29.640, Calls: Sign Language, General Linguistics/UK

Wed Feb 7 20:46:40 UTC 2018

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Subject: 29.640, Calls: Sign Language, General Linguistics/UK

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Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2018 15:46:27
From: Adam Schembri [a.schembri at bham.ac.uk]
Subject: Sign CAFE 1: First International Conference on Cognitive and Functional Explorations in Sign Language Linguistics

Full Title: Sign CAFE 1: First International Conference on Cognitive and Functional Explorations in Sign Language Linguistics 
Short Title: Sign CAFE 1 

Date: 30-Jul-2018 - 31-Jul-2018
Location: Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom 
Contact Person: Adam Schembri
Meeting Email: a.schembri at bham.ac.uk
Web Site: https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/englishlanguage/events/2018/sign-cafe.aspx 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Language Family(ies): Sign Language 

Call Deadline: 15-Mar-2018 

Meeting Description:

The University of Birmingham is hosting the first international workshop on
cognitive and functional approaches to sign language linguistics, or Sign CAFÉ
1. We hope that this workshop will become a regular forum to discuss
approaches towards sign language linguistics in the cognitive/functional
linguistics tradition. Broadly defined, cognitive/functional perspectives in
the language sciences emphasise that the role of language as a means of
communication, as a type of social action, and its relationship to other
cognitive systems are all crucial to the understanding of language structure.
Our definition includes a wide range of theoretical approaches, but they each
have in common the importance they place on the role of communication and
cognition in both linguistic theory and description. 

Invited speakers will be:

1. Elisabeth Engberg-Pedersen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
2. Nick Palfreyman, University of Central Lancashire, UK
3. Corrine Occhino, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA

The official languages of the conference will be English and International
Sign (IS), with British Sign Language (BSL) and American Sign Language (ASL)
as additional languages. We will provide interpreting between English and IS.
We may be able to offer interpretation between signed presentations in BSL or
ASL and IS/English. 

Call for Papers:

Sign CAFÉ 1 invites unpublished papers addressing any aspect of sign language
research from any cognitive/functional theoretical perspective, including work
on phonetics, phonology, lexicon, grammar, semantics, pragmatics, discourse,
as well as on gesture studies, language evolution, first or second language
acquisition, sociolinguistic variation and change, linguistic typology,
neurolinguistics and psycholinguistics. 

We plan to have signed/spoken presentations (25 minutes and 10 minutes
discussion) as well as two poster sessions. As there will only be a single
stream of signed/spoken presentations, it is likely that the majority of
presentations will be posters.

Abstracts should be submitted in pdf format through the Sign CAFÉ 1 Easychair
website: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=signcafe1 .

Abstracts should be anonymised (with no author names in the text). The
anonymous abstract should include the title and indicate whether it is
intended for poster or signed/spoken presentation. Abstracts should be no
longer than 500 words (including tables, examples and references), in 12-point
font, single line spacing and 2.5 cm margins. 

Video submission in IS, BSL or ASL is allowed (maximum length 5 minutes).
Those who would like to submit a video in sign language should contact the
Sign CAFÉ 1 organiser (a.schembri at bham.ac.uk).

Abstracts will be reviewed by the Sign CAFÉ 1 Programme Committee. A maximum
of two submissions (one of which must be co-authored) can be submitted by any
single individual. 

Deadline for submission: 15 March, 2018
Notification of acceptance/rejection: 15 April, 2018

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