31.598, Calls: Historical Linguistics, Philosophy of Language, Sociolinguistics, Translation, Ling & Literature, Anthropological Linguistics / Topoi (Jrnl)

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Subject: 31.598, Calls:  Historical Linguistics, Philosophy of Language, Sociolinguistics, Translation, Ling & Literature, Anthropological Linguistics / Topoi (Jrnl)

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Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2020 12:32:16
From: Marta Facoetti [mtfacoetti at gmail.com]
Subject: Historical Linguistics, Philosophy of Language, Sociolinguistics, Translation, Ling & Literature, Anthropological Linguistics / Topoi (Jrnl)

 
Full Title: Topoi 


Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Ling & Literature; Philosophy of Language; Sociolinguistics; Translation 

Call Deadline: 15-Apr-2020 

Call for Papers: 

Special Issue: Language and Worldviews: Ideas on Language Throughout the Ages
https://www.springer.com/journal/11245/updates/17624274 

Guest Editors:
Nathalie Gontier and Marta Facoetti - Applied Evolutionary Epistemology Lab,
Centre for Philosophy of Science, Department for History and Philosophy of
Science, Faculty of Science, University of Lisbon; 

Diana Couto - LOGOS/BIAP - Barcelona Institute of Analytic Philosophy,
University of Barcelona & MLAG/Institute of Philosophy, University of Porto

Description:
Language is a favourite topic of intellectual thought. Over the ages, language
has been understood as a medium capacitating knowledge or belief; a mental
faculty facilitating cognizing and reasoning; a behavioural capacity enabling
communication and social interaction; a sociocultural means to identify and
differentiate between groups and individuals; or an instrumental tool that
permits objective scientific analysis. With this issue we aim to better
delineate the intellectual genealogy of how language has been perceived and
studied differentially within philosophical, religious, linguistic, and
socio-anthropological schools of thought. In line with the spirit of Topoi, we
want to open up a respectful dialogue on how views on language relate and
differ from one another.

Our issue can already count on contributions on the following topics:
- Language in ancient philosophies (logos theories)
- Language in Judeo-Christian traditions (the search for an Adamic language)
- Language in the Renaissance and Enlightenment (the search for the original
Mother tongue)
- Language in analytical traditions (the reference problem, indeterminacy of
translation)
- Language use in the evolutionary sciences (discourse analysis)

In addition to these topics, we are calling for papers on the following
themes:
- Language in non-Western Philosophies and World Religions
- Origins and rationale of Logic as an area of research
- Language and the Universalia debates
- Origins, divergence, and rationale of Cognitive, Bio-, Socio- and
Anthropological Linguistics
- Signs and codes as defined in (Bio)Semiotics and their relation to concepts
of information, communication and language
- Any other topic deemed to shed light on the relationship between language
and worldviews

By comparing these traditions, our goal is to contribute to a more
comprehensive understanding of how ideas on language are formed, how they
underlie worldview formation or the Zeitgeist of an era, and how they change
over time. 

Instructions for Authors:
- Potential contributors are encouraged to send pre-inquiries and extended
abstracts of 2 pages containing the contact details and full affiliations of
all authors to the guest-editors by April 15th at nlgontier(@)fc.ul.pt;
mtfacoetti(@)gmail.com; dpcouto(@)ub.edu. When sending your email, remove the
brackets around the @ inserted here to avoid spam. 
- Authors are asked to prepare their manuscript according to the journal's
standard guidelines available at
https://www.springer.com/journal/11245/updates/17215504, and to upload their
manuscripts by December 1st, 2020 on Topoi's Online Manuscript Submission
System (Editorial Manager), accessible at
http://www.editorialmanager.com/topo/.
When uploading your paper, be sure to select the ''S.I.: Language and
worldviews (Gontier/Facoetti/Couto)'' in the drop down menu of ''Article
Type''.
All papers will undergo standard review procedures and when accepted they will
be made available as online firsts until final publication which is estimated
to occur in 2022.




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