18.3202, Confs: Language Acquisition, Pragmatics/Germany

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Subject: 18.3202, Confs: Language Acquisition, Pragmatics/Germany

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Date: 30-Oct-2007
From: Louise Röska-Hardy < louise.roeska-hardy at uni-dortmund.de >
Subject: What Makes Us Human?

 

	
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From: Louise Röska-Hardy [louise.roeska-hardy at uni-dortmund.de]
Subject: What Makes Us Human? 
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What Makes Us Human? 

Date: 12-Nov-2007 - 13-Nov-2007 
Location: Dortmund, Germany 
Contact: Louise Röska-Hardy 
Contact Email: louise.roeska-hardy at uni-dortmund.de 

Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition; Pragmatics 

Meeting Description: 

The symposium, organized by the interdisciplinary research group 'Was ist der
Mensch? Kultur-Sprache-Natur', will examine current research on human
development, language acquisition and social interaction and explore its
implications for the question of what makes us uniquely human. 

Conference venue: 
Hans-Brost-Haus, Otto-Hahn-Str. 2 
Universität Dortmund 44227 Dortmund

Conference begins: 1 p.m. on November 12th

Speakers:

Michael Tomasello  (Max Planck Institute-EVA, Leipzig) 
''The Origins of Shared Intentionality''

Nick Enfield (Max Planck Institute-Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen) 
''Social Consequences of Referential Practice''

Ludger Hoffmann (Dortmund) 
''Kommunikative Welten. Vom Potenzial menschlicher Sprache''

Louise Röska-Hardy (Dortmund / Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut, Essen) 
''Is Linguistic Interaction the Key?''

Volker Heeschen (LMU, München) 
''Sprechen - Instinkt, Ritual und Kunst''

Heike Behrens (Basle) 
''Children's Sensitivity to the Input Language''

Uta Quasthoff (Dortmund) ''Resources of Discourse Acquisition''

Kerstin Leimbrink, Sören Ohlhus, Petra Strähle (Dortmund) 
''Sequences - Discourse - Text. Supportive Structures in the Acquisition of
Communicative Abilities''

Manfred Holodynski (Münster) 
''Denken und Sprechen - Fühlen und Ausdrücken. Gemeinsam¬keiten und Unterschiede
in der Sprach- und Emotionsentwick¬lung''

Harald Welzer (Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut, Essen) 
''Warum Menschen ein autobiographisches Gedächtnis haben (und Tiere nicht)''

Michael Kastner and Selda Akca (Dortmund) 
''Selbstmanagement als spezifisch menschliche Transaktion zwischen Person,
Situation und Organisationskultur''






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