LINGUIST List 21.3787 Mon Sep 27 2010 FYI: Workshop: Empirical Methods in Cognitive Linguistics 5.1 Editor for this issue: Brent Miller <brentlinguistlist.org> To post to LINGUIST, use our convenient web form at http://linguistlist.org/LL/posttolinguist.cfm. Directory         1.    Monica Gonzalez-Marquez, Workshop: Empirical Methods in Cognitive Linguistics 5.1 Message 1: Workshop: Empirical Methods in Cognitive Linguistics 5.1 Date: 27-Sep-2010 From: Monica Gonzalez-Marquez <mgonzalecit-ec.uni-bielefeld.de> Subject: Workshop: Empirical Methods in Cognitive Linguistics 5.1 E-mail this message to a friend Empirical Methods in Cognitive Linguistics 5.1 - Freiburg March 6 - 11, 2011 https://sites.google.com/site/emcl5freiburg/ Application deadline: December 15, 2010 We invite applications for the 5th Empirical Methods in Cognitive Linguistics workshop to be held in Freiburg, Germany, March 6 - 11, 2011. The goal of EMCL is to facilitate dialogue among language researchers with different methodological backgrounds, i.e. theorists, experimentalists, corpus linguists, etc. We do this by creating an environment where specialists learn from each other by developing a research project together where their various skills are combined. Intended audience: Language researchers with an embodiment, situated cognition and/or cognitive linguistics background. No prior experimental or corpus training is required though an understanding of the theoretical issues is necessary. Participants can be at different early stages in their careers, i.e. graduate students, post-grads, post-docs, junior faculty, etc. Format: During the course of a week, participants will join one of 5 hands-on mini-labs. Each mini-lab will be responsible for completing a joint research project. A select group of students (max. 8 per group for a total of 40) will be invited to participate. Each group will work with two researchers who will guide the group in selecting an idea for the group to investigate, structuring and organizing a research project, and carrying it out. The session will end with the presentation of findings and a general discussion. Topics to be covered include, - Deciding on a research topic - Transforming the research topic into a research question - Developing experimental hypotheses and designing an experiment - Data collection - Statistical analysis and interpretation - Presentation of findings to an audience Workshop Faculty Group 1: Rolf Zwaan University of Rotterdam Interests: The relationship between cognition and systems of perception, action, and emotion, language comprehension, Embodied cognition. http://www.brain-cognition.eu/index.html?personal.php?id=Zwaan Alan Cienki, Vrije Universiteit Interests: Cognitive linguistics, pragmatics, spoken language, gesture, political discourse, contrastive linguistics. http://www.let.vu.nl/en/about-the-faculty/academic-staff/staff-listed- alphabetically/staff-a-d/dr-a-cienki/index.asp Group 2: Kenny Coventry, Northumbria University Interests: Language and perception, spatial language, embodiment, decision making. http://kenny.coventry.googlepages.com/home Katharina Rohlfing, Bielefeld University Interests: Emergentist semantics, early literacy, human-machine interaction, rhetoric and communication. https://www.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/~rohlfing/website/data/index.html http://www.cit-ec.de/es Group 3: Lars Konieczny, University of Freiburg Interests: Theoretical, empirical, and computational psycholinguistics, eye-movements research, reading, spoken language comprehension in the visual-world-paradigm, spatial reasoning and wayfinding, cognitive modeling (ACT-R, connectionist modeling), embodied cognition. http://portal.uni-freiburg.de/cognition/Members/konieczny Michele Feist, University of Louisiana at Lafayette Interests: Lexical semantics, spatial language, psycholinguistics, acquisition of semantics, language and cognition. http://www.ucs.louisiana.edu/~mif8232/ Group 4: Seana Coulson, University of California, San Diego Interests: Conceptual blending, joke comprehension, metaphor, analogical reasoning, concept combination, sentence processing. http://www.cogsci.ucsd.edu/~coulson/ Panos Athanasopoulos, Bangor University Interests: Bilingualism and cognition, language and thought, emotion, language acquisition, conceptual development. http://www.bangor.ac.uk/linguistics/about/panos.php.en Group 5: Pia Knoeferle, Bielefeld University Interests: Influences of visual context on real-time language comprehension, picture-sentence verification, models and processing accounts of situated language comprehension. http://wwwhomes.uni-bielefeld.de/pknoeferle/Staff_PK/PK.html Anatol Stefanowitsch, University of Hamburg Interests: Encoding of motion events, second language research, construction grammar, quantitative corpus linguistics, metaphor, negative evidence. http://www1.uni-hamburg.de/stefanowitsch/ Accommodation: Accommodation at walking distance to the university will be arranged for all student participants. Cost will be ?20 per night. (We "may" receive funds to cover student accommodation, in which case all applicants will be notified.) Participation Fee: ?125, payable by bank transfer or upon arrival by prior arrangement. (This fee helps cover the costs of organization and faculty travel.) Application: To apply, please send the following by December 15, 2010. All materials must be submitted electronically to emcl5.freiburg (at) googlemail.com Please write 'application' in the subject line. 1. A maximum of two (2) pages, (1000 words), describing, - your background, - your reasons for wanting to participate, - the research group you would like to work in and why. Please include in this section a brief description of your research interests. All topics listed above must be addressed. Incomplete applications will not be reviewed. 2. A copy of your curriculum vitae. The application deadline is December 15, 2010. Accepted applicants will be notified on or before January 15, 2011. This workshop is supported by the FRIAS at Freiburg University (http://www.frias.uni-freiburg.de/), the research training group (GRK DFG 1624/1) Frequency Effects in Language (http://frequenz.uni-freiburg.de /abstract&language=de) and the DFG (pending) (www.dfg.de). Two (2) tuition scholarships will be awarded by lottery to students traveling from Eastern Europe and 3rd world countries. Please state in your application whether you would like to be included in the lottery. Please note: Attendance is strictly limited to invited participants. No exceptions will be made so as to preserve pedagogical integrity. EMCL 5.2 will be held in Chicago, USA, June 2011 with a different set of faculty. That notice will follow in January, 2011. EMCL 5 Organizing Committee: Monica Gonzalez-Marquez, Chair, Cornell University Martin Hilpert, University of Freiburg Pia Knoeferle, Bielefeld University Lars Konieczny, University of Freiburg Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science Psycholinguistics Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 27-Sep-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.