26.928, Confs: General Linguistics, Linguistic Theories/USA

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Subject: 26.928, Confs: General Linguistics, Linguistic Theories/USA

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Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2015 20:11:38
From: Nancy Stern [nstern at ccny.cuny.edu]
Subject: 12th International Columbia School Conference

 
12th International Columbia School Conference 

Date: 14-Feb-2015 - 16-Feb-2015 
Location: New York, New York, USA 
Contact: Nancy Stern 
Contact Email: conference at csling.org 
Meeting URL: http://www.csling.org 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Linguistic Theories 

Meeting Description: 

The conference brings together scholars and graduate students doing work under
the theoretical framework first developed at Columbia University by the late
William Diver. Columbia School linguists views language as a symbolic tool
whose structure is shaped both by its communicative function and by the
characteristics of its human users. In this functional and semiotic conception
of language, the sign is proposed as the basic structural unit: a signal
paired with a meaning. Signal-meaning hypotheses are tested against actual
usage and are often supported by quantitative predictions in texts. This mode
of explanation is goal-directed rather than formal because the choice of a
sign, either grammatical or lexical, is explained in terms of what the
language user is attempting to accomplish. The model is inferential rather
than compositional, as messages are more than the sum of their semantic parts.
Language use is seen as creative in the everyday sense of that word.
 

Program:

The conference program can be found at www.csling.org








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