26.1278, Calls: Applied Linguistics, Cognitive Science, Pragmatics, Semantics, Translation/Lithuania

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LINGUIST List: Vol-26-1278. Fri Mar 06 2015. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 26.1278, Calls: Applied Linguistics, Cognitive Science, Pragmatics, Semantics, Translation/Lithuania

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Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2015 22:31:00
From: Inesa Šeškauskienė [inesa.seskauskiene at flf.vu.lt]
Subject: Space in the Baltic Languages

Full Title: Space in the Baltic Languages 
Short Title: SBL 

Date: 28-Oct-2015 - 31-Oct-2015
Location: Vilnius, Lithuania 
Contact Person: Inesa Šeškauskienė
Meeting Email: inesa.seskauskiene at flf.vu.lt
Web Site: http://www.baltistukongresas.flf.vu.lt/index.php/en/workshops/space-workshop 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Cognitive Science; Pragmatics; Semantics; Translation 

Call Deadline: 01-Jun-2015 

Meeting Description:

The usage and polysemy of spatial expressions have been researched in a number of linguistic works. Prolific research into space and its expression in different languages has contributed to supporting the weak hypothesis of linguistic relativity (cf. Levinson and Wilkins 2006). There are interesting papers dealing with motion events (Talmy 1985; 2000), acquisition of spatial expressions in the first (e.g. Hickmann 2003) and second language (e.g. Tyler 2012). Since 1980s research into space has increasingly relied on the cognitive framework. However, inflecting languages have received very little attention. It is worth mentioning several papers, all of them dealing with Slavic languages, for example, Przybylska (2002), Šarić (2008) and Pawelec (2009).

Space conceptualization in the Baltic languages has been so far rather under-researched. Besides some older descriptive and structural works on the expression of space, currently there have been attempts to investigate spatial relations within the cognitive linguistic framework across several languages. Some typological works based on the material of the Baltic languages have also appeared. Still there is an obvious niche in the field and many more discussions are needed.

The section primarily focuses on (but is not limited to) the following topics:

1.	Methodologies of researching space: trends and approaches. Methodologies applicable to the Baltic languages.
2.	Strategies of space construal and conceptualization.
3.	Linguistic expression of topological and projective spatial relations, motion events.
4.	Linguistic expression of size, measurement, orientation, etc.
5.	Space typology (including materials from the Baltic languages).
6.	Polysemy of spatial expressions. Motivation of meaning.
7.	Expression of space and diachronic studies.
8.	Expression of space and grammaticalization. 
9.	Expression of space across languages. Translation.
10.	Acquisition of spatial language.
11.	Expression of space in the Baltic sign languages.

This section welcomes papers on space conceptualization in the Baltic languages. Different methodological frameworks and different materials (not limited to language) are also appreciated.

If you would like to submit a paper for this workshop, please fill out the Participant Registration Form found here:

http://www.baltistukongresas.flf.vu.lt/index.php/en/registration/participant-registration/space

Important Deadlines:

1 June 2015 - Abstract submission
1 July 2015 - Information about accepted/rejected papers

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