28.867, Calls: Discipline of Ling, Gen Ling, Neuroling, Philosophy of Lang, Psycholing/Germany

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Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 18:24:53
From: Alexander Haselow [alexander.haselow at uni-rostock.de]
Subject: One Brain – Two Grammars? Examining Dualistic Approaches to Grammar and Cognition

Full Title: One Brain – Two Grammars? Examining Dualistic Approaches to Grammar and Cognition 

Date: 01-Mar-2018 - 03-Mar-2018
Location: Rostock, Germany 
Contact Person: Alexander Haselow
Meeting Email: brain.grammar2018 at uni-rostock.de
Web Site: http://www.iaa.uni-rostock.de/one-brain-two-grammars/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Discipline of Linguistics; General Linguistics; Neurolinguistics; Philosophy of Language; Psycholinguistics 

Call Deadline: 30-Jul-2017 

Meeting Description:

The international workshop ''One Brain - Two Grammars?'' will take place on
1-3 March 2018 in Rostock, Germany. It will be organized by Alexander Haselow
and Gunther Kaltenböck. 

Venue: University of Rostock, Main Building

General Topic  

Most grammatical models assume that linguistic structure represents a fairly
monolithic system of mental and linguistic activity. Some lines of recent
research, however, suggest that human cognitive activity in general and
linguistic cognition in particular cannot reasonably be reduced to a single,
monolithic system of mental processing but have, in fact, a dualistic
organization. Such dualism has been proposed by a number of authors using a
variety of different approaches and following different directions of
research. It surfaces in particular in psychological work on brain activity
(Kahneman 2012), in psycholinguistic research on text comprehension (Kintsch
1988; Gernsbacher 1990; Graesser et al. 1994; Greene et al. 1992; McKoon and
Ratcliff 1990, 1992, 1998; Prat et al. 2007), in neurolinguistic research on
linguistic processing (Bahlmann, Gunter & Friederici 2006; Van Lancker Sidtis
2009), in linguistic work on performance (Clark 1996; Clark & Fox Tree 2002),
on syntax (Kac 1972), on speech act formulas (Pawley 2009), on discourse
organization (Kaltenböck et al. 2011; Heine et al. 2013), on the analysis of
conversations (Haselow 2013, 2016), and on bilingualism (Maschler 1994; Heine
2016). The dualism is reflected in distinctions such as novel speech and
formulaic speech, linear-hierarchical and linear (flat) structure, sentence
grammar and thetical grammar, microgrammar and macrogrammar, clausal
constituents and extra-clausal constituents, or propositional representation
and discourse representation. 

However, the hypothesized dualism is not beyond criticism: researchers from
the ''monolithic camp'' argue that linguistic activity cannot be broken down
into separate domains, given that it ultimately serves a single goal, that of
communication, and that, overal, all neural activities related to language
processing and communication are equally networked.

This workshop is devoted to a discussion of the Dualism Hypothesis, based on
findings from a wide range of research fields and methodological approaches.
As the question mark in the title of the workshop indicates, the debate is
intended to be unbiased and thus open to evidence for and against the
hypothesis. 

Invited Speakers: 

Elizabeth Closs Traugott (Stanford University)
Bernd Heine (University of Cologne) 
Diana Van Lancker Sidtis (New York University)

Call for Papers:

This workshop is devoted to a discussion of the Dualism Hypothesis, based on
research findings from a wide range of fields and methodological approaches. 

We invite papers dealing with dualistic approaches to language, linguistic
description and cognition from a broad range of fields: linguistics (e.g.
grammatical analysis and modeling, pragmatics, conversation analysis),
neurolinguistics, psycholinguistics, and (cognitive) psychology. While trying
to keep a broad perspective, we particularly invite contributions within a
cognitive-functional framework, qualitative and quantitative analyses of
natural language data, and experimental research on the (neuro-)cognition of
language and language processing. The focus is on English, but contributions
focusing on other languages are very welcome.

More specific topics to be addressed may include the following:

- Grammatical approaches dealing with the (alleged) dualisms sentence
structure - discourse structure, clausal constituents - extra-clausal
constituents
- Correlations between linguistic structure and neural processing (e.g. brain
lateralization), e.g. the processing of ''flat'' vs. ''hierarchical/embedded''
structures
- Approaches accounting for the dualism of compositional speech vs. formulaic
speech or propositional speech vs. non-propositional speech
- Experimental research on monolithic or dualistic linguistic processing (e.g.
sentence processing, discourse processing)
- Different suggestions for modelling a dualistic view of language structure
in linguistics 

Presentation Format:

20 minute papers + 10 minutes for discussion

Submission of abstracts

Abstracts should be written in English, not exceed 500 words (exclusive of
references), and clearly state research question(s), approach, method, data
and (expected) results.

Please submit your (non-anonymous) abstract as a .doc or .docx file to:  
brain.grammar2018 at uni-rostock.de

Submission of abstracts closes on 30 July 2017.

Notification of acceptance by 15 September 2017.

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