Conference: Grounding Language in Perception and (Inter) Action

虽然在过去的50年里，我们已经了解了很多关于语言作为一个正式系统的知识，但语言是一种固有的社会，身体和道德活动，一直被视为一种孤立的认知技能，位于个人大脑中。这次会议将于2009年6月4-6日在马萨诸塞州温哈姆的戈登学院举行，这将是分布式语言小组在美国的第一次会议。它将汇集其跨学科学者的阵列与领先的研究人员在动态系统和生态心理学的语言。会议将为分散在地理和学科的学者提供一个难得的机会，以发展对语言的更综合和全面的理解，以社会感知和行动为基础。这种语言活动的方法对机器人学、人类学、哲学、教育和康复具有广泛的影响，预计来自所有这些领域的学者都将参与其中。跨领域的技能转移（例如，语言学家对非线性动力学的使用;文化对生态研究人员的重要性）将是相当可观的，新的跨学科合作将可能形成。第二类观众将是对语言理论和研究感兴趣的本科院校的学生和教师。

While we have learned much about language as a formal system over the past 50 years, language is an inherently social, physical, and moral activity that has been treated as if it were an isolated cognitive skill, located in individual brains. This conference, to be held at Gordon College, Wenham, MA, June 4-6, 2009, will be the first meeting in the United States of the Distributed Language Group. It will bring together its array of interdisciplinary scholars with leading researchers on language in dynamical systems and ecological psychology. The conference will provide a rare opportunity for scholars dispersed by geography and discipline to develop a more integrated and comprehensive understanding of language as grounded in social perception and action. Such an approach to linguistic activities has broad implications for robotics, anthropology, philosophy, education, and rehabilitation, and it is expected that scholars from all of these areas will participate. The transfer of skills across domains (e.g., the use of nonlinear dynamics by linguists; the importance of culture for ecological researchers) will be considerable, and new interdisciplinary collaborations will likely be formed. A secondary audience will be selected students and teachers in undergraduate colleges interested in language theory and research.