LINGUIST List 21.2272 Wed May 19 2010 Calls: Anthro Ling, Cog Sci, Typology/Tunisia Editor for this issue: Di Wdzenczny <dilinguistlist.org> LINGUIST is pleased to announce the launch of an exciting new feature: Easy Abstracts! Easy Abs is a free abstract submission and review facility designed to help conference organizers and reviewers accept and process abstracts online. Just go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/confcustom, and begin your conference customization process today! With Easy Abstracts, submission and review will be as easy as 1-2-3! Directory         1.    Sondes Hamdi, Space and Time in Languages and Literatures Message 1: Space and Time in Languages and Literatures Date: 18-May-2010 From: Sondes Hamdi <sondeshamdiyahoo.fr> Subject: Space and Time in Languages and Literatures E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: Space and Time in Languages and Literatures Date: 25-Nov-2010 - 26-Nov-2010 Location: Kef, Tunisia Contact Person: Sondes Hamdi Meeting Email: sondeshamdiyahoo.fr Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Cognitive Science; Typology Call Deadline: 15-Jun-2010 Meeting Description: Space and time, their conceptualization and the relationship between the two, have intrigued literature and linguistics for a long time. The objective of this conference is to gather presentations which deal with the expression of space and/or time in languages and literatures. The conference aims at exploring the issues of space, time and their interrelation from a linguistic and a literary perspective. With Time and Space in Languages, we aim to investigate issues related to the expression of time and space in natural languages. The topics could include, but are not restricted to, the following themes: -Typology with respect to the expression of spatial information in languages around the world, -Space as expressed and conceptualized in verbs of fictive motion, -Comparing the use of time and space in unrelated languages, - Prepositional semantics, -'Language universality' versus 'language variability' in the expressions and the conceptualizations of space and time. Space and Time in Literatures aims at bringing together presentations dealing with literary topics. Indeed, the expression of time and space in literature exceeds the simple notion of physical setting to take on psychological, social, spiritual, existential and transcendental dimensions. Novelists, playwrights and poets often make use of the symbolical dimension inherent in concepts of space and time to verbalize personalized issues of existence in the universe. Topics could include, but are not restricted to, the following themes: -Space and time in Modernist and Postmodernist literature, -Space and time in Existentialist literature and literature of the Absurd, -Expression of Feminism, femininity and gender through particular representations of space and time, -Space and time as an expression of individuality, nationality or humanity, -Psychological, social and existential entrapment as conveyed through representations of space and time in literature. Call For Papers For those interested in this conference, please send an abstract (a maximum of 300 words) and biographical information (name, affiliation, e- mail) to the contact person: sondeshamdiyahoo.fr The deadline for abstract submission is the 15th of June 2010. The conference will be held on the 25th and the 26th of November 2010 at the Higher Institute of Applied Studies in Humanities (I.S.E.A.H) in Kef- Tunisia. Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 19-May-2010       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.