LINGUIST List 17.210

Sun Jan 22 2006

Calls: Cognitive Science/Ireland;Japanese Ling/UK

Editor for this issue: Kevin Burrows <kevinlinguistlist.org>

Directory         1.    Louise McNally, European Society for Philosophy and Psychology
         2.    barbara pizziconi, Revisiting Japanese Modality
Message 1: European Society for Philosophy and Psychology
Date: 20-Jan-2006
From: Louise McNally <louise.mcnallyupf.edu>
Subject: European Society for Philosophy and Psychology



Full Title: European Society for Philosophy and Psychology Short Title: ESPP
Date: 24-Aug-2006 - 27-Aug-2006 Location: Belfast, Ireland Contact Person: Teresa McCormack
Meeting Email: < click here to access email >
Web Site: http://www.eurospp.org
Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Neurolinguistics; Philosophy of Language; Pragmatics; Psycholinguistics; Semantics

Call Deadline: 01-May-2006

Meeting Description:

The 14th annual meeting of the European Society for Philsophy andPsychology will be held August 24-27, 2006, at Queen's University,Belfast.

FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR PHILOSOPHY AND PSYCHOLOGYwww.eurospp.org

14th ANNUAL MEETING

Queen's University Belfast, UK24-27 August 2006

Invited Speakers: * György Gergely (Budapest) * Susan Goldin-Meadow (Chicago) * Patrick Haggard (London) * Kevin Mulligan (Geneva)

Invited Symposia:

AUDITORY PERCEPTION opened by Jerome Dokic, IJN Paris

MODALITY AND LANGUAGE opened by Bencie Woll, UCL London

MENTAL TIME TRAVEL opened by Teresa McCormack, Belfast

PRETENCE opened by Hannes Rakoczy, MPG Leipzig

The Society invites submitted papers, posters and symposia for this meeting.

TOPICS. Previous topics covered at the ESPP include spatial concepts, emotion, perception, simulation theory, attention, reference, problems of consciousness, early numerical cognition, infants' understanding of intentionality, memory and time, motor imagery, causal understanding, counterfactuals, the semantics/pragmatics distinction, reasoning, vagueness, mental causation, action and agency, thought without language, externalism, connectionism, hypnosis, and the interpretation of neuropsychological results.

SUBMITTED PAPERS. Submitted papers are refereed and selected on the basis of quality and relevance to psychologists, philosophers and linguists. Submissions may be by abstract but in the case of philosophical submissions a full paper is preferred. Papers should not exceed a length of 20 minutes (about 8 double-spaced pages) for a total 30 minute session.

POSTERS. A submission for a poster presentation should consist of a 500-word abstract. Posters will be displayed throughout the conference as well as a designated poster sessions. Submitted papers may also be considered for presentation as posters.

SUBMITTED SYMPOSIA. The convenor should submit a brief (1000 word) description of the symposium topic together with the names of suggested participants (a symposium is expected to contain 3 or 4 speakers in 2 or more distinct fields). Potential convenors should email the description and list of speakers directly to one of the programme chairs by 1 May 2006.

DEADLINES. Papers and posters should be submitted by 1 May 2006.

HOW TO SUBMIT. All abstract and paper submissions should be done online using PDF, PS or MS Word format: http://www.eurospp.org/2006/submission.html

If online submission is impossible, please email your submission to one of the programme chairs listed below.

PROGRAMME CHAIRS

Stephen Butterfill + Department of Philosophy + University of Warwick + Coventry CV4 7AL- email: s.butterfillwarwick.ac.uk

Information and a link to the local conference website is here: http://www.eurospp.org/2006/


Message 2: Revisiting Japanese Modality
Date: 20-Jan-2006
From: barbara pizziconi <bp3soas.ac.uk>
Subject: Revisiting Japanese Modality



Full Title: Revisiting Japanese Modality
Date: 24-Jun-2006 - 25-Jun-2006 Location: London, United Kingdom Contact Person: barbara pizziconi
Meeting Email: < click here to access email >
Web Site: http://mercury.soas.ac.uk/users/lm5/Japanese_Modality_Conference.htm
Linguistic Field(s): Discipline of Linguistics

Subject Language(s): Japanese

Call Deadline: 24-Mar-2006

Meeting Description:

The purpose of this international conference is to revisit the notion of modality and to explore how this universal conceptual category is realized in the specific linguistic devices available to the Japanese language. Papers are invited on any aspect of Modality: from epistemic modality to tense, deontic modality to politeness; within a linguistics or applied linguistics framework.

Call for PapersAll abstracts to be submitted electronically to either M.Kizu mk89soas.ac.uk (Barbara Pizziconi)