LINGUIST List 15.2313

Mon Aug 16 2004

Calls: General Ling/MI, USA; Pragmatics

Editor for this issue: Amy Wronkowicz <amylinguistlist.org>

Directory

1. kazukoh, Michigan Linguistic Society
2. promotion, Pragmatics & Cognition

Michigan Linguistic Society 

Date: 16-Oct-2004 - 16-Oct-2004
Location: Flint, MI, United States of America
Contact: Kazuko Hiramatsu
Contact Email: linguisticsumflint.edu 
Meeting URL: http://spruce.flint.umich.edu/~kazukoh/mls 

Linguistic Sub-field: General Linguistics 
Call Deadline: 01-Sep-2004 

Final Call for Papers

Annual Meeting of the Michigan Linguistic Society 

Saturday, October 16, 2004 
University of Michigan-Flint 

Keynote speaker: Lisa Green, University of TX "Theory and Practice:
Research on African American English and Application in Educational
Contexts"

Abstracts are invited for 20 minute talks (with 5 minute discussion)
in all areas of linguistics.

Submission guidelines 
Title + 500 word abstract (excluding references)
On separate page (or in body of email message): name, abstract title,
affiliation, email address

- Email submission strongly encouraged. 
Attach abstract as Word or
pdf file. Non-standard fonts should be avoided. The file name of your
abstract should be a shortened version of your title.

- Alternatively, mail 3 copies of your abstract to: 
MLS 2004 
English Department 
University of Michigan-Flint 
303 E. Kearsley St. 
Flint, MI 48502-1950 

Submission deadline: September 1, 2004 
Notification of acceptance: September 16, 2004 

Registration and other conference information will be available on the
conference website: http://spruce.flint.umich.edu/~kazukoh/mls

For further information about the University of Michigan-Flint:
http://www.umflint.edu

Questions? Send email to linguisticsumflint.edu or call the English
department at 810-762-3285.

Pragmatics & Cognition 	

Call Deadline: 31 Dec 2004 

CALL FOR PAPERS

First special issue in the series Cognition and Technology: New
Technologies and the Pragmatics of Cognition

Editors: Marcelo Dascal and Itiel Dror

For full details, see:
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~id/technologySI1.html

Unlike the Cartesian mind, whose cognitive activity was allegedly
performed in isolation from the external world, today it is widely
acknowledged that cognition is intertwined in the external context and
extremely sensitive to it. In this sense, it is typically a pragmatic
phenomenon. It is also widely recognized today that the technological
environment became a major component of the context within which
cognition occurs. Technology's interaction with cognition is
so extensive that it perhaps changes the nature of cognition itself.

This first of a series of special issues of Pragmatics & Cognition
devoted to the relationships between technologies and cognition will
explore the role of technology, particularly of the new
cognition-related technologies, as an important factor to be taken
into account in the pragmatics of cognition. We are calling for papers
analyzing specific examples of such a role as well as discussing the
broader implications of the pace and nature of technological
innovation to the evolution of cognition. Whereas the following
special issues will be each focused on a special kind of technology
and/or cognitive process, this opening issue welcomes contributions
dealing with the cognition-technology interface in any area. It also
encourages submissions discussing the scientific, technological,
philosophical, and human significance of the coming together of
cognition and technology.

Deadline for submissions: 31 December 2004

Publication: Summer 2005

Send submissions jointly to:

dascalpost.tau.ac.il and idecs.soton.ac.uk
Marcelo Dascal Itiel Dror
Philosophy Psychology
Tel-Aviv University Southampton University
P.O.B. 39040 Southampton SO17 1BJ
Ramat Aviv, Tel-Aviv United Kingdom
Israel 69978