LINGUIST List 9.1485

Fri Oct 23 1998

Calls: Cognitive Studies in Creolistics, Languaging 99

Editor for this issue: Karen Milligan <karenlinguistlist.org>

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1. anette nielsen, Cognitive Studies in Creolistics
2. Lynn Alan Eubank, Languaging 99: A Conference Across Literature, Linguistics, & Writing

6th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference
Stockholm, 11th-16th July 1999.

Theme Session: Cognitive Studies in Creolistics

Call for Abstracts

The theme session is intended as a workshop in which papers that are 
relevant to this topic are invited in order to promote the discussion 
between creolists and cognitive linguists.
The papers may incorporate empirical studies as well as theoretical 
debates that discuss aspects of description and analysis of mental 
structures and language processes within the field of creole
languages.

There are two main strands in the field which are presently discussed, 
the question of creole genesis as a gradual restructuring
process on the one hand, and questions of practical implications of 
creole research on bilingual education and standardization in the creole 
societies on the other hand. How can we - from a cognitivist's point of 
view - account for the existence of different degrees in a yet 
consistent pattern of restructuring? What are the cognitive components 
that shape language competence in a creole setting where children grow 
up bilingually, either where the lexifying language of the creole equals 
the standard or where they differ?

 Another set of questions that can be raised with respect to this
workshop relates to the topic of how studies of creole languages, and
other contact language varities (e.g. pidgins) might contribute to
cognitive linguistic theory in general. For instance, certain structural 
features of creoles have been said to be 'universal' in the sense of 
common to all creole languages; (how) can we explain these features from 
a cognitivist viewpoint? How does the structure of creoles (and again, 
other contact language varieties) differ from that of other natural 
languages, and how can these differences be explained?'

We would like to organize the papers under the following headings:

1. Aspects of language systems
2. Creolization as language acquisition
3. Bilingualism

Half- to one page abstracts should be submitted by e-mail to
Anette Nielsen (vixenling.aau.dk) by November 1st. 1998.

(We are very, very sorry for not having sent out this call earlier - 
there has been a misunderstanding between the theme session and 
conference organizers. We sincerely hope that you can manage to come up 
with an abstract anyway.)

Notification of acceptance will be by November 15th.

Further information about the 6th International Cognitive 
Linguistics Conference can be obtained at the conference website:

http://bamse.ling.su.se/iclc99

Theme session organizers:
Rebekka Ehret and Anette Nielsen


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UPDATE: LANGUAGING 99

ANNOUNCING the LINGUISTICS PLENARY SPEAKER:

 Donna Jo Napoli
 Swarthmore College


ALSO, CALL FOR LAST-MINUTE PAPERS:
 Languaging 99: A Conference Across Literature, Linguistics, 
 and Writing
 University of North Texas, Denton, Texas
 4-6 March 1999
 (see our previous LINGUIST posting for more details)

SUBMISSION "DEADLINE":
 Email: Beginning of November 1998
 Linglitunt.edu
 
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
 See our previous LINGUIST post, or to go
	http://www.unt.edu/languaging