32.1052, Confs: Cog Sci, Hist Ling, Semantics, Writing Systems/Online

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LINGUIST List: Vol-32-1052. Mon Mar 22 2021. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 32.1052, Confs: Cog Sci, Hist Ling, Semantics, Writing Systems/Online

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Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2021 22:04:35
From: Gaelle Chantrain [gaelle.chantrain at yale.edu]
Subject: Language, semantics and cognition: Saying and conceptualizing the world from Ancient Egypt to modern times

 
Language, semantics and cognition: Saying and conceptualizing the world from Ancient Egypt to modern times 
Short Title: LSC conference 

Date: 16-Apr-2021 - 18-Apr-2021 
Location: Yale University (online), USA 
Contact: Gaelle Chantrain 
Contact Email: gaelle.chantrain at yale.edu 
Meeting URL: https://egyptology.yale.edu/current-conferences 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Historical Linguistics; Semantics; Writing Systems 

Meeting Description: 

In the last forty years, several breakthroughs have been made in applying
theoretical frameworks from general linguistics to the study and description
of the Egyptian language. One significant landmark was the organization of the
first Crossroad(s) conferences in 1986 and 1990, which initiated an
ever-growing trend. In the same theme, several studies have shown how valuable
the insertion of ancient Egyptian data (and from other ancient languages) can
be for the research in general linguistics, but also in cognitive and
semiotic/semantic studies. However, the current state of research constitutes
only a preliminary glance at what could be done in this research area. These
are thus still very new and highly promising directions to investigate,
especially with the recent development of digital corpora (on the
Egyptological side: Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae, Ramses), which considerably
ease the access to a large amount of data. These corpora allow for a more
precise description of the underlying semantic structures of the Egyptian
language as well as for easier and more systematic comparisons between
languages.

This conference aims at first establishing and discussing the current state of
research in the different fields involved (Egyptology, lexical semantics,
semantic typology, visual semiotics, metaphor studies, cognitive linguistics,
classifiers studies) and, second, at addressing some main research questions
for the future in order to establish the foundations of a methodological road
map for more effective interdisciplinary research.
 

Program Information: 

Program: Visit the program by clicking here:
https://egyptology.yale.edu/conferences/current-conferences/conference-program
Registration:Please use this link to register to the conference:
https://lscegypto.aidaform.com/conference-registration-form





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