27.1154, Calls: Cog Sci, Comp Ling, Discipline of Ling, Gen Ling, Text/Corpus Ling/France

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Subject: 27.1154, Calls: Cog Sci, Comp Ling, Discipline of Ling, Gen Ling, Text/Corpus Ling/France

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Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2016 12:31:42
From: Guillaume Desagulier [gdesagulier at univ-paris8.fr]
Subject: Cognitive Linguistics before and after the empirical turn

Full Title: Cognitive Linguistics before and after the empirical turn 
Short Title: AFLiCo JET 2016 

Date: 27-May-2016 - 27-May-2016
Location: Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense, Nanterre, France 
Contact Person: Guillaume Desagulier
Meeting Email: aflicojet2016 at sciencesconf.org
Web Site: https://aflicojet2016.sciencesconf.org/administrate-website/homepage 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Computational Linguistics; Discipline of Linguistics; General Linguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 25-Mar-2016 

Meeting Description:

The topic of this year’s conference is “Cognitive Linguistics before and after
the empirical turn”.

With its original rejection of hypothetical modules of language structure and
its focus on language use in all its complexity, first-generation cognitive
linguistics is theory-driven. Dissatisfied with the practice of using
themselves as sole informants, cognitive linguists have now realized the
empirical implications of their own theoretical framework and have found
empirical methods to be far more useful than introspection to test their
hypotheses. If language is approached holistically and the structure of
meaning is hooked on human experience, one challenge that cognitive
linguistics has to address is whether the data-oriented methodology of the
approach is in keeping with its theoretical tenets.

Here is an open-ended list of topics that the workshop is about:

- what kinds of empirical methods can be used? Do they call for a renewal of
the theoretical framework? 
- what is left of introspection in cognitive linguistics?
- what is left of the cognitive commitment? Has it been reinforced or
challenged?
- what is the state of the art regarding empirical methods in cognitive
linguistics?
- what latest advances in empirical methods are compatible with cognitive
linguistics (e.g. brain imagery, AI, word vectors, etc.)?
- how can we combine qualitative hypotheses and quantitative methods?
- do linguistic curricula offer enough in terms of empirical methodology?
- what other disciplines can linguistics benefit from to implement empirical
methods and interpret the results?

Cognitive linguistics is at the crossroads of compatible theoretical and
methodological paradigms (construction grammar, cognitive grammar, corpus
linguistics, gesture studies, language acquisition, language impairments,
discourse analysis, sign languages, etc.). All these theories and methods are
most welcome, including those frameworks which consider themselves distinct
from cognitive linguistics but are close enough to share a good number of
tenets (e.g. enunciative linguistics, functional linguistics). 

Keynote Speaker:

Prof. Ewa Dąbrowska (University of Northumbria, Newcastle)
https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/our-staff/d/ewa-dabrowska/

Call for Papers:

The French Cognitive Linguistics Association (AFLiCo) invites you to submit
paper proposals for its next workshop (AFLiCo JET 2016). AFLiCo workshops
provide a forum for high-quality scientific research in cognitive linguistics
and, more generally, usage-based approaches to language.

Anonymous abstracts for 20-minute presentations (+ 8 minutes for questions)
should include a title and a short bibliography. They should not exceed 500
words (exclusive of references, tables, and figures). They can be in English
or in French.

Abstracts should clearly state the following:

- research question(s)
- approach(es)
- subfield (e.g. semantics, pragmatics, gesture studies, corpus linguistics,
etc.) method(s)
- data
- expected or confirmed results.

Include three to five keywords specifying the (sub)field, the topic, and the
approach.

The deadline for all abstracts is 25 March 2016. Notification of acceptance
will be sent 15 days later.

Submit your abstract via the workshop website
(https://aflicojet2016.sciencesconf.org). First you will need to create an
account on sciencesconf.org, if you do not already have one, then click on
''Submissions'' then ''Submit an abstract''. If you need help, let us know via
the contact form. Each abstract will be double-blind peer reviewed.

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