[Slling-l] Sign CAFE 1 workshop programme

[Adam Schembri]

Greetings from Birmingham, England!

The programme for Sign CAFÉ 1: The First International Workshop on Cognitive And Functional Explorations in Sign Language Linguistics is now online: https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/Documents/college-artslaw/elal/signcafe-programme.pdf
I have also included a copy of the programme below.
You can find information about registration on the workshop webpage:
https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/englishlanguage/events/2018/sign-cafe.aspx

I hope to see some of you in Birmingham in July.

Thank you,
Adam

-- 
Adam Schembri, PhD
Reader in Linguistics,
Department of English Language & Applied Linguistics, 3 Elms Rd, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK.
a.schembri at bham.ac.uk



 DAY ONE: JULY 30
8.50-9.00	Welcome
9.00-9.45	Markers of epistemic uncertainty in two unrelated sign languages: Cognitive and functional motivations
Elisabeth Engberg-Pedersen
9.45-10.15	When looks count: The function and distribution of LOOK-AT in American Sign Language
Lynn Hou, Ryan Lepic and Benjamin Anible
10.15-10.45	The use of constructed action in agent-defocusing constructions in Finnish Sign Language
Sanna Nordlund
10.45-11.15	Tea/coffee break
11.15-11.45	Perspective shift in M2/L2 sign language learners: The role of gesture
Christian Rathmann
11.45-12.15	Sociolinguistic variation of two-handed signs in French Belgian Sign Language: Weak drop as a stable reduction phenomenon
Aurore Paligot and Laurence Meurant
12.15-12.45	Attitudes to age variation and language change in the British Deaf community
Katherine Rowley, Jordan Fenlon and Kearsy Cormier
12.45-13.30	Lunch
13.30-14.00	Towards understanding non-manuality: Signers’ head movements as semiotic signs
Anna Puupponen
14.00-14.30	Signing and showing in the tactile modality
Johanna Mesch
14.30-15.00	The role of mouthings in Greek Sign Language: Register and word class variation in mouthing occurrence
Ioanna Tsourma
15.00-16.00	Tea/coffee & posters
16.00-16.30	“Cut and Break” descriptions in Swedish Sign Language: Children´s and adults´ depicting verb constructions
Pia Simper-Allen
16.30-17.00	Signing the world around and within us: British Sign Language and the ideational metafunction
Luke Andrew Rudge
17.00-17.30	Position of the head noun makes a difference: (Varying) marking of relative clauses in Turkish Sign Language
Okan Kubus and Derya Nuhbalaoglu
17.30-18.00	Perception and parametrical components in sign languages
Emmanuella Martinod

DAY TWO: JULY 31
9.00-9.45	Patterns of variation in a corpus of Indonesian Sign Language varieties
Nick Palfreyman
9.45-10.15	The in/visibleness of doing reference in a deaf signed language
Gabrielle Hodge, Benjamin Anible and Lindsay Ferrara
10.15-10.45	Spatial relations in Finnish Sign Language
Danny De Weerdt
10.45-11.15	Tea/coffee break
11.15-11.45	Use of ENTITY, HANDLE and DESCRIPTOR in L2 learners of Swedish Sign Language
Johanna Mesch, Krister Schönström and Ylva Larsson
11.45-12.15	Explorations of abstract spaces
Paul Dudis
12.15-12.45	The link between iconic sources and conceptual categories in iconic signs in sign languages
Oksana Tkachman and Carla Hudson Kam
12.45-13.30	Lunch
13.30-14.00	Indicating verbs and cognition-to-form mapping: Pointing away from 'agreement' and back again?
Adam Schembri
14.00-14.30	Question-response sequences in Argentine Sign Language and British Sign Language
Elizabeth Manrique and Kearsy Cormier
14.30-15.30	Tea/coffee & posters
15.30-16.00	A usage-based alternative to "lexicalization"
Ryan Lepic
16.00-16.30	Iconicity of articulators and locations in 31 sign languages
Carl Börstell, Robert Östling and Servane Courtaux
16.30-17.00	Constructed representation of transitive actions in Italian Sign Language: Agent’s or patient’s perspective?
Olga Capirci, Anita Slonimska and Asli Ozyurek
17.00-17.45	Title TBC
Corrine Occhino
17.45-18.00	Closing
	

Poster presentations
•	A Role and Reference Grammar characterisation of Irish Sign Language verbs -Irene Murtagh
•	A sociolinguistic corpus-based investigation of Irish Sign Language grammatical classes -Robert Smith
•	First person reference in Cambodian Sign Language -Tashi Bradford
•	Grammatization processes in Italian Sign Language: How social action shapes grammar -Sabina Fontana
•	Historical roots of Czech Sign Language – Etymology of signs -Lenka Okrouhlíková
•	Metaphor in sign languages: Case study of Russian Sign Language verbs of cognition and emotions -Maria Kyuseva and Vadim Kimmelman
•	Multi-verb constructions and argument structure in Spanish Sign Language -Carmen Cabeza and Jose M. Garcia-Miguel
•	Special signs? Benefits from a functional analysis -Ulrike Wrobel
•	Teaching sign language through cross-modality development potential -Luigi Lerose
•	The emergence of spatial conventions in artificial sign languages -Yasamin Motamedi, Marieke Schouwstra, Jennifer Culbertson, Kenny Smith and Simon Kirby
•	The one, true native signer -Rannveig Sverrisdóttir
•	Topicalisation and rhetorical questions in South African Sign Language: A radical Construction Grammar approach -Donovan Wright
•	What Is polysemy? What counts as a distinct sense? Metaphors in Japanese Sign Language -Nozomi Tomita