From kesmith at cambridge.org Tue Apr 1 09:22:43 2014 From: kesmith at cambridge.org (Katie Smith) Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2014 10:22:43 +0100 Subject: Access a double special issue from Language and Cognition Message-ID: Access a double special issue from Language and Cognition As part of the continuing growth and diversification of Language and Cognition, this special double issue focuses on the evolution of language. The issue features a target article by Professor Michael Arbib on how the brain evolved language followed by 12 commentaries from experts in anthropology, apraxia, archeology, linguistics, neuroanatomy, neuroimaging, neurophysiology, neuropsychology, primatology, sign language emergence and sign language neurolinguistics. The issue concludes with a response from Professor Arbib entitled 'Complex imitation and the language-ready brain'. Access the entire special issue without charge until 1st June 2014: http://journals.cambridge.org/LCO/SI5 Katie Smith Marketing Executive - Journals Cambridge University Press From stgries at gmail.com Tue Apr 1 15:51:38 2014 From: stgries at gmail.com (Stefan Th. Gries) Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2014 08:51:38 -0700 Subject: CSDL 2014: final call for papers In-Reply-To: Message-ID: NEW EXTENDED DEADLINE fur abstract submission due to popular demand (APOLOGIES FOR CROSS-POSTING) CSDL (Conceptual Structure, Discourse, and Language) 2014 is the 12th incarnation of a conference first hosted in 1994 by the University of California, San Diego. In 2000, CSDL 5 was hosted by the University of California, Santa Barbara and it is with great pleasure that we are bringing CSDL 12 back to the University of California system and to Santa Barbara in particular. CSDL 12 is co-organized by Stefan Th. Gries (Dept. of Linguistics) and Viola G. Miglio (Dept. of Spanish/Portuguese) and will take place 4-6 November 2014 at the Hyatt Santa Barbara directly at East Beach, Santa Barbara. The conference website at contains all information about the conference; if you have questions not addressed here, plz write to the conference email address at . Call for papers 1 Potential topics For CSDL 12 (2014), we are inviting a broad range of papers taking cognitive/psycholinguistic, functional, usage-/exemplar-based, or discourse-based approach to the study of language and its acquisition, processing, use, and change. Drawing from the range of topics listed by the organizers of the successful ICLC in Edmonton, topics of papers may include, but are not limited to: - linguistic categorization: prototype theory, radial categories, ...; - linguistic relativity, culture, and ethnosyntax; - embodiment and language; - metaphor, metonymy, mental spaces, conceptual blending, ICMs, frame semantics, image schemas, force dynamics, ...; - cognitive phonology, semantics, grammar, and construction grammars; - discourse and grammar, text and discourse; - language acquisition and learning; - grammaticalization, language evolution, and change; - cognitive corpus linguistics; - empirical methods: data from observation, experimentation, computational simulation. 2 Format of abstract For full consideration, the abstract must be a PDF and meet the following specifications: - page format: Letter or A4, margins: 1 inch/2.5 cm all around - font: Times (New Roman) 12pt - paragraph format: single-spaced - length: max. 1 page (plus 1 page for figures, tables, references, if necessary) Note 1: Abstracts must be anonymous, which means author names should not appear anywhere on abstracts (you may cite yourself as [Author] or in the third person for previously published work). Note 2: An author may submit maximally one single-authored and one co-authored paper. Note 3: Abstracts will be subjected to a double-blind review by a minimum of two referees. Empirical papers and papers whose abstracts indicate that results are already available (rather than hoped for) will be given priority. Note 4: Submission of an abstract constitutes agreement to review maximally 5 abstracts yourself. 3 Submission of abstracts The deadline for submission of abstracts is 31 March 2014. We are using the LinguistList's EasyAbs system for abstract submission and reviewing; plz see the conference website for the relevant link. Pre-conference and conference schedule 1 February 2014: 1st call for papers/participation 1 February 2014: room registration at the Hyatt Santa Barbara opens 10 March 2014: 2nd call for papers/participation 21 February 2014: registration opens 24 March 2014: final call for papers/participation 1 April 2014: extended final call for papers/participation 15 May 2014: deadline for submission of abstracts June 2014: notifications of acceptance 15 July 2014: deadline for early-bird registration 4-6 November 2014: conference From vhall at equinoxpub.com Mon Apr 7 15:18:14 2014 From: vhall at equinoxpub.com (Valerie Hall) Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2014 16:18:14 +0100 Subject: Developing Systemic Functional Linguistics Message-ID: Just published: Developing Systemic Functional Linguistics Theory and Application Edited by Fang Yan and Jonathan J. Webster HB 9781845539955 £70, 320pp Link to book page and ordering: https://www.equinoxpub.com/equinox/books/showbook.asp?bkid=511 Receive 25% off the retail price when ordering from this page quoting the discount code DSFL valid until the end of May 2014 Description This volume presents current views on the achievements made in the study of Systemic Functional Linguistics in both theory and application, and on potential domains and directions for its further development. The first part looks at strengthening theoretical research and description in system networks and seeks to deepen our understanding of the concept of choice and of the consequences arising from making choices in particular social contexts. It also makes comparisons of different models within SFL and of similarities and differences between SFL and other linguistic models. The second part sums up SFL’s fifty years of refinement as a theory and goes on to offer an explicit definition of Applicable Discourse Analysis, presenting views on the potential areas, methods and criteria for verbal and multimodal discourse analysis, with examples. The final part of the volume discusses potential directions for SFL, including expanding SFL typological research into languages other than English, in countries other than the major English speaking ones, exploring solutions to the challenges faced by multimodal discourse, extending traditional translation studies to other modes; extending stylistics studies across different disciplines; exploring the potential of SFL to tackle the challenges confronting language education at both macro and micro levels; and achieving globalization in SFL across cyberspace. Contents Part I: Theoretical Issues in Description 1. Some Systemic Functional Reflexions on the History of Meaning M.A.K. Halliday, Emeritus Professor, University of Sydney 2. Beyond Redemption: Choice and Consequence in Youth Justice Conferencing James Martin, University of Sydney 3. The Meaning of Function: Syntax in Systemic Functional Linguistics Delu Zhang, Tongji University, China 4. Systemic Linguistics and Constructivism Shiqing Yan, Suzhou University, China 5. The System Network for Generating the Expressions of Chinese Aspects Guowen Yang, Institute of Linguistics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China Part II: Theory and its Applications 6. On Linguistic Signs and the Science of Linguistics: The Foundations of Applicability Ruqaiya Hasan, Emeritus Professor, Macquarie University 7. Appliable Discourse Analysis Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen, Hong Kong Polytechnic University 8.Labelling Discourse Acts: Interpersonal Projection Across Registers Geoff Thompson, University of Liverpool, UK 9. Modelling Ellipsis in EFL Classroom Discourse Xueyan Yang, Beijing Foreign Studies University, China 10. Genre and Appraisal Theories in Functional Discourse Analysis – with Reference to Accounts in ‘Dragon-Carving and the Literary Mind’ Zhanzi Li, Nanjing Normal University, China 11. Analyzing the Reporting Clause in Translating Confucius's Lun Yu (The Analects) Guowen Huang, Sun Yat-sen University, China Part III: Developing Directions 12. Challenges and Solutions for Multimodal Analysis: Technology, Theory and Practice Kay O'Halloran, Alexey Podlasov, Alvin Chua, Christel-Loic Tisse, Victor Lim Fei and Bradley Smith, the National University of Singapore 13. Challenges for Stylistic Method – From Literary Enquiry to Mental Health Treatments: When Two Methods are at One David Butt, Macquarie University 14. Systemic Functional Linguistics in the Round: Imagining FL Education for a Global World Heidi Byrnes, Georgetown University 15. Between Man and Machine: The Changing Face of Corpus Annotation Software Mick O’Donnell, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain 16. Systemic Functional Linguistics and Cyperspace Eija Ventola, Aalto University, Finland From danjiesu at gmail.com Sat Apr 12 05:34:09 2014 From: danjiesu at gmail.com (Danjie Su) Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 22:34:09 -0700 Subject: AMPRA Call for Papers (Deadline approaching: April 15, 2014) Message-ID: Dear all, Please allow me to bring to your kind attention the call-for-papers of the 2nd Conference of the American Pragmatics Association. (Abstract deadline: 15 April 2014) Thank you! Abstract Submission Deadline: April 15th, 2014 Abstracts (max. 300 words) are invited for papers on any topic relevant to the fields of pragmatics and intercultural communication. When submitting the abstract the presenter should indicate which of the three main topics (1. pragmatics theory, 2. intercultural, cross-cultural, societal aspects of pragmatics, 3. applications) s/he thinks the abstract belongs to. On-line submission is at http://linguistlist.org/confcustom/Ampra2014 *We are also accepting proposals for panel discussions*. Submissions of panel proposals need to be made by the organizer of the panel and include all abstracts in one file, and sent to ampra14ucla at gmail.com. Please, include your name, affiliation and e-mail address. Abstracts will be double-blind peer-reviewed, and should include sufficient details to allow reviewers to judge the scientific merits of the work. Paper presentations will be allowed 20 minutes, plus 10 minutes for questions. All presentations will be in English. *Should you have trouble submitting your abstract via linguistlist, you may instead email the abstract to ampra14ucla at gmail.com * Best, Daisy _______________________ Danjie Su PhD Student Asian Languages and Cultures UCLA Los Angeles, CA 90095 danjiesu at gmail.com www.danjiesu.com *Call for Papers2nd Conference of the American Pragmatics Association * *DEADLINE: 15 April 2014* The 2nd Conference of the American Pragmatics Association will take place on October 17-19, 2014 at the University of California, Los Angeles, in Los Angeles, California, USA. The goal of the joint conference is to promote both theoretical and applied research in pragmatics, and bring together scholars who are interested in different subfields of pragmatics (philosophical, linguistic, cognitive, social, intercultural, interlanguage, etc.). Three main topics of the conference are as follows: 1. Pragmatics theories: neo-Gricean approaches, relevance theory, theory of mind, meaning, role of context, grammaticalization, semantics-pragmatics interface, explicature, implicature, speech act theory, presuppositions, im/politeness, experimental pragmatics, etc. 2. Intercultural, cross-cultural and societal aspects of pragmatics: research involving more than one language and culture or varieties of one language, lingua franca, technologically mediated communication, bilinguals' and heritage speakers' language use, intercultural misunderstandings, effect of dual language and multilingual systems on the development and use of pragmatic skills, language of aggression and conflict, etc. 3. Applications: usage and corpus-based approaches, pragmatic competence, teachability and learnability of pragmatic skills, pragmatic variations within one language and across languages, developmental pragmatics, etc. *Conference website*: http://ampra.appling.ucla.edu/ AMPRA website: http://www.albany.edu/ampra/index.html Email address for inquiries: ampra14ucla at gmail.com Abstracts (max. 300 words) are invited for papers on any topic relevant to the fields of pragmatics and intercultural communication. When submitting the abstract the presenter should indicate which of the three main topics (1. Pragmatics theory, 2. Intercultural, cross-cultural, societal aspects of pragmatics, 3. Applications) s/he thinks the abstract belongs to. *Online submission *is at http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/Ampra2014 *Abstract deadline:* 15 April 2014 Notification of acceptance: 1 June 2014 Please, include your name, affiliation and email address. Abstracts will be double-blind peer-reviewed, and should include sufficient details to allow reviewers to judge the scientific merits of the work. Paper presentations will be allowed 20 minutes, plus 10 minutes for questions. All presentations will be in English. Panels are welcome. Panel organizers should send an abstract of the panel (max. 300 words) and abstracts of the panel participants as an email attachment to ampra14ucla at gmail.com. The deadline for panels is the same as for papers: 15 April 2014. *Publication:* Tentative plans to publish one or two volumes of selected papers are in the working. From bischoff.st at gmail.com Mon Apr 14 14:36:48 2014 From: bischoff.st at gmail.com (s.t. Bischoff) Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 10:36:48 -0400 Subject: Whorf Revisited... Message-ID: Hello all, Recently Dan posted a link to four debates held at the University of Gronigen. One was a debate regarding language and thought with Geoff Pullum and Guillaume Thierry . This morning NPR had an interesting piece regarding the release of a gut peptide associated with managing the sensation of hunger in individuals who had been presented with differently worded labels before consumption. The NPR piece can be found here : http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/04/14/299179468/mind-over-milkshake-how-your-thoughts-fool-your-stomach The actual paper published can be found here http://www.ruddcenter.yale.edu/resources/upload/docs/what/food-obesity/MindsetGhrelinResponse_HP_5.11.pdf I believe there has been research done on the physiological response individuals have to certain "triggers words", which might be in the same vain as this experiment to a certain degree but this is beyond my expertise. I wonder however, if anyone sees this as an additional way to pursue the issue of language and thought as presented by Guillaume in the debate? Guillaume presents research that confirms language has an impact on certain types of perception...would language having an effect on the physiology of satiation be a similar kind of effect? Thanks, Shannon From collfitz at gmail.com Tue Apr 15 17:27:32 2014 From: collfitz at gmail.com (Colleen Fitzgerald) Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 12:27:32 -0500 Subject: CoLang 2014 Registration Message-ID: We have additional updates and information on CoLang 2014, the Institute on Collaborative Language Research, which offers training in language documentation, revitalization, and field methodologies. CoLang 2014 will take place June 16-27, 2014 for two week workshop sessions, with many participants staying on an additional month to enroll in the field methods courses, which run June 30 - July 25, 2014. CoLang 2014 will take place at the University of Texas at Arlington. Full information is online at http://tinyurl.com/colang2014 or inquiries may be sent to uta2014institute at gmail.com for more information. CoLang 2014 scholarship notices, from the Linguistic Society of American, Endangered Language Fund, and the internal awards given by the local organizers at UT Arlington, have started going out. All four field methods languages have been finalized: Alabama (Muskogean; [akz]) with Dr. Mary Linn; Apoala Mixtec (Otomanguean; [mip]; note this section will requires Spanish proficiency to work with the Mixtec speakers) with Dr. Christian DiCanio; Enya (Bantu; [gey]) with Dr. Amanda Miller; and Innu (Algonquian; [moe]) with Dr. Monica Macauley. Seats are still available in all four sections. We encourage participants to consider registering as early as possible, since some of our workshops are already nearing enrollment caps. Early bird registration prices have been extended to April 30. (A deposit of $150 is allowed if paying by credit card.) All costs must be paid in full by that date in order to stay registered in the selected courses and not incur additional costs. The registration site is currently open at http://tinyurl.com/Register4CoLang. The early bird registration fee is $750 for the two weeks workshop. If a field methods course is added, the six weeks sessions costs $2250 in fees. Note that housing, food and travel are not included in registration costs. Scholarship recipients must complete their registration and pay any remaining costs by April 30. From keithjohnson at berkeley.edu Wed Apr 16 14:07:25 2014 From: keithjohnson at berkeley.edu (Keith Johnson) Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 07:07:25 -0700 Subject: Invitation to Sound Change 2014 Message-ID: Funksters are invited to Sound Change 2014 at Berkeley - May 28-31, 2014. More information: http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/SCIHS From dylan.glynn at univ-paris8.fr Thu Apr 17 11:21:30 2014 From: dylan.glynn at univ-paris8.fr (Dylan Glynn) Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2014 13:21:30 +0200 Subject: Extended Deadline and Final CfP - Modality and Evidentiality Theme Session Message-ID: Call for Papers *Evidentiality, Modality and Corpus Linguistics * *INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON EVIDENTIALITY AND MODALITY IN EUROPEAN LANGUAGES 2014 (EMEL'14)* http://www.ucm.es/emel14/ Facultad de Filología, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 6-8 October 2014 Workshop convenors: Dylan Glynn (Linguistique anglaise, psycholinguistique University of Paris VIII) dglynn at univ-pari8.fr Paola Pietrandrea (University of Tours & CNRS LLL) paolapietrandrea at gmail.com * **MODAL CATEGORIES. TOWARDS THE TYPOLOGICALLY VALID ANNOTATION OF****DEONTIC, EPISTEMIC, EVIDENTIAL STRUCTURES IN NATURAL LANGUAGE.* Submissions are invited for 20 minutes talks + 10 min. discussion. Abstracts of 300 words (excluding references) are invited. Please make sure the abstract contains a clear summary of the research question, the data and method and (prospective) results. The language of the workshop will be English. Abstract submission deadline: 25 April 2014 Notification of acceptance by the workshop convenors: 25 May 2014 Notification of acceptance by the conference organisers: 26 May 2014 Papers accepted for oral presentation due by 5 September 2014 *Call Information* This workshop seeks to bring together the research traditions of computational linguistics, corpus linguistics and typology in the study of modality (deontic, epistemic, evidential). More specifically, the categorisation / annotation of the different modal phenomena and the various factors with which they interact is a fundamental concern for all three approaches. Collaboration of such concerns cross the theoretical and methodological divisions and our insights from different perspectives should be to the benefit of all. Within the computational tradition, as pointed out by Nissim et al. (2013), recent years have witnessed the development of annotation schemes and annotated corpora for different aspects of modality in different languages (McShane et al. (2004); Wiebe et al. (2005); Szarvas et al. (2008); Sauri and Pustejovsky (2009); Hendrickx et al. (2012); Baker et al.(2012)). While there have been efforts towards finding a common avenue for modality annotation, such as the CoNLL-2010 Shared Task, ACL thematic workshops and a special issue of Computational Linguistics (Morante and Sporleder (2012)), the computational linguistics community is still far from having developed working, shared standards for converting modality-related issues into annotation categories. A similar state of affairs holds for the immense quantity of research in the corpus-driven tradition in modality research where the where functionally determined annotation schemas have long been the focus of debate Most of the research in this tradition has focused on the operationalisation of the manually annotated categories, but recent years have seen the growth methods that employ inter-coder agreement measures and predictive statistical modeling. Key references include, but are not restricted to: Coates (1983); Biber & Finegan (1988, 1989); Aijmer (1997, 2013), Hunston & Thompson (1998); Krug (2000); Nuyts (2001); Mushin (2001); Tucker (2001); Scheibman (2002); Kärkkäinen (2003), Rizomilioti (2003); Facchinetti, Krug & Palmer (2003); Paradis (2003); Marín-Arrese (2004); Martin & White (2005); Simon-Vandenbergen & Aijmer (2007); Hunston (2007); Englebretson (2007); Cornillie (2007); Narrog (2008, 2012); Divjak (2010); Diewald & Smirnova (2010a); Boye (2012); Beijering (2012); Deshors (2012); and Glynn & Sjölin (2014). In typology, identifying and characterizing the range of modal types and their marking across the languages of the world is clearly an ongoing and immensely difficult task, which is leading towards a complete classification of modal functions and a thorough understanding of the relations holding between modal categories as well as towards an understanding of the grammatical vs. lexical nature of modal markers across languages. One such line of research where the use of corpora is gaining methodological importance is comparative linguistics. Examples of typology research in the field include: van der Auwera & Plungian (1998); Johanson & Utas (2000); Plungian (2001, 2011); Dendale & Tasmowski (2001); Squartini (2001, 2004); Aikhenvald (2004); Wiemer (2005); Wiemer & Plungjan (2008); Holvoet (2007); Xrakovskij (2007); Guentcheva & Landaburu (2007), Hansen & De Haan (2009); Boye & Harder (2009); Mortelmans et al. (2009); Boye (2010); Diewald & Smirnova (2010b, 2011); Mauri & Sanso' (2012); and Abraham & Leiss (2013). We invite topologists, computational linguists and corpus linguists working on in the field to join our discussion on the contribution that corpus analyses can bring to the study of modality. Ideas for research questions include but are not limited to the following: 1. What do corpora teach us about modality? How can corpus analyses help us to refine the repertoire of modal functions? How can the analysis of (parallel) corpora help to determine cross-linguistic (typologically valid) consistency in modal categories? 2. How do we operationalise (for annotation) non-observable (functional - conceptual) modal categories? Do current annotation schemata allow for a thorough identification of the modality and evidentiality markers existing in discourse? 3. 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Disentangling evidentiality and epistemic modality in Romance. Lingua 114: 873--895 Szarvas, G., V. Vincze, R. Farkas, & J. Csirik. 2008. The bioscope corpus: annotation for negation, uncertainty and their scope in biomedical texts. In Proc of BioNLP '08, Stroudsburg, pp. 38--45. Tucker, G. 2001. Possibly alternative modality: a corpus-based investigation of the modal adverb possibly. Functions of Language 8: 183-215. van der Auwera, J. & V. Plungian. 1998. Modality's semantic map. Linguistic Typology 2: 79--124. Wärnsby, A. (De)coding Modality: The Case of Must, May, Måste and Kan. PhD Dissertation, Lund University. Wiebe, J., T. Wilson, and C. Cardie (2005). Annotating expressions of opinions and emotions in language.Language Resources and Evaluation 39: 165--210. Wiemer, B. 2005. Conceptual affinities and diachronic relationships between epistemic, inferential and quotative functions. B. Hansen & P. Karlík (eds.), Modality in Slavonic Languages, New perspectives, 107--131. München: Otto Sagner. Wiemer, B. & V. Plungjan. (eds.). 2008. Lexikalische Evidenzialitätsmarker im Slavischen. München: Otto Sanger. Xrakovskij, V. (ed.) 2007. Evidencial'nost' v jazykax Evropy i Azii. Sb. statej pamjati N A. Kozincevoj(Evidentiality in the Languages of Europe and Asia. In the memory of N. A. Kozinceva). Saint-Petersburg: Nauka. From DEVERETT at bentley.edu Wed Apr 23 11:59:52 2014 From: DEVERETT at bentley.edu (Everett, Daniel) Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 11:59:52 +0000 Subject: How the Light Gets In Festival Message-ID: Excuse cross-posting. But I think people around England at this time might enjoy this festival. http://howthelightgetsin.iai.tv In case anyone is around Hay-on-Wye next month, the How the Light Gets In festival will be fun. There will be rock and roll and philosophy. For example, in addition to giving a talk on my forthcoming book, Dark Matter of the Mind: How we know things we cannot tell (Thursday May 29, 6pm), I will be debating philosopher Nancy Cartwright and mathematician/Cosmologist George Ellis on “Ultimate Proof.” (Saturday May 31, 12pm) I will also be debating bioethicist Sarah Chan and Oxford philosopher Janet Radcliffe Richards on “Noble Ancestors and Modern Selves.” (Thursday May 29, 230pm). The advertisements mention the word “hedonism” as well. I will not be talking about this, but it is supposed to be on display during the week-long event. Dan From fjn at u.washington.edu Tue Apr 29 14:37:21 2014 From: fjn at u.washington.edu (Frederick J Newmeyer) Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2014 07:37:21 -0700 Subject: NSF solicitation for Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement proposals to the Linguistics Program Message-ID: NSF’s Linguistics Program has published a solicitation (NSF 14-551) for Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement proposals (Ling-DDRI). The solicitation is available via the following web link: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=505033. This solicitation provides instructions for the preparation of proposals to be submitted to the Linguistics Program for Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement (DDRI) Grants. It replaces instructions that had been included in the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants (SBE-DDRIG) announcement (NSF 11-547). The advisor or another faculty member serving as the principal investigator (PI) of the proposal is now required to submit a signed statement affirming that the student will be able to undertake the proposed research soon after a DDRI award is made. In addition, the PI must affirm that she/he has read the proposal and believes that it makes a strong case for support of the dissertation research project. This solicitation also provides new clarification regarding certain aspects of DDRI proposal preparation for submission to the Linguistics Program. Doctoral students are limited to two DDRI submissions in the course of their graduate career; however, there is no limitation on the number of times that a graduate advisor may be the principal investigator on a DDRI proposal submitted to the Linguistics Program, either during a specific competition or over the course of her/his career. Target dates for submitting DDRI proposals remain unchanged: January 15th and July 15th, annually. From kesmith at cambridge.org Tue Apr 1 09:22:43 2014 From: kesmith at cambridge.org (Katie Smith) Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2014 10:22:43 +0100 Subject: Access a double special issue from Language and Cognition Message-ID: Access a double special issue from Language and Cognition As part of the continuing growth and diversification of Language and Cognition, this special double issue focuses on the evolution of language. The issue features a target article by Professor Michael Arbib on how the brain evolved language followed by 12 commentaries from experts in anthropology, apraxia, archeology, linguistics, neuroanatomy, neuroimaging, neurophysiology, neuropsychology, primatology, sign language emergence and sign language neurolinguistics. The issue concludes with a response from Professor Arbib entitled 'Complex imitation and the language-ready brain'. Access the entire special issue without charge until 1st June 2014: http://journals.cambridge.org/LCO/SI5 Katie Smith Marketing Executive - Journals Cambridge University Press From stgries at gmail.com Tue Apr 1 15:51:38 2014 From: stgries at gmail.com (Stefan Th. Gries) Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2014 08:51:38 -0700 Subject: CSDL 2014: final call for papers In-Reply-To: Message-ID: NEW EXTENDED DEADLINE fur abstract submission due to popular demand (APOLOGIES FOR CROSS-POSTING) CSDL (Conceptual Structure, Discourse, and Language) 2014 is the 12th incarnation of a conference first hosted in 1994 by the University of California, San Diego. In 2000, CSDL 5 was hosted by the University of California, Santa Barbara and it is with great pleasure that we are bringing CSDL 12 back to the University of California system and to Santa Barbara in particular. CSDL 12 is co-organized by Stefan Th. Gries (Dept. of Linguistics) and Viola G. Miglio (Dept. of Spanish/Portuguese) and will take place 4-6 November 2014 at the Hyatt Santa Barbara directly at East Beach, Santa Barbara. The conference website at contains all information about the conference; if you have questions not addressed here, plz write to the conference email address at . Call for papers 1 Potential topics For CSDL 12 (2014), we are inviting a broad range of papers taking cognitive/psycholinguistic, functional, usage-/exemplar-based, or discourse-based approach to the study of language and its acquisition, processing, use, and change. Drawing from the range of topics listed by the organizers of the successful ICLC in Edmonton, topics of papers may include, but are not limited to: - linguistic categorization: prototype theory, radial categories, ...; - linguistic relativity, culture, and ethnosyntax; - embodiment and language; - metaphor, metonymy, mental spaces, conceptual blending, ICMs, frame semantics, image schemas, force dynamics, ...; - cognitive phonology, semantics, grammar, and construction grammars; - discourse and grammar, text and discourse; - language acquisition and learning; - grammaticalization, language evolution, and change; - cognitive corpus linguistics; - empirical methods: data from observation, experimentation, computational simulation. 2 Format of abstract For full consideration, the abstract must be a PDF and meet the following specifications: - page format: Letter or A4, margins: 1 inch/2.5 cm all around - font: Times (New Roman) 12pt - paragraph format: single-spaced - length: max. 1 page (plus 1 page for figures, tables, references, if necessary) Note 1: Abstracts must be anonymous, which means author names should not appear anywhere on abstracts (you may cite yourself as [Author] or in the third person for previously published work). Note 2: An author may submit maximally one single-authored and one co-authored paper. Note 3: Abstracts will be subjected to a double-blind review by a minimum of two referees. Empirical papers and papers whose abstracts indicate that results are already available (rather than hoped for) will be given priority. Note 4: Submission of an abstract constitutes agreement to review maximally 5 abstracts yourself. 3 Submission of abstracts The deadline for submission of abstracts is 31 March 2014. We are using the LinguistList's EasyAbs system for abstract submission and reviewing; plz see the conference website for the relevant link. Pre-conference and conference schedule 1 February 2014: 1st call for papers/participation 1 February 2014: room registration at the Hyatt Santa Barbara opens 10 March 2014: 2nd call for papers/participation 21 February 2014: registration opens 24 March 2014: final call for papers/participation 1 April 2014: extended final call for papers/participation 15 May 2014: deadline for submission of abstracts June 2014: notifications of acceptance 15 July 2014: deadline for early-bird registration 4-6 November 2014: conference From vhall at equinoxpub.com Mon Apr 7 15:18:14 2014 From: vhall at equinoxpub.com (Valerie Hall) Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2014 16:18:14 +0100 Subject: Developing Systemic Functional Linguistics Message-ID: Just published: Developing Systemic Functional Linguistics Theory and Application Edited by Fang Yan and Jonathan J. Webster HB 9781845539955 ?70, 320pp Link to book page and ordering: https://www.equinoxpub.com/equinox/books/showbook.asp?bkid=511 Receive 25% off the retail price when ordering from this page quoting the discount code DSFL valid until the end of May 2014 Description This volume presents current views on the achievements made in the study of Systemic Functional Linguistics in both theory and application, and on potential domains and directions for its further development. The first part looks at strengthening theoretical research and description in system networks and seeks to deepen our understanding of the concept of choice and of the consequences arising from making choices in particular social contexts. It also makes comparisons of different models within SFL and of similarities and differences between SFL and other linguistic models. The second part sums up SFL?s fifty years of refinement as a theory and goes on to offer an explicit definition of Applicable Discourse Analysis, presenting views on the potential areas, methods and criteria for verbal and multimodal discourse analysis, with examples. The final part of the volume discusses potential directions for SFL, including expanding SFL typological research into languages other than English, in countries other than the major English speaking ones, exploring solutions to the challenges faced by multimodal discourse, extending traditional translation studies to other modes; extending stylistics studies across different disciplines; exploring the potential of SFL to tackle the challenges confronting language education at both macro and micro levels; and achieving globalization in SFL across cyberspace. Contents Part I: Theoretical Issues in Description 1. Some Systemic Functional Reflexions on the History of Meaning M.A.K. Halliday, Emeritus Professor, University of Sydney 2. Beyond Redemption: Choice and Consequence in Youth Justice Conferencing James Martin, University of Sydney 3. The Meaning of Function: Syntax in Systemic Functional Linguistics Delu Zhang, Tongji University, China 4. Systemic Linguistics and Constructivism Shiqing Yan, Suzhou University, China 5. The System Network for Generating the Expressions of Chinese Aspects Guowen Yang, Institute of Linguistics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China Part II: Theory and its Applications 6. On Linguistic Signs and the Science of Linguistics: The Foundations of Applicability Ruqaiya Hasan, Emeritus Professor, Macquarie University 7. Appliable Discourse Analysis Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen, Hong Kong Polytechnic University 8.Labelling Discourse Acts: Interpersonal Projection Across Registers Geoff Thompson, University of Liverpool, UK 9. Modelling Ellipsis in EFL Classroom Discourse Xueyan Yang, Beijing Foreign Studies University, China 10. Genre and Appraisal Theories in Functional Discourse Analysis ? with Reference to Accounts in ?Dragon-Carving and the Literary Mind? Zhanzi Li, Nanjing Normal University, China 11. Analyzing the Reporting Clause in Translating Confucius's Lun Yu (The Analects) Guowen Huang, Sun Yat-sen University, China Part III: Developing Directions 12. Challenges and Solutions for Multimodal Analysis: Technology, Theory and Practice Kay O'Halloran, Alexey Podlasov, Alvin Chua, Christel-Loic Tisse, Victor Lim Fei and Bradley Smith, the National University of Singapore 13. Challenges for Stylistic Method ? From Literary Enquiry to Mental Health Treatments: When Two Methods are at One David Butt, Macquarie University 14. Systemic Functional Linguistics in the Round: Imagining FL Education for a Global World Heidi Byrnes, Georgetown University 15. Between Man and Machine: The Changing Face of Corpus Annotation Software Mick O?Donnell, Universidad Aut?noma de Madrid, Spain 16. Systemic Functional Linguistics and Cyperspace Eija Ventola, Aalto University, Finland From danjiesu at gmail.com Sat Apr 12 05:34:09 2014 From: danjiesu at gmail.com (Danjie Su) Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 22:34:09 -0700 Subject: AMPRA Call for Papers (Deadline approaching: April 15, 2014) Message-ID: Dear all, Please allow me to bring to your kind attention the call-for-papers of the 2nd Conference of the American Pragmatics Association. (Abstract deadline: 15 April 2014) Thank you! Abstract Submission Deadline: April 15th, 2014 Abstracts (max. 300 words) are invited for papers on any topic relevant to the fields of pragmatics and intercultural communication. When submitting the abstract the presenter should indicate which of the three main topics (1. pragmatics theory, 2. intercultural, cross-cultural, societal aspects of pragmatics, 3. applications) s/he thinks the abstract belongs to. On-line submission is at http://linguistlist.org/confcustom/Ampra2014 *We are also accepting proposals for panel discussions*. Submissions of panel proposals need to be made by the organizer of the panel and include all abstracts in one file, and sent to ampra14ucla at gmail.com. Please, include your name, affiliation and e-mail address. Abstracts will be double-blind peer-reviewed, and should include sufficient details to allow reviewers to judge the scientific merits of the work. Paper presentations will be allowed 20 minutes, plus 10 minutes for questions. All presentations will be in English. *Should you have trouble submitting your abstract via linguistlist, you may instead email the abstract to ampra14ucla at gmail.com * Best, Daisy _______________________ Danjie Su PhD Student Asian Languages and Cultures UCLA Los Angeles, CA 90095 danjiesu at gmail.com www.danjiesu.com *Call for Papers2nd Conference of the American Pragmatics Association * *DEADLINE: 15 April 2014* The 2nd Conference of the American Pragmatics Association will take place on October 17-19, 2014 at the University of California, Los Angeles, in Los Angeles, California, USA. The goal of the joint conference is to promote both theoretical and applied research in pragmatics, and bring together scholars who are interested in different subfields of pragmatics (philosophical, linguistic, cognitive, social, intercultural, interlanguage, etc.). Three main topics of the conference are as follows: 1. Pragmatics theories: neo-Gricean approaches, relevance theory, theory of mind, meaning, role of context, grammaticalization, semantics-pragmatics interface, explicature, implicature, speech act theory, presuppositions, im/politeness, experimental pragmatics, etc. 2. Intercultural, cross-cultural and societal aspects of pragmatics: research involving more than one language and culture or varieties of one language, lingua franca, technologically mediated communication, bilinguals' and heritage speakers' language use, intercultural misunderstandings, effect of dual language and multilingual systems on the development and use of pragmatic skills, language of aggression and conflict, etc. 3. Applications: usage and corpus-based approaches, pragmatic competence, teachability and learnability of pragmatic skills, pragmatic variations within one language and across languages, developmental pragmatics, etc. *Conference website*: http://ampra.appling.ucla.edu/ AMPRA website: http://www.albany.edu/ampra/index.html Email address for inquiries: ampra14ucla at gmail.com Abstracts (max. 300 words) are invited for papers on any topic relevant to the fields of pragmatics and intercultural communication. When submitting the abstract the presenter should indicate which of the three main topics (1. Pragmatics theory, 2. Intercultural, cross-cultural, societal aspects of pragmatics, 3. Applications) s/he thinks the abstract belongs to. *Online submission *is at http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/Ampra2014 *Abstract deadline:* 15 April 2014 Notification of acceptance: 1 June 2014 Please, include your name, affiliation and email address. Abstracts will be double-blind peer-reviewed, and should include sufficient details to allow reviewers to judge the scientific merits of the work. Paper presentations will be allowed 20 minutes, plus 10 minutes for questions. All presentations will be in English. Panels are welcome. Panel organizers should send an abstract of the panel (max. 300 words) and abstracts of the panel participants as an email attachment to ampra14ucla at gmail.com. The deadline for panels is the same as for papers: 15 April 2014. *Publication:* Tentative plans to publish one or two volumes of selected papers are in the working. From bischoff.st at gmail.com Mon Apr 14 14:36:48 2014 From: bischoff.st at gmail.com (s.t. Bischoff) Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 10:36:48 -0400 Subject: Whorf Revisited... Message-ID: Hello all, Recently Dan posted a link to four debates held at the University of Gronigen. One was a debate regarding language and thought with Geoff Pullum and Guillaume Thierry . This morning NPR had an interesting piece regarding the release of a gut peptide associated with managing the sensation of hunger in individuals who had been presented with differently worded labels before consumption. The NPR piece can be found here : http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/04/14/299179468/mind-over-milkshake-how-your-thoughts-fool-your-stomach The actual paper published can be found here http://www.ruddcenter.yale.edu/resources/upload/docs/what/food-obesity/MindsetGhrelinResponse_HP_5.11.pdf I believe there has been research done on the physiological response individuals have to certain "triggers words", which might be in the same vain as this experiment to a certain degree but this is beyond my expertise. I wonder however, if anyone sees this as an additional way to pursue the issue of language and thought as presented by Guillaume in the debate? Guillaume presents research that confirms language has an impact on certain types of perception...would language having an effect on the physiology of satiation be a similar kind of effect? Thanks, Shannon From collfitz at gmail.com Tue Apr 15 17:27:32 2014 From: collfitz at gmail.com (Colleen Fitzgerald) Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 12:27:32 -0500 Subject: CoLang 2014 Registration Message-ID: We have additional updates and information on CoLang 2014, the Institute on Collaborative Language Research, which offers training in language documentation, revitalization, and field methodologies. CoLang 2014 will take place June 16-27, 2014 for two week workshop sessions, with many participants staying on an additional month to enroll in the field methods courses, which run June 30 - July 25, 2014. CoLang 2014 will take place at the University of Texas at Arlington. Full information is online at http://tinyurl.com/colang2014 or inquiries may be sent to uta2014institute at gmail.com for more information. CoLang 2014 scholarship notices, from the Linguistic Society of American, Endangered Language Fund, and the internal awards given by the local organizers at UT Arlington, have started going out. All four field methods languages have been finalized: Alabama (Muskogean; [akz]) with Dr. Mary Linn; Apoala Mixtec (Otomanguean; [mip]; note this section will requires Spanish proficiency to work with the Mixtec speakers) with Dr. Christian DiCanio; Enya (Bantu; [gey]) with Dr. Amanda Miller; and Innu (Algonquian; [moe]) with Dr. Monica Macauley. Seats are still available in all four sections. We encourage participants to consider registering as early as possible, since some of our workshops are already nearing enrollment caps. Early bird registration prices have been extended to April 30. (A deposit of $150 is allowed if paying by credit card.) All costs must be paid in full by that date in order to stay registered in the selected courses and not incur additional costs. The registration site is currently open at http://tinyurl.com/Register4CoLang. The early bird registration fee is $750 for the two weeks workshop. If a field methods course is added, the six weeks sessions costs $2250 in fees. Note that housing, food and travel are not included in registration costs. Scholarship recipients must complete their registration and pay any remaining costs by April 30. From keithjohnson at berkeley.edu Wed Apr 16 14:07:25 2014 From: keithjohnson at berkeley.edu (Keith Johnson) Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 07:07:25 -0700 Subject: Invitation to Sound Change 2014 Message-ID: Funksters are invited to Sound Change 2014 at Berkeley - May 28-31, 2014. More information: http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/SCIHS From dylan.glynn at univ-paris8.fr Thu Apr 17 11:21:30 2014 From: dylan.glynn at univ-paris8.fr (Dylan Glynn) Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2014 13:21:30 +0200 Subject: Extended Deadline and Final CfP - Modality and Evidentiality Theme Session Message-ID: Call for Papers *Evidentiality, Modality and Corpus Linguistics * *INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON EVIDENTIALITY AND MODALITY IN EUROPEAN LANGUAGES 2014 (EMEL'14)* http://www.ucm.es/emel14/ Facultad de Filolog?a, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 6-8 October 2014 Workshop convenors: Dylan Glynn (Linguistique anglaise, psycholinguistique University of Paris VIII) dglynn at univ-pari8.fr Paola Pietrandrea (University of Tours & CNRS LLL) paolapietrandrea at gmail.com * **MODAL CATEGORIES. TOWARDS THE TYPOLOGICALLY VALID ANNOTATION OF****DEONTIC, EPISTEMIC, EVIDENTIAL STRUCTURES IN NATURAL LANGUAGE.* Submissions are invited for 20 minutes talks + 10 min. discussion. Abstracts of 300 words (excluding references) are invited. Please make sure the abstract contains a clear summary of the research question, the data and method and (prospective) results. The language of the workshop will be English. Abstract submission deadline: 25 April 2014 Notification of acceptance by the workshop convenors: 25 May 2014 Notification of acceptance by the conference organisers: 26 May 2014 Papers accepted for oral presentation due by 5 September 2014 *Call Information* This workshop seeks to bring together the research traditions of computational linguistics, corpus linguistics and typology in the study of modality (deontic, epistemic, evidential). More specifically, the categorisation / annotation of the different modal phenomena and the various factors with which they interact is a fundamental concern for all three approaches. Collaboration of such concerns cross the theoretical and methodological divisions and our insights from different perspectives should be to the benefit of all. Within the computational tradition, as pointed out by Nissim et al. (2013), recent years have witnessed the development of annotation schemes and annotated corpora for different aspects of modality in different languages (McShane et al. (2004); Wiebe et al. (2005); Szarvas et al. (2008); Sauri and Pustejovsky (2009); Hendrickx et al. (2012); Baker et al.(2012)). While there have been efforts towards finding a common avenue for modality annotation, such as the CoNLL-2010 Shared Task, ACL thematic workshops and a special issue of Computational Linguistics (Morante and Sporleder (2012)), the computational linguistics community is still far from having developed working, shared standards for converting modality-related issues into annotation categories. A similar state of affairs holds for the immense quantity of research in the corpus-driven tradition in modality research where the where functionally determined annotation schemas have long been the focus of debate Most of the research in this tradition has focused on the operationalisation of the manually annotated categories, but recent years have seen the growth methods that employ inter-coder agreement measures and predictive statistical modeling. Key references include, but are not restricted to: Coates (1983); Biber & Finegan (1988, 1989); Aijmer (1997, 2013), Hunston & Thompson (1998); Krug (2000); Nuyts (2001); Mushin (2001); Tucker (2001); Scheibman (2002); K?rkk?inen (2003), Rizomilioti (2003); Facchinetti, Krug & Palmer (2003); Paradis (2003); Mar?n-Arrese (2004); Martin & White (2005); Simon-Vandenbergen & Aijmer (2007); Hunston (2007); Englebretson (2007); Cornillie (2007); Narrog (2008, 2012); Divjak (2010); Diewald & Smirnova (2010a); Boye (2012); Beijering (2012); Deshors (2012); and Glynn & Sj?lin (2014). In typology, identifying and characterizing the range of modal types and their marking across the languages of the world is clearly an ongoing and immensely difficult task, which is leading towards a complete classification of modal functions and a thorough understanding of the relations holding between modal categories as well as towards an understanding of the grammatical vs. lexical nature of modal markers across languages. One such line of research where the use of corpora is gaining methodological importance is comparative linguistics. Examples of typology research in the field include: van der Auwera & Plungian (1998); Johanson & Utas (2000); Plungian (2001, 2011); Dendale & Tasmowski (2001); Squartini (2001, 2004); Aikhenvald (2004); Wiemer (2005); Wiemer & Plungjan (2008); Holvoet (2007); Xrakovskij (2007); Guentcheva & Landaburu (2007), Hansen & De Haan (2009); Boye & Harder (2009); Mortelmans et al. (2009); Boye (2010); Diewald & Smirnova (2010b, 2011); Mauri & Sanso' (2012); and Abraham & Leiss (2013). We invite topologists, computational linguists and corpus linguists working on in the field to join our discussion on the contribution that corpus analyses can bring to the study of modality. Ideas for research questions include but are not limited to the following: 1. What do corpora teach us about modality? How can corpus analyses help us to refine the repertoire of modal functions? How can the analysis of (parallel) corpora help to determine cross-linguistic (typologically valid) consistency in modal categories? 2. How do we operationalise (for annotation) non-observable (functional - conceptual) modal categories? Do current annotation schemata allow for a thorough identification of the modality and evidentiality markers existing in discourse? 3. 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M?nchen: Otto Sagner. Wiemer, B. & V. Plungjan. (eds.). 2008. Lexikalische Evidenzialit?tsmarker im Slavischen. M?nchen: Otto Sanger. Xrakovskij, V. (ed.) 2007. Evidencial'nost' v jazykax Evropy i Azii. Sb. statej pamjati N A. Kozincevoj(Evidentiality in the Languages of Europe and Asia. In the memory of N. A. Kozinceva). Saint-Petersburg: Nauka. From DEVERETT at bentley.edu Wed Apr 23 11:59:52 2014 From: DEVERETT at bentley.edu (Everett, Daniel) Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 11:59:52 +0000 Subject: How the Light Gets In Festival Message-ID: Excuse cross-posting. But I think people around England at this time might enjoy this festival. http://howthelightgetsin.iai.tv In case anyone is around Hay-on-Wye next month, the How the Light Gets In festival will be fun. There will be rock and roll and philosophy. For example, in addition to giving a talk on my forthcoming book, Dark Matter of the Mind: How we know things we cannot tell (Thursday May 29, 6pm), I will be debating philosopher Nancy Cartwright and mathematician/Cosmologist George Ellis on ?Ultimate Proof.? (Saturday May 31, 12pm) I will also be debating bioethicist Sarah Chan and Oxford philosopher Janet Radcliffe Richards on ?Noble Ancestors and Modern Selves.? (Thursday May 29, 230pm). The advertisements mention the word ?hedonism? as well. I will not be talking about this, but it is supposed to be on display during the week-long event. Dan From fjn at u.washington.edu Tue Apr 29 14:37:21 2014 From: fjn at u.washington.edu (Frederick J Newmeyer) Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2014 07:37:21 -0700 Subject: NSF solicitation for Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement proposals to the Linguistics Program Message-ID: NSF?s Linguistics Program has published a solicitation (NSF 14-551) for Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement proposals (Ling-DDRI). The solicitation is available via the following web link: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=505033. This solicitation provides instructions for the preparation of proposals to be submitted to the Linguistics Program for Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement (DDRI) Grants. It replaces instructions that had been included in the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants (SBE-DDRIG) announcement (NSF 11-547). The advisor or another faculty member serving as the principal investigator (PI) of the proposal is now required to submit a signed statement affirming that the student will be able to undertake the proposed research soon after a DDRI award is made. In addition, the PI must affirm that she/he has read the proposal and believes that it makes a strong case for support of the dissertation research project. This solicitation also provides new clarification regarding certain aspects of DDRI proposal preparation for submission to the Linguistics Program. Doctoral students are limited to two DDRI submissions in the course of their graduate career; however, there is no limitation on the number of times that a graduate advisor may be the principal investigator on a DDRI proposal submitted to the Linguistics Program, either during a specific competition or over the course of her/his career. Target dates for submitting DDRI proposals remain unchanged: January 15th and July 15th, annually.