RT list: UICM3: Second call

Second call for papers: Utterance Interpretation and Cognitive Models 3
 
The third edition of the Brussels conference on Utterance Interpretation and
Cognitive Models will take place on February 5-7, 2010, under the auspices
of the Belgische Kring voor Linguïstiek / Cercle Belge de Linguistique.
The first edition addressed the issue of the semantics/pragmatics interface
from a cognitive perspective and drew essentially on the work of
semanticists, pragmaticists and philosophers of language. The second
broadened the perspective by inviting the views of scholars from the related
subfields of syntax, cognitive linguistics and evolutionary linguistics. For
this third edition, the focus will be on the developmental and cognitive
determinants of utterance interpretation. On the one hand, the ontogenetic
development of our ability to interpret linguistic utterances provides
invaluable insights into adult cognition; on the other, the methods of
cognitive psychology, with their emphasis on experimental inquiry and
empirical results raise crucial epistemological questions for the progress
of research in the field. The focus of this third edition is fully in
keeping with our continued ambition to reach across disciplinary boundaries
and bring together researchers who, though belonging to different schools or
traditions, all take a view of interpretation that is informed by cognitive
concerns and share the assumption that the ultimate test for any theory of
utterance interpretation is its psychological plausibility.
 
Keynote speakers:
 
Bart Geurts (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen)
Jean-Marie Marandin (CNRS, Université Paris 7)
Anna Papafragou (University of Delaware)
Josef Perner (Universität Salzburg)
Dan Sperber (CNRS, Institut Jean Nicod)
 
Abstract submissions:
 
In addition to keynote lectures, the conference will feature parallel
sessions with contributed papers. We welcome submissions of abstracts for
25-minute papers that focus on the psychological or cognitive underpinnings
of utterance interpretation or, conversely, address the implications that
theories of any aspect of utterance interpretation can have for the
psychology of language and for cognitive science at large. We also welcome
papers from scholars who study utterance interpretation in connection with
language development, impaired communication, non-verbal communication and
non-human communication. Abstracts will be anonymously refereed by members
of the program committee.
 
Important dates:
 
Deadline for abstracts: October 1, 2009
Notification of acceptance: November 15, 2009
Conference: February 5-7, 2010
 
Abstract format:
 
- Only electronic submissions are accepted.
- Abstracts should be submitted to the email address: uicm3@ulb.ac.be, with
the following subject line: ''Utterance Interpretation and Cognitive Models
3''
- The abstracts should be sent as an attachment to an email message, in
either MS Word (.doc), Rich Text Format (.rtf) or Adobe Acrobat (.pdf )
format
- The length of the submissions is a maximum of two A4 sides, using 2,5 cm
(1 inch) margins and a 12 pt font. Each abstract should clearly indicate the
title of the talk, and may include references. In the interest of fairness
these constraints will be strictly enforced.
- The abstracts should be prepared for blind review, and include no
indication of the name(s) of the author(s). Only anonymous abstracts will be
considered.
- The body of the email message should contain the following information:
The name(s) of the author(s), affiliation, title of the paper and contact
details (postal and email address).
- A maximum of one submission as author, and one as co-author will be
considered
 
For further information, please consult: http://homepages.ulb.ac.be/~uicm3/
 
 
Received on Thu Sep 10 15:22:35 2009