<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear LingTyp:</div><div>Please use the following (much improved) announcement, in place of the one previously submitted. (I also append it as a file.)</div><div>Best,</div><div>John DuBois</div><div><br><b style="font-size:16pt;background-color:transparent">Workshop:</b></div>
<p style="line-height:100%;margin-bottom:0in;background:transparent"><b><font style="font-size:16pt"><i>Fifty
years of The Pear Film by Wallace Chafe</i></font><font style="font-size:16pt">:
</font><font style="font-size:16pt"><i>An Overview and New
Perspectives</i></font></b></p>
<p style="line-height:0.12in;margin-bottom:0.11in;background:transparent">Date:
December 6, 2025, 16:00 –
19:30 (GMT+3 Moscow)</p>
<p style="line-height:115%;margin-bottom:0.1in;background:transparent">In 1975, a small team of linguists led by Wallace Chafe wrote the
script for a new kind of film, intended to be shown to speakers of
languages around the world, to elicit their tellings of what happened
in it. Paradoxically, the film itself – now known as the Pear Film
– contains no language of any kind, neither spoken nor written, not
even a title or credits. On its 50<sup>th</sup> anniversary, the time
is ripe to consider why this film was made the way it was; why the
role of linguists as visual scriptwriters was key; and why the design
of the Pear Film still matters for researchers in linguistics and
cognitive science today. On one level, the Pear Film was designed
simply as a new method for the experimental elicitation of narrative
discourse. But on a deeper level, its design was profoundly shaped by
linguistic theory from the outset. The goal was to support
exploratory research on topics in cognitive linguistics, functional
linguistics, discourse, and linguistic typology. Taken together,
these goals motivated the complete absence of language from a film
designed for linguistic research. The film was intended to serve as
an experiential stimulus: a proxy for the pre-verbal human experience
of a meaningful series of events, one that could be experienced by
anyone in any culture, and verbalized by users of any language. The
design as a purely visual stimulus was intended to avoid to avoid
bias toward any specific language, while giving the viewers plenty to
talk about, in ways that would reveal – hopefully – the natural
contours of their language. The events of the film were scripted in a
very specific way, in order to create specific verbalization tasks,
without dictating the linguistic solution.</p>
<p style="line-height:115%;margin-bottom:0.1in;background:transparent"> Chafe set goals for the Pear Film that were ambitious and
innovative at the time. The enduring relevance of these research
goals, and of the research tool they engendered, is attested by the
variety of new projects that have been conceived and carried all over
the world during the last 50 years, a creative outpouring that
continues to this day. This workshop seeks to advance the state of
the art in current Pear Film research, showcasing projects that
continue to develop novel ways of using this experiential stimulus to
explore new research directions in cognitive science and linguistics.
</p>
<p style="line-height:0.12in;margin-bottom:0.11in;background:transparent"><b>PROGRAM</b></p>
<p style="line-height:0.12in;margin-bottom:0.11in;background:transparent"><b>December 6,
2025, 16:00 – 19:30 </b>(GMT+3 Moscow)</p>
<p style="line-height:0.12in;margin-bottom:0.11in;background:transparent">16:00 –
16:15. Opening Remarks by Vladimir Glebkin
</p>
<p style="line-height:0.12in;margin-bottom:0.11in;background:transparent">16:15 –
16:40. Wallace Chafe. <i>Origins of the Pear Film</i> (video
presentation from the workshop "Stories About Pears: 40 Years
Later," held on September 25, 2015, in Turin, Italy).</p>
<p style="line-height:0.12in;margin-bottom:0.11in;background:transparent">16:40 –
17:10. John W. DuBois (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA).
<i>How the Pear Film Was Designed to Elicit Typological Diversity.</i>
(online)</p>
<p style="line-height:0.12in;margin-bottom:0.11in;background:transparent">17:10 –
17:40. André Coneglian (Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil).
<i>The Pear Stories in the Context of Cross-Linguistic Comparison:
Theory, Method, and Possibilities.</i> (online)</p>
<p style="line-height:0.12in;margin-bottom:0.11in;background:transparent">17:40 –
18:40. Yulia Nikolaeva (Lomonosov Moscow State University; National
Research University Higher School of Economics). <i>The Pear Film in
the Study of Speech and Gesticulation in Aphasia. </i>
</p>
<p style="line-height:0.12in;margin-bottom:0.11in;background:transparent">18:40 –
19:10. Vladimir Glebkin (School 1514, Moscow; RANEPA). <i>The Pear
Film as a Stimulus Material for Investigating Cognitive Development. </i>
</p>
<p style="line-height:0.12in;margin-bottom:0.11in;background:transparent">19:10 –
19:40. Natalia Sukhova (National University of Science and Technology
MISIS; Russian State Humanities University). <i>Hold Your Head Up, or
How the Cephalic Channel Works. </i>
</p>
<p style="line-height:0.12in;margin-bottom:0.11in;background:transparent">
</p>
<p style="line-height:0.12in;margin-bottom:0.11in;background:transparent"><b>Venue:</b>
School 1514, Moscow, Krupskoi St., 12.</p>
<p style="line-height:0.12in;margin-bottom:0.11in;background:transparent"><b>Connection
link:
</b><a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87857114836?pwd=Z2xrdlYyUWd1OWZBT25IN1VxY2hmQT09" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(0,0,128)"><font color="#0563c1">https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87857114836?pwd=Z2xrdlYyUWd1OWZBT25IN1VxY2hmQT09</font></a></p>
<p style="line-height:0.12in;margin-bottom:0.11in;background:transparent"><b>Conference
ID: </b>878 5711 4836</p>
<p style="line-height:0.12in;margin-bottom:0.11in;background:transparent"><b>Access Code:
</b>337928</p>
<p style="line-height:0.12in;margin-bottom:0.11in;background:transparent"><br>
<br>
</p>
<p style="line-height:0.12in;margin-bottom:0.11in;background:transparent"><b>SPONSORS</b></p>
<p style="line-height:0.12in;margin-bottom:0.11in;background:transparent">
Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, Faculty of
Philology, Lomonosov Moscow State University</p>
<p style="line-height:0.12in;margin-bottom:0.11in;background:transparent">
Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences</p>
<p style="line-height:0.12in;margin-bottom:0.11in;background:transparent">
Department of Cultural Studies and Social Communication, Russian
Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration
(RANEPA)</p>
<p style="line-height:0.12in;margin-bottom:0.11in;background:transparent">
Laboratory of Historical and Cultural Anthropology at School 1514,
Moscow</p>
<p style="line-height:115%;margin-bottom:0.1in;background:transparent"><br></p><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><pre cols="72"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">=======================================<br></font></pre><pre cols="72"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">John W. DuBois
Professor of Linguistics
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, California 93106
USA
Email: <a href="mailto:dubois@ucsb.edu" target="_blank">dubois@ucsb.edu</a>
Zoom: </font><a href="https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/9851117049" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif" target="_blank">Zoom room</a><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">
Web page: <a href="http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/faculty/dubois/" target="_blank">http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/faculty/dubois/</a>
Rezonator: <a href="https://rezonator.com" target="_blank">https://rezonator.com</a></font></pre></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Dec 4, 2025 at 8:18 PM John DuBois <<a href="mailto:dubois@ucsb.edu">dubois@ucsb.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b style="font-size:11pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Workshop: </span></b><b style="font-size:11pt;text-align:center"><i><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Fifty years of The Pear Film by Wallace Chafe</span></i></b><span style="text-align:center;font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">: <b><i>An Overview and New Perspectives</i></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">December 6, 2025,
16:00 – 19:40 </span></b><span style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">(GMT+3 </span><span style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Moscow</span><span style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">)</span></p><br><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Program </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">16:00 – 16:15. Opening Remarks
by Vladimir Glebkin </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">16:15 – 16:40. Wallace Chafe. <i>Origins
of the Pear Film</i> (video presentation from the workshop "Stories About
Pears: 40 Years Later," held on September 25, 2015, in Turin, Italy). </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">16:40 – 17:10. John W. DuBois
(University of California, Santa Barbara, USA). <i>How the Pear Film Was
Designed to Elicit Typological Diversity.</i>
(online)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">17:10 – 17:40. André Coneglian
(Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil). <i>The Pear Stories in the
Context of Cross-Linguistic Comparison: Theory, Method, and Possibilities.</i> (online)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">17:40
– 18:40. Yulia Nikolaeva (Lomonosov Moscow State University; National Research
University Higher School of Economics). <i>The Pear Film in the Study of Speech
and Gesticulation in Aphasia. </i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">18:40
– 19:10. Vladimir Glebkin (School 1514, Moscow; RANEPA). <i>The Pear Film as a
Stimulus Material for Investigating Cognitive Development. </i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">19:10 – 19:40. Natalia Sukhova
(National University of Science and Technology MISIS; Russian State Humanities
University). <i>Hold Your Head Up, or How the Cephalic Channel Works. </i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Venue:</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> School 1514, Moscow, Krupskoi St., 12.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Connection link: </span></b><span lang="RU"><a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87857114836?pwd=Z2xrdlYyUWd1OWZBT25IN1VxY2hmQT09" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87857114836?pwd=Z2xrdlYyUWd1OWZBT25IN1VxY2hmQT09</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Conference ID:</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> 878 5711 4836</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Access Code:</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> 337928</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, Faculty of Philology, Lomonosov Moscow State University </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Department of Cultural Studies and Social Communication, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA) </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Laboratory of Historical and Cultural Anthropology at School 1514, Moscow</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px"> </span></p></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><pre cols="72"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">=======================================<br></font></pre><pre cols="72"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">John W. DuBois
Professor of Linguistics
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, California 93106
USA
Email: <a href="mailto:dubois@ucsb.edu" target="_blank">dubois@ucsb.edu</a>
Zoom: </font><a href="https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/9851117049" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif" target="_blank">Zoom room</a><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">
Web page: <a href="http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/faculty/dubois/" target="_blank">http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/faculty/dubois/</a>
Rezonator: <a href="https://rezonator.com" target="_blank">https://rezonator.com</a></font></pre></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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