24.3537, Calls: Pragmatics, Semantics, Psycholing, Lang Acq, Philosophy of Lang/Netherlands

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Subject: 24.3537, Calls: Pragmatics, Semantics, Psycholing, Lang Acq, Philosophy of Lang/Netherlands

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Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 11:12:31
From: Franziska Köder [f.koder at rug.nl]
Subject: (Re)presenting the Speech of Others

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Full Title: (Re)presenting the Speech of Others 

Date: 13-Mar-2014 - 14-Mar-2014
Location: Groningen, Netherlands 
Contact Person: Franziska Köder
Meeting Email: f.koder at rug.nl
Web Site: https://sites.google.com/site/representing2014/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition; Philosophy of Language; Pragmatics; Psycholinguistics; Semantics 

Call Deadline: 01-Dec-2013 

Meeting Description:

There are different ways of reporting what someone else has said. Common forms of speech reports are direct speech (Mary said 'I am sick') and indirect speech (Mary said that she is sick). Pretense and role play are closely related phenomena. Like in direct speech, someone engaging in role play adopts the perspective of another person and produces utterances from that shifted standpoint (I am sick) (Harris, 2000). Another interesting parallel is that children start to use speech reports and to engage in role play at around the same time, namely at two to three years of age. This is well before they pass standard false belief tests (at around four) which are often taken to be the hallmark of Theory of Mind and metarepresentation (e.g. Perner, 1991). 

Since at least some forms of reported speech exhibit recursion, intensionality, and/or clausal embedding, this developmental gap may shed new light on the debate over the relationship between Theory of Mind and the syntax/semantics of recursive embedding (e.g. de Villiers & de Villiers, 2000). The aim of the conference is to discuss the cognitive and conceptual relationship of reported speech, pretense and cognitive abilities such as perspective-taking, metarepresentation and Theory of Mind.

Keynote Speakers:

Paul L. Harris 
Josef Perner 
Jill de Villiers

Call for Papers:

We invite authors to submit an anonymous two-page abstract by 1 December 2013, for a talk of 20 minutes plus 10 minutes discussion or a poster. Submissions should be made via Easychair. We welcome theoretically and empirically oriented contributions addressing some of the following topics of interest from the perspectives of (psycho)linguistics, philosophy, psychology or semantics.

Topics of Interest: 

- Development of reported speech 
- Development of pretense/ role play 
- Direct and indirect speech 
- Perspective shift, role shift, deictic/indexical shift 
- Theory of Mind / mindreading 
- Metacognition and metarepresentation







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