27.1942, Confs: Cog Sci, Computational Ling, General Ling, Ling Theories, Philosophy of Lang/Belgium

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Subject: 27.1942, Confs: Cog Sci, Computational Ling, General Ling, Ling Theories, Philosophy of Lang/Belgium

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Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2016 09:50:39
From: Miriam Bouzouita [miriam.bouzouita at ugent.be]
Subject: Languages as Mechanisms for Interaction: Explorations and Repercussions

Languages as Mechanisms for Interaction: Explorations and Repercussions 
Short Title: Interaction2016 

Date: 24-Jun-2016 - 25-Jun-2016 
Location: Ghent (Ghent University), Belgium 
Contact: Miriam Bouzouita 
Contact Email: interaction2016 at easychair.org 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics; Linguistic Theories; Philosophy of Language 

Meeting Description: 

The ''Languages as Mechanisms for Interaction: Explorations and
Repercussions'' Workshop will be held at Ghent University (Belgium) on 24-25
of June 2016, and is organized by the DiaLing research group of the Department
of Linguistics.

It is uncontentious that language lies at the core of human interaction.
However, the broad significance of this observation is only beginning to
receive due recognition. In the past, the emphasis has been on the precise
identification of what an individual speaker's capacity for language amounts
to in terms of a grammar, and/or individual cognitive processes. These
approaches usually posit a grammar or cognitive architecture with independent
modules whose elements are assigned discrete, identifiable meanings, all
attributes being defined independently of other cognitive sub-systems.
However, the horizon is shifting in a number of ways. Some see grammar as
interfacing with a rich inferential system even though the two systems remain
independent (e.g. Asher & Lascarides 2003; Carston 2002; Clark 1996; Sperber &
Wilson 1986). Others focus on the need for grammars of dialogue (e.g. Ginzburg
2012). Yet others consider language a system of procedures for licensing
communicative interaction (e.g. Gregoromichelaki et al. 2011). However, what
most of these approaches have in common is a belief in the interdependence of
the grammar system and processes of general cognition.

Cited references
Asher, N. & A. Lascarides (2003) Logics of Conversation. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press.
Carston, R (2002) Thoughts and Utterances: The Pragmatics of Explicit
Communication. Oxford: Blackwell. 
Clark, H. (1996) Using Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 
Sperber, D. & D. Wilson (1986) Relevance: Communication and Cognition.
Cambridge, M.A.: Harvard University Press.
Ginzburg, J. (2012) The Interactive Stance: Meaning for Conversation. Oxford:
Oxford University Press.
Gregoromichelaki, E., R. Kempson, M. Purver, G.J. Mills, R. Cann, W.
Meyer-Viol & P.G.T. Healey (2011) 'Incrementality and Intention-Recognition in
Utterance Processing.' Dialogue and Discourse 2: 199-233.

Program:

Conference venue:  
- Blandijn Campus: Blandijnberg 2, 9000 Ghent: http://tinyurl.com/hd9hgsp 
- Room 120.083 (2nd floor: http://www.flw.ugent.be/file/27)

Registration for the Workshop is free, but  obligatory. To register, email the
local organizer before the 3rd of June 2016: Miriam.Bouzouita at UGent.be  

Friday 24 June 2016

9:00-9:30: 
Registration

9:30-10:45: 

Keynote speaker: Hannes Rieser 
‘A Process Algebra Account of Speech-Gesture Interaction’

10:45-11:15: Coffee

11:15-11:55: 
Evie Malaia, Joshua Borneman and Ronnie Wilbur
 ‘Information-Carrying Capacity of Sign Language Measured by Fractal
Complexity of Motion’

11:55-12:35: 
Elizabeth Manrique
‘Managing Problems of Understanding in Everyday Face-to-Face Interaction:
Evidence from Argentine Sign Language (LSA)’

12:35-14:00: Lunch

14:00-14:40: 
Christine Howes, Mary Lavelle, Pat Healey, Ellen Breitholtz, Julian Hough and
Rose McCabe 
‘Gesture, Self-Repair and Reasoning in Schizophrenia’

14:40-15:20: Simon Dobnik
‘Towards a Computational Model of Spatial Perspective Taking’

15:20-16:00: 
David Schlangen
‘There’s more than one way to be wrong: Outlines of a Model of Justification
and Clarification of Situated Reference’

16:00-16:30: Coffee

16:30-17:10: 
Robin Cooper
‘Paderewski and Dialogue Interaction’

17:10-17:50: 
Stephen Jones
‘An Incremental Approach to the Syntax-Prosody Interface in Korean’

17:50-18:30: Sam Duffy and Patrick Healey
‘Transitions in Musical Interaction’

19:00-…: Workshop dinner at Coeur d’Artichaut

Satuday 25 June 2016

9:30-10:10: 
Eleni Gregoromichelaki and Ruth Kempson
‘Language as Process and Practice: Developing a Grammar for Interaction’ 

10:10-10:50: Hannah Gibson
‘A Dynamic Approach to the Grammaticalisation of Bantu Auxiliary
Constructions: Context and Change’

10:50-11:20: Coffee

11:20-12:00: 
Ethan Sherr-Ziarko and Jieun Kiaer
‘Prosody-Sensitive Locality in Efficient Structure Building: The Case Study of
Interveners in English Phrasal Verbs’

12:00-14:00: Lunch

14:00-14:40: 
Ronnie Cann
 ‘Indexicality and Binding’

14:40-15:20: 
Stergios Chatzikyriakidis
‘Languages as Mechanisms of Interaction: The Case of Weak Object Pronouns’

15:20-15:50: Coffee

15:50-17:00: 
Workshop discussion

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