Standing Committee for the Humanities (SCH)
ESF Exploratory Workshop on
Thinking, Speaking and Gesturing in two Languages
Reading , 12-15 September 2012
Convened by:
Panos Athanasopoulos and Jeanine Treffers-Daller
School of Education, Communication & Language Sciences, Newcastle University, UK
Institute of Education, University of Reading, UK
The European Science Foundation (ESF) is an association of 80 Member Organisations devoted to scientific research in 30 European countries. The Mission of ESF is to provide a common platform for its Member Organisations in order to advance European research and to explore new directions for research at the European level. Through its activities, the ESF serves the needs of the European research community in a global context.
The main objectives of ESF for the years 2006-2010 as defined by its current Strategic Plan are to promote Science Strategy and Science Synergy, paving the way for initiatives across disciplinary and geographic boundaries in the European Research Area (ERA).
The Exploratory Workshops scheme is one of the key instruments of the Science Strategy “pillar”. Each year, ESF supports approximately 50 Exploratory Workshops across all scientific domains. The focus of the scheme is on workshops aiming to explore an emerging and/or innovative field of research or research infrastructure, also of interdisciplinary character. Workshops are expected to open up new directions in research or new domains. It is expected that a workshop will conclude with plans for specific follow-up research activities and/or collaborative actions or other specific outputs either within the frame of ESF (e.g. prepare the ground to develop a Forward Look, a Research Networking Programme or a EUROCORES proposal; publication of a Policy Briefing…) or for submission to the EU 7th Framework Programme or to other European or international funding organisations.
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Thinking, Speaking and Gesturing in two Languages
Reading (UK), 13-15 September 2012
/ ESF SCH Exploratory Workshop:
Thinking, Speaking and Gesturing in two Languages
Reading (UK), 13-15 September 2012
Convenors:
Panos Athanasopoulos
Jeanine Treffers-Daller
/ School of Education, Communication & Language Sciences
Newcastle University
King George VI Building
Queen Victoria Road
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 7RU
Institute of Education
University of Reading, London Road Campus
4 Redlands Road
Reading
Berkshire
RG1 5EX
Main Objectives of the Workshop:
The workshop aims to bring together a multidisciplinary team of researchers interested in exploring how language affects cognition both in terms of structuring information for the purpose of communication, and in terms of non-linguistic categorisation and perception of reality and the world. Given that the majority of the world’s population uses more than one language in order to communicate, the current workshop aims to initiate a common forum of discussion for researchers who are interested in applying the methods used to uncover mental representation of the world to the domains of bilingualism and foreign language learning.
Report publication and dissemination:
The scientific report will be published on the ESF website within two months after the event. After the workshop papers will be published in either an edited volume or a special issue of a
refereed journal and dissemination will take place through presentations at academic conferences and events for wider non-specialist audiences.
PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME
Wednesday, 12 September 2012
Afternoon Arrival
19.00 Drinks reception, Whiteknights campus (room tbc)
20.00 Dinner, Whiteknights campus (room tbc)
Thursday, 13 September 2012
09.00-09.20 Welcome by Convenors
Panos Athanasopoulos (Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK) Jeanine Treffers-Daller (University of Reading, Reading, UK)
09.20-09.40 Presentation of the European Science Foundation (ESF)
Hanne Ruus (Standing Committee for the Humanities (SCH))
09.40-12.30 Morning Session: Colour perception
09.40-10.10 Presentation 1 “Colour naming and categorisation in some Indo-European and Finno-Ugric languages: language-specific or universal?”
Mari Uusküla (Institute of the Estonian Language, Tallinn, Estonia)
10.10-10.40 Presentation 2 “Seeing the world through the lens of more than one language: Colour categories in the bilingual mind and brain”
Panos Athanasopoulos (Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK)
10.40-11.00 Coffee / Tea Break
11.00-11.30 Presentation 3 “Now you see it, now you don't: Conceptual restructuring in color, object, and motion categories of Russian-English bilinguals”
Aneta Pavlenko (Temple University, Philadelphia, USA)
11.30-12.30 Discussion
12.30-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.30 Afternoon Session: Object categorisation
14.00-14.30 Presentation 4 “Development of cross-language lexical influence”
Eef Ameel and Gert Storms (University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium)
14.30-15.00 Presentation 5 “Bilingualism or bicognition? How knowing two languages affects our conception of objects and their properties”
Guillaume Thierry (Bangor University, Bangor, Wales)
15.00-15.30 Presentation 6 “Bilingualism and linguistic relativity (tbc)”
John Lucy (University of Chicago, Chicago, USA)
15.30-16.00 Coffee / tea break
16.00-18.30 Discussion
19.00 Dinner
Friday, 14 September 2012
09.00-12.30 Morning Session: Event conceptualisation I
09.00-09.30 Presentation 7 “Typological constraints on the expression and conceptualisation of motion during language acquisition. Part 1: A crosslinguistic study of child language”
Maya Hickmann (CNRS and University of Paris 8, Paris, France)
09.30-10.00 Presentation 8 “Typological constraints on the expression and conceptualisation of motion during language acquisition. Part 2: A crosslinguistic study of adult second language learners”
Henriëtte Hendriks (University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK)
10.00-10.30 Presentation 9 “Can L2 learners reconceptualise motion in their second language? Evidence from L2 learners of French and English”
Jeanine Treffers-Daller and Andreea Calude (University of Reading, Reading, UK)
10.30-11.00 Coffee / Tea Break
11.30-12.30 Discussion
12.30-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.30 Afternoon Session: Event conceptualisation II
14.00-14.30 Presentation 10 “Why are intratypological differences in motion events important for typology and L2?”
Iraide Ibarretxe (University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain)
14.30-15.00 Presentation 11 “Typological constraints on event conceptualization: implications for L2processing”
Monique Flecken and Christiane Von Stutterheim (University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany)
15.00-15.30 Coffee / tea break
15.30-16.00 Presentation 12 “Cognitive restructuring among L2 speakers in the domain of goal-oriented motion events”
Emmanuel Bylund (Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden)
16.00-16.30 Presentation 13 “Convergence in the domains of static spatial relations and events of putting and taking. Evidence from bilingual speakers of Romansh and German”
Raphael Berthele (University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland)
16.30-16.45 Break
16.45-18.30 Discussion
19.30 Dinner
Saturday 15 September 2012
09.30-12.00 Morning Session: Gestures and conceptualisation
09.30-10.00 Presentation 14 “Cross-linguistic cross-modal differences in gestures”
Asli Özyürek: (Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
10.00-10.30 Presentation 15 “What gestures can tell us about second language acquisition and bilingualism”
Marianne Gullberg (Lund University, Lund, Sweden)
10.30-11.00 Coffee / Tea Break
11.00-12.00 Discussion
12.00-13.30 Lunch
13.30-15.30 discussion on follow-up activities/networking/collaboration
15.30 End of Workshop and departure
/ ESF SCH Exploratory Workshop:Thinking, Speaking and Gesturing in two Languages
Reading (UK), 13-15 September 2012
European Science Foundation
Objectives of the ESF Standing Committee for the Humanities (SCH)
The main tasks of the ESF Standing Committee for the Humanities (SCH) are:
Ø to encourage interdisciplinary work through the independent evaluation of collaborative research proposals emanating from the scholarly community;
Ø to identify priority research areas and to play an integrative and co-ordinating role by creating links between research communities which in the Humanities are often small and fragmented.
Ø to contribute to the development of the ESF science policy agenda and to provide expert advice on science policy actions at the European level in the field of its responsibilities.
The Committee is well aware that the ESF is the only European Agency where the Humanities have a place next to the other sciences and where European projects are reviewed, developed and subsequently operated.
The Committee considers it all the more important to be heard as the voice of the Human Sciences in Europe and to continue pleading for a more prominent place for the Humanities in the European landscape.
ESF Humanities Unit:Nina Kancewicz-Hofman
Head of Unit / Irma Vogel
Senior Administrator
Arianna Ciula
Science Officer / Marie Suchanova
Administrator
Tel: +33 (0)3 88 76 71 83
Email:
http://www.esf.org/human
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