29.318, Calls: Cog Sci, Psycholing, Semantics, Socioling, Text/Corpus Ling/France

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Subject: 29.318, Calls: Cog Sci, Psycholing, Semantics, Socioling, Text/Corpus Ling/France

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Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2018 17:03:19
From: Judith Degen [jdegen at stanford.edu]
Subject: Sociolinguistic, Psycholinguistic and Formal Perspectives on Meaning

 
Full Title: Sociolinguistic, Psycholinguistic and Formal Perspectives on Meaning 
Short Title: SPF18 

Date: 02-Jul-2018 - 03-Jul-2018
Location: Paris, France 
Contact Person: Heather Burnett
Meeting Email: spfmeaning18 at gmail.com
Web Site: https://sites.google.com/site/spfmeaning/home 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Psycholinguistics; Semantics; Sociolinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 22-Jan-2018 

Meeting Description:

In recent years, the study of linguistic meaning and its role in social
interaction has seen rapid advances in three distinct areas: formal semantics
and pragmatics, psycholinguistics, and sociolinguistics. Expressive meaning
(see Potts, 2007 ; Gutzmann, 2015) and its properties in language related to
the social phenomena of honorification, perjoration and politeness has come to
occupy a prominent place in the field of formal semantics and pragmatics (Van
Rooij, 2003; Potts et al., 2009; McCready et al., 2012 ; McCready, 2012, among
others). Likewise, psycholinguistic research in experimental semantics and
pragmatics is painting an ever more complex picture of the interactions of
multiple factors in the computation of speaker meaning, including perspective
taking, speaker identity, world knowledge, and speaker-specific idiosyncrasies
(Heller et al., 2008; Grodner and Sedivy, 2011; Brown-Schmidt, 2012 ; Kurumada
et al., 2012 ; Degen, 2015 ; Pogue et al., 2016; Yildirim et al., 2016;
Lev-Ari, 2016, among others). Finally, although sociolinguistics had
traditionally studied patterns of language production and variation (see
Labov, 1963, 1966), there is a growing movement in the field that focuses on
listeners’ interpretation of socially meaningful variants (see, for example,
Eckert’s Third Wave approach (Eckert, 2000, 2008, 2012)).

Despite increasing attention devoted to meaning and social interaction in each
of these communities, there has been surprisingly little collaboration across
all three. Although formal semantics/ pragmatics has become increasingly
informed by psycholinguistic research in the past 15 years, it is only
extremely recently that classic sociolinguistic topics such as stance and
identity construction have begun to be investigated from a formal perspective
(Smith et al., 2010; Acton, 2014; Acton and Potts, 2014; Cornips, 2014;
Beltrama, 2016; Burnett, 2017). Likewise, although a dominant approach in
sociolinguistics (the variationist approach (Labov, 1963, 1966)) has
traditionally been quantitative corpus studies, methods adapted from social
psychology and psycholinguistics have started to become common in this area as
well (Campbell-Kibler, 2007; Podesva, 2007; Lev-Ari, 2016; Levon, 2014;
D’Onofrio, 2015; Tamminga, 2017, among others).

We therefore suggest that the timing is right for a substantial integration
between three areas, and we invite submissions for oral presentations from
researchers working on meaning and social interaction at the intersection of
formal semantics/pragmatics, psycholinguistics and sociolinguistics.

We are excited to be joined by the following invited speakers:

  Leonie Cornips (Maastricht)
  Shiri Lev-Ari (Royal Holloway)
  Eric McCready (Aoyama Gakuin)
  Rob Podesva (Stanford)

Organizers:

Heather Burnett (CNRS-Université Paris Diderot)
Judith Degen (Stanford University)

Contact: spfmeaning18 at gmail.com

Sponsors:

The program ''Investissements d’Avenir'' overseen by the French National
Research Agency, ANR-
10-LABX-0083 (Labex EFL, Axe 2, Opération SA4).


Final Call for Papers:

We have extended the abstract submission deadline to January 22nd!

We welcome submissions presenting theoretical, experimental and/or
computational research on any aspect of social meaning. Anonymous abstracts,
should be submitted via EasyChair:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=spf2018 .

Abstracts are limited to 500 words (excluding figures, tables, and
references). All content must fit on no more than 2 pages.




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