International workshop "Space and language: on deixis"

[Federica Da Milano]

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Date: 9-June-2011 – 10 June-2011-05-15
Location: Milan, Italy
Contact: Federica Da Milano
Contact Email: federica.damilano at unimib.it

Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics, linguistic typology, anthropological
linguistics

Meeting description:
The workshop aims to contribute to the discussion on the current
trends in linguistic research on spatial deixis from different
perspectives: anthropological, linguistic and cognitive.

Program
9th June

15.00:
opening

15.15
William Hanks
Comparative deictic systems

16.15
Nick Enfield
The human ethology of deixis: observing deixis as a tool for
navigating social space

17.15
Michele Prandi
Ground-anchored deixis: theoretical and empirical implications


10th June

9.30:
Maurizio Gnerre
Interactive indexical implementations of ideophones in narrative genres

10.30
Federica Da Milano/Ignazio Putzu/Paolo Ramat
Deixis from a cognitive and linguistic point of view: a case study

11.30
Ellen Fricke
Origo, gesture, and space: the impact of co-speech gestures on
linguistic deixis theories

12.30
Konstanze Jungbluth
Positions – constellations – practices:
Referring to the space in front of the hearer