LINGUIST List 9.784

Tue May 26 1998

FYI: Sound symbolism, EAGLES, Lecture series

Editor for this issue: Brett Churchill <brettlinguistlist.org>

Directory

  • Zylogy, sound symbolism organization update
  • Simone Saint Laurent, EAGLES PANEL AT LREC
  • Keiko Emmett, Lecture series on Japanese sociolinguistics

    Message 1: sound symbolism organization update

     Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 01:11:11 EDT
    From: Zylogy <Zylogyaol.com>
    Subject: sound symbolism organization update


    Letting everyone know that over 90 people have now responded to our announcement of an organization for folks interested in sound symbolism and other nonarbitrary aspects of human language. The intention is to have the real thing, something along the lines of SSILA or ALT. This includes meetings, publications, an archive, and a comprehensive bibliography. A number of people have expressed their desire for an e-mail discussion. If all this is something you would like to participate in, please let me know. Thanks.

    Jess Tauber zylogyaol.com

    Message 2: EAGLES PANEL AT LREC

     Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 18:39:13 +0200
    From: Simone Saint Laurent <lrecilc.pi.cnr.it>
    Subject: EAGLES PANEL AT LREC




    At the First International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), to be held in Granada, Spain, May 28 - 30, 1998, there will be a EAGLES PANEL ON LEXICAL SEMANTIC STANDARDS FOR INFORMATION SYSTEMS on MAY 29, 1998 from 17:00 - 18:40.

    To provide more detailed information about the work done sofar within the EAGLES lexicon/semantics interest group, we have prepared a HTML version of our most recent report, accessible at http://www.ilc.pi.cnr.it/EAGLES96/rep2 (even though we are still working on it). This is an interim report and should be considered as a ``polished draft''. Moreover it is still only the survey part.

    The final report, available in September 1998, will provide a revised version of the present survey plus an additional part on Guidelines for standards in the area of lexical semantic encoding with specific reference to Machine Translation, Information Systems and related enabling technologies.

    FOR CONFERENCE INFORMATION, PLEASE VISIT THE LREC WEBSITE AT: http://ceres.ugr.es/~rubio/elra.html

    Message 3: Lecture series on Japanese sociolinguistics

     Date: Mon, 25 May 98 02:14:25 -0500
    From: Keiko Emmett <emme0007gold.tc.umn.edu>
    Subject: Lecture series on Japanese sociolinguistics


    Announcing a lecture series on Japanese linguistics by Professor Akiko Kawasaki (University of Tsukuba, Japan):

    TITLE OF THE EVENT: "Empirical Approaches to Sociolinguistic Theory: Politeness and Linguistic Maturity in the Japanese Context"

    WHEN: May 29 (Fri.) - June 3 (Wed.), 1998

    WHERE: University of Minnesota (Minnesota, USA) The lecture series will be held on the east bank of the University of Minnesota's Twin Cities campus in Folwell Hall and Nolte Center. From either north or south, take I-35W to exit 17C (4th Street SE and University Ave.). On University Ave., head 6 blocks east of I-35W. Folwell Hall is at University Ave. and 15th Ave. SE., and Nolte Center is south of Folwell Hall and east of Williamson Hall.

    This event is open to public.

    Professor Akiko Kawasaki will be invited to present a 6 day lecture series on her research and new directions in sociolinguistic/culture theory. Professor Kawasaki is an internationally known scholar and professor of Japanese sociolinguistics, sex difference and politeness theory, and has coauthored 5 books and published many research papers in this area in journals including the Journal of Pragmatics and the International Journal of Sociology of Language. She will present 4 lectures on empirical and sociolinguistic theoretical developments in Japan, a weekend lecture series (5 lectures) entitled "Research and Pedagogical Applications of Japanese Politeness and Linguistic Adulthood Theory" and 1 lecture with her research colleague, Professor Beverly Hill (Metropolitan State University) on "wakimae" (a politeness concept related to speaker discernment) based on data from 6 different languages. Professor Hill is coauthor with Professor Kawasaki of the book NIHONZIN TO AMERICAZIN NO KEEGO KOODOO (POLITE BEHAVIOR OF JAPANESE AND AMERICANS) and "Universals of linguistic politeness: Quantitative evidence from Japanese and American English" (Journal of Pragmatics). This final lecture will be presented at the University of Minnesota Linguistics Colloquium, and co-sponsored by the Japanese Program and Linguistic Program.

    Program

    All talks will be given in JAPANESE except June 3 Colloquium

    May 29 (Fri.): 2:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Nolte Room 229 Lecture 1: Empirical methodology: Survey research and design

    WEEKEND LECTURE SERIES: ("Research and Pedagogical Applications of Japanese Politeness and Linguistic Adulthood Theory")

    May 29 (Fri.): 7:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. Nolte Library Lecture 2: Japanese politeness theory and linguistic prejudice

    May 30 (Sat.) 9:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. Nolte Library Lecture 3: Politeness in the request context

    May 30 (Sat.) 1:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Nolte Library Lecture 4: Theories of linguistic adulthood: age as a sociolinguistic variable

    May 31 (Sun.) 9:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. Nolte Library Lecture 5: Metalinguistic expressions and vocabulary and expressions of maturity of Japanese

    May 31 (Sun.) 1:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Nolte Library Lecture 6: Applications of sociolinguistic research to teaching Japanese and English

    June 1 (Mon.): 2:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Nolte Library Lecture 7: Boomerang speech & evasion of honorifics

    June 1 (Mon.): 7:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. Nolte Library Lecture 8: Database of a housewife's utterances in a week

    June 2 (Tues.): 2:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Nolte Room 229 Lecture 9: Comfortableness conditions and politeness

    UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA LINGUISTICS COLLOQUIUM

    June 3 (Wed.): 3:35 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Folwell 50 Lecture 10: Cross-linguistic study of politeness in 6 languages: Japanese, American English, Thai, Korean, Swedish, Chinese

    Dr. Beverly Hill, Metropolitan State University Professor Akiko Kawasaki, University of Tsukuba

    ************************************************************ *****************

    HOTELS near the University of Minnesota's Twin Cities campus:

    Best Western University Inn 2600 University Ave. SE Minneapolis, MN (612) 379-2313 (1-800-528-1234)

    Days Inn Minneapolis - University 2407 University Ave. SE Minneapolis, MN (612) 623-3999 (1-800-319-7466)

    Econo Lodge 2500 University Ave. SE Minneapolis, MN (612) 331-6000 (1-800-553-2666)

    Questions? Please contact Keiko Emmett at emme0007gold.tc.umn.edu