Department of Sociolinguistics and Linguistic Pragmatics invites everyone to two guest lectures by
dr Eva-Maria Graf, Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik Alpen-Adria Universität, Klagenfurt.
From the particular to the holistic and back again - new findings and questions in the context of space, cognition, and language
Wednesday, 28 May 2008, 9.45, room 601
Coaching, linguistics and the profession
Friday, 30 May 2008, 9.45, room 601
From the particular to the holistic and back again - new findings and questions in the context of space, cognition, and language
The ubiquity of space in human thought and language has inspired research in many fields for centuries. Of major interest in linguistics and associated disciplines is the question as to how children acquire the language of space. This heightened interest may be explained by two opposing facts: On the one hand, experience in and with space universally forms part of a child’s earliest (cognitive) development. On the other hand, languages differ dramatically in how they encode spatial relations and these differences are found early on in children’s language (see e.g. the papers in Bowerman & Levinson (eds.) 2001; Levinson & Wilkins (eds.) 2006). Gentner & Boroditsky (2001: 248) offer the following, widely accepted, compromise with respect to this specification of the universal vs. relativistic debate: “[…] we suggest that the relation between language and cognition is far more intricate than a one-way path. At one end of the Division of Dominance continuum, cognition calls the shots; language must adapt itself to cognitive-perceptual concepts. In the other direction, language influences our semantic categories”.
The majority of studies of spatial language acquisition has concentrated on the very first years, i.e. between the ages of two and five or six, and has looked primarily at the acquisition of literal spatial language in proper spatial contexts. In addition, spatial language acquisition research is mainly characterized by very detailed, in-depth analyses of particular spatial lexical items or of the realization of Talmy’s (2001) motion event frame in satellite-framed vs. verb-framed languages (e.g. Allen et al. 2007; Hickman 2006).
In an analysis of spontaneous conversations between older children and adolescents, Graf (2006; under review b) both extended the age range and also broadened the perspective by including both literal and metaphorical uses of spatial language. In addition, I developed a categorical framework based on the spatial relation between a Reference Entity and a Reference Relatum that allowed for the analysis of any kind of spatial reference in the data.
In my talk I want to address the overall question of how space, language and cognition interrelate, shift the perspective from particular instances of spatial reference to a holistic picture of spatial language development and, finally, turn to a particular perspective again and present findings on spatial TIME metaphors in the language of older children (cf. Graf under review a).
Coaching, linguistics and the profession
Coaching has turned into a widely applied tool for personal and professional development in human resource development over the last few years. However, despite its broad application there is still no agreement on the necessary training for coaches, no standardized professional definition etc. and coaches, human resource developers, organization psychologists and others have joined forces to work on the professionalization and standardization of coaching (e.g. DBVC 2007).
Although the particular communicative interaction between coach and client is both the primary medium and the basic method in coaching, so far the discourse of coaching has attracted little, if any, linguistic attention (Graf 2007). This is quite surprising as other forms of professional discourse have been at the center of linguistic research for some time now (see, for example, Peräkylä, Antaki, Vehviläinen & Leudar (eds.) (2008) on conversation analysis and psychotherapy, Heritage & Maynard (eds.) (2006) on communication in medical care, Vehviläinen (1999) or Peräkylä (1995) on different forms of counseling and Sarangi & Roberts (eds.) (1999) on professional discourse in different institutional settings).
The talk will focus on the relevance of an applied pragmatic analysis of the discourse of coaching for both professionals and linguists in the sense of interprofessional practice, outline the basic assumptions that underlie the analysis and argue for an eclectic method based on elements from Critical Discourse Analysis, Qualitative Content Analysis as well as Conversation Analysis. Transcribed coaching sessions as well as questionnaires from the participants of the recorded coachings serve as data. The overall aim of this work in progress is a functional description of the communicative interaction found in person-oriented coaching, i.e. an outline of its constitutive professional-communicative practice.
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16 maja 2008, Collegium Physicum, kampus MORASKO
Wszystkich studentów, a zwłaszcza przyszłorocznych stypendystów programu Erasmus, serdecznie zapraszamy na nasz piknik z okazji 10 urodzin obecności programu LLP Erasmus na UAM.
17:00 – otwarcie pikniku przez władze Uniwersytetu
17:25 – rozpoczęcie loterii
17:30 – wielkie grillowanie, otwarcie namiotów narodowych, rozpoczęcie gier narodowych
18:30 – ogłoszenie wyników loterii
19:00 – koncerty zespołów: MS411, Los Grandes Rudeboys, Ene Due Rabe, Plotki, Metal Notes
22:00 – Zakończenie
Przyjdź żeby dowiedzieć się bezpośrednio od Erasmusów jak wyglądają studia na Uniwersytecie, na który wyjeżdżasz! Pograj we francuskie boule, posłuchaj hiszpańskiej muzyki i skosztuj tureckiej kuchni. Świętuj razem z nami urodziny Erasmusa przy grillu i dźwiękach świetnych kapel grających na żywo.
Zapraszamy wszystkich studentów, nie tylko stypendystów!
WYGRAJ ŚWIETNE GADŻETY NA TURYSTYCZNE WOJAŻE!!!
ZAPYTAJ ERASMUSA JAK BĘDZIE WYGLĄDAĆ TWOJE ŻYCIE NA JEGO UCZELNI!!!
Na imprezie ESN UAM przeprowadzi nabór na przyszłorocznych opiekunów Erasmusów – to będzie jedyna okazja żeby zostać Mentorem!
Szczegóły: esn.amu.edu.pl
Erasmus Student Network UAM, Dział Programów Międzynarodowych i Współpracy z Zagranicą, zagraniczni studenci na UAM
Dojazd: tramwajem 12, 14, 15, 16 (kierunek: Os. Sobieskiego) do przystanku "Kurpińskiego" i przesiadka na autobus 87 do p. "Instytut Fizyki" (kierunek "Różany Potok")
presents
IFA UAM
major translation problems it causes, in particular with regard to such
terms as presidency, acquis communitaire, flexicurity, etc. will be
presented during this meeting. The study is based on the parallel
corpus of press releases in the English and Polish language versions.
The 21st meeting of the HELL Reading Club will take place on Thursday, May 15 at 4:45 p.m. in 612A. The article to be discussed can be found on Moodle.
Department of Cognitive Linguistics kindly invites everyone interested to a lecture on:‘They’ and Other Impersonalizing Devices in Harry Potter: A Cross-Linguistic Perspective by Prof. dr hab. Anna Siewierska, Lancaster University, UK Tuesday, 20 May 2008, 13:30, Room 601 Everybody’s invited.
AMU School of English and Center for Speech and Language Processing invite you to a lecture by
Ambiguity in speech and text is, depending on theoretical or practical leaning, either a nuisance and an obstacle to be overcome, or a delight to be enjoyed. In this conspectus of ambiguity and related aspects of semantics in language and speech and in cross-linguistic and cross-cultural communication, the thesis is maintained that such multiplicities of meaning are essential to the success of communication, and not just annoying by-products or fun decorations. The domains in which it will be shown that ambiguity is pervasive in communication, and not just something extra, range from metaphor and idiom through ambiguity in the core areas of language structure to ambiguities of prosody and the of gesture in multimodal communication.
Tuesday, 6 May 2008, 18:30
Room 601A
Submitted by J Weckwerth
Ever wanted to reach your student group with a single email message, without bothering to collect the addresses?
How about the whole year?
Year tutors, administrators - wouldn't it be nice to be able to send a single message to, say, all those teaching in year 3 BA?
And how about taking your notebook computer to another university in Poland or abroad, and enjoying secure wireless internet access via your AMU account, with no setup necessary?
All this, and more, is now becoming reality with new exciting developments at AMU's computing centre!
This Thursday at 3PM a group of visitors from AMU's computing centre will be coming to IFA to demonstrate the new features, as well as ask us this important question:
- what else can we do to make your teaching, research, and administration easier?
The demo and meeting will take place this Thursday, April 24, at 3PM, in C1.
All faculty, staff, administration and students are very welcome!
Prof. Rubach's guest lectures at IFA (photo gallery)
Department of Contemporary English Language (DoCELu) kindly invites everyone interested to a lecture by our distinguished guest
Friday, 25 April, 11:00, room 601
Prof. Rubach will also give a talk on
during prof. Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk’s Ph.D. seminar
Thursday, 24 April, 17:00, room 601
Everybody’s invited.
Department of Sociolinguistics and Linguistic Pragmatics
(IFA UAM)
invites everyone to a guest lecture by
professor
Karol Janicki
(University of Bergen)
on
Incomprehensible discourse
as a lay language user's problem
Wednesday, 23 April 2008, 11:30, room 601
The 20th meeting of the HELL Reading Club will take place on Thursday, April 17 at 4:45 p.m. in 612A. Those interested in obtaining the article, please, contact Dr. Jacob Thaisen by e-mail.
