LINGUIST List 15.1410

Tue May 4 2004

Calls: Cognitive Science/UK; History of Ling/Cyprus

Editor for this issue: Marie Klopfenstein <marielinguistlist.org>

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1. mg246, EMCL: A Workshop on Image-Schemas and Linguistic Relativity
2. schmipe, 17th International Conference of the SGdS

EMCL: A Workshop on Image-Schemas and Linguistic Relativity 
Short Title: Image Schemas, Relativity 

Date: 17-Jul-2004 - 17-Jul-2004
Location: Portsmouth, United Kingdom
Contact: Monica Gonzalez-Marquez
Contact Email: mg246cornell.edu 

Linguistic Sub-field: Psycholinguistics, Semantics, Sociolinguistics,
Cognitive Science, Language Acquisition
Call Deadline: 05-May-2004

This is a session of the following conference: International
Conference on Language, Culture and Mind

Meeting Description:

2nd Call for abstracts

EMCL (Empirical Methods in Cognitive Linguistics): A Workshop on
Image-Schemas and Linguistic Relativity

July 17, 2004

University of Portsmouth, UK
To precede the Language, Culture, and Mind conference (July 18-20)

In cognitive linguistics, image schemas are pre-linguistic cognitive
structures, arising from universal aspects of how the human body
interacts with its environment, both physical and social, and existing
largely outside of conscious awareness. It follows that image schemas
are the same for everyone, regardless of the language a person
speaks. In contrast, the idea of linguistic relativity maintains that
language influences thought. The goal of the workshop is to scrutinize
assumptions surrounding image-schemas and linguistic relativity in an
attempt to elucidate (and resolve) the conflict between the two
research areas.

We invite submissions from researchers working in either or both
areas, and are especially interested in experimental approaches to the
issues. Please send a 500 word anonymous abstract as an attachment in
text format to Monica Gonzalez-Marquez at mg246cornell.edu

Deadline: May 5, 2004
Notification of acceptance: May 20, 2004

Organising Committee:

Stanka Fitneva
Monica Gonzalez-Marquez
Stephanie Pourcel
Joerg Zinken

* Empirical Methods in Cognitive Linguistics 

17th International Conference of the SGdS 

Date: 11-Feb-2005 - 13-Feb-2005
Location: Nicosia, Cyprus
Contact: Peter Schmitter
Contact Email: schmipeuni-muenster.de 
Meeting URL: http://home.t-online.de/home/dutz.nodus/03-rb.htm 

Linguistic Sub-field: History of Linguistics
Call Deadline: 31-Aug-2004

Meeting Description:

International conference on the history of linguistics 17th
International Conference on the history of linguistics and on
metahistoriography, organized by the German Association for the
History of Linguistics (Studienkreis Geschichte der
Sprachwissenschaft, SGdS). This conference is open to any topic
related to the historiography of the language sciences. Abstracts
should be submitted to Professor Peter Schmitter before August 31,
2004.