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Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2018 13:50:52
From: Pritty Patel-Grosz [pritty.patel-grosz at iln.uio.no]
Subject: Linguistic Explorations Beyond Language: Music, Dance and Visual Narrative

 
Full Title: Linguistic Explorations Beyond Language: Music, Dance and Visual Narrative 

Date: 18-Jul-2018 - 18-Jul-2018
Location: Rethymnon, Crete, Greece 
Contact Person: Pritty Patel-Grosz
Meeting Email: pritty.patel-grosz at iln.uio.no
Web Site: http://www.phl.uoc.gr/confs/cssl18/workshopEvents.php 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; General Linguistics; Psycholinguistics; Semantics; Syntax 

Call Deadline: 20-Mar-2018 

Meeting Description:

''Linguistic explorations beyond language: music, dance and visual narrative''
Workshop at the 2nd Crete Summer School of Linguistics
Summer school website: http://www.phl.uoc.gr/confs/cssl18/

Workshop Description

In recent years, linguistic methods have been systematically applied to
non-linguistic phenomena. Katz (2017) and Schlenker (2017) analyze the syntax
and semantics of music, respectively. Patel-Grosz et al. (forthc.) explore the
semantics of narrative dance by building on Charnavel’s (2016) outline of a
generative syntax of dance and Abusch’s (2013) semantic analysis of visual
narrative. A common goal of these recent explorations that expand linguistic
methodology beyond natural language is to shed light on the shared properties
of different cognitive domains (language, music, dance, silent narratives)
that are fundamentally human. This yields new insights into human cognition as
a whole (and thus also into the core properties of the human language
faculty). This workshop aims to bring together researchers working at the
forefront of applying linguistic methodology beyond natural language, e.g. by
investigating dance, music and visual narrative from a linguistic perspective.

Speakers

Dorit Abusch (Cornell): Visual narrative
Isabelle Charnavel (Harvard): Syntax of dance 
Jonah Katz (West Virginia University): Syntax of music
Philippe Schlenker (CNRS, IJN): Semantics of music
Pritty Patel-Grosz & Patrick Grosz (Oslo): Semantics of dance

References:

Katz, Jonah (2017). ''Harmonic syntax of the 12-bar blues: a corpus study.''
Music Perception 35, 165-192.
Schlenker, Philippe (2017). ''Outline of Music Semantics.'' Music Perception
35, 3-37.
Charnavel, Isabelle (2016). ''Steps towards a Generative Theory of Dance
Cognition.'' Ms, Harvard. [http://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/003137]
Abusch, Dorit (2013). ''Applying Discourse Semantics and Pragmatics to
Co-reference in Picture Sequences.'' Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 17,
9-25.
Patel-Grosz, Pritty, Patrick Georg Grosz, Tejaswinee Kelkar and Alexander
Refsum Jensenius (forthc.). ''Coreference and disjoint reference in the
semantics of narrative dance.'' To appear in the Proceedings of Sinn und
Bedeutung 22.


Call for Posters:

The workshop will be accompanied by a poster session with an open call for
posters. Possible topics for posters include (but are not limited to):
linguistic approaches to dance (narrative or non-narrative), music (including
rhythmic drumming and noise), visual narrative (including pantomime and the
use of the body in physical theatre), gestures (including non-conventionalized
co-speech and post-speech gestures), connections / comparisons between
non-conventionalized gestures or dance moves and sign language, and the
music-dance interface.

Please send a 1-page abstract to Pritty Patel-Grosz by March 20, 2018:
pritty.patel-grosz at iln.uio.no

(References are not included in the page count.) Please provide the author(s)
name(s), affiliation(s) and contact details in the main body of the email.
Notification of acceptance will be sent out in April 2018.




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