LINGUIST List 20.410
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Mon Feb 09 2009
Calls: Historical Ling/Netherlands; Socioling,Cognitive Science/Germany
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1. Muriel
Norde,
Current Trends in Grammaticalization Research
2. Martin
Pütz,
Cognitive Sociolinguistics
Message 1: Current Trends in Grammaticalization Research
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Date: 08-Feb-2009
From: Muriel Norde <m.norderug.nl>
Subject: Current Trends in Grammaticalization Research
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Full Title: Current Trends in Grammaticalization Research
Short Title: CTGR2009
Date: 08-Oct-2009 - 09-Oct-2009
Location: Groningen, Netherlands
Contact Person: Muriel Norde
Meeting Email: grammaticalizationrug.nl
Web Site:
http://www.rug.nl/let/onderzoek/onderzoekinstituten/clcg/events/currenttrends/index
Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
Call Deadline: 15-Apr-2009
Meeting Description:
'Current Trends in Grammaticalization Research' is a two-day workshop on new
developments in theorizing about grammaticalization and related phenomena.
Call for Papers
The study of grammaticalization and related phenomena continues to be a thriving
branch of historical linguistics. Where the 1990s and the beginning of the 21st
century witnessed a special interest in definitional issues, recent theorizing
has been focusing on a synthesis of grammaticalization studies and other
disciplines, such as psycholinguistics, contact linguistics, and Construction
Grammar. These novel perspectives, based on an increasing body of data
(including work from non-Indo-European languages), provoke new and interesting
questions about the very nature of grammaticalization, degrammaticalization, and
lexicalization.
This two-day workshop aims to bring together theoretical and empirical
approaches to grammaticalization, degrammaticalization, and lexicalization, and
we therefore welcome both theoretical and data-oriented submissions. Topics
include (but are not restricted to): the grammaticalization-lexicalization
interface; the status of pragmaticalization; contact-induced grammaticalization;
psycholinguistic approaches to directional tendencies; grammaticalization,
degrammaticalization, and lexicalization within a constructional framework.
Plenary Speakers
We are pleased to announce the following plenary speakers:
Nikolaus Himmelmann, University of Münster
Tania Kuteva, University of Düsseldorf
Graeme Trousdale, University of Edinburgh
Jacqueline Visconti, University of Genova
Abstracts
We invite abstracts for 30-minute papers (including ten minutes discussion
time). Abstracts should not exceed a maximum of 400 words, including references.
Please note that the deadline for abstract submission is April 15, 2009.
Notification of acceptance will be sent out by May 15, 2009. For more
information about abstract submission please see our website.
Registration
Early registration (until July 1, 2009) is 75 Euro. Late or on-site registration
will be 100 Euro. Early registration for (graduate) students is 45 euro, late
registration 60 euro. Please bring some kind of identification to prove that you
are a student. The fee includes the workshop package, reception, coffee, tea,
and lunches. The workshop dinner will have to be paid for separately. More
information about payment (bank transfer only) will be posted on our website as
soon as possible.
Venue
The workshop will be held at the University of Groningen. The city of Groningen
is situated in the North of the Netherlands and is easily accessible by train
(with direct trains to and from Schiphol Airport running every hour). The
University's Faculty of Arts is conveniently located in the city centre, with
all main attractions within walking distance. Please visit our website (see URL
below) for information about travel and accommodation.
Contact
The workshop is organized by Karin Beijering, Alexandra Lenz, and Muriel Norde.
Workshop e-mail: grammaticalizationrug.nl
Workshop URL:
http://www.rug.nl/let/onderzoek/onderzoekinstituten/clcg/events/currenttrends/index
Message 2: Cognitive Sociolinguistics
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Date: 08-Feb-2009
From: Martin Pütz <Puetzuni-landau.de>
Subject: Cognitive Sociolinguistics
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Full Title: Cognitive Sociolinguistics
Short Title: Internat. LAUD Symposium
Date: 15-Mar-2010 - 18-Mar-2010
Location: Landau/Pf., Germany
Contact Person: Martin Pütz
Meeting Email: Puetzuni-landau.de
Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Cognitive Science;
Sociolinguistics
Call Deadline: 15-Jun-2009
Meeting Description:
34th International LAUD Symposium
Cognitive Sociolinguistics
Language variation in its structural, conceptual and cultural dimensions
Location:
University of Koblenz-Landau,
Landau/Pf., Germany
Date: March 15-18, 2010
First Call for Papers
Call Deadline: June 15, 2009
Confirmed Speakers
Main Keynote Speaker
William Labov (University of Pennsylvania)
Plenary Speakers
Penelope Eckert (Stanford University)
Dirk Geeraerts (University of Leuven)
Stefan Gries (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Peter Harder (University of Copenhagen)
Gitte Kristiansen (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
Dennis R. Preston (Michigan State University)
Aim and scope:
Within Cognitive Linguistics and other cognitively oriented approaches to
language there is a growing interest for language variation in all its
dimensions, as witnessed by several publications, most recently by the
landmark-fixing collective volume Cognitive Sociolinguistics (2008), edited by
Gitte Kristiansen and René Dirven.
In the past decades, linguistic analyses within Cognitive Linguistics or other
cognitively oriented theories were all too often carried out at the level of 'a
general, uniform language', disregarding the rich and complex patterns of
intralingual and communicative variation in that language. Such a shallow level
of granularity ultimately amounts to that of a homogeneous and thus idealized
speech community, reminiscent of Chomsky's ideal speaker-hearer. To the extent
that Cognitive Linguistics takes its claim of being a usage-based approach to
language and cognition seriously, it cannot continue to work with an implicitly
assumed conception of language being situated taxonomically at an almost
Chomskyan level of abstraction.
Cognitive Sociolinguistic research fills this gap in an enriched manner, by
combining the CL theoretical framework with the empirical methods used in
sociolinguistics and social science at large.
The LAUD symposium is planning to explore the different facets of this emerging
coalescence between cognitive, usage-based approaches to language and a
sociolinguistic interest in language-internal variation in 4 theme sessions,
each addressing one of the following questions:
1. How do social and cognitive perspectives fit together in a general, overall
model of language?
2. To what extent is usage-based language variation socially structured, and how
is such language-internal variation represented in the individual language
user's (implicit or explicit) knowledge?
3. How does language-internal variation affect the conceptual aspects of
language, i.e. linguistic meaning and linguistic categorization?
4. How does language variation interact with cultural models in a linguistic
community? Does language variation follow from cultural models, or just reflect
them or, on the contrary, determine them?
Theme Session 1:
Social factors as foundational issues in a theory of language
The first session examines the role of social factors in the conception of
language as such: to what extent should the social nature of language play a
role in the linguist's conception of the linguistic system - and in the
individual language user's acquisition and knowledge of the language? If we
abandon the simplification of an ideal speaker-hearer, what are the descriptive
consequences: what models and methodologies should we use to get a grip on the
interaction between social usage and individual knowledge of the language?
In the context of this theme, we invite abstracts on topics like the following:
- The social status of linguistic facts
- Variability and the linguistic system
- Linguistic norms, rules and behavior
- The ideal and the real speaker-hearer
- Situated cognition and the distribution of (linguistic) knowledge
- Social and individual usage: models, methods and research questions
- The treatment of social factors and variation in the history of (cognitive)
linguistics
Theme Session 2:
Structural variation from a usage-based perspective
How are lectal variation, linguistic change, and language acquisition affected
by taking a usage-based approach to language? Usage-based and meaning-based
models of grammar introduce more variation into the grammar than a rule-based
approach tends to do: the language-internal or discourse-related factors that
influence the use of a particular construction may be manifold, and the presence
or absence of a construction is not an all-or-none matter. In the analysis of
this type of variation, it often appears that the variation is co-determined by
'external', sociostylistic factors: the variation that appears in actual usage
(e.g. as attested in corpora) may be determined simultaneously by grammatical,
discursive, and socio-stylistic factors. Furthermore, awareness (of linguistic
factors and social dimensions) also plays a role in successful
conceptualisation, together with structured patterns of subjective and objective
perception.
In the context of this theme, we invite abstracts on topics like the following:
- Cognitive linguistics and sociolinguistics
- Cognitive linguistics and dialectology
- Cognitive linguistics and stylistics
- Cognitive linguistics and discourse analysis
- Linguistic variation and multidimensional research
- Usage-based mechanisms of language change
- Exemplar-based models of language variation
- Lectal and interactional factors in language acquisition
- Perceptual dialectology and production
- Subjective and objective linguistic distances
- Language attitude research and quantitative data
- Linguistic variation and varieties: expert analysis versus folk perception
- Folk perception of bilingualism and multilingualism
Theme Session 3:
Conceptual variation in language-internal
and cross-linguistic categorization preferences
To what extent do the phenomena that we typically focus on in Cognitive
Linguistics and other meaning-related approaches - phenomena involving meaning
and categorization - exhibit variation within the same linguistic community?
Both the concept of semantic flexibility (as in prototype theory and radial
networks) and the concept of cultural models played an important role in the
emergence of Cognitive Linguistics, but this usage-based variation of meaning
and categorization is not standardly analyzed from a socio-stylistic point of view.
In the context of this theme, we invite abstracts on topics like the following:
- Lectal variation of cognitive models and metaphorical mappings
- Lectal variation within prototype-based structures and radial networks
- Prototypes, stereotypes, and the division of linguistic labour
- Intralinguistic semantic conflicts and their resolution
- The relation between language variation and cognition within a single language
- Dialectal and sociolectal variation of meaning
- Styles and registers as categories of meaning
- The linguistic construal of identities as meaning creation
- Social cognition, social categorization and interactional sociolinguistics
Theme session 4:
Cultural models and cultural variation of cognitive models
Within Cognitive Linguistic research on cognitive models, there is a creative
tension between scholars emphasizing the universal aspects of cognitive models
and those pointing to the historical and cultural variability of such models.
But the variability is often considered from a cross-cultural perspective only,
without specific attention for the language-internal or culture-internal
variability of cultural models. So, how does variability of cultural and
cognitive models work within a community, and how does it interact with
variability of language and language use? In particular, what are the cultural
models that people use to think about language variation and language-related
social variation?
In the context of this theme, we invite abstracts on topics like the following:
- Cultural models and their interaction with Idealized Cognitive Models
- Universalism and (historical, cultural, anthropological) variability of
cognitive models
- Competition and conflict between cultural models
- Cultural models and ideology
- Critical-linguistic approaches such as Critical Cognitive Linguistics, and
cognitively inspired Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA)
- Cultural models of social variation
- Cultural models of language variation, and their consequences for language
planning and language policy
- Language-based social stereotyping
Conference Fees
The conference fee is EUR 75 payable on arrival.
Submission of Abstracts
Submissions are solicited for theme session presentations which should last for
20-25 minutes with 5-10 minutes for questions (maximum 30 minutes total).
All submissions for presentations should follow the following abstract guidelines:
The deadline for abstracts is June 15, 2009.
The address for submitting the abstracts is Martin Pütz
Puetzuni-landau.de
Abstracts should be no more than 500 words.
The subject header of your email should include:
Abstract LAUD 2010 - name/s.
Please include the following information in the main body of your email:
name of author/s, affiliation, email address, presentation title.
Please also state for which of the 4 theme sessions, as listed above, your
contribution is intended.
Notification of acceptance will be given by June 30, 2009.
Local Conference Organizer
Martin Pütz
Email: Puetzuni-landau
University of Koblenz-Landau
FB 6 Institut für Fremdsprachliche Philologien
Fach Anglistik
Marktstr. 40
76829 Landau/Pf.
Germany
PH: ++49-(0)6341-146-204
Fax: ++49-(0)6341-146-200
Organizing Committee Members
René Dirven
Dirk Geeraerts
Gitte Kristiansen
Martin Pütz
Monika Reif
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