Integrating perspectives and methodologies in the study of language

[Francis M Hult]

 International Conference on

 Language, Culture and Mind
 Integrating perspectives and methodologies in the study of language

 18-20 July 2004
 University of Portsmouth, England
 www.unifr.ch/gefi/GP2/Portsmouth/

 Human natural languages are biologically based, cognitively motivated,
 affectively rich, socially shared, grammatically organized symbolic
 systems. They provide the principal semiotic means for the complexity
 and diversity of human cultural life. As has long been recognized, no
 single discipline or methodology is sufficient to capture all the
 dimensions of this complex and multifaceted phenomenon, which lies at
 the heart of what it is to be human. The goal of this conference is to
 contribute to situating the study of language in a contemporary
 interdisciplinary dialogue. Many of the relevant disciplines have made
 highly significant theoretical, methodological and empirical advances
 during the last decade. We call for contributions from scholars and
 scientists in anthropology, biology, linguistics, philosophy,
 psychology, semiotics, cognitive and neurosciences, who wish both to
 impart their insights and findings, and learn from other disciplines.
 Preference will be given to submissions which emphasize
 interdisciplinarity, the interaction between culture, mind and
 language, and/or multi-methodological approaches in the language
 sciences.

 Topics include but are not limited to:
 * Biological and cultural evolution and language
 * Comparative study of communication systems
 * Cognitive and cultural schematization in language
 * Emergence of language in ontogeny and phylogeny
 * Language in multi-modal communication
 * Language and normativity
 * Language and thought, emotion and consciousness

 International Organizing Committee
 * Carmen Guarddon Anelo, Departamento de Filologias Extranjeras y sus
 Lingisticas, Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia, Spain
 * Raphael Berthele, Departement fur Germanistik, Universite de
 Fribourg, Switzerland
 * Maria Cristobal, Department of English Philology I. Universidad
 Complutense de Madrid, Spain
 * Iraide Ibarretxe, Department of English Philology, University of>
 Deusto / Department of Basque Philology, University of the Basque
 Country, Spain
 * Jordan Zlatev, Department of Linguistics Lund University / Department
 of Philosophy and Linguistics, Umea University, Sweden

 Local Organizing Committee, Department of Psychology, University of
 Portsmouth, England
 * Mike Fluck
 * Karl Nunkoosing
 * Vasu Reddy
 * Chris Sinha
 * Vera da Silva
 * Joerg Zinken

 Deadlines
 One page abstracts for 30-minute presentations should be submitted to
 Jordan Zlatev (jordan.zlatev at ling.lu.se) by January 15, 2004.
 Notification of acceptance by March 15, 2004. Abstracts will be
 reviewed by an International Scientific Committee, membership to be
 announced in the second call for papers.

 Chris Sinha
 Professor of Psychology of Language
 Head of Department of Psychology
 King Henry Building, King Henry I Street
 Portsmouth PO1 2DY
 Tel. +44 (0)2392 84 6312
 Fax +44 (0)2392 84 6300