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Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 16:31:47 +0200 (CEST)
From: Nyelvesz Info <nyinfo(a)nytud.hu>
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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.
From potential participants, I need their contact data,
some lines about
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
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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
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