LINGUIST List 29.640
Wed Feb 07 2018
Calls: Sign Language, General Linguistics/UK
Editor for this issue: Kenneth Steimel <kenlinguistlist.org>
Date: 03-Feb-2018
From: Adam Schembri <a.schembri
bham.ac.uk>
Subject: Sign CAFE 1: First International Conference on Cognitive
and Functional Explorations in Sign Language Linguistics
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Conference on Cognitive and Functional Explorations in Sign Language Linguistics
Short Title: Sign CAFE 1
Date: 30-Jul-2018 - 31-Jul-2018
Location: Birmingham, West Midlands,
United Kingdom
Contact Person: Adam Schembri
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Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
Language Family(ies): Sign
Language
Call Deadline: 15-Mar-2018
Meeting Description:
The University of Birmingham is hosting the first international workshop on
cognitive and functional approaches to sign language linguistics, or Sign CAFÉ 1. We
hope that this workshop will become a regular forum to discuss approaches towards
sign language linguistics in the cognitive/functional linguistics tradition. Broadly
defined, cognitive/functional perspectives in the language sciences emphasise that
the role of language as a means of communication, as a type of social action, and
its relationship to other cognitive systems are all crucial to the understanding of
language structure. Our definition includes a wide range of theoretical approaches,
but they each have in common the importance they place on the role of communication
and cognition in both linguistic theory and description.
Invited speakers
will be:
1. Elisabeth Engberg-Pedersen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
2. Nick Palfreyman, University of Central Lancashire, UK
3. Corrine Occhino,
Rochester Institute of Technology, USA
The official languages of the
conference will be English and International Sign (IS), with British Sign Language
(BSL) and American Sign Language (ASL) as additional languages. We will provide
interpreting between English and IS. We may be able to offer interpretation between
signed presentations in BSL or ASL and IS/English.
Call for Papers:
Sign CAFÉ 1 invites unpublished papers addressing any aspect of sign language
research from any cognitive/functional theoretical perspective, including work on
phonetics, phonology, lexicon, grammar, semantics, pragmatics, discourse, as well as
on gesture studies, language evolution, first or second language acquisition,
sociolinguistic variation and change, linguistic typology, neurolinguistics and
psycholinguistics.
We plan to have signed/spoken presentations (25 minutes
and 10 minutes discussion) as well as two poster sessions. As there will only be a
single stream of signed/spoken presentations, it is likely that the majority of
presentations will be posters.
Abstracts should be submitted in pdf format
through the Sign CAFÉ 1 Easychair website:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=signcafe1
.
Abstracts should be anonymised (with no author names in the text). The
anonymous abstract should include the title and indicate whether it is intended for
poster or signed/spoken presentation. Abstracts should be no longer than 500 words
(including tables, examples and references), in 12-point font, single line spacing
and 2.5 cm margins.
Video submission in IS, BSL or ASL is allowed (maximum
length 5 minutes). Those who would like to submit a video in sign language should
contact the Sign CAFÉ 1 organiser (a.schembri
bham.ac.uk).
Abstracts will be reviewed by the Sign CAFÉ 1 Programme Committee. A maximum of
two submissions (one of which must be co-authored) can be submitted by any single
individual.
Deadline for submission: 15 March, 2018
Notification of
acceptance/rejection: 15 April, 2018
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