36.2548, Calls: Topoi - "Special Issue: Linguistic Relativity and Post-Cognitivism" (Jrnl)

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Date: 27-Aug-2025
From: Filippo Batisti [filippo.batisti at unive.it]
Subject: Topoi - "Special Issue: Linguistic Relativity and Post-Cognitivism" (Jrnl)


Journal: Topoi
Issue: Special Issue: Linguistic Relativity and Post-Cognitivism
Call Deadline: 01-Aug-2026

Call for Papers: Special Issue on “Linguistic Relativity and
Post-Cognitivism”
Editors: Filippo Batisti (Ca‘ Foscari University of Venice) and Ulises
Rodríguez Jordá (University of the Basque Country)
Journal: Topoi
Deadline for Submission: August 1st, 2026
Special Issue URL: https://link.springer.com/collections/ababdhaagi
Overview:
Linguistic diversity and its influence on thought remain largely
overlooked topics within cognitive science and the philosophy of mind.
While Classic Cognitivism conceptualizes the mind as a computational
machine, more recent perspectives known as 4E Cognition claim that
this view dramatically underplays the constitutive role of the body
and the environment in cognitive processes. However, even these latter
approaches have not sufficiently considered how the vast differences
documented across the world’s languages might be relevant for current
research.
This is the focus of linguistic relativity, a field of research that
has grown rapidly over the past 30 years driven by new
psycholinguistic and ethnographic methods. This emerging body of
empirical evidence suggests that certain cognitive tasks can be
moderately to significantly affected by the language a human group
speaks. Despite these advances, linguistic relativity studies retain
many assumptions from Classic Cognitivism—precisely those that 4E
Cognition approaches reject. Can language, thought, and culture be
safely dissociated in an experimental environment? Can the interaction
of these elements be construed in a non-modular way? Could radically
different understandings of mind and language reformulate the central
questions of linguistic relativity?
Topics of Interest:
We welcome papers that engage with these and similar topics:
 - Can language, thinking and culture be distinguished, theoretically
and empirically, as constitutive elements of the human cognitive
ecology? Should they be distinguished?
 - What are the reasons for the relative neglect of linguistic
diversity and relativity in post-cognitivist frameworks?
 - Does linguistic relativity necessarily entail anti-realism, and how
does this position relate to enactivist discussions on realism?
 - Is enhancing ecological validity sufficient to overcome cognitivist
biases in linguistic relativity research?
 - Should linguistic relativity be reconceptualized as a "principle"
(in line with Benjamin Whorf's original formulation) under
post-cognitivist premises, before being operationalized as a
"hypothesis"?
 - Can linguistic relativity serve as a meeting ground for
ecolinguistics and post-cognitivism? Can the notion of affordances
unlock new empirical insights in linguistic relativity research?
 - Are embodiment and linguistic diversity at cross purposes? Does the
body act as a universal (cross-linguistic, cross-cultural) constraint
on human cognition?
Contributors:
We are pleased to announce that the following scholars have already
agreed to contribute to this special issue:
 - Ludger van Dijk & Giulia Di Rienzo (University of Antwerp)
 - Nara M. Figueiredo (Federal University of Santa Maria) & Elena
Cuffari (Franklin & Marshall College)
 - Rasmus Gahrn-Andersen (University of Southern Denmark)
 - Adam Głaz (Maria Curie-Skłodowska University of Lublin)
 - Alexander V. Kravchenko (Baikal State University)
 - Nancy Salay (Queen’s University) & Stephen J. Cowley (University of
Southern Denmark)
Contact Information:
Inquiries are very much welcome, please contact the Lead Guest Editor:
Filippo Batisti, filippo.batisti at unive.it
For the full version of the CFP and all the details on this Special
Issue, please visit: https://link.springer.com/collections/ababdhaagi

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                     Cognitive Science
                     Philosophy of Language
                     Psycholinguistics




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