29.5107, Calls: Anthro Ling, Applied Ling, Neuroling, Psycholing, Semantics/Croatia

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Subject: 29.5107, Calls: Anthro Ling, Applied Ling, Neuroling, Psycholing, Semantics/Croatia

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Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2018 23:21:14
From: Marija Maja Brala Vukanovic [mbrala at ffri.hr]
Subject: Deixis in Language – From Gestures to Words

 
Full Title: Deixis in Language – From Gestures to Words 
Short Title: DEICTES 2019 

Date: 28-Jun-2019 - 29-Jun-2019
Location: Rijeka, Croatia 
Contact Person: Marija Maja Brala Vukanovic
Meeting Email: mbrala at ffri.hr

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Applied Linguistics; Neurolinguistics; Psycholinguistics; Semantics 

Call Deadline: 20-Feb-2019 

Meeting Description:

The conference is organized at the Department of English of the Faculty of
Humanities and Social sciences of Rijeka University, Croatia.

The two day event will have a poster session, four paper sessions and a round
table with all the Keynote Speakers (which will take place on Saturday 29 June
2019).

A conference dinner will be organized on the evening of Saturday 29, 2019.


Call for Papers:

Deictic expressions take an intermediary position between gestures and words.
Although the concept of deixis and the basic deictic categories are well known
and have been widely described in the linguistic literature, there exists a
variety of positions regarding to the exact semantic interpretation of the
phenomenon as such. In other words, there are still open questions concerning
their role in communication.

Departing from the view that our understanding of the language system is
crucially linked to the types of meanings expressed in languages of the world,
and the types of processing mechanisms linked to different word types, one of
the central objectives of this symposium is to try and explore the link
between the gestures, pointing, deixis and language processes.

The aims of the symposium are aimed at providing further insights into: a) the
semantic domains expressed by deictic words; b) the cognitive and linguistic
mechanisms involved in deictic communicative processes; c) the differences
between semantic and pragmatic functions of deictic terms. 
Keywords: deixis, cognitive semantics, fast semantic processing,
demonstratives, gestures, pointing

Keynote Speakers:

Professor Holger Diessel, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany
Professor Peter Gardenfors, Lund University, Sweden
Professor Danijela Trenkic, University of York, U.K. 
Professor Henriette Hendriks, University of Cambridge, U.K.
Professor Ljiljana Šarić, University of Oslo, Norway
Professor Svetlana Nedelcheva, Konstantin Preslavsky University of Shumen,
Bulgaria

Topics:

Submissions are invited for both talks and posters in any area of deictic
communication, including (but not limited to):
Cross-linguistic perspectives on deictic language.
The linguistics of deictic expressions.
The evolution of deictic terms.
Deixis and grammaticalization.
The psycholinguistics of deictic expressions.
Elevation as a Deictic Category.
Less-known / rare deictic categories.
Language and gesture in spoken versus sign languages.
Co-speech, pro-speech and post-speech gestures.
Deictic communication across the lifespan.
Deictic communication across species.
Gestures in non-human animals, such as chimpanzees and other great apes

Abstract Submission: 

We invite abstracts of no more than 500 words, not including references.
Abstracts must report previously unpublished work.  Abstracts should include a
clear statement of the theoretical issue to be addressed, the research
methodology to be presented, and a concise summary of the findings/conclusion.
Only one submission will be accepted by the same first-author and a maximum of
2 co-authored submissions.

Send your abstracts to: mbrala at ffri.hr

Please put DEICTES 2019 as the subject of your submission

Important Dates:

February 20, 2019: Submission deadline (abstracts for talks and poster)
March 1, 2019: Notification of Acceptance
March 31, 2019: Registration Opens
May 25, 2019: Registration Ends
June 28-29, 2019: Symposium dates

Programme Chair: Professor Marija M. Brala-Vukanović, The University of
Rijeka, Croatia
Chair of Local Organising Committee: Professor Mihaela Matešić, The University
of Rijeka, Croatia
Administrative support: Martina Baričević, Contact: mbaricevic at ffri.hr

The conference is made possible thanks to The Croatian National Science
Foundation (HRZZ). The Symposium is organized as part of the project entitled
‘Semantic domains of deictic words’ (DEICTES), HRZZ grant agreement No.
P-2018-01-2243)




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