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The senses in language and culture -
Program & Abstracts
Friday 4 December 2009
| Session I The senses in language and culture: Variation across space and time |
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| 08:00 |
Asifa Majid & Stephen C. Levinson |
| An overview of the senses across languages and cultures more > |
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| 08:15 | N.J. Enfield |
| The senses in contact: A study of Mainland Southeast Asian languages more > |
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| 08:30 | Niclas Burenhult & Asifa Majid |
| Smell across space, time, and culture: The case of Aslian (Austroasiatic, Malay Peninsula) more > |
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| 08:45 | Gunter Senft |
| Talking about colour and taste on the Trobriand Islands: A diachronic comparative study more > |
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| 09:00 | Clair Hill |
| Ineffability and ‘gaps’ in the linguistic encoding of Umpila visual perception more > |
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| 09:15 |
Hilário de Sousa |
| Changes in the society and perception in Cantonese more > |
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| 09:30 |
discussant: Lawrence Hirschfeld  (New School for Social Research) |
| 09:45 |
break |
| Session II The senses in language and culture: Iconicity |
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| 10:00 |
Connie de Vos |
| Iconicity and Variation: Conventionalisation of Colour Terms in Small versus Large Signing Communities more > |
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| 10:15 |
Shakila Shayan, Ozge Ozturk & Mark Sicoli |
| The thickness of pitch: Crossmodal iconicity in three unrelated languages; Farsi, Turkish and Zapotec more > |
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| 10:30 |
Sylvia Tufvesson |
| Analogy making in the Semai sensory world more > |
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| 10:45 |
Mark Dingemanse |
| Ideophones and the senses: The interplay of language, culture, and the perceptual world in a West-African society more > |
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| 11:00 |
Olivier Le Guen |
| Senses, Language and Perception: The Hidden Grammar of Yucatec Maya more > |
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| 11:15 |
Penelope Brown |
| 'It tastes cold-soft-soft': Cross-modal compounding in Tzeltal perception terms more > |
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| 11:30 |
discussant: William Hanks (University of California, Berkeley) |
| 11:45 |
end of session |
