LINGUIST List 21.4226 Sat Oct 23 2010 Calls: Cog Sci, Psycholing, Socioling/Spain 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.     Bert Cornillie , Cognition and Context Message 1: Cognition and Context Date: 21-Oct-2010 From: Bert Cornillie <slearts.kuleuven.be> Subject: Cognition and Context E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: Cognition and Context Date: 08-Sep-2011 - 11-Sep-2011 Location: Logroño (La Rioja), Spain Contact Person: Dylan Glynn Meeting Email: Dylan.Glynnenglund.lu.se Web Site: http://207.7.80.161/~glynnnet/cognition_context.html Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Psycholinguistics; Sociolinguistics Call Deadline: 12-Nov-2010 Meeting Description: Cognition and Context. Empirical approaches to social cognition and emergent language structure This workshop seeks to bring together cognitive and functional linguists applying empirical methods to the analysis of situated language use, emergent language structure and socio-cognitive processes conditioning communication. Social Cognition, intersubjectivity, and emergent grammar have enjoyed a great deal of attention in recent years. Pioneering work such as Langacker (1990, 2001), Stein & Wright (1995), Nuyts (2000), Kärkkäinen (2003), Givón (2005), Verhagen (2005), Athanasiadou & al. (2006), Cornillie (2007), Zlatev & al. (2008), Hol?ánová (2008), and Pishwa (2009) (inter alia) belongs to a diverse and growing field of research that crosses the traditional boundaries of language science, psychology, and sociology. This workshop endeavours to advance the state of the art by developing the methods used in the field. The term social cognition refers to the speaker's sensitivity to and competence in communication. An emergent understanding of linguistic structure places situated usage events at the heart of linguistic research. It follows that the study of usage events necessarily entails the study of interaction and variation. In this light, contextualised communicative behaviour patterns are seen as clues to language structure, which, in turn, is taken as an index of cognition. As the implications of this theoretical and analytical move are becoming better understood, we need to descriptive techniques that can capture such structure. This workshop focuses on empirical methods for the description of emergent language structure. Research Topics Examples of research topics include (but are not restricted to): - Construal - Constructions - Epistemic stance - Instantiation - Intersubjectivity - Social Cognition - Subjectification - Variation Empirical Methods The workshop is open to all empirical methods. The use of more than one method is also highly appreciated. The kinds of empirical approaches in question include (but are not restricted to): - corpus analysis - psycholinguistic experimentation - elicitation and attitudinal studies - computational techniques Theoretical Questions Examples of theoretical questions that studies may inform include (but are not restricted to): - How does language use reflect socio-cognitive organisation? - How does language use reflect language structure? - How does socio-cultural context condition inter- and intra-lingual variation? - How can we investigate social cognition empirically? Call For Papers Short proposal (100words) deadline: 12 November, 2010 Notification date: 15 November, 2010 Full abstract submission deadline: 12 January 2011 Abstract Proposals Total length, including references should not exceed 100 words. This is not an abstract, it is a proposal for an abstract. Please submit proposals in txt., .rtf or .doc (not .docx, .pdf, .ps, or LaTeX). The submission date is 12 Nov. 2010. Full Abstracts The abstract will be 500 words including references and submitted in txt., .rtf or .doc (not .docx, .pdf, .ps, or LaTeX). The submission date is 12 Jan. 2011. Email subject: Cognition and Context Dylan Glynn: dylan.glynnenglund.lu.se Karolina Krawczak: karolinaifa.amu.edu.pl Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 23-Oct-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.