27.4057, Calls: Cog Sci, Disc Analysis, Pragmatics, Semantics, Text/Corpus Ling/Switzerland

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Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2016 13:07:52
From: Didier Maillat [didier.maillat at unifr.ch]
Subject: Communication & Cognition 2017: Miscommunication - Getting Lost in Language(s)

Full Title: Communication & Cognition 2017: Miscommunication - Getting Lost in Language(s) 
Short Title: ComCog17 

Date: 08-Feb-2017 - 10-Feb-2017
Location: Fribourg, Switzerland 
Contact Person: Didier Maillat
Meeting Email: comcog17 at unifr.ch
Web Site: http://events.unifr.ch/comcog2017 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Discourse Analysis; Pragmatics; Semantics; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 20-Oct-2016 

Meeting Description:

The aim of the ComCog conference series is to explore the various parameters
that affect the way we process communicated information. It accordingly seeks
to gather contributions from linguists, cognitive scientists, discourse
analysts, philosophers and argumentation theorists. Following a successful
first edition in Neuchâtel (2011), the special theme of ComCog 2017 will be
'Miscommunication - Getting Lost in Language(s)'.

Keynote Speakers:

- Stephan Lewandowsky, U Bristol - UK
- Courtenay Norbury, UCL- UK
- Anna Papafragou, U of Delaware - USA
- Thom Scott-Phillips, Durham - UK
- Ted Sanders, Utrecht - NL

While language is used every day to allow communication between a speaker and
an addressee, these communicative efforts are subject to derailments, and
sometimes complete crashes. In that perspective, scholars interested in
accounting for the systems that govern communicative processes have also tried
to capture those situations in which communication accidentally or
intentionally goes wrong. Incidentally, one way to improve our understanding
of these systems consists in focusing specifically on situations or data in
which communication fails, when the processes go amiss, when a mismatch occurs
between the speaker's intended message and the information retrieved by the
addressee. 

ComCog 2017 will bring together scholars who work on theories and descriptions
of such instances of miscommunication, and who use evidence from communicative
mismatch to build a theory of human communication.

For more information visit  http://events.unifr.ch/comcog2017 .

2nd Call for Papers:

ComCog 2017 seeks to attract original contributions from various areas of
linguistics, psychology, argumentation theory, corpus analysis and discourse
analysis that bring together the insights of cognitive science and language
studies to further our understanding of phenomena pertaining to communicative
failures and mismatches, and using this particular type of data to advance our
comprehension of human communicative processes.

This includes but is not limited to:

- Miscommunication in disambiguation tasks: several current research strands
within the field of pragmatics and psycholinguistics have studied the
processes at work in the disambiguation of reference (Arnold & Tanenhaus
2011), in determining implicit content, in working out the meaning of
figurative language. 
- Miscommunication and cross-linguistic differences: scholars working in the
field of second language acquisition and bilingualism have looked at the type
of cross-linguistic influence which can give rise to misconstrued utterances
in a target language on the part of L2 learners (De Angelis & Dewaele 2011),
or the way the semantic or conceptual profile of a bilingual's languages
interfere with each other during production and comprehension (Athanasopoulos
& Bylund 2013). Other researchers have investigated intercultural and
cross-linguistic discrepancies in specific aspects of language use
(politeness, indirectness (Schneider), hedges, discourse markers (Stukker &
Sanders 2012); see also Trueswell & Papafragou 2010).
- Miscommunication and argumentation/reasoning: within the domains of
argumentation theory, reasoning (Mercier & Sperber 2009, 2011) and more
generally cognitive communication science (Oh & Sundar 2015), recent efforts
have shown how cognitive biases, as well as heuristics (Pohl 2004; Gigerenzer
2008), can be responsible for deviations from a certain norm and give rise to
miscommunication, both in persuasive and manipulative settings. 
- Miscommunication and pathological uses of language: scholars have also
worked with atypical populations in order to advance our understanding of the
cognitive underpinnings of communicative processes, for instance working with
autistic patients to investigate the impact that a deficient theory of mind
has on interpretative processes (Cummings 2014). 

Interdisciplinary research is welcome. Moreover, methodologically, we seek to
attract work that combines theoretical proposals with empirical/experimental
testing of the proposed models and hypotheses.

Abstract Submission:

The Organising Committee invites submissions of abstracts (300-500 words
without references, in English) presenting original work on one of the above
mentioned topics and areas, but not restricted to them, addressing the broader
topic of miscommunication in language(s).

Please bear in mind the following policies as you submit your abstract:

- Submissions may be singly or jointly authored.
- Authors should submit one abstract at most as first author.
- Submissions must be anonymous. That is, the abstract cannot contain any
information that would allow reviewers to identify the author(s).
- All abstracts will be double-blind peer reviewed by members of the
Scientific Committee.
- All abstracts must be submitted on Easychair by 20 October 2016, 23:59 (UTC
+ 01:00) at the following URL (available as of 20 August 2016):
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=comcog2017
- Notification of acceptance/rejection will be sent by 20 November 2016.

Full version of CfP: http://events.unifr.ch/comcog2017/call-for-papers/

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