LINGUIST List 22.2874 Wed Jul 13 2011 Confs: Cog Sci, Historical ling, Socioling, Psycholing/Switzerland Editor for this issue: Zac Smith <zaclinguistlist.org> New! Visit LL's Multitree project for over 1000 trees dynamically generated from scholarly hypotheses about language relationships:             http://multitree.linguistlist.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.     Ruprecht von Waldenfels , Cognitive Processes and Social Factors in Language Variation Message 1: Cognitive Processes and Social Factors in Language Variation Date: 13-Jul-2011 From: Ruprecht von Waldenfels <waldenfelsissl.unibe.ch> Subject: Cognitive Processes and Social Factors in Language Variation E-mail this message to a friend Cognitive Processes and Social Factors in Language Vari Date: 16-Sep-2011 - 17-Sep-2011 Location: Berne, Switzerland Contact: Ruprecht von Waldenfels Contact Email: < click here to access email > Meeting URL: http://www.csls.unibe.ch/content/workshop2011/index_ger.html Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Historical Linguistics; Psycholinguistics; Sociolinguistics Language Family(ies): Germanic; Romance; Slavic; Uralic Meeting Description: Cognitive Processes and Social Factors in Language Variation and Change (Bern University, September 16-17, 2011) The aim of the workshop is to bring together two traditionally distinct lines of research related to the study of variation in language use, one being concerned with social factors and the other one dealing with individual cognitive mechanisms. In this context, theoretical approaches and empirical results on the interplay of both sets of factors are of particular interest, e.g., the social modulation of cognitive processing in linguistic interaction, or the individual mediation of societal influences on language use. The workshop is jointly organized by linguists from the Romance, Slavic, German and General Linguistics departments. It is intended as a small-scale 2-day meeting that brings together experienced and novice colleagues from different countries. Confirmed guest speakers: Holly Branigan (University of Edinburgh) Morten H. Christiansen (Cornell University) Dirk Geeraerts (Universiteit Leuven) For further information and contact details please visit the workshop website: http://www.csls.unibe.ch/content/workshop2011/index_ger.html We are looking forward to your paper submissions (in form of abstracts of 300-500 words), ideally by the end of July 2011. Late proposals will also be considered. Papers which address issues of language variation and change from a sociolinguistic and/or psycholinguistic perspective are especially welcome. In case you would like to participate without contribution, we ask you to informally register by email. Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 13-Jul-2011       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.