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1. ICLC Berkeley theme session call for papers (Rong Chen)
2. Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics Volume 6 is coming up
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Subject: [Cogling-L] ICLC Berkeley theme session call for papers
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Call for papers
11th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, July 28-Aug 3, 2009.
University of California, Berkeley.
Theme Session: Markedness in Cognitive Linguistics
Session Organizer: Rong Chen, California State University, San Bernardino.
rc...@csusb.eduOriginated in Jakobson ([1930] 1962) and Trubetzkoy (1939), markedness
theory has figured prominently in linguistics, most notably in language
typology (Greenberg 1966) and generative phonology (Chomsky and Halle 1968,
Kean 1975). The notion of markedness has been utilized by linguists to
investigate a wide variety of topics, such as tense and aspect (Groenn and
Krave 2007), word order (Gutierrez-Bravo 2007), theme constructions (Netz
and Kuzar 2007), code switching (Migge 2007), case marking of gender
(Badecker and Kuminiak 2007) and negation (de Swart 2006).
However, the visibility of markedness in linguistics in general has not been
matched in cognitive linguistics. Discussion about how markedness fits into
a particular cognitive linguistic framework is by and large absent in the
literature (Fauconnier 1985; Fauconnier and Turner 2002; Goldberg 1995,
2006; Lakoff 1987; Talmy 2000a, 2000b). Langacker (1991, Chapter 8) does
offer a treatment of marked clausal structures, but subsequent research in
marked structures in the spirit of cognitive grammar has been scarce, with
the exception of Chen (2003, 2009). This near silence can be verified by a
keyword search of ?markedness? in Cogbib: such an attempt generated only 14
entries from a 7,000-entry database, and none of these 14 entries offers
insight on how markedness fits in with a particular strand of cognitive
linguistics (c.f. Croft 1996, Janda 1996). The recent debate between
Haspelmath (2008) on the one hand and Haiman (2008) and Croft (2008) on the
other touches on the relationship between markedness and iconicity with
regard to frequency effects, but markedness is only of secondary importance
for the debaters.
Hence this theme session, aiming to bring cognitive linguists of all
persuasions together to explore markedness in all of its facets. Both
theoretical discussions about the (ir)relevance of markedness in a
particular strand of cognitive linguistics and empirical investigations of a
particular marked structure at any levels of language are welcome. The
following is a sampler of topics for theoretical presentations:
? The position of the notion of markedness or markednes theory in
cognitive linguistics in general or in a strand of cognitive linguistics in
particular.
? Reasons why markedness is irrelevant?if it is so deemed?in a
particular strand of cognitive linguistics.
? The definition(s) markedness within a particular cognitive
linguistics framework.
? The relationship between markedness and frequency effects, between
markedness and iconicity.
? The role of markedness in language processing, computer modeling,
language acquisition, or teaching a foreign or second language.
Empirical presentations can be on any structure in any human language,
including sign languages, as long as the analysis adopts a cognitive
linguistics approach. They can also be in the areas of cognitive language
acquisition, cognitive poetics, or cognitive sociolinguistics. Given the
lack of consensus in cognitive linguistics about the definition of
markedness, it is advised?but not required?that presenters provide their own
definition of markedness at the outset of the presentation.
Please submit your proposal of no more than 500 words to:
rc...@csusb.edu by
October 28, 2008. Since theme session papers will also go through the
general anonymous abstract review process for conference papers, please be
reminded that writers should file their abstracts by Nov. 1, 2008 on the
ICLC 2009 website, which may be found at
http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/~iclc, or via a link from the main
International Cognitive Linguistics Association website.
References
Badecker, William; Kuminiak, Frantisek. 2007. Morphology, agreement and
working memory retrieval in sentence production: Evidence from gender and
case in Slovak. Journal of Memory and Language 56.1:65-85.
Chen, Rong. 2003. English Inversion: A Ground-before-Figure Construction.
(Cognitive Linguistics Research 25.) Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Chen, Rong. 2009. Mind as ground: A study of the English existential
construction. In E. Panther and G. Radden (eds.) Motivation in Language.
Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Forthcoming.
Chomsky, Noam, and Morris Halle. 1968. The sound Patterns of English. New
York: Harper and Row.
Croft, William. 2008. On Iconicity of distance. Cognitive Linguistics 19.1:
49-58.
Croft, William. 1996. Markedness and universals: From the Prague school to
typology. In Kurt Jankowsky (ed.) Multiple Perspectives on the Historical
Dimensions of Language, 15-21. M?nster, Germany: Nodus.
De Swart, Henriette. 2006. Marking and interpretation of negation: A
Bidirectional optimality theory approach. In Zanuttini, Rafaella, Campos,
Hetor, Herburger, Elena, and Portner, Paul (eds), Crosslinguistic Research
In Syntax and Semantics: Negation, Tense, and Clausal Architecture, 199-218.
Washington, DC: Georgetown U Press.
Fauconnier, Gille. 1985. Mental Spaces. Cambridge, MASS.: MIT Press.
Fauconnier, Gille and Turner, Mark. 2002. The Way We Think: Conceptual
Blending and the Mind?s Hidden Complexities. Oxford: Oxford University
Press.
Goldberg, Adele E. 1995. Constructions: A Construction Grammar Approach to
Argument Structure. Chicago: Chicago University Press.
Goldberg, Adele E. 2006. Constructions at Work: The Nature of Generalization
in Language. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Greenberg, Joseph H. 1966. Universals of language. Cambridge, MA.: MIT Press
Groenn, A. and Krave, M Filyushkina. 2007. Competition between aspects:
Pragmatic implicatures and anaphoric presuppositions of the imperfective
aspect. Voprosy yazykoznaniya 55. 4: 51-62
Gutierrez-Bravo, Rodrigo. 2007. Prominence scales and unmarked word order in
Spanish Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 25.2: 235-271.
Haiman, John. 2008. In defence of iconicity. Cognitive Linguistics 19.1:
35-48.
Helspelmath, Martin. 2008. Frequency vs. iconicity in explaining grammatical
asymmetries. Cognitive Linguistics 19.1: 1-34.
Jakobson, Roman. 1962. Selected Writings, vol. 1. Phonological studies. The
Hague: Mouton.
Janda, Laura. 1996. Unpacking markedness. In Eugene Cassad (ed.) Cognitive
Linguistics in the Redwoods: The Expansion of new Paradigm in Linguistics.
(Cognitive Linguistics Research 6.) Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Kean, Mary-Louise. 1975. The theory of Markedness in Generative Grammar.
Bloomington: Indiana University Linguistics Club.
Langacker, Ronald. 1991. Foundations of Cognitive Grammar, vol. 2.:
Descriptive Application. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Lakoff, George. 1987. Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories
Reveal about the Mind. Chicago: Chicago University Press.
Migge, Bettina. 2007. Code-switching and social identities in the Eastern
Maroon community of Suriname and French Guiana. Journal of Sociolinguistics
11.1: 53-73.
Netz, Hadar and Kuzar, Ron. 2007. Three marked theme constructions in spoken
English. Journal of Pragmatics 39.2: 305-335.
Talmy, Leonard. 2000a. Towards a Cognitive Semantics. Vol. 1. Concept
Structuring Systems. Cambridge, MASS.: MIT Press.
Talmy, Leonard. 2000b. Towards a Cognitive Semantics. Vol. 2. Typology and
Process in Concept Structuring. Cambridge, MASS.: MIT Press.
Trubetzkoy, Nikolai, S. 1939. Grundz?ge der Phonologie. Prague: Transvaux du
Cercle Linguistique de Prague.
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The *Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics* (published under the auspices
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as an international forum for the publication of high-quality original
research on all areas of linguistic enquiry from a cognitive perspective.
Fruitful debate is encouraged with neighboring academic disciplines as well
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Table of contents *This is a provisional table of contents, and subject to
changes.*
Articles
Historical dictionary definitions revisited from a prototype theoretical
standpoint *Clara Molina*
Usage-based dialectology: Emotion concepts in the Southern Csango dialect *
Veronika Szelid and Dirk Geeraerts*
Text for context, trial for trialogue: A fieldwork study of a fictive
interaction blend *Esther Pascual*
A prototype approach to sentences and sentence types *Klaus-Uwe Panther
and Klaus-Michael K?pcke*
Determining the structure of lexical entries and grammatical constructions
in Construction Grammar *Hans C. Boas*
Coreference between singular epicenes and the plural pronoun *Marion
Neubauer*
Conceptual metaphor theory: Some criticisms and alternative proposals *
Zolt?n K?vecses*
Qualificational meanings, illocutionary signals, and the cognitive planning
of language use *Jan Nuyts*
The interaction of metonymy and metaphor in the meaning and form of
'bahuvrihi' compounds *Antonio Barcelona*
Interviews
A whole-systems approach to language: An interview with Luc Steels *
Benjamin K. Bergen*
Cognitive Construction Grammar works: An interview with Adele E. Goldberg *
Francisco Gonz?lvez-Garc?a*
Reviews
Hannay, Mike and Gerard J. Steen (Eds.). (2007). *Structural-Functional
Studies in English Grammar: In Honour of Lachlan Mackenzie* (Studies in
Language Companion Series, 83) *Reviewed by Francisco Gonz?lvez-Garc?a*
M?nica Gonz?lez-M?rquez, Irene Mittelberg, Seana Coulson and Michael J.
Spivey (Eds.). (2007). *Methods in Cognitive Linguistics*. *
Reviewed by Javier Valenzuela*
Radden, G?nter and Ren? Dirven. (2007). *Cognitive English Grammar * *
Reviewed by Carlos Inchaurralde Besga*
Evans, Vyvyan. (2007). *A Glossary of Cognitive Linguistics. * *
Reviewed by Maria Josep Cuenca*
Chamizo-Dom?nguez Pedro J. (2008).* Semantics and Pragmatics of False
Friends * *Reviewed by Marisa Cordella*
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