0)3.20.41.67.18 President of the International Cognitive Linguistics Association http://www.cogling.org/ Membre de l'UMR 8163 Savoirs, Textes, Langage http://perso.univ-lille3.fr/~mlemmens Editor-in-Chief "CogniTextes" (revue de l'AFLiCo) http://cognitextes.revues.org/ Membre du bureau de l'Association Française de Linguistique Cognitive http://www.aflico.fr/ -- -- Maarten (=Martin) Lemmens Professeur en linguistique et didactique des langues Université Lille 3, B.P. 60149, 59653 Villeneuve d'Ascq Cedex, France Bureau B4.138; tél.: +33 (0)3.20.41.67.18 President of the International Cognitive Linguistics Association http://www.cogling.org/ Membre de l'UMR 8163 Savoirs, Textes, Langage http://perso.univ-lille3.fr/~mlemmens Editor-in-Chief "CogniTextes" (revue de l'AFLiCo) http://cognitextes.revues.org/ Membre du bureau de l'Association Française de Linguistique Cognitive http://www.aflico.fr/ -- From dylan.glynn at univ-paris8.fr Sun Oct 20 17:04:03 2013 From: dylan.glynn at univ-paris8.fr (Dylan Glynn) Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2013 19:04:03 +0200 Subject: Call for Papers - Epistemic stance and evidentiality (theme session) Message-ID: *Theme session - Call for Papers* ** **** Apologies for cross-posting **** ** At the 47th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea 11-14 September 2014 Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland http://sle2014.eu/ www.dsglynn.univ-paris8.fr/epistemicity.html *Title*: Epistemic stance and evidentiality: Corpus and discourse approaches to subjectivity and intersubjectivity *Description:* This theme session focuses on epistemic and evidential expressions for stance taking. The approach adopted here will be data-driven, with special use of corpora and/or discourse analysis. Modalised utterances, such as epistemic and evidential constructions, convey information about the speaker's assertions and attitudes in an interactive context. They can, therefore, be understood in terms of subjectivity, intersubjectivity, and objectivity. The direct subjective expression of a speaker's cognitive state (e.g., /I think/, /I believe/, /I know/, etc.) and the objective evidential expression of the perceived situation (e.g., /it seems/, /it looks, it appears /etc/./) are both fundamental to understanding language use and the intersubjectivity of communication. Indeed, these three dimensions, the personal (subjective), interpersonal (intersubjective), and impersonal (objective), play a crucial role in the interaction between the source of knowledge/perception and the degree of certainty. Epistemic and evidential language is central to understanding and accounting for the construal and conception of scenes as well as the functions and intentions of utterances. The nature of this research places it at the crossroads of Cognitive and Functional Linguistics. The workshop seeks to advance an already established tradition through integrating these cognitive and functional frameworks. The workshop will build on the work by Benveniste (1971), Langacker (1985, 1987), Traugott (1989), Guentchéva (1996),Nuyts (2001), Mushin (2001), Brisard (2002), Scheibman (2002), Kärkkäinen (2003), Verhagen (2005), Cornillie (2007), Engelbretson (2007), Simon-Vandenbergen & Aijmer (2007), Ekberg & Paradis (2009), Hunston (2010), and others (see references). We invite contributions dealing with topics related to epistemicity and evidentiality in relation to questions of (inter)subjectivity and objectivity in an intra- and interlinguistic context. Examples of research areas include, but are not restricted to: -Assessment / operationalisation of the (inter)subjective dimension of epistemicity and evidentiality -The role of assertion in utterance modalisation -Constructions and strategies available for speakers in stance taking -Different meanings of epistemic expressions (e.g., the multiple meanings of /think/) -Cross-linguistic studies in epistemicity and evidentiality -Interactive framing and construal of stance taking -Adverbial and adjectival expressions of stance and evidentiality -Constructions and grammatical patterns of epistemic and evidential expressions (e.g., complementation types) -Discursive patterns of epistemicity and evidentiality -Prosody and intonation patterns in stance taking -Grammaticalization in epistemic expressions -Reported speech, modalisation markers and evidentiality ** *Keywords:* epictemicity, evidentiality, subjectivity, intersubjectivity, discourse and conversation analysis, corpus linguistics, usage-based linguistics Cognitive Linguistics, Enunciative Functional Linguistics, Systemic Functional Linguistics ** *Instructions for abstract submissions: * - Short abstracts of 300 words (excluding references) should clearly specify the (i) /research question(s)/, (ii) /method and data/, and (iii) the (expected) /results./ - Abstracts should be sent to: epistemicitySLE2014 at gmail.com - Please use a modifiable file format such as .doc, .rtf, or .odt For further information, please contact the session convenors Françoise Doro-Mégy: fdoro at free.fr Dylan Glynn: dglynn at univ-paris8.fr Karolina Krawczak: karolina at wa.amu.edu.pl *Dates:* Deadline: November, 25^th Notification: November, 30^th ^ If accepted, longer abstracts of 500 words (excluding references) will need to be submitted separately to the central conference organisers by the 15^th January 2014 *References:* Benveniste, E. 1971 [1958]. 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Oxford: Oxford University Press. From laury at mappi.helsinki.fi Tue Oct 22 11:46:20 2013 From: laury at mappi.helsinki.fi (Ritva Laury) Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 14:46:20 +0300 Subject: Postdoctoral position at the University of Helsinki Message-ID: A three-year postdoctoral researcher position in the multidisciplinary and multilingual Center of Excellence in Intersubjectivity in Interaction, located in the Department of Finnish, Finno-Ugric and Scandinavian Studies at the University of Helsinki, is now open for applications. The application deadline is November 30th, 2013. Here's a link to the position announcement: http://www.helsinki.fi/recruitment/index.html?id=75610 And here's a link to the CoE website: http://www.intersubjectivity.fi/en/ From DEVERETT at bentley.edu Tue Oct 22 16:45:19 2013 From: DEVERETT at bentley.edu (Everett, Daniel) Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 16:45:19 +0000 Subject: Monolingual demonstration Message-ID: Folks, In case you're interested. These were just posted by the LSA. These were invited special sessions at the LSA Summer Institute at the U of Michigan this summer. The first is my Q&A about the Grammar of Happiness. Some readers on this list might have had questions on the film and the issues it raises so this might answer some of those. The second video is my monolingual demonstration (the language I got turned out to be Hmong). If you haven't seen one of these or wanted to show one to a class, here is one recording. (They are not that exciting in video, I will admit.) Dan http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYpWp7g7XWU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5C2qVW7s_C0 From bischoff.st at gmail.com Wed Oct 23 20:49:55 2013 From: bischoff.st at gmail.com (s.t. Bischoff) Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 16:49:55 -0400 Subject: Teaching English in Africa: Query Message-ID: Hello, I have a student that will be finishing her undergraduate studies in December and that is interested in teaching English in Africa (she is primarily interested in Central African countries but is open to other possibilities). She has traveled and volunteered in Ghana in the past. She is doing the usual online searches for opportunities, but I was wondering if there was anyone on the list that might have first hand knowledge of such opportunities. Thank you, Shannon From reng at rice.edu Thu Oct 24 03:01:11 2013 From: reng at rice.edu (Robert Englebretson) Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 22:01:11 -0500 Subject: Rice Linguistics graduate program under threat Message-ID: Colleagues, We would like to call your attention to an article that appeared in today's Rice student newspaper concerning the threatened termination of our Linguistics graduate program. http://www.ricethresher.org/linguistic-graduate-program-faces-elimination-1.3098813 Best, --Robert Englebretson -- ****************************************************************** Dr. Robert Englebretson *Associate Professor and Graduate Advisor* Dept. of Linguistics, MS23 Rice University 6100 Main St. Houston, TX 77005-1892 Phone: 713 348-4776 E-mail: reng at rice.edu http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~reng From john at research.haifa.ac.il Thu Oct 24 05:01:18 2013 From: john at research.haifa.ac.il (john) Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 07:01:18 +0200 Subject: Teaching English in Africa: Query In-Reply-To: Message-ID: I don't know about teaching in English in particular but if she's interested in Central Africa I know people in South Sudan who I'm sure could look for something for her. John On 23.10.2013 22:49, s.t. Bischoff wrote: > Hello, > > I have a student that will be finishing her undergraduate studies in > December and that is interested in teaching English in Africa (she is > primarily interested in Central African countries but is open to other > possibilities). She has traveled and volunteered in Ghana in the past. She > is doing the usual online searches for opportunities, but I was wondering > if there was anyone on the list that might have first hand knowledge of > such opportunities. > > Thank you, > Shannon From reng at rice.edu Wed Oct 30 05:04:34 2013 From: reng at rice.edu (Robert Englebretson) Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 00:04:34 -0500 Subject: Another article on the threat to Rice linguistics Message-ID: Colleagues, We would like to call your attention to another article appearing in this week's Rice newspaper about the ongoing plight of our department. Very proud of our graduate students, and especially proud of the author of this piece! http://www.ricethresher.org/administrators-should-save-the-linguistics-graduate-program-1.3102624 Best, --Robert Englebretson -- ****************************************************************** Dr. Robert Englebretson *Associate Professor and Graduate Advisor* Dept. of Linguistics, MS23 Rice University 6100 Main St. Houston, TX 77005-1892 Phone: 713 348-4776 E-mail: reng at rice.edu http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~reng From john at research.haifa.ac.il Thu Oct 31 14:19:42 2013 From: john at research.haifa.ac.il (john) Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 16:19:42 +0200 Subject: English Departments in non-English-speaking countries In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear Funknetters, I don't know if this is the right set of people to ask about this, but here goes. I teach in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Haifa. There are five linguists in the department and in principle six literature specialists. We are the strongest unit in the Humanities by far in terms of number of students, and we can even set our limits on test scores for entrance very high so as to have very strong students on the average. About 75% of our students are native speakers of Arabic, 10-15% are native speakers of Hebrew, and the rest are native speakers of other languages. We don't have a single faculty member who knows Arabic beyond e.g. my knowledge of which sociolinguistics variables manifest which behavior. In departmental discussions, I have long contended that this is a serious problem because in a non-English-speaking country the natural topic for a seminar paper or a thesis in an English department is some kind of contrastive study between English and the students' native language, or a study of the acquisition of English informed by a knowledge of the learners' native language so that the effects of interference from this language can be taken into consideration, and the Arabic-speaking students have no one who can adequately work with them in this regard. This would be perhaps understandable if the Arabic-speaking students constituted a minority in the department as they do in Israel as a whole (being about 20% of the population), but as they have been the overwhelming majority of students in our department for the past 10 years and there is no sign that this will change, the situation is completely unacceptable. Incredibly, not a single other faculty member in my department has ever stated that they agree with me in thinking that this is a serious problem (I should say that the great majority of them are as far as I know extremely left-wing in terms of the political parties that they vote for). With three retirements coming up in the next two years, and with a number of suitable candidates who are native speakers of Arabic available, I feel as though the time has come to make a serious effort to do something about this. Could any of you who are working in English departments in non-English-speaking countries be persuaded to write letters to people in my department and elsewhere in the university stressing the importance to English departments in non-English-speaking countries of having lecturers who know the native language of the majority of students? At least one? Thanks, John From c.hart at lancaster.ac.uk Tue Oct 1 10:07:27 2013 From: c.hart at lancaster.ac.uk (Hart, Christopher) Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2013 10:07:27 +0000 Subject: 2nd CfP: UK Cognitive Linguistics Conference 5 Message-ID: Dear colleagues (apologies for cross-posting), The 5th UK Cognitive Linguistics Conference will take place at Lancaster University, 29-31 July 2014. We invite the submission of abstracts (for paper or poster presentations) addressing all aspects of cognitive linguistics. The conference aims to cover a broad range of research concerned with language and cognition. We will be especially interested in promoting strongly empirical work. To this end, we intend to organise (some of) the papers into thematic sessions, with our plenary speakers acting as discussants. The themes will be: * Embodiment * Gesture * Typology and constructional analyses of the languages of the world * Acquisition * Corpora and statistical methods * Metaphor and discourse In addition to these themes, submissions on other aspects of the field are also welcome. These include but are not restricted to: * Domains and frame semantics * Categorisation, prototypes and polysemy * Mental spaces and conceptual blending * Language evolution * Linguistic variation and language change * Cognitive linguistic approaches to language teaching Cognitive linguistics is by definition highly interdisciplinary, and so in addition to primarily linguistic research, we also invite submissions that are based on disciplines such as (cognitive and social) psychology, cognitive and neuroscience, anthropology, primatology, biology, and discourse and communication studies. Talks will be 20 minutes plus 10 minutes for questions and discussion. There will also be a poster session. The language of the conference is English. Abstracts of no more than 300 words (excluding references) should be submitted using EasyChair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ukclc5. Participants are allowed to submit abstracts for no more than one single-authored paper and one joint-authored paper. All abstracts will be subject to double-blind peer review by an international scientific committee. Since 2012 UK-CLA publishes selected conference presentations in the series 'Selected Papers from UK-CLA Meetings' (ISSN 2046-9144); UK-CLC5 will continue this tradition. The deadline for abstract submission is 20 December 2013. Notification of acceptance will be communicated by 1 February 2014. Abstracts must be strictly anonymous, and should be submitted in plain text and/or PDF format. If you need to use phonetic characters, please make sure that they are displayed correctly. Submissions: To be able to submit an abstract you must use your existing EasyChair login details. If you have not registered with EasyChair before, please do so using the link above. Once you have created an account or signed in please follow the following steps: * Click on the 'New Submission' link at the top of the page. * Agree to the terms and conditions (if prompted). * Fill in the relevant information about the author or authors. * Give the title of the paper in the 'Title' box and then (a) enter or paste your abstract into the 'Abstract' box (please remember that this is plain text only) and/or (b) upload your abstract as a PDF file by clicking 'Choose File' under 'Upload Paper.' * At the top of your abstract, indicate whether you would prefer an oral presentation, a poster, or either. Please do this by entering 'oral presentation', 'poster', or 'oral presentation/poster' at the top of your abstract, above the title. * Type three or more keywords into the 'Keywords' box (these will help us choose suitable reviewers for your abstract, as well as a possible thematic session for your paper). * When you are done, please press 'Submit' at the very bottom of the page. Key Dates and Information: Abstract deadline: 20 December 2013 Decisions communicated by: 1 February 2014 Early bird registration opens: 1 February 2014 Early bird registration closes: 15 March 2014 Registration closes: 1 June 2014 Conference dates: 29-31 July 2014 For further information visit http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/fass/events/uk-clc5/ or contact the organisers at: uk-clc5 at languageandcognition.net Dr Christopher Hart Senior Lecturer in Cognitive Linguistics and Discourse Department of Linguistics and English Language Lancaster University www.hartcda.org.uk www.cadaad.net From fjn at u.washington.edu Wed Oct 2 16:43:07 2013 From: fjn at u.washington.edu (Frederick J Newmeyer) Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2013 09:43:07 -0700 Subject: may be > maybe Message-ID: Can anybody point me to a literature reference on the grammaticalization of 'may be' to 'maybe' in the history of English? Thanks, Fritz Frederick J. Newmeyer Professor Emeritus, University of Washington Adjunct Professor, U of British Columbia and Simon Fraser U [for my postal address, please contact me by e-mail] From Freek.VanDeVelde at arts.kuleuven.be Wed Oct 2 19:00:37 2013 From: Freek.VanDeVelde at arts.kuleuven.be (Freek Van de Velde) Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2013 19:00:37 +0000 Subject: FUNKNET Digest, Vol 121, Issue 2 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Hi Fritz, The grammaticalization of 'maybe' is discussed in Olga Fischer's book 'Morphosyntactic change. Functional and formal perspectives' (OUP, 2007), in Chapter 6. And there could be something in Toril Swan's book 'Sentence adverbials in English: a synchronic and diachronic investigation' (Novus Verlag, 1988) as well, though I am not sure. Best regards, Freek. --- Freek Van de Velde http://wwwling.arts.kuleuven.be/qlvl/freek.htm -----Original Message----- From: funknet-bounces at mailman.rice.edu [mailto:funknet-bounces at mailman.rice.edu] On Behalf Of funknet-request at mailman.rice.edu Sent: woensdag 2 oktober 2013 19:00 To: funknet at mailman.rice.edu Subject: FUNKNET Digest, Vol 121, Issue 2 Send FUNKNET mailing list submissions to funknet at mailman.rice.edu To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/funknet or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to funknet-request at mailman.rice.edu You can reach the person managing the list at funknet-owner at mailman.rice.edu When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of FUNKNET digest..." 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From Freek.VanDeVelde at arts.kuleuven.be Fri Oct 4 19:58:32 2013 From: Freek.VanDeVelde at arts.kuleuven.be (Freek Van de Velde) Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2013 19:58:32 +0000 Subject: Workshop at Evolang X: Extended deadline Message-ID: EvolangX Workshop: How Grammaticalization Processes Create Grammar: From Historical Corpus Data to Agent-Based Models CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS NOW OPEN (see further below) EXTENDED DEADLINE: *1 March 2013* Convenors: Luc Steels, Freek Van de Velde and Remi van Trijp Date and Location: 14 April 2013, Vienna, as part of the Evolang-X Conference in Vienna Theme of the workshop: Recently the scientific study of language origins and evolution has seen three important breakthroughs. First, a growing number of corpora of historical language data has become available. Although initially these corpora have been used to examine surface features only (for example the frequency and distribution of word occurrences), advances in statistical language processing now allow for the thorough examination of aspects of grammar, for example, how syntactic structure has progressively arisen in the history of Indo-European languages or how constructional choices have undergone change (e.g. Krug 2000; Bybee 2010; Sommerer 2010; Van de Velde 2010; Traugott & Trousdale, forthc.; Hilpert & Gries, ms.). Second, agent-based models of the cognitive and cultural processes underlying the emergence and evolution of language have made a significant leap forward by using sophisticated, and therefore more realistic, representations of grammar and language processing (e.g. Van Trijp 2012; Beuls & Steels 2013), so that we can now go way beyond the lexicon-oriented experiments characteristic for the field a decade ago. Finally, selectionist theorizing, which has given such tremendous power to evolutionary biology, is being applied increasingly to understand language evolution at the cultural level (Croft 2000; Ritt 2004; Mufwene 2008; Rosenbach et al. 2008; Landsbergen et al. 2010; Steels 2011). Researchers are beginning to look more closely at what selectionist criteria could drive the origins and change in grammatical paradigms and how new language strategies could arise through exaptation, recombination or mutation of existing strategies. The selectionist criteria are primarily based on achieving enough expressive power, maximizing communicative success, and minimizing cognitive effort (Van Trijp 2013). The confluence of these three trends is beginning to give us sophisticated agent-based models which are empirically grounded in real corpus data and framed in a well-established theory of cultural evolution, thus leading to comprehensive scientific models of the grammaticalization processes underlying language emergence and evolution. All this is tremendously exciting. The goal of this workshop is to alert the community of researchers in language evolution to this important development and to show concrete research achievements demonstrating the current state of the art. It will act as a forum for exchanging tools and it will inquire what kind of open problems might be amenable to this approach, given the currently available data and the state of the art in computational linguistics tools for agent-based modeling. The workshop is intended to enable a deeper dialog between two communities (historical linguistics and computational linguistics) so that we can productively combine the very long tradition of empirical research from historical linguistics with the rigorous formalization and validation through simulation as practiced in agent-based modeling. The workshop will as much as possible be based on real case studies. For example, how can we explain the current messy state of the German article system, given that old High German had a much clearer system? (van Trijp 2013) Is this development based on random drift or are there selectionist forces at work? How can we explain that Indo-European languages progressively developed a rich constituent structure with an increasing number of syntactic categories, a gradual incorporation of ?floating? words into phrases, and a loss of grammatical agreement? (Van de Velde 2009)? How can we explain the emergence of quantifiers out of adjectives? How can we explain the rise of a case system (Beuls & Steels 2013). General research questions that are to be addressed: 1. What are the processes that cause variation in populations of speakers? 2. What are the processes that select variants to become dominant in a speech community? 3. How do language strategies give rise to language systems? 4. Which cognitive functions must the brain support in order to implement language strategies? 5. What are good tools for doing empirically driven agent-based modeling? Call for Submissions We invite contributions (10? talk + 5? discussion) to one of the following three sessions in the workshop: 1. Case Studies: historical data of emergence and evolution of grammatical phenomena and concrete agent-based models, or steps towards them. 2. Tools: What is the state-of-the-art for historical linguistics corpora and tools extracting trends in grammatical evolution? What tools are available for building realistic agent-based models of grammaticalization? 3. Cultural evolution theory: Which results from theoretical research in evolutionary biology can be exapted to advance cultural evolutionary linguistics? Format of the submission. An extended abstract of *max. 4 pages (including references)* adhering to the Evolang stylesheet. Submissions should be e-mailed to info at fcg-net.org with the subject ?Evolang workshop submission?. Important Dates * Deadline for submission: 1 March 2014, 23:59 CE * Notification of acceptance: 15 March 2014 * Final submission: 1 April 2014 References ? Beuls, Katrien & Luc Steels. 2013. ?Agent-based models of strategies for the emergence and evolution of grammatical agreement?. PLoS ONE 8(3), e58960. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0058960. ? Bybee, Joan L. 2010. Language, Usage and Cognition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ? Croft, William. 2000. Explaining language change. An evolutionary approach. Harlow: Longman. ? Hilpert, Martin & Stefan Th, Gries. Manuscript. ?Quantitative approaches to diachronic corpus linguistics?. In: Merja Kyt? & P?ivi Pahta (eds.), The Cambridge handbook of English historical linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ? Krug, Manfred. 2000. Emerging English modals: a corpus-based study of grammaticalization. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. ? Frank Landsbergen, Robert Lachlan, Carel ten Cate & Arie Verhagen. ?A cultural evolutionary model of patterns in semantic change?. Linguistics 48: 363-390. ? Ritt, Nikolaus. 2004. Selfish Sounds. A Darwinian Approach to Language Change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ? Rosenbach, Anette. 2008. ?Language Change as Cultural Evolution: Evolutionary Approaches to Language Change?. In: Regine Eckardt, Gerhard J?ger and Tonjes Veenstra (eds.), Variation, Selection, Development. Probing the Evolutionary Model of Language Chang. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 23-72. ? Sommerer, L. 2011. ?Old English se: from demonstrative to article. A usage-based study of nominal determination and category emergence?. PhD thesis, University of Vienna. ? Steels, Luc. 2011. ?Modeling the cultural evolution of language?. Physics of Life Review 8: 339-356. ? Traugott, Elizabeth & Graeme Trousdale. Forthcoming. Constructionalization and constructional change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ? Van de Velde, Freek. 2009. De nominale constituent. Structuur en geschiedenis. Leuven: Leuven University Press. ? Van de Velde, Freek. 2010. ?The emergence of the determiner in the Dutch NP?. Linguistics 48: 263-299. ? van Trijp, Remi. 2012. ?Not as awful as it seems: explaining German case through computational experiments in Fluid Construction grammar. In: Proceedings of the 13th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 829-839. ? van Trijp, Remi. 2013. ?Linguistic assessment criteria for explaining language change: a case study on syncretism in German definite articles?. Language Dynamics and Change 3(1): 105-132. From Freek.VanDeVelde at arts.kuleuven.be Fri Oct 4 20:31:56 2013 From: Freek.VanDeVelde at arts.kuleuven.be (Freek Van de Velde) Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2013 20:31:56 +0000 Subject: Workshop at Evolang X: Extended deadline In-Reply-To: <5B16B08BAD5E9F4A8A8B12FD94B994C1108CFB5C@ICTS-S-MBX5.luna.kuleuven.be> Message-ID: Correction: extended deadline 1 March *2014* of course. Op 4 Oct 2013 om 21:58 heeft "Freek Van de Velde" > het volgende geschreven: EvolangX Workshop: How Grammaticalization Processes Create Grammar: From Historical Corpus Data to Agent-Based Models CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS NOW OPEN (see further below) EXTENDED DEADLINE: *1 March 2013* Convenors: Luc Steels, Freek Van de Velde and Remi van Trijp Date and Location: 14 April 2013, Vienna, as part of the Evolang-X Conference in Vienna Theme of the workshop: Recently the scientific study of language origins and evolution has seen three important breakthroughs. First, a growing number of corpora of historical language data has become available. Although initially these corpora have been used to examine surface features only (for example the frequency and distribution of word occurrences), advances in statistical language processing now allow for the thorough examination of aspects of grammar, for example, how syntactic structure has progressively arisen in the history of Indo-European languages or how constructional choices have undergone change (e.g. Krug 2000; Bybee 2010; Sommerer 2010; Van de Velde 2010; Traugott & Trousdale, forthc.; Hilpert & Gries, ms.). Second, agent-based models of the cognitive and cultural processes underlying the emergence and evolution of language have made a significant leap forward by using sophisticated, and therefore more realistic, representations of grammar and language processing (e.g. Van Trijp 2012; Beuls & Steels 2013), so that we can now go way beyond the lexicon-oriented experiments characteristic for the field a decade ago. Finally, selectionist theorizing, which has given such tremendous power to evolutionary biology, is being applied increasingly to understand language evolution at the cultural level (Croft 2000; Ritt 2004; Mufwene 2008; Rosenbach et al. 2008; Landsbergen et al. 2010; Steels 2011). Researchers are beginning to look more closely at what selectionist criteria could drive the origins and change in grammatical paradigms and how new language strategies could arise through exaptation, recombination or mutation of existing strategies. The selectionist criteria are primarily based on achieving enough expressive power, maximizing communicative success, and minimizing cognitive effort (Van Trijp 2013). The confluence of these three trends is beginning to give us sophisticated agent-based models which are empirically grounded in real corpus data and framed in a well-established theory of cultural evolution, thus leading to comprehensive scientific models of the grammaticalization processes underlying language emergence and evolution. All this is tremendously exciting. The goal of this workshop is to alert the community of researchers in language evolution to this important development and to show concrete research achievements demonstrating the current state of the art. It will act as a forum for exchanging tools and it will inquire what kind of open problems might be amenable to this approach, given the currently available data and the state of the art in computational linguistics tools for agent-based modeling. The workshop is intended to enable a deeper dialog between two communities (historical linguistics and computational linguistics) so that we can productively combine the very long tradition of empirical research from historical linguistics with the rigorous formalization and validation through simulation as practiced in agent-based modeling. The workshop will as much as possible be based on real case studies. For example, how can we explain the current messy state of the German article system, given that old High German had a much clearer system? (van Trijp 2013) Is this development based on random drift or are there selectionist forces at work? How can we explain that Indo-European languages progressively developed a rich constituent structure with an increasing number of syntactic categories, a gradual incorporation of ?floating? words into phrases, and a loss of grammatical agreement? (Van de Velde 2009)? How can we explain the emergence of quantifiers out of adjectives? How can we explain the rise of a case system (Beuls & Steels 2013). General research questions that are to be addressed: 1. What are the processes that cause variation in populations of speakers? 2. What are the processes that select variants to become dominant in a speech community? 3. How do language strategies give rise to language systems? 4. Which cognitive functions must the brain support in order to implement language strategies? 5. What are good tools for doing empirically driven agent-based modeling? Call for Submissions We invite contributions (10? talk + 5? discussion) to one of the following three sessions in the workshop: 1. Case Studies: historical data of emergence and evolution of grammatical phenomena and concrete agent-based models, or steps towards them. 2. Tools: What is the state-of-the-art for historical linguistics corpora and tools extracting trends in grammatical evolution? What tools are available for building realistic agent-based models of grammaticalization? 3. Cultural evolution theory: Which results from theoretical research in evolutionary biology can be exapted to advance cultural evolutionary linguistics? Format of the submission. An extended abstract of *max. 4 pages (including references)* adhering to the Evolang stylesheet. Submissions should be e-mailed to info at fcg-net.org with the subject ?Evolang workshop submission?. Important Dates * Deadline for submission: 1 March 2014, 23:59 CE * Notification of acceptance: 15 March 2014 * Final submission: 1 April 2014 References ? Beuls, Katrien & Luc Steels. 2013. ?Agent-based models of strategies for the emergence and evolution of grammatical agreement?. PLoS ONE 8(3), e58960. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0058960. ? Bybee, Joan L. 2010. Language, Usage and Cognition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ? Croft, William. 2000. Explaining language change. An evolutionary approach. Harlow: Longman. ? Hilpert, Martin & Stefan Th, Gries. Manuscript. ?Quantitative approaches to diachronic corpus linguistics?. In: Merja Kyt? & P?ivi Pahta (eds.), The Cambridge handbook of English historical linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ? Krug, Manfred. 2000. Emerging English modals: a corpus-based study of grammaticalization. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. ? Frank Landsbergen, Robert Lachlan, Carel ten Cate & Arie Verhagen. ?A cultural evolutionary model of patterns in semantic change?. Linguistics 48: 363-390. ? Ritt, Nikolaus. 2004. Selfish Sounds. A Darwinian Approach to Language Change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ? Rosenbach, Anette. 2008. ?Language Change as Cultural Evolution: Evolutionary Approaches to Language Change?. In: Regine Eckardt, Gerhard J?ger and Tonjes Veenstra (eds.), Variation, Selection, Development. Probing the Evolutionary Model of Language Chang. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 23-72. ? Sommerer, L. 2011. ?Old English se: from demonstrative to article. A usage-based study of nominal determination and category emergence?. PhD thesis, University of Vienna. ? Steels, Luc. 2011. ?Modeling the cultural evolution of language?. Physics of Life Review 8: 339-356. ? Traugott, Elizabeth & Graeme Trousdale. Forthcoming. Constructionalization and constructional change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ? Van de Velde, Freek. 2009. De nominale constituent. Structuur en geschiedenis. Leuven: Leuven University Press. ? Van de Velde, Freek. 2010. ?The emergence of the determiner in the Dutch NP?. Linguistics 48: 263-299. ? van Trijp, Remi. 2012. ?Not as awful as it seems: explaining German case through computational experiments in Fluid Construction grammar. In: Proceedings of the 13th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 829-839. ? van Trijp, Remi. 2013. ?Linguistic assessment criteria for explaining language change: a case study on syncretism in German definite articles?. Language Dynamics and Change 3(1): 105-132. From c.hart at lancaster.ac.uk Mon Oct 7 09:38:38 2013 From: c.hart at lancaster.ac.uk (Christopher Hart) Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2013 10:38:38 +0100 Subject: 3rd CfP: CADAAD 2014 Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, We are glad to announce that the 5th Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis across Disciplines Conference (CADAAD) will take place 1-3 September 2014 and will be hosted by ELTE University, Budapest, Hungary. CADAAD conferences are intended to promote current directions and new developments in cross-disciplinary critical discourse research. We welcome papers which, from a critical-analytical perspective, deal with contemporary social, scientific, political, economic, or professional discourses and genres. Possible topics include but are by no means limited to the following: ? (New) Media discourse ? Party political discourse ? Advertising ? Discourses of war and terrorism ? Power, ideology and dominance in institutional discourse ? Identity in discourse ? Education discourses ? Environmental discourses ? Health communication ? Business communication ? Language and the law ? *Discourses of inequality, discrimination and othering* ? *Global economic discourses and discourses of the financial crisis* ? *Discourses of political protest and civil (dis)order* ? *Neoliberalism and the new divides* ? *Anti-EU discourses* Papers addressing the highlighted topics are especially welcome. In giving weight to these topics we wish to call to attention some of the most pressing problems currently facing Europe. We hope that CADAAD 2014 will provide a publically visible forum for critically reflecting on these issues. We welcome papers which approach topics such as listed above from theoretical and analytical perspectives sourced from anywhere across the humanities, social and cognitive sciences, including but without being limited to the following: ? Sociolinguistics ? Multimodality ? Media and Mass Communication Studies ? Functional Linguistics ? Cognitive Linguistics ? Corpus Linguistics ? Pragmatics and Argumentation Theory ? Conversation and Discourse Analysis ? Ethnography of Communication ? Discursive Psychology ? Political Science We especially welcome papers which re-examine existing theoretical frameworks and/or which highlight and apply new methodologies. Reflecting the diversity of topics and approaches in critical discourse studies, the following distinguished guests have confirmed their participation as plenary speakers: ? PROFESSOR RUTH WODAK (Lancaster University) ? PROFESSOR THEO VAN LEEUWEN (University of Technology Sydney) ? PROFESSOR LILIE CHOULIARAKI (London School of Economics) ? PROFESSOR ANDREAS MUSOLFF (University of East Anglia) ? PROFESSOR CRISPIN THURLOW (University of Washington) All papers will be allocated 20 minutes plus 10 minutes for questions. The language of the conference is English. Abstracts of 250-350 words excluding references should be sent as MS Word attachment to cadaad2014 at gmail.com before 1 December 2013. Please include in the body of the email but not in the abstract itself (1) your name, (2) affiliation and (3) email address. Notifications of acceptance will be communicated by 1 March 2014. In addition to individual papers, panel proposals may also be submitted. A list of our new panels are available at http://cadaad2014.elte.hu/ and at http://cadaad.net/cadaad_2014. We are planning to offer a small number of bursaries to be applied for by delegates who come from disadvantaged circumstances. Application information will be provided on our website later this year. Selected papers are planned to be published in a thematically constrained volume to be submitted to an international publisher. Other selected papers will appear in a proceedings issue of the CADAAD journal. For further information please visit our new conference website at http://cadaad2014.elte.hu/ or http://cadaad.net/cadaad_2014 and our new Facebook page at facebook.com/Cadaad2014. Best regards, Christopher Hart, CADAAD, Lancaster University Tam?s Eitler, CADAAD 2014 Local Organising Committee, ELTE University, Budapest From jordan.zlatev at ling.lu.se Mon Oct 7 18:42:38 2013 From: jordan.zlatev at ling.lu.se (Jordan Zlatev) Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2013 18:42:38 +0000 Subject: IACS-2014, First Call for Papers Message-ID: With apologies for multiple postings! *********************************************************************** First Call for Papers First International Association for Cognitive Semiotics (IACS) Conference, IACS-2014 September 25-27, 2014 Lund, Sweden http://conference.sol.lu.se/en/iacs-2014 IACS-2014 at semiotik.lu.se The First International Association for Cognitive Semiotics (IACS) Conference (IACS-2014) will be held in September 25-27, at Lund University, Sweden. Founded in Aarhus, Denmark, on May 29, 2013, The International Association for Cognitive Semiotics aims at the further establishment of Cognitive Semiotics as the trans-disciplinary study of meaning, combining concepts, theories and methods from the humanities and the social and natural sciences. Central topics are the evolution, development of, and interaction between different semiotic resources such as language, gestures and pictorial representations. Plenary speakers * S?ren Brier, Copenhagen Business School http://www.cbs.dk/en/research/departments-and-centres/department-of-international-business-communication/staff/sbibc * Merlin Donald, Queens University http://www.queensu.ca/psychology/MerlinDonald.html * Brian MacWhinney, Carnegie Mellon University http://psyling.psy.cmu.edu/ * Cornelia M?ller, European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) http://www.europa-uni.de/en/forschung/vcgs/dmc/Graduiertenschule/0_Professoren/mueller/index.html * Raymond Tallis http://www.raymondtallis.com/ Theme of the conference: Establishing Cognitive Semiotics Over the past two decades or so, a number of researchers from semiotics, linguistics, cognitive science and related fields, from several European and North American research centres, have experienced the needs to combine theoretical knowledge and methodological expertise in order to be able to tackle challenging questions concerning the nature of meaning, the role of consciousness, the unique cognitive features of humankind, the interaction of nature and nurture in development, and the interplay of biological and cultural evolution in phylogeny. The product of these collaborations has been the emergence of the field of Cognitive Semiotics, with its journal (http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/cogsem) and academic association. The conference aims both to celebrate this, and to look forward into possibilities for further development. We invite the submission of 400 word abstracts for one of the three categories: 1. Oral presentations (20 min presentation + 5 minute discussion) 2. Posters (at a dedicated poster session) 3. Theme sessions (3 to 6 thematically linked oral presentations, introduced by a discussant. The individual abstracts should be preceded by an abstract for the theme session as a whole. In case the theme session is not accepted, individual abstracts will be reviewed as submissions for oral presentations.) The abstracts can be related, though need not be restricted, to the following topics: * Biological and cultural evolution of human cognitive specificity * Cognitive linguistics and phenomenology * Communication across cultural barriers * Cross-species comparative semiotics * Evolutionary perspectives on altruism * Experimental semiotics * Iconicity in language and other semiotic resources * Intersubjectivity and mimesis in evolution and development * Multimodality * Narrativity across different media * Semantic typology and linguistic relativity * Semiosis (sense-making) in social interaction * Semiotic and cognitive development in children * Sign use and cognition * Signs, affordances, and other meanings * Speech and gesture * The comparative semiotics of iconicity and indexicality * The evolution of language Abstracts should be submitted at the site: http://conference.sol.lu.se/en/iacs-2014 Important dates * Deadline for abstract submission (theme sessions): 31 Dec 2013 * Deadline for abstract submission (oral presentations, posters): 1 Feb 2014 * Notification of acceptance (theme sessions): 15 Feb 2014 * Notification of acceptance (oral presentations, posters): 1 April 2014 * Last date for early registration: 1 July 2014 Local organizing committee * Mats Andr?n * Johan Blomberg * Anna Redei Cabak * Sara Lenninger * G?ran Sonesson * Jordan Zlatev Jordan Zlatev, Professor Lund University, Centre for Languages and Literature Box 201, 221 00 Lund, Sweden Centre for Cognitive Semiotics (CCS), Deputy research director http://project.sol.lu.se/en/ccs/ The Public Journal of Semiotics (PJOS), Editor-in-Chief http://pjos.org International Association for Cognitive Semiotics (IACS), President From anne.salazar-orvig at univ-paris3.fr Thu Oct 10 02:50:55 2013 From: anne.salazar-orvig at univ-paris3.fr (Anne Salazar Orvig) Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2013 04:50:55 +0200 Subject: International conference on the acquisition of referring expression Message-ID: Dear colleagues Please find attached the complete version of the program of the conference on acquisition of referring expressions to be held in Paris, October 25th and 26th. You can also visit the conference site (www.univ-paris3.fr/aeref-2013) or write to aeref2013 at univ-paris3.fr Registration on line is still open. Thank you in advance Best regards Anne Salazar Orvig ILPGA Universit? Sorbonne Nouvelle EA 1483 - Recherche sur le fran?ais contemporain CLESTHIA From bischoff.st at gmail.com Thu Oct 10 13:31:22 2013 From: bischoff.st at gmail.com (s.t. Bischoff) Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2013 09:31:22 -0400 Subject: 2 Jobs: SLA & Rhet-Comp Message-ID: Please see the call below... The Department of English at the University of Puerto Rico Mayag?ez (UPRM) is seeking two applicants for tenure-track positions at the level of Assistant Professor (with a starting salary of $62,256) starting July 1, 2014. The requirements for each position are: (1) Doctoral degree in Second Language Acquisition (SLA) or related field. Teaching, research experience and a track record of academic publishing is expected. Knowledge of Spanish is necessary. The candidate is expected to teach ESL courses across skill levels as well as periodically teach linguistics courses. (2) Doctoral degree in Rhetoric and Composition or related field. Teaching, research experience and a track record of academic publishing is expected. Knowledge of Spanish is desirable. The candidate is expected to teach primarily advanced English courses to first year students whose first language is Spanish as well as technical writing, public speaking and other communications courses. Interested candidates should send cover letter, curriculum vitae, and copies of peer-reviewed publications by email to english at uprm.edu no later than November 27, 2013. In addition, they should mail a copy of their doctoral transcript and two letters of recommendation postmarked by November 27, 2013 to the following address: Dr. Rosita Rivera Interim Director Department of English University of Puerto Rico-Mayag?ez Campus PO Box 9265 Mayag?ez, Puerto Rico 00681-9265 Applications or materials received after November 27, 2013 will not be considered. From dylan.glynn at univ-paris8.fr Mon Oct 14 22:05:53 2013 From: dylan.glynn at univ-paris8.fr (Dylan Glynn) Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 00:05:53 +0200 Subject: CfP Theme Session - Corpus-based Approaches to Semantics and Pragmatics Message-ID: Theme Session: Corpus-based Approaches to Semantics and Pragmatics at the 47th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea 11 ? 14 September 2014, Pozna?, Poland http://sle2014.eu/ www.dsglynn.univ-paris8.fr/corpus_semantics.html Description: This theme session brings together research employing corpus-based methods in the study of semantics and pragmatics. The focus will be methodological and restricted to corpus-driven, as opposed to corpus-illustrated, research. Small sample research and qualitative studies in gesture, discourse and conversation analysis are also welcome. The last 25 years have seen a dramatic growth in observation-based studies in semantics and pragmatics. Indeed, with technological advances in corpus methods, in both Cognitive and Functional Linguistics, the use of such methods can currently be seen as one of the principle approaches to meaning structure. In Cognitive and Functional circles, Dirven et al (1982), Schmid (1993, 2000), Geeraerts et al. (1994, 1999), Scheibman (2002), K?rkk?inen (2003), Gries (2003), Gries & Stefanowitsch (2006) Szmrecsanyi (2006), Bednarek (2006), Cornillie (2007), Englebretson (2007) Hilpert (2008), Gilquin (2009), and Glynn & Fischer (2010), Breban (2010), Divjak (2010) Dziwirek & Lewandowska (2010) are just a few of the large number of works representation this trend. What ties these diverse studies together is the systematic use of contextualised observational data to understand the conceptual and functional motivations behind language structure. Two corpus-driven approaches emerge across these traditions. The first is formal, based on collocations of lexemes and lexemes and constructions. This method examines formal patterns in observational data and interprets this as indicative of semantico-pragmatic structures. Being based on formal co-occurrence, the approach is methodological related to latent semantic analysis and vector space modelling in computational linguistics. The second approach includes profile-based analysis or multifactorial feature analysis and is based on the close manual annotation of semantico-pragmatic features of a language sample. This second approach is closely related to sentiment analysis in the computational tradition. The theme session will bring together researchers interested in developing methods, such as these and others, for the analysis of semantics and pragmatics. Methods / keywords: Conversation, discourse and gesture analysis Collocations, collostructions, concordances Multifactorial feature analysis (profile-based approach / sentiment analysis / content analysis) Latent semantic analysis and vector space modelling For further information Dylan Glynn (dglynn at univ-paris8.fr) Guillaume Desagulier (gdesagulier at univ-paris8.fr) Abstracts: Abstracts must be submitted twice. First a short abstract (300 words) will be submitted to the theme session convenors and second a longer abstract (500 words) will be submitted to the conference itself. It is essential that the abstracts follow strict guideless for structure. 1. Introduce briefly the problem and question / hypothesis. 2. Summarise briefly the method and data employed to answer question / test hypothesis. 3. Summarise briefly the results or expected results. Please submit abstracts in a modifiable file format such as .rft, .doc, .docx or .odt Submit abstracts to the convenors Dylan Glynn: dglynn at univ-paris8.fr Guillaume Desagulier: gdesagulier at univ-paris8.fr Dates: Short Abstract for theme session: 20th Nov. 2013 Acceptance to theme session: 25th Nov. 2013 Longer abstract for SLE: 15th Jan 2014 Acceptance to SLE: 31st March 2014 References Bednarek, M. 2006. Evaluation in Media Discourse. Continuum: London. Breban, T. 2010. English Adjectives of Comparison. Mouton: Berlin. Cornillie, B. 2007. Evidentiality and Epistemic Modality in Spanish. Mouton: Berlin. Dirven, R. et al. 1982. Scene of Linguistic Action and its Perspectivization. Benjamins: Amsterdam. Divjak, D. 2010. Structuring the Lexicon. Mouton: Berlin. Dziwirek, K. & Lewandowska, B. 2010. Complex Emotions and Grammatical Mismatches. Mouton: Berlin. Englebretson, R. 2007. Stancetaking in Discourse. Benjamins: Amsterdam. Geeraerts et al. 1994. Structure of Lexical Variation. Mouton: Berlin. Geeraerts et al. 1999. Convergentie en Divergentie in de Nederlandse Woordenschat. Meertens: Amsterdam. Gilquin, G. 2010. Corpus, Cognition and Causative Constructions. Benjamins: Amsterdam. Glynn, D. & Fischer, K. 2010. Quantitative Methods in Cognitive Semantics. Mouton: Berlin. Gries, St. Th. & Stefanowitsch, A. 2006. Corpora in Cognitive Linguistics. Mouton: Berlin. Gries, St. Th. 2003. Multifactorial Analysis in Corpus Linguistics. Continuum: London. Hilpert, M. 2008. Germanic Future Constructions. Benjamins: Amsterdam. K?rkk?inen, E. 2003. Epistemic Stance in English Conversation. Benjamins: Amsterdam. Scheibman, J. 2002. Point of View and Grammar. Benjamins: Amsterdam. Schmid, H. J. 2000. English Abstract Nouns as Conceptual Shells. Mouton: Berlin. Schmid, H. J. 1993. Kategorisierung als Grundprinzip einer differenzierten Bedeutungsbeschreibung. Niemeyer: T?bingen. Szmrecsanyi, B. 2006. Morphosyntactic Persistence in Spoken English. Mouton: Berlin. From tmarghet at cogsci.ucsd.edu Wed Oct 16 22:21:27 2013 From: tmarghet at cogsci.ucsd.edu (Tyler Marghetis) Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 15:21:27 -0700 Subject: 2nd CfP: Sixth Conference of the International Society of Gesture Studies (ISGS 6) Message-ID: *apologies for cross-posting* Dear colleagues, The International Society for Gesture Studies (ISGS) is pleased to announce the *Sixth Conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies: Gesture in Interaction*. It will be held on the campus of the University of California, San Diego, July 8-11, 2014. *The deadline for abstract submission is November 15, 2013.* *The conference website is: isgs.ucsd.edu* Devoted to the study of multimodality in communication, the ISGS is an interdisciplinary group of researchers including anthropologists, cognitive scientists, computer scientists, linguists, neuroscientists, psychologists, and semioticians. The Society convenes for a major international conference every two years, and the 2014 meeting will be the 6th. We invite abstracts that address any aspect of the study of gesture and multimodality, including but not limited to: the relationship between sign and gesture; the cognitive and neural underpinnings of gesture; the contribution of gesture to language production and comprehension; the role of gesture in situated language use; and how gesture mediates interaction in the social, cultural, and technological world. We welcome papers on any aspect of bodily communication and are open to all theoretical and disciplinary perspectives. *Plenary Speakers* Herbert Clark, Stanford University Susan Wagner Cook, University of Iowa Marjorie H. Goodwin, UCLA Marianne Gullberg, Lund University Asli ?zy?rek, MPI Nijmegen and Radboud University Andy Wilson, Microsoft Research *Abstract Submission* We invite abstracts of no more than 500 words. Abstracts must report previously unpublished work. Three kinds of presentation are available: Paper presentations: Paper presentations will be 25 minutes, with 20 minutes for presentation and 5 minutes for discussion. Thematic Panels: Papers that address a common theme may be submitted as a Thematic Panel. Panels should consist of four talks, which must be submitted individually as Paper Presentations. Each individual abstract should indicate the name of the proposed Thematic Panel. Poster presentation: Poster presentations are an opportunity for more extended interaction. Posters will be displayed during poster sessions, with ample opportunity for discussion. *Please submit your abstracts at the following site: http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/ISGS2014* * * *For more information, please see the conference website: isgs.ucsd.edu* * * *Important Dates* September 1, 2013: Submission Opens *November 15, 2013: Submission Deadline* December 15, 2013: Notification of Acceptance January 15, 2014: Registration Opens July 8 - 11, 2014: Conference *Conference Language* The conference language will be English. American Sign Language (ASL) interpreters will be available. *Organization and Coordination Committee* Carol Padden, Department of Communication, UC San Diego Seana Coulson, Department of Cognitive Science, UC San Diego John Haviland, Department of Anthropology, UC San Diego Tyler Marghetis, Department of Cognitive Science, UC San Diego Sharon Seegers, Center for Research in Language, UC San Diego -- Tyler Marghetis Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Cognitive Science University of California, San Diego tmarghet at cogsci.ucsd.edu http://www.cogsci.ucsd.edu/~tmarghet/ From langconf at bu.edu Thu Oct 17 20:41:13 2013 From: langconf at bu.edu (BUCLD) Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2013 16:41:13 -0400 Subject: BUCLD 38 Preregistration Message-ID: 38th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development November 1-3, 2013 Keynote Speaker: Elena Lieven, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology / University of Manchester Plenary Speaker: CANCELED: Heather van der Lely, Harvard University Unfortunately, Heather van der Lely's plenary address has been cancelled for health reasons. We regret that we cannot hear her address and wish her the best in recovery. Symposia: Saturday - 'Resolving A Learnability Paradox in the Acquisition of Verb Argument Structure: What have we learned in the last 25 years' Ben Ambridge (University of Liverpool) (organizer) Adele Goldberg (Princeton University) Joshua Hartshorne (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) & Jesse Snedeker (Harvard University) Steven Pinker (Harvard University) Sunday - 'A new approach to language learning: filtering through the processor' Helen Goodluck (University of York) (organizer) Lyn Frazier (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) Colin Phillips (University of Maryland, College Park) We would like to remind you that the deadline to pre-register for BUCLD 38 is Tuesday, October 23, 2013. By pre-registering not only will you receive a reduced rate for the conference, but you will also be able to check-in at the registration desk quickly and proceed to the various exciting talks without waiting in line. Regular full-price registration will continue to be available online from Thursday, October 24 through Tuesday, October 29. To register, please visit the following website: http://www.bu.edu/bucld/conference-info/registration/ For general information on the conference including the full schedule, please visit: http://www.bu.edu/bucld Also, you can register for the Society for Language Development Symposium "Mechanisms of Word Learning" on Thursday October 31, 1-6pm through our website. The SLD would also like to announce their student award. Please see their website for more information: http://www.bcs.rochester.edu/sld/symposium.html From maarten.lemmens at univ-lille3.fr Sat Oct 19 20:33:08 2013 From: maarten.lemmens at univ-lille3.fr (Maarten Lemmens) Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2013 22:33:08 +0200 Subject: JOB openings in English linguistics, Lille 3, France (URGENT) Message-ID: !!! URGENT JOB NOTICE !!! *Answer needed before Oct. 24, 16h00 (Paris time) 2013 (see below)* http://www.univ-lille3.fr Pending approval, The University of Lille 3, France, will have two, possibly three tenure track positions available track position in English Linguistics, with the following profile: 1) English linguistics (preference for, but not exclusion to, syntax or diachrony) 2) English linguistics and didactics (ESL) and/or language acquisition 3) English linguistics and translation (French) REQUIREMENTS The candidate must hold a PhD, or be sure to have a PhD in hand by December 1, 2013 at the latest, in the field of English Linguistics (or comparable, with good command of English) and have demonstrated expertise in this domain, through quality publication and solid teaching experience. The ideal candidate will engage in the further expansion of the STL research center at the Universit? Lille 3 (http://stl.recherche.univ-lille3.fr/). Normal teaching load is about 7 hours per week (2 terms of 13 weeks) and concerns English linguistics classes, or possibly also English for non-specialists (ESP) (mostly undergraduate level), and translation (for position 3). Hiring will be done at the level of "Ma?tre de Conf?rences" (MCF) with a monthly salary scale ranging from 2,058 to 3,722 (before taxes and withholdings), depending on the number of years of experience at MCF level (i.e. most positions for which a PhD is required). Initially, there is no requirement that candidates speak French fluently, but it is preferred that they at least have a sufficient working knowledge to understand the procedures. The successful candidate must be authorized to work legally in France by Sept. 1, 2014, the start date of the position. PROCEDURE Candidates who are interested in this position should contact Maarten Lemmens (maarten.lemmens at univ-lille3.fr) and Ilse Depaetere (ilse.depraetere at univ-lille3.fr) AS SOON AS POSSIBLE; please send along your CV too. Moreover, the first official step for candidates is to register on-line for the QUALIFICATION by *October 24, 2011, 16:00* (Parisian time) on the official site of the Minist?re de l'Enseignement sup?rieur et de la Recherche; https://www.galaxie.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr/ensup/candidats.html (on the right, you'll also see a link to the "calendrier" with important dates for the qualification MCF). You choose to qualify in "section 11" (anglais) and you may additionally ask for a qualification in section 7 (sciences de language). Many people do ask for a double qualification to be safe. The idea is that you need to get the qualification MCF before you can apply for a job as an MCF. People who hold a position of rank similar to MCF could apply without the qualification, but it is safer to follow the usual official procedure, which is open to all nationalities anyway. This is not yet the final application (will be in December or January), but without the online registration you cannot proceed to the next level (sending your file to the two evaluators that have been designated to you). Do not hesitate to contact Maarten Lemmens or Ilse Depraetere should you have any questions on this position or on the official procedure. M. Lemmens will be traveling (China) the next two weeks, so may have limited access to internet. -- Maarten (=Martin) Lemmens Professeur en linguistique et didactique des langues Universit? Lille 3, B.P. 60149, 59653 Villeneuve d'Ascq Cedex, France Bureau B4.138; t?l.: +33 (0)3.20.41.67.18 President of the International Cognitive Linguistics Association http://www.cogling.org/ Membre de l'UMR 8163 Savoirs, Textes, Langage http://perso.univ-lille3.fr/~mlemmens Editor-in-Chief "CogniTextes" (revue de l'AFLiCo) http://cognitextes.revues.org/ Membre du bureau de l'Association Fran?aise de Linguistique Cognitive http://www.aflico.fr/ -- -- Maarten (=Martin) Lemmens Professeur en linguistique et didactique des langues Universit? Lille 3, B.P. 60149, 59653 Villeneuve d'Ascq Cedex, France Bureau B4.138; t?l.: +33 (0)3.20.41.67.18 President of the International Cognitive Linguistics Association http://www.cogling.org/ Membre de l'UMR 8163 Savoirs, Textes, Langage http://perso.univ-lille3.fr/~mlemmens Editor-in-Chief "CogniTextes" (revue de l'AFLiCo) http://cognitextes.revues.org/ Membre du bureau de l'Association Fran?aise de Linguistique Cognitive http://www.aflico.fr/ -- From dylan.glynn at univ-paris8.fr Sun Oct 20 17:04:03 2013 From: dylan.glynn at univ-paris8.fr (Dylan Glynn) Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2013 19:04:03 +0200 Subject: Call for Papers - Epistemic stance and evidentiality (theme session) Message-ID: *Theme session - Call for Papers* ** **** Apologies for cross-posting **** ** At the 47th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea 11-14 September 2014 Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland http://sle2014.eu/ www.dsglynn.univ-paris8.fr/epistemicity.html *Title*: Epistemic stance and evidentiality: Corpus and discourse approaches to subjectivity and intersubjectivity *Description:* This theme session focuses on epistemic and evidential expressions for stance taking. The approach adopted here will be data-driven, with special use of corpora and/or discourse analysis. Modalised utterances, such as epistemic and evidential constructions, convey information about the speaker's assertions and attitudes in an interactive context. They can, therefore, be understood in terms of subjectivity, intersubjectivity, and objectivity. The direct subjective expression of a speaker's cognitive state (e.g., /I think/, /I believe/, /I know/, etc.) and the objective evidential expression of the perceived situation (e.g., /it seems/, /it looks, it appears /etc/./) are both fundamental to understanding language use and the intersubjectivity of communication. Indeed, these three dimensions, the personal (subjective), interpersonal (intersubjective), and impersonal (objective), play a crucial role in the interaction between the source of knowledge/perception and the degree of certainty. Epistemic and evidential language is central to understanding and accounting for the construal and conception of scenes as well as the functions and intentions of utterances. The nature of this research places it at the crossroads of Cognitive and Functional Linguistics. The workshop seeks to advance an already established tradition through integrating these cognitive and functional frameworks. The workshop will build on the work by Benveniste (1971), Langacker (1985, 1987), Traugott (1989), Guentch?va (1996),Nuyts (2001), Mushin (2001), Brisard (2002), Scheibman (2002), K?rkk?inen (2003), Verhagen (2005), Cornillie (2007), Engelbretson (2007), Simon-Vandenbergen & Aijmer (2007), Ekberg & Paradis (2009), Hunston (2010), and others (see references). We invite contributions dealing with topics related to epistemicity and evidentiality in relation to questions of (inter)subjectivity and objectivity in an intra- and interlinguistic context. Examples of research areas include, but are not restricted to: -Assessment / operationalisation of the (inter)subjective dimension of epistemicity and evidentiality -The role of assertion in utterance modalisation -Constructions and strategies available for speakers in stance taking -Different meanings of epistemic expressions (e.g., the multiple meanings of /think/) -Cross-linguistic studies in epistemicity and evidentiality -Interactive framing and construal of stance taking -Adverbial and adjectival expressions of stance and evidentiality -Constructions and grammatical patterns of epistemic and evidential expressions (e.g., complementation types) -Discursive patterns of epistemicity and evidentiality -Prosody and intonation patterns in stance taking -Grammaticalization in epistemic expressions -Reported speech, modalisation markers and evidentiality ** *Keywords:* epictemicity, evidentiality, subjectivity, intersubjectivity, discourse and conversation analysis, corpus linguistics, usage-based linguistics Cognitive Linguistics, Enunciative Functional Linguistics, Systemic Functional Linguistics ** *Instructions for abstract submissions: * - Short abstracts of 300 words (excluding references) should clearly specify the (i) /research question(s)/, (ii) /method and data/, and (iii) the (expected) /results./ - Abstracts should be sent to: epistemicitySLE2014 at gmail.com - Please use a modifiable file format such as .doc, .rtf, or .odt For further information, please contact the session convenors Fran?oise Doro-M?gy: fdoro at free.fr Dylan Glynn: dglynn at univ-paris8.fr Karolina Krawczak: karolina at wa.amu.edu.pl *Dates:* Deadline: November, 25^th Notification: November, 30^th ^ If accepted, longer abstracts of 500 words (excluding references) will need to be submitted separately to the central conference organisers by the 15^th January 2014 *References:* Benveniste, E. 1971 [1958]. Subjectivity in language. In: Emile Benveniste, /Problems in General Linguistics/, 223--230. Coral Gables: University of Miami Press. Brisard, F. 2002. /Grounding/: /The Epistemic Footing of Deixis and Reference/. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Celle, A. 2009. The intersubjective function of modal adverbs. A contrastive English-French study of adverbs in journalistic discourse. /Languages in Contrast/, 9, 23-36. Chafe, W. & Nichols, J. (Eds.). 1986. /Evidentiality: The Linguistic Coding of /Epistemology. Norwood: Ablex. Coltier, D. & Dendale, P. 2004. La modalisation du discours de soi : ?l?ments de description s?mantique des expressions pour moi, selon moi et ? mon avis. /Langue Fran?aise/, 142, 41-57. Cornillie, B. 2007. /Evidentiality and epistemic modality in Spanish (semi)auxiliaries. A cognitive-functional approach/. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Dendale, P. & Van Bogaert, J. 2012. R?flexions sur les crit?res de d?finition et les probl?mes d'identifications des marqueurs ?videntiels en fran?ais. /Langue Fran?aise/ 173, 13-29. De Saussure, L. 2011. Discourse analysis, cognition and evidentials. /Discourse Studies/, 13, 781-788. Ekberg, L. & Paradis, C. (Eds.). 2009. /Evidentiality in language and cognition/. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Englebretson, R. 2007. /Stancetaking in discourse: Subjectivity, evaluation, interaction. /Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Guentch?va, Z. (Ed.). 1996. /L'?nonciation m?diatis?e. Biblioth?que de l'information grammaticale/. Louvain: ?ditions Peeters. Hunston, S. 2010. /Corpus Approaches to Evaluation: Phraseology and Evaluative Language/. London: Routledge. K?rkk?inen, E. 2003. /Epistemic Stance in English Conversation. A description of its interactional functions, with a focus on I think/. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Langacker, R. W. 1985. Observations and speculations on subjectivity. In: John Haiman (Ed.), /Iconicity in Syntax/, 109--150. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Langacker, R. W. 1987. /Foundations of Cognitive Grammar. Vol. 1. Theoretical Prerequisites/. Stanford: Stanford University Press. Mushin, I. 2001/. Evidentiality and Epistemological Stance. Narrative Retelling/. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Nuyts, J. 2001. /Epistemic modality, language, and conceptualization: A cognitive-pragmatic perspective/. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Scheibman, J. 2002. /Point of View and Grammar. Structural patterns of subjectivity in American English conversation/. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Simon-Vandenbergen, A. M. & Aijmer, K. 2007. /The Semantic Field of Modal Certainty: A Corpus-based Study of English Adverbs/. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. Traugott, E. 1989. On the rise of epistemic meanings in English: An example of subjectification in semantic change. /Language/, 65, 31--55. Verhagen, A. 2005. /Constructions of Intersubjectivity. Discourse, Syntax, and Cognition/. Oxford: Oxford University Press. From laury at mappi.helsinki.fi Tue Oct 22 11:46:20 2013 From: laury at mappi.helsinki.fi (Ritva Laury) Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 14:46:20 +0300 Subject: Postdoctoral position at the University of Helsinki Message-ID: A three-year postdoctoral researcher position in the multidisciplinary and multilingual Center of Excellence in Intersubjectivity in Interaction, located in the Department of Finnish, Finno-Ugric and Scandinavian Studies at the University of Helsinki, is now open for applications. The application deadline is November 30th, 2013. Here's a link to the position announcement: http://www.helsinki.fi/recruitment/index.html?id=75610 And here's a link to the CoE website: http://www.intersubjectivity.fi/en/ From DEVERETT at bentley.edu Tue Oct 22 16:45:19 2013 From: DEVERETT at bentley.edu (Everett, Daniel) Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 16:45:19 +0000 Subject: Monolingual demonstration Message-ID: Folks, In case you're interested. These were just posted by the LSA. These were invited special sessions at the LSA Summer Institute at the U of Michigan this summer. The first is my Q&A about the Grammar of Happiness. Some readers on this list might have had questions on the film and the issues it raises so this might answer some of those. The second video is my monolingual demonstration (the language I got turned out to be Hmong). If you haven't seen one of these or wanted to show one to a class, here is one recording. (They are not that exciting in video, I will admit.) Dan http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYpWp7g7XWU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5C2qVW7s_C0 From bischoff.st at gmail.com Wed Oct 23 20:49:55 2013 From: bischoff.st at gmail.com (s.t. Bischoff) Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 16:49:55 -0400 Subject: Teaching English in Africa: Query Message-ID: Hello, I have a student that will be finishing her undergraduate studies in December and that is interested in teaching English in Africa (she is primarily interested in Central African countries but is open to other possibilities). She has traveled and volunteered in Ghana in the past. She is doing the usual online searches for opportunities, but I was wondering if there was anyone on the list that might have first hand knowledge of such opportunities. Thank you, Shannon From reng at rice.edu Thu Oct 24 03:01:11 2013 From: reng at rice.edu (Robert Englebretson) Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 22:01:11 -0500 Subject: Rice Linguistics graduate program under threat Message-ID: Colleagues, We would like to call your attention to an article that appeared in today's Rice student newspaper concerning the threatened termination of our Linguistics graduate program. http://www.ricethresher.org/linguistic-graduate-program-faces-elimination-1.3098813 Best, --Robert Englebretson -- ****************************************************************** Dr. Robert Englebretson *Associate Professor and Graduate Advisor* Dept. of Linguistics, MS23 Rice University 6100 Main St. Houston, TX 77005-1892 Phone: 713 348-4776 E-mail: reng at rice.edu http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~reng From john at research.haifa.ac.il Thu Oct 24 05:01:18 2013 From: john at research.haifa.ac.il (john) Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 07:01:18 +0200 Subject: Teaching English in Africa: Query In-Reply-To: Message-ID: I don't know about teaching in English in particular but if she's interested in Central Africa I know people in South Sudan who I'm sure could look for something for her. John On 23.10.2013 22:49, s.t. Bischoff wrote: > Hello, > > I have a student that will be finishing her undergraduate studies in > December and that is interested in teaching English in Africa (she is > primarily interested in Central African countries but is open to other > possibilities). She has traveled and volunteered in Ghana in the past. She > is doing the usual online searches for opportunities, but I was wondering > if there was anyone on the list that might have first hand knowledge of > such opportunities. > > Thank you, > Shannon From reng at rice.edu Wed Oct 30 05:04:34 2013 From: reng at rice.edu (Robert Englebretson) Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 00:04:34 -0500 Subject: Another article on the threat to Rice linguistics Message-ID: Colleagues, We would like to call your attention to another article appearing in this week's Rice newspaper about the ongoing plight of our department. Very proud of our graduate students, and especially proud of the author of this piece! http://www.ricethresher.org/administrators-should-save-the-linguistics-graduate-program-1.3102624 Best, --Robert Englebretson -- ****************************************************************** Dr. Robert Englebretson *Associate Professor and Graduate Advisor* Dept. of Linguistics, MS23 Rice University 6100 Main St. Houston, TX 77005-1892 Phone: 713 348-4776 E-mail: reng at rice.edu http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~reng From john at research.haifa.ac.il Thu Oct 31 14:19:42 2013 From: john at research.haifa.ac.il (john) Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 16:19:42 +0200 Subject: English Departments in non-English-speaking countries In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear Funknetters, I don't know if this is the right set of people to ask about this, but here goes. I teach in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Haifa. There are five linguists in the department and in principle six literature specialists. We are the strongest unit in the Humanities by far in terms of number of students, and we can even set our limits on test scores for entrance very high so as to have very strong students on the average. About 75% of our students are native speakers of Arabic, 10-15% are native speakers of Hebrew, and the rest are native speakers of other languages. We don't have a single faculty member who knows Arabic beyond e.g. my knowledge of which sociolinguistics variables manifest which behavior. In departmental discussions, I have long contended that this is a serious problem because in a non-English-speaking country the natural topic for a seminar paper or a thesis in an English department is some kind of contrastive study between English and the students' native language, or a study of the acquisition of English informed by a knowledge of the learners' native language so that the effects of interference from this language can be taken into consideration, and the Arabic-speaking students have no one who can adequately work with them in this regard. This would be perhaps understandable if the Arabic-speaking students constituted a minority in the department as they do in Israel as a whole (being about 20% of the population), but as they have been the overwhelming majority of students in our department for the past 10 years and there is no sign that this will change, the situation is completely unacceptable. Incredibly, not a single other faculty member in my department has ever stated that they agree with me in thinking that this is a serious problem (I should say that the great majority of them are as far as I know extremely left-wing in terms of the political parties that they vote for). With three retirements coming up in the next two years, and with a number of suitable candidates who are native speakers of Arabic available, I feel as though the time has come to make a serious effort to do something about this. Could any of you who are working in English departments in non-English-speaking countries be persuaded to write letters to people in my department and elsewhere in the university stressing the importance to English departments in non-English-speaking countries of having lecturers who know the native language of the majority of students? At least one? Thanks, John