20.3331, Calls: Philosophy of Lang, Semantics, Ling Theories/United Kingdom

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Subject: 20.3331, Calls: Philosophy of Lang, Semantics, Ling Theories/United Kingdom

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Date: 30-Sep-2009
From: Luna Filipovi? < staldac at cilr.cam.ac.uk >
Subject: Space and Time Across Languages, Disciplines and Cultures
 

	
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From: Luna Filipovi? [staldac at cilr.cam.ac.uk]
Subject: Space and Time Across Languages, Disciplines and Cultures

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Full Title: Space and Time Across Languages, Disciplines and Cultures 
Short Title: STALDAC 

Date: 08-Apr-2010 - 10-Apr-2010
Location: Cambridge, United Kingdom 
Contact Person: George Walkden
Meeting Email: webmaster at cilr.cam.ac.uk
Web Site: http://www.cilr.cam.ac.uk/staldac/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories; Philosophy of Language; Semantics 

Call Deadline: 31-Oct-2009 

Meeting Description:

Conference on Space and Time Across Languages, Disciplines and Cultures
STALDAC 2010
Newnham College, Cambridge, 8th-10th April 2010
http://www.cilr.cam.ac.uk/staldac/
staldac at cilr.cam.ac.uk 

2nd Call for Papers

This conference proposes to unite insights from a number of research areas such
as linguistics, anthropology, archaeology, psychology and philosophy. Spatial
language and cognition has generated fervent debates in linguistics recently, in
particular since the revival of Whorfian ideas regarding the dynamics between
languages and cultures. Namely, the domain of space has become a prolific source
of evidence of both language-specific and universal features reflected in human
thinking and speaking. In some languages speakers speak and think of space using
absolute coordinates of east vs. west and north vs. south on a daily basis while
other communities use the notions of left vs. right for spatial orientation and
communication. Similarly, in some cultures the time scale is vertical, future is
upwards and past is downwards, while closer to home, time seems to be a
horizontal line, with future in front of us and the past behind. More formal
approaches in syntax and semantics provide yet another perspective for
representing time in language.

However, space and time are also universal categories, the representation of
which is embedded in both language and cognition. Recent anthropological
evidence also speaks volumes about the complexity of spatial orientation in
language and cognition. Archaeologists have been active in piecing together the
puzzle of how our distant ancestors thought about the immediate space and time
they lived in as well as how they communicated thoughts and experiences with
space and time via material artefacts and customs in different environmental and
social surroundings. Recent experimental psychology research has also tackled
the subject from the angle of spatial and temporal features relevant in event
perception, their linguistic expression and memory. Finally, physical sciences
offer a backdrop for an all-encompassing view of the origins of space and time
and their interrelatedness. Reconciling the concept of time and the notion of
real time is still one of the challenges for all disciplines.

This is an opportunity to highlight the particular aspects of the different
research agendas related to Space and Time as well as share experiences
regarding practical matters, such as research strategies and methodology. Time
and space are topics of general interest which are actively pursued in many
different disciplines and this conference proposes to foster interdisciplinary
collaboration and further enhance progress in these diverse but related research
areas.

Abstracts and Deadlines:
Please submit abstracts no longer than 500 words (Times New Roman 12pt) in Word
or PDF format via the Abstract Submission service of Linguist List: 
http://linguistlist.org/confcustom/staldac2010/. 

Abstracts will undergo anonymous review. The deadline for submission is 31st
October. Abstracts received after the deadline will not be considered.

Plenary Speakers:
- Professor Nicholas Asher (University of Texas at Austin)
Title tbc
- Professor John Barrow (University of Cambridge)
Time, Space and Space-Time
- Professor Ronald Langacker (University of California, San Diego)
Linguistic Manifestations of the Space-Time (Dis)Analogy
- Professor Stephen Levinson (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics)
Title tbc
- Professor Peter Ludlow (Northwestern University)
Tensism
- Professor Colin Renfrew (University of Cambridge)
Linguistic diversity in space and time: some social and historical factors

Organisers:
Dr. Luna Filipovi?
Department of Linguistics, University of Cambridge
http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/ling/staff/lf214/ 	

Dr. Kasia Jaszczolt
Department of Linguistics, University of Cambridge
http://people.pwf.cam.ac.uk/kmj21/





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