Conference: Finding Common Ground: Social, Ecological, and Cognitive Perspectives on Language Use

项目概述该奖项为计划于2014年6月在康涅狄格大学举行的为期三天的会议提供资金。这次会议将汇集来自不同学科和视角的一批杰出的研究人员，分享他们对语言作为一种社会和物理互动的研究的理论和方法，这种互动是公开的，意味着可观察和可问责的。会议将提供三天的时间，包括演讲、海报和讨论。将有一个会议前研讨会，旨在向研究生介绍大多数人不熟悉的语言方面的开创性工作。这次会议的题目是：寻找共同点：语言使用的社会、生态和认知视角。智力价值过去十年来，一系列学科和理论视角的戏剧性发展正在挑战语言是私人的、个人的、生物的和为思维而设计的有影响力的观点。这些进展通常在很大程度上是相互独立的，具有类似担忧的研究人员往往不知道彼此的工作。这些理解语言的新的方法论和理论方法是令人兴奋和有希望的，但它们还没有实现必要的协调和合作，从而导致大多数科学家和学者对语言的看法发生重大变化。这次会议将使不同的研究人员能够进行面对面的交谈，以发展对其他理论途径和方法的欣赏，这些途径和方法可以扩大和加强他们自己的理论，并有助于促进合作，这些合作可能会及时改变语言科学。潜在的更广泛的影响PI将利用会议程序制作一本编辑过的书，一本期刊的特刊，以及一个网站资源中心。这些成果将使广泛的语言研究人员和认知科学家从会议上进行的讨论中受益。会议最重要的影响可能是它将为生态心理学、认知心理学、语言学、哲学和认知科学相关领域的研究生提供挑战和启发，超越当代学者的成败。会议的结果也将引起广大公众的兴趣，他们对语言在社会、政治和经济生活中的重要作用非常感兴趣。

Project OverviewThis award funds a three-day conference that is planned for June 2014 at the University of Connecticut. The conference will bring together a distinguished group of researchers from a variety of disciplines and perspectives to share their theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of language as a socially and physically situated interaction that is public, meaning observable and accountable. The conference will offer three full days with presentations, posters, and discussions. There will be a pre-conference workshop intended to introduce graduate students to pioneering work on language that will be unfamiliar to most. The conference is entitled: "Finding Common Ground: Social, Ecological, and Cognitive Perspectives on Language Use."Intellectual MeritDramatic developments across an array of disciplines and theoretical perspectives in the past decade are challenging influential views of language as private, individual, biological, and designed for thinking. These developments have generally emerged largely independently of each other, and researchers with similar concerns often do not know of each other's work. These new methodological and theoretical approaches to understanding language are exciting and promising, but they have yet to achieve the coordination and collaboration necessary to lead to major changes in how most scientists and scholars view language. This conference will enable various researchers to engage in face-to-face conversations in order to develop an appreciation for other theoretical approaches and methods that can amplify and strengthen their own, and serve to promote collaborations that could in time transform the language sciences.Potential Broader ImpactsThe PI will use conference proceeding to produce an edited book, a special issue of a journal, and a website resource center. These outcomes will allow a broad array of language researchers and cognitive scientists to benefit from discussions that take place at the conference. The most significant effect of the meeting may be the challenge and inspiration it will provide to graduate students in ecological psychology, cognitive psychology, linguistics, philosophy, and related areas of cognitive science, to go beyond the successes and failures of the current generation of scholars. The outcomes of the meeting will also be of interest to members of the broader public who have a serious interest in the important role of language in social, political, and economic life.