LINGUIST List 15.1223

Fri Apr 16 2004

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  • D.Nouveau, 18th Meeting of the Language Origins Society

    Message 1: World Congress of Applied Linguistics: Section on Rhetoric and Stylistics

     Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 17:11:49 -0400 (EDT)
    From: stygall <stygallu.washington.edu>
    Subject: World Congress of Applied Linguistics: Section on Rhetoric and Stylistics


    World Congress of Applied Linguistics: Section on Rhetoric and Stylistics Short Title: AILA 2005

    Date: 24-Jul-2005 - 29-Jul-2005 Location: Madison, WI, United States of America Contact: Gail Stygall Contact Email: stygallu.washington.edu Meeting URL: http://www.aila2005.org

    Linguistic Sub-field: General Linguistics

    Call Deadline: 01-Jun-2004

    Meeting Description:

    The 14th World Congress of Applied Linguistics/AILA will hold its first meeting in the United States, July 24-29, 2005 in Madison, WI. Section: Rhetoric and Stylistics

    Papers and symposium proposals are invited on any topic related to Rhetoric and/or Stylistics. Particular topics of interest include Teaching Style (both in the free-standing stylistics classroom or teaching style in first or second language writing classrooms), Rhetoric and Style of the Disciplines, and the Rhetoric and/or Style of Media War Reporting. Complete instructions for submission are available on the AILA 2005 website. Deadline for submission: June 1, 2004. Proposers will be notified in mid to late July, 2004.

    Message 2: 18th Meeting of the Language Origins Society

     Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 08:56:32 -0400 (EDT)
    From: D.Nouveau <D.Nouveaulet.kun.nl>
    Subject: 18th Meeting of the Language Origins Society


    18th Meeting of the Language Origins Society

    Date: 09-Jul-2004 - 10-Jul-2004 Location: Oxford, United Kingdom Contact: Tim Crow Contact Email: timcgwmail.jr2.ox.ac.uk Meeting URL: http://oase.uci.kun.nl/~los/meeting.htm

    Linguistic Sub-field: Historical Linguistics ,Philosophy of Language ,Psycholinguistics ,Sociolinguistics ,Typology ,Neurolinguistics ,Cognitive Science ,Anthropological Linguistics ,Genetic Classification

    Call Deadline: 30-Apr-2004

    Meeting Description:

    A workshop on the evolution and origins of language from a broad multi-disciplinary perspective. Call for Papers

    18th Meeting of the Language Origins Society Including papers on Language and Psychosis

    July 9-10, 2004 In association with the SANE Prince of Wales Centre, University of Oxford

    The 18th Meeting of the Language Origins Society will take place at the University of Oxford. It is organized by local organizer professor Tim Crow, in collaboration with the board of LOS.

    Invited speakers: Jim Hurford (Edinburgh) John Marshall (Oxford)

    Part of this year's meeting is reserved for a number of invited and submitted papers on language and psychosis, investigating how the study of the language disorders accompanying this mental disorder can further our understanding of the origins and evolution of language.

    Psychosis is the term applied to the class of serious mental disorders characterized by delusions and hallucinations. It is generally taken to include schizophrenia, as originally described by E. Kraepelin and E. Beuler at the turn of the nineteenth century, and manic depressive psychosis. From the time of the original descriptions, it has been recognized that disorders of language are a component of the disturbance, and there have been systematic accounts of the nature of the disturbances (e.g. E. Chaika, Understanding Psychotic Speech: Beyond Freud and Chomsky. Springfield, Illinois: C.C. Thomas). It is arguable that some of the core disturbances (e.g. hearing one�Euro(tm)s thoughts spoken aloud or incoherence of speech) are primary disorders of language.

    The paradox of psychosis is that these disorders are common, affecting at least 1% of all known human populations, and are associated with a biological disadvantage. They appear to be genetic in origin, but the predisposing genes apparently are not selected out of the population. To explain this paradox, it has been suggested that �Eurooeschizophrenia is the price that homo sapiens pays for language�Euro (T.J. Crow 2000, Brain Research Reviews 31, 118-129; see also Berlim et al. 2003, The etiology of schizophrenia and the origin of language: Overview of a theory. Comprehensive Psychiatry 44, 7-14).

    In particular, it is suggested that the origins of language and psychosis are related and cast light on the speciation of modern homo sapiens (T.J. Crow (ed.) 2002, The Speciation of Modern Homo Sapiens. Oxford: Oxford University Press).

    It is intended that the Oxford meeting will provide an opportunity to review current studies on the nature of the disturbance of language in psychosis and its neural and genetic origins. It is hoped that the meeting will provide discussions between linguists, neuropsychiatrists, neuropsychologists and neuroscientists with an interest in undertanding the nature of the illness and its relevance to an explanation of the nature and origins of language.

    Abstracts

    Presentations on all aspects of the origins and evolution of language (from linguistics and psycholinguistics, psychology and cognitive neuroscience, paleontology and archeology, biology, laryngology, neurology, speech and language pathology, anthropology, primatology and ethology, genetics, artificial intelligence, and philosophy) are welcome. One-page abstracts should be submitted electronically, as an attachment, preferably in Word, with "LOS Abstract" in the subject header of your e-mail message. Abstracts should be sent to:

    Tim Crow, local organizer or Marco Haverkort, President LOS timcgwmail.jr2.ox.ac.uk m.haverkortlet.kun.nl

    Deadline for receipt of abstracts: April 30. Authors will be notified about acceptance by mid-May. A selection of the papers presented will be published as a special issue of Cognitive Systems. Journal of the European Society for the Study of Cognitive Systems (ESSCS).