Dear all,

 

The CEU Department of Cognitive Science cordially invites you to its talk by:

 

Prof. Dr. Heike Wiese (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)

 

“Communicative situations as a basis for linguistic systems"

 

 

Date: Wednesday, February 9, 2022 – 16:00-17:30 (CET)

Host: Eva Wittenberg

Location: on Zoom

 

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ABSTRACT:

I discuss two research strands in linguistics that rarely talk to each other: (1) sociolinguistic approaches to linguistic variability and multi-competence that dispute the existence of bound ‘languages’ and grammatical systems, and (2) theoretical linguistics focusing on grammatical analysis within distinct varieties. I argue that both approaches capture important aspects of language, and show that we can reconcile insights from these two strands. I present a linguistic architecture that takes communicative situations (‘comm-sits’) as the core of linguistic systematicity, and integrates comm-sits into lexical representations. I illustrate this with examples from “free-range language”: language in settings that are less confined by normative ideologies of monolingualism and linguistic purity. Drawing on insights from such settings, I show that comm-sits can form the basis for linguistic coherence and grammatical systems, while languages can emerge as optional sociolinguistic indices.

 

 

We look forward to seeing you there!

 

Cognitive Science Events at CEU: https://events.ceu.edu/host/department-cognitive-science

 

 

Thank you

 

Boris

Boris Cesnik

Department Coordinator (Vienna) 

Department of Cognitive Science

 

 

 

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