NEMZETKÖZI PROJEKTUM-JAVASLAT (fwd)

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 16:31:47 +0200 (CEST) From: Nyelvesz Info <nyinfo(a)nytud.hu> To: mindenki(a)nytud.hu Subject: NEMZETKÖZI PROJEKTUM-JAVASLAT Kedves Kollégák! Dr. Thekla Wiebusch (CRLAO, EHESS/CNRS, Paris) egy nemzetközi (EU-s) projektumot készül indítani, "Stability and adaptation of classification systems in a cross-cultural perspective" címmel, melynek leírása lentebb található. Aki érdeklődik a téma iránt, kérjük vegye fel a kapcsolatot közvetlenül Dr. Wiebusch-sal minél előbb, mert az ő pályázati határideje október 1. (Elérhetőség: lentebb.) Idézet Dr Wiebusch leveléből: Within this action we will build an interdisciplinary network of researchers interested in human categorization as it is reflected in classification systems in different languages and cultures (details see in the abstract below). This entails the organization of conferences and workshops, establishing a website, short missions of researchers to other participant institutions and publication of relevant results, but not the financing of research itself. For an action, a minimum of 5 participant countries is required, but the average is about 16, the eligible countries being essentially the EU members and the candidate countries. So if you would be interested in participating in the network, please let me know. Participant from linguistics, philosophy, cognitive sciences, psychology, anthropology, history of sciences, information sciences or area studies such as Sinology, Egyptology, doing research on this topic are all welcome. Of course, several researchers or institutions from the same country can be participants. their research in this topic, and relevant publications. For the proposal a (very rough) estimate about the relevant ongoing research in Hungary (expressed in Euro/year) would be helpful, as the proposal should contain information about how much national research will be linked by the network of this action. Due to the very short deadline for application, I would be grateful for a prompt feedback. Thekla Wiebusch CRLAO (CNRS/EHESS) 54 Bd. Raspail, 75006 Paris wiebusch(a)rz.uni-leipzig.de ---------------------------------------------------------------- Proposal for a COST Action (abstract) (Humanities and Social Sciences) Stability and adaptation of classification systems in a cross-cultural perspective The objective of this action is to gain a deeper understanding of categorization as one of the most basic capacities of human beings underlying many other cognitive processes. Human categorization is reflected in different types of classification systems such as numeral classifiers in grammar, semantic markers in logographic scripts or in signing, organization of knowledge in reference works and on the internet, organization of societies or folk taxonomies of concepts. Most disciplines in humanities and social sciences attempt to understand some features of this function. Recent and ongoing research in different European countries renders a wealth of new evidence on different systems in a broad array of cultures and languages. Simultaneously, projects in cognitive sciences, philosophy, theoretical linguistics and information sciences bring new models and theories about the nature of human categorization and tools for data analysis and modeling of the evolution of these complex systems. This action builds up a network between these loosely related research activities to facilitate a systematic evaluation of the new results across cultures and languages, but also across different types of classification systems. This allows to distinguish between parameters depending on culture, on system inherent features and on human cognition in general. The network will promote the application of new theories and methods to the empirical data from different cultures, thus creating for the first time the opportunity to get a broad picture of the cross-cultural variation of such systems, but also of the synchronic, system-inherent flexibility and the mechanisms of diachronic change. To this end, a special effort will be made to present the rich data from cultures with a long recorded history of classification systems, such as China, Ancient Egypt or the Maya Kingdom. By encouraging the interdisciplinary cooperation between the relevant European research, this action will help to understand the double function of classification systems as both organizing and stabilizing force and as an instrument for coping with changes on an individual and a cultural level. This will contribute to an increased knowledge of the cognitive implication of the process of globalization and the attempt to construct a universal system of reference. Thekla Wiebusch, CRLAO (CNRS/EHESS), 54 Bd Raspail, 75006 Paris, France -------------------------------------------------------------------- Az MTA Nyelvtudományi Intézet programjairól és további nyelvészeti hírekről olvashat még a www.nytud.hu honlapon es a www.nyelveszet.hu portálon (mely elérhető a www.nytud.hu/portal/ címen is). Amennyiben a jövőben nem szeretne értesülni híreinkről, kérjük, írja ezt meg nekünk a nyinfo(a)nytud.hu címre.