Workshop Announcement

[Monica Gonzalez-Marquez]

*****Apologies for crosspostings*****


EMCL*: A Workshop on Image-Schemas and Linguistic Relativity

July 17, 2004

University of Portsmouth, UK
http://www.port.ac.uk/departments/academic/psychology/lcmconference2004/
To precede the Language, Culture, and Mind conference (July 18-20)

In cognitive linguistics, image schemas are pre-linguistic cognitive
structures, arising from universal aspects of how the human body
interacts with its environment, both physical and social, and existing
largely outside of conscious awareness. It follows that image schemas
are the same for everyone, regardless of the language a person speaks.
In contrast, the idea of linguistic relativity maintains that language
influences thought. The goal of the workshop is to scrutinize
assumptions surrounding image-schemas and linguistic relativity in an
attempt to elucidate (and resolve) the conflict between the two research
areas.

Speakers:

Stephanie Pourcel, University of Durham
	Studying Linguistic Relativity Empirically: Scope and Issues

Monica Gonzalez-Marquez, Cornell University
	An Overview of Image Schemas in the Literature

Stanka Fitneva, Queen's University
	On Possible Conflicts between Image Schemas and Linguistic Relativity

Joerg Zinken, University of Portsmouth
	Linguistic Fieldwork

Roslyn Frank, University of Iowa
	(Title to be announced)

Jordan Zlatev, Lund University; Caroline David, University of Poitiers
	Do Swedes and Frenchmen View Motion Differently?

Margarita Correa-Beningfield, C. Vandeloise, Gitte Kristiansen,
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
	Image Schema and Empirical Data from Second Language Acquisition of
  	English by Spanish speakers

Ting Ting Avis Chan, University of Hawaii
	Writing Direction and the Universality of Image Schemas

Dominik Lukes, Collegium Hieronymi Pragensis
	Image Schemas in Second Language Learning and Instruction:
A Case for a Multidisciplinary Approach

Asifa Majid, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics;
Miriam van Staden, University of Amsterdam; Nick Enfield,
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
	The Image Schema and Cross-Linguistic Differences in Body-Part Terms

Organizing Committee:

Monica Gonzalez-Marquez, Cornell University, US
Stanka Fitneva, Queens University, CA
Stephanie Pourcel, University of Durham, UK
Joerg Zinken, University of Portsmouth, UK


Information:

mg246 at cornell.edu