LINGUIST List 14.2606

Mon Sep 29 2003

Confs: Cognitive Science/Portsmouth, UK

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1. jordan.zlatev, International Conference on Language, Culture and Mind

International Conference on Language, Culture and Mind 
Short Title: Language, Culture, & Mind

Date: 18-Jul-2004 - 20-Jul-2004
Location: Portsmouth, England, United Kingdom
Contact: Jordan Zlatev
Contact Email: jordan.zlatevling.lu.se 
Meeting URL: http://www.unifr.ch/gefi/GP2/Portsmouth/


Linguistic Sub-field: Cognitive Science 
Call Deadline: 15-Jan-2004


Meeting Description:

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.

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 include but are not limited to:

� Biological and cultural evolution and language
� 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

International Organizing Committee


� Carmen Guarddon Anelo, Nacional de Educaci�n a Distancia. Spain
� Raphael Berthele, Departement f�r Germanistik, Universit� de
Fribourg, Switzerland
� Maria Crist�bal, 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, Ume� University; Sweden
Local Organizing Committee, Department of Psychology, University of
Portsmouth, England

� Karl Nunkoosing
� Vasu Reddy
� Chris Sinha
� Vera da Silva
� Joerg Zinken

Deadlines

One page abstracts for 30-minute presentations should be submitted to
Jordan Zlatev (jordan.zlatevling.lu.se) by January 15,
2004. Notification of acceptance by March 15, 2004.


Abstracts will be reviewed by an international scientific committee,
to be announced in the second call for papers.