Language Institute 2012-13 Lecture Series: Language, Cognition and Sociality
The Language Institute's 2012-13 lecture series will explore some fundamental questions regarding language acquisition and socialization: What could we learn from studies of bilinguals about the effect of language and culture on cognition? How do language and other semiotic resources work together in the manifestation of human sociality across languages and cultures? What are the implications of recent research conducted in anthropology, linguistics, psychology and sociology in terms of their impact upon the teaching and learning of an additional language? The series, which intends to bridge scholarship in the humanities and social sciences, addresses these and other related questions.
Invited speakers, lecture titles, times and locations are:
Distributed Cultural-Historical Dynamics and the Development of Semiotic Agility
Steven Thorne, Portland State University and University of Groningen
Comments from Heather Willis Allen, Department of French and Italian
4:00 pm, Thursday, March 7, 2013
254 Van Hise Hall, 1220 Linden Drive
The Co-Operative Organization of Human Action
Charles Goodwin, University of California, Los Angeles
Comments from Mitchell Nathan, Department of Educational Psychology
4:00 pm, Thursday, April 11, 2013
254 Van Hise Hall, 1220 Linden Drive
Past Lectures in the series (Fall 2012)
Free and open to the public. Sponsored by the Language Institute.
For more information or accommodations: Dianna Murphy, (608) 262-1473.
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