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LINGUIST List 16.2572

Tue Sep 06 2005

Calls: Historical Ling/USA; General Ling/Tunisia

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        1.    Wolfram R. Keller, Otherness and Othering: The Hybridization of English Mythology and Identity
        2.    Lazhar Zanned, Cognitive Linguistics and Arabic language


Message 1: Otherness and Othering: The Hybridization of English Mythology and Identity
Date: 05-Sep-2005
From: Wolfram R. Keller <kellerwstaff.uni-marburg.de>
Subject: Otherness and Othering: The Hybridization of English Mythology and Identity



Full Title: Otherness and Othering: The Hybridization of English Mythology and Identity

Date: 04-May-2006 - 07-May-2006
Location: Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA
Contact Person: Wendy Marie Hoofnagle
Meeting Email: < click here to access email >

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Ling & Literature; Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): English

Language Family(ies): English

Call Deadline: 15-Sep-2005

Meeting Description:

Otherness and Othering: The Hybridization of English Mythology and Identity

Because a great deal of recent focus among those concerned with Insular history and literature has surrounded the development of ''nationhood'' and later medieval definitions of ''selfhood,'' the debate surrounding medieval identity constructs has become a vital and lively component of a broad range of scholarship. Further discussion is necessary to better understand the role of Otherness and Othering in the formation of Englishness, especially its function in historiographic writing and how these discourses ''hybridize'' international mythologies and appropriate cultural structures in the process of genealogy formation. Because of the fluid genres of medieval writing, however, historical discourse is not limited to chronicles but embraces many forms of retrospective texts, including hagiography, epic poetry and even romance. This session would regenerate the debate that floundered in the wake of English nationalism and reconsider medieval English identity development, emphasizing the transformative potential of medieval nationhood and including such topics as imperialism, self-fashioning, and community formations, especially in light of recent findings in Postcolonial criticism.



Message 2: Cognitive Linguistics and Arabic language
Date: 05-Sep-2005
From: Lazhar Zanned <zanned_lazharyahoo.fr>
Subject: Cognitive Linguistics and Arabic language



Full Title: Cognitive Linguistics and Arabic language
Short Title: CLAL1

Date: 23-Feb-2006 - 25-Feb-2006
Location: Manouba, Tunis, Tunisia
Contact Person: Lazhar Zanned
Meeting Email: < click here to access email >

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; General Linguistics; Linguistic Theories; Pragmatics

Subject Language(s): Arabic, Standard

Language Family(ies): Afroasiatic

Meeting Description:

Cognitive Linguistics and Arabic Language first international conference (Tunisia, 23-25 February 2006).

Cognitive linguistics and Arabic Language ( CLAL1)
23-25 Fabruary 2006

Faculty of Literature, Humanities and Arts
University of Manouba, Tunisia

Within the last three decades Cognitive Sciences have revolutionized almost every aspect of Humanities. Cognitive Linguistics elaborated new theoretical approaches to language that brought interesting insights in dealing with language faculty. These insights have to be applied to a variety of linguistic phenomena and a variety of languages so their scope may be enlarged and their principles may be enriched. In recent years, the Cognitive Linguistics and Arabic Language research group ( CLAL) at the Faculty of Literature, Humanities and Arts, University of Manouba, (Tunisia) has been working on issues related to Arabic Grammar ( CA, MSA, Colloquial) in the light of cognitive linguistic theories. The analysis of the data shows some divergent aspects related to the pecularities of Arabic Grammar.
This challenging project needs to be continued and strengthened and the range of investigations needs to be widened. The purpose of the first international confernece CLAL1 is to give different scholars working on Cognition and Arabic the opportunity to meet, to discuss theoretical and descriptive issues related to Arabic Grammar and to elaborate new perspectives.

Papers related to one or more of the following aspects of Arabic Cognitive Linguistics are particularly invited for submissions:
-cognitive approaches to Phonology and/or Morphology.
-cognitive approaches to Semantics, Lexicon, Lexical semantics...
-cognitive approaches to Discourse,Pragmatics and Culture...
-cognitive approaches to Poetics, Metaphor...

Conference format:
The conference will run over three days. Presentations should last for 30 minutes with 10 minutes for questions. Languages of the conference are : Arabic, French, English.

Conference Venue :
The conference will be held at the university of Manouba ( 20 minutes away from Tunis). Informations related to accomodation, registration, transportation and other parallel activities (social, cultural) will be sent with the notification of acceptance.

Submission of Abstracts:
Abstracts are to be sent as an email attachment. Submissions should follow the guidelines below:
- Abstracts of one page ( 500 words) should be submitted to : clal_oneyahoo.fr
- Abstracts must be in 12 point font, in Word, RTF or PDF format.
- Abstracts should clearly indicate : the title of the presentation, the theoretical framework, the data, the way it is dealt with , the main results and the references.
- In the body of the email message, please include the following informations: name, title, affiliation, email address, telephone n°, fax n° if available, postal address, talk title.

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE : DECEMBER 31, 2005.
NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE: JANUARY 15th, 2006.





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