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uni-landau.de>CALL FOR PAPERS Circular No. 1 29th International LAUD Symposium University of Koblenz-Landau in Landau, Germany March 25-28, 2002 THE LANGUAGE OF POLITICO-SOCIAL IDEOLOGIES Of the many possible types of ideology, the symposium wants to concentrate - for reasons of methodology - on one major category, namely, politico-social ideologies. It is hoped that the symposium will be a meeting ground for cognitive linguistics, critical linguistics and ecolinguistics. Hereby 'ideology' is taken in the sense of Hodge & Kress, Language as Ideology (1993: 6): ... language, typically, is immersed in the ongoing life of a society, as the practical consciousness of the society... We can call it ideology, defining 'ideology' as a systematic body of ideas, organised from a particular point of view. Ideology is thus a subsuming category which includes sciences and metaphysics, as well as political ideologies of various kinds, without implying anything about their status and reliability as guides to reality. Some of the important questions to be discussed in 3 sections are the following: Section 1: The linguistic and conceptual interplay between language and ideology The most fundamental question seems to be whether there is any conceptual connection between language and politics, whereby politics is broadly conceived as the political organisation, social welfare and well-being of a people or culture. The success of a multi-disciplinary discourse appears to rest on some common understanding of the data under consideration. In the case of ideology without any link to language, those data seem quite difficult to identify. With the combined analysis of language and ideology, the task is somewhat easier: we are looking at language constructed for some ideological purpose. What is then the relationship between language and ideology? Is language a core element in any ideology? To what extent can we say that an ideology cannot arise, exist and spread without language?. Section 2: The form and function of politico-social ideologies in spoken and written texts To what extent can politico-social ideologies be called a question of lexical structures and networks and what other resources of language are the unconscious or conscious instruments by which ideologies thrive and are propagated? Do competing ideologies use identical or similar labeling and metaphors and do these ideological discourses display linguistic, discursive, and rhetorical overlaps? This point of departure invites participants to dig analytically and critically into particular texts that have a perceivable ideological purpose. This work can be as data-driven as any other form of linguistic analysis. Section 3: The role of grammar and cultural models in ideology Is the grammar of a language a value-free resource leading to universally valid representations of an objective world, or does it on the contrary impose a number of biases in the perception of the world, of humankind's place in it, of men's relation to women or vice versa, of cultural communities' relations to their own members, to other communities, and to a possible world order? Cultural models reflected by language and reflecting different world views seem to contradict the idea that grammar is value-free and that it leads to universally valid representations of an objective world. Indirectly linked to all this are ecolinguistic questions such as the dominance of European languages in the world, colonialism, English as a global language, and linguistic imperialism In summary, whereas the main purpose of the symposium is to raise the issue of convergence between language and politics in general and to discuss a number of politico-social ideologies in particular, it is also clear that the methodological questions raised here are part and parcel of the methodology of the analyses themselves and can, in some way or other, become an integral part of the analyses brought forward. This interdisciplinary approach includes intercultural analyses and invites the participation of scholars representing both dominant (Western) and so-called marginal (non-Western) languages, cultures and ideologies from around the world. ABSTRACT DEADLINE Deadline for submission of abstracts is July 15, 2001 Abstracts of max. 500 words (one page), including a choice of one of the three main sections/themes, should be sent by email to each of the following, from whom further information can be obtained: Martin P�tz puetzMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
cs.cmu.edu>TMI 2002 - Call for Papers The 9th Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation March 13 - 17, 2002 Keihanna, Japan The ninth meeting of the TMI conference will be held March 13-17, 2002 near the historic cities of Nara and Kyoto in Japan. The workshops and tutorials will be held jointly with the Natural Language Processing Society, Japan. Important Dates: - -------------- Paper Submissions: October 15, 2001 (Monday) Acceptance notification: December 10, 2001 (Monday) Camera-ready copies due: January 25, 2002 (Friday) Submission Guidelines: - -------------------- Authors are invited to submit substantial, original, and unpublished research on any issues relevant to machine translation. Papers should be in English, not longer than 10 pages (around 5,000 words), including references. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: MT for the Web Practical MT (multilingual eCommerce, localization, etc.) Methodologies for MT (statistical, example-based, KBMT, ...) Speech and dialogue translation NLP techniques for MT Knowledge acquisition for MT systems MT evaluation techniques and evaluation results MT for cross-lingual retrieval and question answering Format & Style Files: - ------------------- Your paper should be prepared according to the following guidelines (for authors using LaTeX, there is a style file tmi02.cls available, which comes with a pair of style files for formatting examples, gb4e.sty and cgloss4e.sty. See http://sevilla.mt.cs.cmu.edu/TMI2002/cfp.html ): -The font size should be no smaller than 11pt, and the paper size should be A4. -TMI uses an anonymous review process. Therefore, all papers should be submitted with a separate author ID page (in a separate file) that includes only the title of the paper, the topic area, and the author name(s) and address(es). The paper itself should begin with the title and an abstract, but should not include the names or addresses of the authors. -Papers should be submitted as .pdf files only. All papers will be submitted electronically; authors must first register before uploading papers to the program committee database (details coming soon on the Author Resource page). For bibliographic references, if the author's name(s) is/are part of the text, then only the date should be in brackets. E.g. "Huddleston (1988) introduced the term ...", not "(Huddleston 1988) introduced the term ..." -Make sure your figures are not wider than the text. Don't forget to use italics for cited words, and double quotes for glosses. If you cite non-Roman script please cite as follows: NON-EUROPEAN transliteration "gloss" (the transliteration should be in italics). Program Committee: - ---------------- Teruko Mitamura & Eric Nyberg (co-chairs) Carnegie Mellon Timothy Baldwin CSLI Christian Boitet Universit,Ai(B Joseph Fourier Andrew Bredenkamp University of Essex Lynn Carlson U.S. Department of Defense Satoru Ikehara Tottori University Hitoshi Isahara CRL Japan Kevin Knight USC-ISI Satoshi Sato Kyoto University Harold Somers UMIST Koichi Takeda TRL-IBM Hideki Tanaka ATR TMI 2002 Officers: - ---------------- Program Committee Chairs: Teruko Mitamura and Eric Nyberg, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Publicity and Local Arrangements: Francis Bond and Hiromi Nakaiwa, NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Kyoto, Japan General Chair: Sergei Nirenburg, Computing Research Lab, NMSU, USA Locations and Times: - ------------------ TMI-2002 Papers and Panels (March 13-15 (Wed-Fri), 2002) NTT Communication Science Laboratories, NTT Keihanna building 2-4, Hikaridai, Seika-cho, Soraku-gun, Kyoto, Japan, 619-0237 Workshops/Tutorials (March 16-17 (Sat-Sun), 2002) Keihanna Plaza, 1-7, Hikaridai, Seika-cho, Soraku-gun, Kyoto, Japan, 619-0237 TMI 2002 Home Page: http://www.kecl.ntt.co.jp/events/tmi/ TMI 2002 CFP: http://sevilla.mt.cs.cmu.edu/TMI2002/cfp.html Questions for CFP? Please contact terukoMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue