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Background:
Aiming to promote the language sciences,
the organizers highlight two themes. First, pursuing debate between
Nigel Love and Don Ross, we ask if there is any sense in which language
is usefully pictured as a digital code. Second, using game theory,
we raise new questions about the nature and functions of human signalling.
In so doing, we build on a consensus that emerged at the 2003 mind
AND world conference in Durban, South Africa. In that setting, participants
with a wide range of backgrounds accepted that language transforms
the causal processes that connect brain, body and world. On such
a view, language becomes –not a dedicated processing system–
but a heterogeneous set of artefacts implicated in cultural activities.
Participants to Cognitive Dynamics and the Language Sciences were
thus asked to use their work in considering how bodies and artefacts
impact on cognitive dynamics. Attention was given to time-scales
that affect communication, development, cultural history and natural
selection. By using an interdisciplinary perspective to integrate
phenomena across such dimensions, we hope that the conference can
help breathe new life into the scientific study of language-behaviour
Speakers:
Don
Ross (Birmingham, Alabama, USA)
Language and the dynamics of signalling - Read
abstract
Nigel
Love (Cape Town, South Africa)
Language and the digital code - Read
abstract
Alex
Kravchenko (Irkusk, Russia)
Essential properties of language, or why language is not a (digital)
code - Read
abstract
Paul
Thibault (Kristiansand, Norway)
Language, Anticipatory Dynamics, and the Distributed Nature of Activity
and Meaning Making - Read
abstract
Stein
Bråten (Oslo, Norway)
Byond egocentric utility: On the origins of protoconversation and
(pre)verbal learning by altercentric participation - Read
abstract
Per
Linell (Linköping, Sweden)
Dialogical Language and Dialogical Minds - Read
abstract
Angelo
Cangelosi (Plymouth, UK)
The Evolution and Grounding of Language in Multi-Agent and Robotic
Systems - Read
abstract
Bert
Hodges (Gordon, Massachusets)
Good prospects: Ecological and social perspectives on talking together.
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abstract
Richard
Menary (Hertfordshire, UK)
Why we are Special: Writing as Thinking
Mike
Wheeler (Stirling, UK)
Continuity in Question: Linguistic Competence and the Extended Mind
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abstract
Phil
Carr (Montpellier, France)
Internalism, externalism and coding - Read
abstract
Marlon
Barrios Solano (artist, New York)
Location:
Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge.
UK
Accommodation:
This has been organised through
Sidney Sussex College. Should anyone not wish to take up this offer,
they should contact the conference organizer.
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