28.2755, Calls: History of Ling/South Africa

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Subject: 28.2755, Calls: History of Ling/South Africa

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Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2017 12:35:12
From: Camiel Hamans [hamans at telfort.nl/chamans at wa.amu.edu.pl]
Subject: History of linguistics & its Significance

 
Full Title: History of linguistics & its Significance 

Date: 03-Jul-2018 - 03-Jul-2018
Location: Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa 
Contact Person: Camiel Hamans
Meeting Email: chamans at wa.amu.edu.pl/hamans at telfort.nl

Linguistic Field(s): History of Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 24-Jul-2017 

Meeting Description:

ICL20, International Congress of Linguists
The Dynamics of Language
2-6 July 2018, Cape Town South Africa
http://icl20capetown.com/

The history of linguistics as a separate and well organized discipline is
relatively young. There always has been interest in the topic among individual
scholars. However, till the mid 1960 linguists and students of linguistics
were familiar with relatively few names of important predecessors. The 1967
Short History of Linguistics by Robert H. Robins was very short. With the
publication of Cartesian Linguistics, in which Noam Chomsky tried to base his
theory of generative grammar on the foundations of an earlier philosophical
and linguistic tradition, research into the actual history of linguistics
turned out to be not only necessary, but also proved to be a meaningful
linguistic discipline in itself. The history of linguistics appeared as
worthwhile as any other historical research, as evidenced by the three-volumed
Landmarks in Linguistic Thought (Harris, Talbot-Taylor et al) and the also
three-volumed History of the Language Sciences (Auroux, Koerner, Niederehe and
Versteegh.

Within a few decades several international organizations for the study of the
history of linguistics were established in Europe, North and South America,
Australia and Asia. A series of international conferences have followed,
together with a few specialized journals and international handbooks. However,
until now the history of linguistics never managed to gain a substantive place
at ICL, the world congress of linguists. A positive exception was the last ICL
(Geneva 2013) where Giorgio Graffi was invited to present a plenary on the
history of the relations between linguistics and psychology, and where
Frederick Newmeyer organized a workshop on the legacy of de Saussure.


Call for Papers:

Workshop Title:  History of linguistics & its Significance 
Workshop Leader:  Camiel Hamans, Adam Mickiewicz University  

The aim of this workshop at ICL20 is to demonstrate that the history of
linguistics is an important sub-discipline in itself and especially how
research into the history of linguistics may be fruitful to linguistics as
such. Contributors are invited to show how older, lesser known or forgotten
linguistic theories may support modern research. In addition, papers which
show how certain seemingly modern concepts have been approached and sometimes
refuted in the past also are most welcome.  Emphasis in the contributions
should be on the importance of the history of linguistics for current
linguistic research. 

Deadline for Submission 24 July 2017
Abstracts, in English, should be submitted online:
http://www.icl20capetown.com/index.php/2016-06-20-10-33-33/abstracts




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