LINGUIST List 22.4092 Wed Oct 19 2011 Confs: Language Acquisition, Cognitive Science, General Ling/Netherlands Editor for this issue: Amy Brunett <brunettlinguistlist.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.     Paul Vogt , Workshop on Socio-cognitive Mechanisms of Symbolic Communication Message 1: Workshop on Socio-cognitive Mechanisms of Symbolic Communication Date: 19-Oct-2011 From: Paul Vogt <p.a.vogtuvt.nl> Subject: Workshop on Socio-cognitive Mechanisms of Symbolic Communication E-mail this message to a friend Workshop on Socio-cognitive Mechanisms of Symbolic Communication Date: 26-Jan-2012 - 26-Jan-2012 Location: Tilburg, Netherlands Contact: Paul Vogt Contact Email: < click here to access email > Meeting URL: http://ilk.uvt.nl/~paul/scmsc/ Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; General Linguistics; Language Acquisition Meeting Description: Call for Participation In contrast to other species, humans have the capacity to communicate symbolically (i.e. using forms that are either arbitrary or conventionalised) in an open fashion (i.e. with a very large repertoire of symbols, which in turn can be strung together according to some conventions and rules). It is widely accepted that our ability to communicate symbolically has both cognitive and social roots. In recent years, traditional approaches from humanities to study symbolic communication, such as linguistics and psychology, have been complemented by computational approaches. However, interactions between researchers from the humanities with computer modellers have been few and far between, perhaps due to a lack of mutual understanding of what each field can contribute to the other. This workshop inaugurates the 'Socio-cognitive mechanisms of symbolic communication' project, funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) within the Internationalisation of the Humanities programme. The objective of this project is to set up an open structural research network, which brings together researchers from various disciplines who investigate the socio-cognitive nature of symbolic communication. The objective of the network is to improve cross-fertilization between researchers from different disciplines by exchanging knowledge and experiences, and join forces to study communication multidisciplinary. This way, we aim to improve each other's research methods and investigate unifying properties of the socio-cognitive mechanisms underlying symbolic communication. At the workshop, the partners in this project and two keynote speakers will present about their research. If you wish to attend the workshop, register by sending an email to socog.symcomgmail.com. Registration fee is € 25 for regular participants, € 15 for students (to be paid in cash at the workshop). Seating is limited, so please register soon. Keynote speakers: Aylin Küntay (Koç University, Istanbul) Luc Steels (Vrije Universiteit Brussel / Sony Computer Science Laboratory, Paris) Invited speakers: Tony Belpaeme (University of Plymouth) Pierre-Yves Oudeyer (INRIA, Bordeaux) Asli Özyürek (Radbout Universiteit Nijmegen / MPI Nijmegen) Linda Smith (Indiana University) Paul Vogt (Tilburg University) Tentative programme (details TBA): 8:30 - 9:00 Registration 9:00 - 9:15 Welcome 9:15 - 10:15 Keynote lecture 10:15 - 10:45 Coffee break 10:45 - 12:15 Presentations invited speakers 12:15 - 13:15 Lunch break 13:15 - 15:30 Presentations invited speakers 15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break 16:00 - 17:00 Keynote lecture 17:00 - 17:30 Panel discussion 17:30 - 18:30 Reception Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 19-Oct-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.