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Subject: 32.483, Calls: Cog Sci, Gen Ling, Ling & Lit, Socioling, Translation/United Kingdom and Online

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Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2021 15:16:10
From: Nadezda Christopher [n.christopher at surrey.ac.uk]
Subject: Mutual Intelligibility: Language, Culture, Cognition

 
Full Title: Mutual Intelligibility: Language, Culture, Cognition 
Short Title: MILCC 

Date: 24-Jun-2021 - 25-Jun-2021
Location: University of Surrey (Hybrid Format), United Kingdom 
Contact Person: Nadezda Christopher
Meeting Email: milcc2020 at gmail.com
Web Site: https://www.ias.surrey.ac.uk/event/mutual-intelligibility/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; General Linguistics; Ling & Literature; Sociolinguistics; Translation 

Call Deadline: 12-Apr-2021 

Meeting Description:

Despite being perceived as unique, self-contained systems, most languages of
the world are not isolated entities, and exist in linguistic continua with
other related varieties. Related languages share many properties, giving rise
to the global phenomenon of mutual intelligibility, where a speaker of one
language can use their variety to efficiently communicate with a speaker of
another language, and vice versa (e.g. Spanish and Portuguese). 
Whilst research in this area has typically been associated with the realm of
linguistics, a cultural studies approach to mutual intelligibility
demonstrates how it facilitates intercultural exchange between communities,
challenging the misconception of languages as discrete units that has
reinforced national and racial essentialism. From the point of view of
cognition, meanwhile, empirical research methods can shed light on the
biological underpinnings of mutual intelligibility, i.e. what neural
correlates and cognitive processes underlie language comprehension and by
extension enable speakers of different languages to successfully communicate
with each other.

Our timely inter-disciplinary two-day conference is the first of its kind to
examine mutual intelligibility from cultural and cognitive as well as
linguistic perspectives. By bringing together researchers from a range of
fields, this workshop aims to provide a foundation for the development of
multi-disciplinary research projects on mutual intelligibility. The goal is to
gain a broader understanding of this significant and complex global
phenomenon, and identify how various theoretical and empirical research
methods can be combined in future research.


Call for Papers:

We invite proposals for twenty-minute presentations from researchers and
cultural practitioners working from diverse disciplines, backgrounds and
perspectives. Topics for submissions may include (but are not limited to) the
following:
- Linguistic studies of mutual intelligibility;
- Literary/socio-cultural manifestations of mutual intelligibility;
- Cognitive studies including experimental approaches to mutual
intelligibility;
- New avenues for research into mutual intelligibility.

We particularly encourage contributions on multi-disciplinary approaches, and
on linguistic, socio-cultural and cognitive approaches to mutual
intelligibility between understudied or under-documented languages. In the
spirit of fostering inter-disciplinary discussion and collaboration, we ask
that the proposed talks are aimed at an audience of non-specialists.

The workshop will take place as a hybrid* (online and in-person) event at the
University of Surrey on 24-25 June 2021. There is no registration fee for this
event, but registration is required.
*The event might move online subject to Covid-19 guidelines and policies.

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION: 
Please send abstracts of approximately 350 words (excluding references) plus a
short bio (max 150 words) to milcc2020 at gmail.com by midnight on 12 April 2021.

IMPORTANT DATES: 
Deadline for submission of abstracts: 12 April 2021
Notification of acceptance/rejection of abstracts: expected 30 April 2021
Registration open: 3 May 2021
Registration closing date: 20 June 2021

ORGANISING COMMITTEE: 
Dr Nadezda Christopher, University of Surrey
Dr Catherine Barbour, University of Surrey
Dr Katie Gilligan, University of Surrey

SPONSORS: 
Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Surrey
Surrey Morphology Group 
School of Literature and Languages, University of Surrey
School of Psychology, University of Surrey

For further information, please visit the workshop website:
https://www.ias.surrey.ac.uk/event/mutual-intelligibility/




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