9.1485, Calls: Cognitive Studies in Creolistics, Languaging 99

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Subject: 9.1485, Calls: Cognitive Studies in Creolistics, Languaging 99

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Date:  Fri, 23 Oct 1998 17:25:48 +0100 (MET)
From:  anette nielsen <vixanette at hotmail.com>
Subject:  Cognitive Studies in Creolistics

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Date:  Fri, 23 Oct 1998 13:43:04 -0500 (CDT)
From:  Lynn Alan Eubank <eubank at unt.edu>
Subject:  Languaging 99: A Conference Across Literature, Linguistics, & Writing

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Date:  Fri, 23 Oct 1998 17:25:48 +0100 (MET)
From:  anette nielsen <vixanette at hotmail.com>
Subject:  Cognitive Studies in Creolistics

6th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference
Stockholm, 11th-16th July 1999.

Theme Session: Cognitive Studies in Creolistics

Call for Abstracts

The theme session is intended as a workshop in which papers that are
relevant to this topic are invited in order to promote the discussion
between creolists and cognitive linguists.
The papers may incorporate empirical studies as well as theoretical
debates that discuss aspects of description and analysis of mental
structures and language processes within the field of creole
languages.

There are two main strands in the field which are presently  discussed,
the question of creole genesis as a gradual restructuring
process on  the one hand, and questions of practical implications of
creole research on bilingual education and standardization in the creole
societies on  the other hand. How can we - from a cognitivist's point of
view - account for the existence of different degrees in a yet
consistent pattern of restructuring? What are the cognitive components
that shape language competence in a creole setting where children grow
up bilingually, either where the lexifying language of the creole equals
the standard or where they differ?

 Another set of questions that can be raised with respect to this
workshop relates to the topic of how studies of creole languages, and
other contact language varities (e.g. pidgins) might contribute to
cognitive linguistic theory in general. For instance, certain structural
features of creoles have been said to be 'universal' in the sense of
common to all creole languages; (how) can we explain these features from
a cognitivist viewpoint? How does the structure of creoles (and again,
other contact language varieties) differ from that of other natural
languages, and how can these differences be explained?'

We would like to organize the papers under the following headings:

1. Aspects of language systems
2. Creolization as language acquisition
3. Bilingualism

Half- to one page abstracts should be submitted by e-mail to
Anette Nielsen (vixen at ling.aau.dk) by November 1st. 1998.

(We are very, very sorry for not having sent out this call earlier -
there has been a misunderstanding between the theme session and
conference organizers. We sincerely hope that you can manage to come up
with an abstract anyway.)

Notification of acceptance will be by November 15th.

Further information about the 6th International Cognitive
Linguistics  Conference can be obtained at the conference website:

http://bamse.ling.su.se/iclc99

Theme session organizers:
Rebekka Ehret and Anette Nielsen


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Date:  Fri, 23 Oct 1998 13:43:04 -0500 (CDT)
From:  Lynn Alan Eubank <eubank at unt.edu>
Subject:  Languaging 99: A Conference Across Literature, Linguistics, & Writing

UPDATE: LANGUAGING 99

ANNOUNCING the LINGUISTICS PLENARY SPEAKER:

  Donna Jo Napoli
  Swarthmore College


ALSO, CALL FOR LAST-MINUTE PAPERS:
  Languaging 99: A Conference Across Literature, Linguistics,
     and Writing
  University of North Texas, Denton, Texas
  4-6 March 1999
  (see our previous LINGUIST posting for more details)

SUBMISSION "DEADLINE":
  Email:        Beginning of November 1998
                Linglit at unt.edu

FOR MORE INFORMATION:
  See our previous LINGUIST post, or to go
	http://www.unt.edu/languaging

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