LINGUIST List 29.801
Mon Feb 19 2018
Calls: Bringing into Being: Multimodality, Cognition and Interaction at The University of Nottingham Ningbo China
Editor for this issue: Sarah Robinson <srobinsonlinguistlist.org>
Date: 16-Feb-2018
From: Michael Stevens <Michael-Paul.Stevens
nottingham.edu.cn>
Subject: Applied Ling, Cog Sci, Discourse Analysis/China
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Cognition and Interaction at The University of Nottingham Ningbo China
Date: 24-Jun-2018 - 25-Jun-2018
Location: Ningbo, Zhejiang, China
Contact Person: Simon Harrison
Meeting Email:
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Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Cognitive Science; Discourse Analysis
Call Deadline: 28-Feb-2018
Meeting Description:
Specialized Seminar
& pre-seminar workshop
“Bringing into Being: Multimodality and cognition in
interaction”
University of Nottingham Ningbo, China
June 24 - 25, 2018
We are pleased to announce a Specialized Seminar scheduled to take place on
Monday June 25 2018 at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China, hosted by the
School of English. The theme of the seminar is “Bringing into Being: Multimodality
and cognition in interaction”. A pre-seminar workshop in gesture studies and
multimodal analysis will be offered on Sunday June 24th.
Plenary Speakers:
Prof. Cornelia Müller, Chair for Language Use and Multimodal Communication,
Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder)
Associate Prof. Thomas Wiben
Jensen, Centre for Human Interactivity, Department of Language and Communication,
University of Southern Denmark
Bringing into Being
What role do
multimodal resources – head and hand gestures, facial expressions, eye-gaze patterns
and posture shifts – play in the gradual processes of linguistic expression and
discourse that characterise our everyday interactions? Which cognitive processes are
activated or enabled during such interactive episodes, and how do these processes
help people collaborate to achieve communicative and interpersonal goals in social
and professional communication? The theme “Bringing into being” provides the
opportunity to address this encounter between multimodality and cognition in
interaction. This specialized seminar will therefore be a forum for sharing
analyses, discussing findings, and building theories relevant to several fields,
including but not limited to gesture studies, multimodal interaction, face-to-face
spoken/signed discourse, cognitive linguistics and cognitive science.
Pre-seminar
workshop:
A pre-seminar workshop on Gesture Studies and Multimodal
Analysis, run by the local organizing committee, is scheduled for the afternoon of
Sunday 24th June. Topics to be addressed include recurrency in language and gesture;
multimodal aspects of grammar; form, organization and function of gesture in
(embodied) interaction; gesture and cognition; methodological issues and tools in
gesture studies/multimodal analysis; building multimodal corpora.
Conference
Venue:
The University of Nottingham Ningbo China (UNNC) was the first
Sino-foreign university. It is located in Ningbo, one of China’s major ports and
economic centers in Zhejiang province. Ningbo is a rapidly growing city, ranked in
the top ten of cities for business in China by Forbes, it is a thriving blend of
enterprise, culture, education, tradition and entertainment. It is well connected
for national and international travel, for example, with Shanghai, Hangzhou and Hong
Kong all less than three hours away (by train/plane).
2nd Call for Papers:
This is a reminder of CfP for the “Bringing into Being” seminar. The
deadline for abstract submission is February 28 2018.
We invite
contributions from researchers working within any theoretical or methodological
perspective that attends to the mutlimodal, interactive or conceptual processes
involved in language use and embodied interaction. Twenty-minute oral presentations
that report original research related to the theme of the seminar may include, but
are not limited to:
- Cognitive approaches to language and gesture
-
Multimodal approaches to grammar
- Gesture and conceptualisation
-
Metaphor/metaphoricity in interaction
- Thinking for
speaking/gesturing/interacting
- Multimodality in pragmatics and discourse
-
Experimental studies of gesture and cognition
- Types, forms and functions of
gestures/interactive configurations
- Gesture/sign language interface
Submission
of Abstracts:
Please prepare your abstracts following these guidelines:
- 300 words maximum
- At the bottom of the abstract, please include
four to six keywords and a list of the references cited in the abstract (keywords
and references are not included in the word count; references in APA format).
-
Names and affiliations of the author should not appear in the abstract, but should
be clearly indicated in the accompanying email.
- For formatting, please use
Times New Roman 12 point, single space, and save in .doc.
- Submit abstracts by
the deadline by email to bringingintobeing
nottingham.edu.cn
- Include ‘abstract submission’ in the subject of the email
Deadline
for abstract submission: February 28 2018
Notification sent to applicants: March
2018
Registration for seminar opens: April 2018
If you are outside of
China and plan to submit an abstract and/or attend the seminar, please use the above
email address to express your interest as soon as possible to the organisers, who
will brief you on the necessary VISA application process.
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