27.2915, Calls: General Ling/Serbia

Mon Jul 11 15:37:52 UTC 2016

LINGUIST List: Vol-27-2915. Mon Jul 11 2016. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 27.2915, Calls: General Ling/Serbia

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Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2016 11:37:44
From: Nikola Tatar [jkps2017 at gmail.com]
Subject: Language, Literature, Space

Full Title: Language, Literature, Space 
Short Title: LLS 

Date: 28-Apr-2017 - 29-Apr-2017
Location: Niš, Serbia 
Contact Person: Nikola Tatar
Meeting Email: jkps2017 at gmail.com

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 20-Jan-2017 

Meeting Description:

The phenomenon of space is one of the most significant modes in the totality
of human experience. Historically, investigation into this concept started in
ancient Babylon and Greece, and reached Europe through Euclid’s geometry,
irretrievably grasping attention of such eminent philosophers as Aristotle,
Descartes or Kant. Space and spatiality are the fundamental categories of
human existence, individually, from the first sensory information grasped by
the mind of a newborn, to the comprehensive understanding of the world and the
course of human life by the mind of an adult. The relationship between
language and space has been the source of fascination of numerous researchers
in the fields of linguistics, psychology, anthropology and neuroscience, and
the questions to which they strive to answer range from those regarding the
manner in which space is encoded in language, the nature of spatial
representations in the human mind, the processes via which one learns to speak
of space, to the dilemmas concerning the extent to which this process is
universal or determined by culture. From the spatial adverbs in grammar to the
models of metaphors based on spatial relations in semantics, there does not
seem to exist any linguistic tradition that does not deal with this
phenomenon. 

Literary studies are also often related to the concept of space – from the
mythical space of human imagination, the specific cultural space whose values
are in constant interaction with literature, to the modern concepts such as
liminal, limited or transgressive space, the imaginary space of utopias and
dystopias, futuristic spaces, the relation between place and space, space as a
territory in the context of nations/nationalism, globalization and
colonization, ecological space, gender space, urban space or oneiric and
narrative space in the very literary work; all to the negation of the very
space and the concept of void. These spaces are conquered, desired, dreamed
of, forbidden, subordinated, used, created, saved, destroyed, observed and
described.

Language, Literature, Space will be dealing with the problem of understanding
space from the point of view of literary theory and linguistics, through
varied approaches which examine the formal, structural, conceptual, narrative
and genre-typical means of understanding and expressing space and the
different spatial relations, in the broadest sense.

Call for Papers: 

Conference languages are English and Serbian, for 15-minute presentations
followed by 5 minute discussion time. 

If you would like to participate, please fill in the registration form
attached to this Call and submit it no later than January 20th, 2017 to the
following address: jkps2017 at gmail.com

The submitted abstracts will be reviewed and assessed according to their
compatibility with the conference topic, academic merit, topic originality,
approach and research. 
Notification of acceptance will be sent by the end of February 2017.  A
selection of papers will be published after the conference in a peer-reviewed
two-volume Conference Proceedings. 

Conference fee is 60 Euros (also payable in dinars), covering organisational
costs, conference folder, refreshments during coffee breaks, buffet lunch on
28 April, and snacks before the closing of the conference on 29 April, as well
as the costs of conference proceedings publication. Payment details will be
sent along with the second invitation letter. 

Conference dinner party (10 Euros) on 28 April 2017 is optional. 
We are looking forward to welcoming you in Niš!

With best regards,
Language, Literature, Space Conference Organising Committee 

APPLICATION FORM

Please fill in the following form

Place and country 
Planned date and time of arrival  
Planned date and time of departure 
Will you attend the conference dinner on April 28 (€10)? (Yes/No) 

Instructions:

Name and surname: Times New Roman 12 pt bold, justified
Title: Times New Roman 12 pt, justified
e-mail: Times New Roman 12 pt, justified
Institution (University, Faculty, Department/Chair): Times New Roman 12 pt,
justified
Link with the Institution (e.g. employed, graduate student, undergraduate
student)

Title of the abstract: Times New Roman 12 pt, bold, centred, CAPITAL LETTERS
Body of the abstract: Times New Roman 12 pt, justified, first line indented by
1 cm

Paper size A4; all margins should be set at 2.5 cm

Abstracts should be BETWEEN 100 AND 200 WORDS IN LENGTH.

Name Surname (first author) 
(e-mail)
University, Faculty, Department
Link with the Institution (e.g. employed, graduate student, undergraduate
student) 

Name Surname (second author) 
(e-mail)
University, Faculty, Department
Link with the Institution (e.g. employed, graduate student, undergraduate
student) 

TITLE

ABSTRACT

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