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Mon Sep 29 2003

Confs: Cognitive Science/Portsmouth, UK

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    Message 1: International Conference on Language, Culture and Mind

     Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 13:05:22 +0000
    From: jordan.zlatev <jordan.zlatevling.lu.se>
    Subject: International Conference on Language, Culture and Mind


    International Conference on Language, Culture and Mind Short Title: Language, Culture, & Mind

    Date: 18-Jul-2004 - 20-Jul-2004 Location: Portsmouth, England, United Kingdom Contact: Jordan Zlatev Contact Email: jordan.zlatevling.lu.se Meeting URL: http://www.unifr.ch/gefi/GP2/Portsmouth/

    Linguistic Sub-field: Cognitive Science Call Deadline: 15-Jan-2004

    Meeting Description:

    Human natural languages are biologically based, cognitively motivated, affectively rich, socially shared, grammatically organized symbolic systems. They provide the principal semiotic means for the complexity and diversity of human cultural life.

    As has long been recognized, no single discipline or methodology is sufficient to capture all the dimensions of this complex and multifaceted phenomenon, which lies at the heart of what it is to be human.

    The goal of this conference is to contribute to situating the study of language in a contemporary interdisciplinary dialogue. Many of the relevant disciplines have made highly significant theoretical, methodological and empirical advances during the last decade.

    We call for contributions from scholars and scientists in anthropology, biology, linguistics, philosophy, psychology, semiotics, cognitive and neurosciences, who wish both to impart their insights and findings, and learn from other disciplines. Preference will be given to submissions which emphasize interdisciplinarity, the interaction between culture, mind and language, and/or multi-methodological approaches in language sciences.

    Human natural languages are biologically based, cognitively motivated, affectively rich, socially shared, grammatically organized symbolic systems. They provide the principal semiotic means for the complexity and diversity of human cultural life.

    As has long been recognized, no single discipline or methodology is sufficient to capture all the dimensions of this complex and multifaceted phenomenon, which lies at the heart of what it is to be human.

    The goal of this conference is to contribute to situating the study of language in a contemporary interdisciplinary dialogue. Many of the relevant disciplines have made highly significant theoretical, methodological and empirical advances during the last decade.

    We call for contributions from scholars and scientists in anthropology, biology, linguistics, philosophy, psychology, semiotics, cognitive and neurosciences, who wish both to impart their insights and findings, and learn from other disciplines. Preference will be given to submissions which emphasize interdisciplinarity, the interaction between culture, mind and language, and/or multi-methodological approaches in language sciences.

    Topics include but are not limited to:

    � Biological and cultural evolution and language � Comparative study of communication systems � Cognitive and cultural schematization in language � Emergence of language in ontogeny and phylogeny � Language in multi-modal communication � Language and normativity � Language and thought, emotion and consciousness

    International Organizing Committee

    � Carmen Guarddon Anelo, Nacional de Educaci�n a Distancia. Spain � Raphael Berthele, Departement f�r Germanistik, Universit� de Fribourg, Switzerland � Maria Crist�bal, Department of English Philology I. Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain � Iraide Ibarretxe, Department of English Philology, University of Deusto / Department of Basque Philology, University of the Basque Country, Spain � Jordan Zlatev, Department of Linguistics Lund University / Department of Philosophy and Linguistics, Ume� University; Sweden Local Organizing Committee, Department of Psychology, University of Portsmouth, England

    � Karl Nunkoosing � Vasu Reddy � Chris Sinha � Vera da Silva � Joerg Zinken

    Deadlines

    One page abstracts for 30-minute presentations should be submitted to Jordan Zlatev (jordan.zlatevling.lu.se) by January 15, 2004. Notification of acceptance by March 15, 2004.

    Abstracts will be reviewed by an international scientific committee, to be announced in the second call for papers.