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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Sign CAFÉ 1: The First International Workshop on Cognitive And Functional Explorations in Sign Language Linguistics<br>
July 30-31, 2018<br>
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</span><span style="color:#4C4C4C;background:white;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">The University of Birmingham is hosting the first international workshop on cognitive and functional approaches to sign language linguistics, or Sign CAFÉ 1. We hope that this workshop
will become a regular forum to discuss approaches towards sign language linguistics in the cognitive/functional linguistics tradition. Broadly defined, cognitive/functional perspectives in the language sciences emphasise that language as a means of communication,
as a type of social action, and its relationship to other cognitive systems are all crucial to the understanding of language structure. Our definition includes a wide range of theoretical approaches, but they each have in common the importance they place on
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Invited speakers will be:<br>
1. Elisabeth Engberg-Pedersen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark<br>
2. Nick Palfreyman, University of Central Lancashire, UK<br>
3. Corrine Occhino, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">The official languages of the conference will be English and International Sign (IS). We may be able to offer interpretation between signed presentations in BSL or ASL and IS/English (please contact the organiser
</span><a href="mailto:a.schembri@bham.ac.uk"><span style="color:purple">a.schembri@bham.ac.uk</span></a><span style="color:black">).<br>
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CALL FOR PAPERS<br>
Sign CAFÉ 1 invites unpublished papers addressing any aspect of sign language research from any cognitive/functional theoretical perspective, including work on phonetics, phonology, lexicon, grammar, semantics, pragmatics, discourse, as well as on gesture studies,
language evolution, first or second language acquisition, sociolinguistic variation and change, linguistic typology, neurolinguistics and psycholinguistics.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br>
We plan to have signed/spoken presentations (25 minutes and 10 minutes discussion) as well as two poster sessions.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br>
Abstracts should be submitted in pdf format through the Sign CAFÉ 1 Easychair website: page: </span><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=signcafe1"><span style="color:purple">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=signcafe1</span></a><span style="color:black"><br>
Abstracts should be anonymised (with no author names in the text). The anonymous abstract should include the title and indicate whether it is intended for poster or signed/spoken presentation. Abstracts should be no longer than 500 words (including tables,
examples and references), in 12-point font, single line spacing and 2.5 cm margins. <br>
Video submission in IS, BSL or ASL is allowed (maximum length 5 minutes). Those who would like to submit a video in sign language should contact the Sign CAFÉ 1 organiser (</span><a href="mailto:a.schembri@bham.ac.uk"><span style="color:purple">a.schembri@bham.ac.uk</span></a><span style="color:black">).<br>
Abstracts will be reviewed by the Sign CAFÉ 1 Programme Committee. A maximum of two submissions (one of which must be co-authored) can be submitted by any single individual.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br>
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DEADLINE: 15th March, 2018<br>
Notification of acceptance/rejection: 15th April, 2018<br>
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Adam Schembri, PhD<br>
Department of English Language & Linguistics, 3 Elms Rd, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK.<br>
</span><a href="mailto:a.schembri@bham.ac.uk"><span style="color:purple">a.schembri@bham.ac.uk</span></a><span style="color:black"><br>
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