30.1299, Calls: Philosophy of Language/Portugal

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LINGUIST List: Vol-30-1299. Thu Mar 21 2019. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 30.1299, Calls: Philosophy of Language/Portugal

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Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2019 03:28:58
From: Marta Facoetti [mtfacoetti at gmail.com]
Subject: Workshop on Ideas on Language Throughout the Ages

 
Full Title: Workshop on Ideas on Language Throughout the Ages 

Date: 12-Sep-2019 - 12-Sep-2019
Location: Lisbon, Portugal 
Contact Person: Marta Facoetti
Meeting Email: mtfacoetti at gmail.com
Web Site: http://sites.google.com/view/appeel/events/lta2019 

Linguistic Field(s): Philosophy of Language 

Call Deadline: 15-Apr-2019 

Meeting Description:

Second CFA: Workshop on Ideas on Language Throughout the Ages, Satellite event
following Protolang 6
Date: September 12, 2019
Location: University of Lisbon, Portugal
Website: http://sites.google.com/view/appeel/events/lta2019
 
We welcome scholars to participate in a one-day workshop on how language has
been defined and approached differentially throughout history within
philosophical, linguistic, psychological, and socio-anthropological schools of
thought. 

Possible topics can include but are not limited to:
 
Origins and rationale of logic and semantics as areas of research
Origins, histories, and methodologies of philology, diachronic and synchronic
linguistics, Chomsky’s linguistics, biolinguistics and cognitive linguistics
Origins, histories, and methodologies of anthropological linguistics and
sociolinguistics
The role of language in different cosmologies, religions and ideologies
Language as order, knowledge and reason (logos theories, universalia debates,
rationalism)
The social and political role of language as debated by social contract
theoreticians and moral philosophers
The search for an “Adamic” language or the reconstruction of a “mother
language,” “primordial”- or “proto”-language
Ideas on the “purification” of existing languages for purposes of knowledge
acquisition or communication
Language versus communication
The reference problem & the indeterminacy of translation
Language as the limit of one’s world
Language games, language as power, language as identity and nationality
Signs and codes as defined in (bio)semiotics and their relation to concepts of
information, communication and language
Evolutionary epistemology and language
Language and consciousness, language and cognition
Embodiment and language
Body language
Language as culture
Language and art


Call for Papers:

Submit your abstract by April 15, 2019

Expressions of interest, questions, and 150 word long abstracts containing
author/s details, email/s and full affiliation/s can be sent to Marta
Facoetti. Details on how to submit can be found at
http://sites.google.com/view/appeel/events/lta2019.




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