29.169, Calls: Trees and What to do with Them: Phylogenetics and Other Statistical Approaches to Linguistic Diversity

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Subject: 29.169, Calls: Trees and What to do with Them: Phylogenetics and Other Statistical Approaches to Linguistic Diversity

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Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2018 18:02:04
From: Michael Stevens [Michael-Paul.Stevens at nottingham.edu.cn]
Subject: Bringing into Being: Multimodality, Cognition and Interaction at The University of Nottingham Ningbo China

Full Title: Bringing into Being: Multimodality, Cognition and Interaction at The University of Nottingham Ningbo China 

Date: 24-Jun-2018 - 25-Jun-2018
Location: Ningbo, Zhejiang, China 
Contact Person: Simon Harrison
Meeting Email: bringingintobeing at nottingham.edu.cn
Web Site: https://www.nottingham.edu.cn/en/english/research/bib-conference/bringing-into-being-workshop.aspx 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Cognitive Science; Discourse Analysis 

Call Deadline: 28-Feb-2018 

Meeting Description:

Specialized Seminar & pre-seminar workshop
“Bringing into Being: Multimodality and cognition in interaction”
University of Nottingham Ningbo, China
June 24 - 25, 2018

We are pleased to announce a Specialized Seminar scheduled to take place on
Monday June 25 2018 at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China, hosted by
the School of English. The theme of the seminar is “Bringing into Being:
Multimodality and cognition in interaction”. A pre-seminar workshop in gesture
studies and multimodal analysis will be offered on Sunday June 24th. 

Plenary Speakers:

Prof. Cornelia Müller, Chair for Language Use and Multimodal Communication,
Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder)

Associate Prof. Thomas Wiben Jensen, Centre for Human Interactivity,
Department of Language and Communication, University of Southern Denmark
Bringing into Being

What role do multimodal resources – head and hand gestures, facial
expressions, eye-gaze patterns and posture shifts – play in the gradual
processes of linguistic expression and discourse that characterise our
everyday interactions? Which cognitive processes are activated or enabled
during such interactive episodes, and how do these processes help people
collaborate to achieve communicative and interpersonal goals in social and
professional communication? The theme “Bringing into being” provides the
opportunity to address this encounter between multimodality and cognition in
interaction. This specialized seminar will therefore be a forum for sharing
analyses, discussing findings, and building theories relevant to several
fields, including but not limited to gesture studies, multimodal interaction,
face-to-face spoken/signed discourse, cognitive linguistics and cognitive
science.

Pre-seminar workshop

A pre-seminar workshop on Gesture Studies and Multimodal Analysis, run by the
local organizing committee, is scheduled for the afternoon of Sunday 24th
June. Topics to be addressed include recurrency in language and gesture;
multimodal aspects of grammar; form, organization and function of gesture in
(embodied) interaction; gesture and cognition; methodological issues and tools
in gesture studies/multimodal analysis; building multimodal corpora. 

Conference Venue

The University of Nottingham Ningbo China (UNNC) was the first Sino-foreign
university. It is located in Ningbo, one of China’s major ports and economic
centers in Zhejiang province. Ningbo is a rapidly growing city, ranked in the
top ten of cities for business in China by Forbes, it is a thriving blend of
enterprise, culture, education, tradition and entertainment.  It is well
connected for national and international travel, for example, with Shanghai,
Hangzhou and Hong Kong all less than three hours away (by train/plane).

Call for Papers:

We invite contributions from researchers working within any theoretical or
methodological perspective that attends to the mutlimodal, interactive or
conceptual processes involved in language use and embodied interaction.
Twenty-minute oral presentations that report original research related to the
theme of the seminar may include, but are not limited to:

- Cognitive approaches to language and gesture
- Multimodal approaches to grammar
- Gesture and conceptualisation
- Metaphor/metaphoricity in interaction
- Thinking for speaking/gesturing/interacting
- Multimodality in pragmatics and discourse
- Experimental studies of gesture and cognition
- Types, forms and functions of gestures/interactive configurations
- Gesture/sign language interface

It is hoped that an array of perspectives and contexts can be addressed, such
as with data from:

- Social and workplace settings
- Contexts of first and second language acquisition
- Cross-cultural and intercultural perspectives
- Situated activity and multiactivity settings
- Multimodal corpora of various sizes and scales
- Perspectives from cognitive-neuroscience

Submission of Abstracts

Please prepare your abstracts following these guidelines:

- 300 words maximum
- At the bottom of the abstract, please include four to six keywords and a
list of the references cited in the abstract (keywords and references are not
included in the word count; references in APA format)
- Names and affiliations of the author should not appear in the abstract, but
should be clearly indicated in the accompanying email
- For formatting, please use Times New Roman 12 point, single space, and save
in .doc

Submit abstracts by the deadline by email to
bringingintobeing at nottingham.edu.cn

Include ‘abstract submission’ in the subject of the email 

Deadline for abstract submission: February 28 2018
Notification sent to applicants: March 2018
Registration for seminar opens: April 2018

If you are outside of China and plan to submit an abstract and/or attend the
seminar, please use the above email address to express your interest as soon
as possible to the organisers, who will brief you on the necessary VISA
application process.

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