[parislinguists] appel colloque Language, Culture and Mind

Tue Nov 25 07:06:29 UTC 2003

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Second call for papers

International Conference on

LANGUAGE, CULTURE AND MIND
Integrating perspectives and methodologies in the study of language

17-20 July 2004
University of Portsmouth, England

www.unifr.ch/gefi/GP2/Portsmouth/

THEME
Human natural languages are biologically based, cognitively motivated, 
affectively rich, socially shared, grammatically organized symbolic 
systems. They provide the principal semiotic means for the complexity and 
diversity of human cultural life. As has long been recognized, no single 
discipline or methodology is sufficient to capture all the dimensions of 
this complex and multifaceted phenomenon, which lies at the heart of what 
it is to be human. The goal of this conference is to contribute to 
situating the study of language in a contemporary interdisciplinary 
dialogue. Many of the relevant disciplines have made highly significant 
theoretical, methodological and empirical advances during the last decade.

We call for contributions from scholars and scientists in anthropology, 
biology, linguistics, philosophy, psychology, semiotics, cognitive and 
neurosciences, who wish both to impart their insights and findings, and 
learn from other disciplines. Preference will be given to submissions which 
emphasize interdisciplinarity, the interaction between culture, mind and 
language, and/or multi-methodological approaches in language sciences.

TOPICS
Topics include but are not limited to:
· Biological and cultural co-evolution
· Comparative study of communication systems
· Cognitive and cultural schematization in language
· Emergence of language in ontogeny and phylogeny
· Language in multi-modal communication
· Language and normativity
· Language and thought, emotion and consciousness

COMMITTEES

Local Organizing Committee (Department of Psychology, University of 
Portsmouth, England)
* Mike Fluck
* Karl Nunkoosing
* Vasu Reddy
* Chris Sinha
* Vera da Silva
* Joerg Zinken

International Organizing Committee
* Carmen Guarddon Anelo, Departamento de Filologias Extranjeras y sus 
Lingisticas, Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia, Spain
* Raphael Berthele, Departement für Germanistik, Université de Fribourg, 
Switzerland
* Maria Cristóbal, Department of English Philology I. Universidad 
Complutense de Madrid, Spain
* Iraide Ibarretxe, Department of English Philology, University of Deusto / 
Department of Basque Philology, University of the Basque Country, Spain
* Jordan Zlatev, Department of Linguistics Lund University / Department of 
Philosophy and Linguistics, Umeå University; Sweden

International Scientific Committee
* Enrique Bernárdez, Department of English Philology I, Universidad 
Complutense de Madrid
* Gisela Bruche-Schultz, Department of English Language and Literature, 
Free University of Berlin
* Seana Coulson, Department of Cognitive Science, UCSD
* Vyv Evans, Department of Linguistics and English, University of Sussex
* Roslyn Frank, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Iowa
* Peter Gärdenfors, Lund University Cognitive Science (LUCS)
* Dirk Geeraerts, Department of Linguistics, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
* Tom Givón, Department of Linguistics, University of Oregon
* Pier Paolo Giglioli, DSC, Università di Bologna
* Colette Grinevald, PR1, Université Lumière Lyon2
* Gisela Håkansson, Department of Linguistics, Lund University
* Peter Harder, Department of English, University of Copenhagen
* Esa Itkonen, Department of Linguistics, Turku University
* Sotaro Kita, Department of Psychology, University of Bristol
* Sydney Lamb, Department of Linguistics, Rice University
* Jean Lassegue, Laboratoire LaTTICe-CNRS, Ecole Normale Supérieure
* Brian MacWhinney, Department of Psychology, CMU
* Rukmini Nair, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
* Gary Palmer, Anthropology and Ethnic Studies, University of Nevada
* Gunter Senft, Max-Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen
* Augusto Soares da Silva, Faculdade de Filosofia de Braga, Universidade 
Catolica Portuguesa
* Dan Slobin, Department of Psychology, UC Berkeley
* Göran Sonesson, Department of Semiotics, Lund University
* Victor Rosenthal, INSERM, Paris
* Yves-Marie Visetti, Laboratoire LaTTICe-CNRS, Ecole Normale Supérieure

SUBMISSION
Abstracts for 30-minute presentations should be submitted by January 15, 
2004. Notification of acceptance by March 15, 2004. All abstracts will be 
reviewed by members of the International Scientific Committee.

Each abstract should conform to the following specifications:
Length: a single page of A4, single-spaced, font size 12pt or larger, with 
2.5cm margins on all sides. Any diagrams must fit on this single page.

Head material (at the top of the single A4 page):
- Title of the paper,
- Author name(s),
- Author affiliation(s) in brief (1 line),
- Email address of principal author

Method: Abstracts should be emailed to jordan.zlatev at ling.lu.se as an 
ATTACHMENT (i.e. not included in the message) preferably as a MS Word 
document, but in PDF or postscript format if it is necessary to include a 
diagram or figure.

REGISTRATION
The homesite of the conference www.unifr.ch/gefi/GP2/Portsmouth/ will 
shortly be updated to carry registration and accommodation information and 
instructions.

SATELLITE EVENTS
There will be an opportunity to organize workshops, seminars and other 
satellite events on themes related to that of the conference. Prospective 
organizers should contact joerg.zinken at port.ac.uk

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