Sciences of Communication

Programm

Keynote Lecture
The Theoretical Grounding of Americanist Commitments to Language Research: Franz Boas, Linguistic Particularism and Cultural Relativism
(Regna Darnell)

Panel I
(Chair: Angela Grünberg)

• Thomas Sturm: Why isn’t this philosophy of language? And does it matter? On Karl Bühler’s theory of language
• Stephen G. Alter: William Dwight Whitney and the Foundations of Sociolinguistic Theory
• John E. Joseph: Abstract and Concrete

Panel II
(Chair: Josh Berson)

• Tania Munz: Dancing to the Post-War Tune: Receptions of the Honeybee Dance Language after WWII
• Veronika Lipphardt: Migration, Isolation, Evolution. Linguistic Diversity as a Short-Cut to Genetic Diversity?
• David Ludwig: Between Holism and Localizationism: Kurt Goldstein on Language and Human Nature

Panel III
(Chair: Martin Thiering)

• Greogory Radick: The Reactionary Origins of the Chomskyan Revolution: The Unmaking of a Modern Synthesis
• Jamie Cohen-Cole: Psychology, Linguistics, and Computers: From Psycholinguistics to Google
• Randy Harris: The Return of the Body

Panel IV
(Chair: Julia Kursell)

• Judy Kaplan: The long rangers: pre-historical linguistics in the late-twentieth century
• Slava Gerovitch: Measuring Poetry: Andrei Kolmogorov’s Mathema-tical Poetics
• Stefan Bargheer: Linguicide in the Logosphere: What killed the Idea of Linguistic Human Rights and gave Birth to the Concept of Endangered Languages?

Wrap Up
(Lorraine Daston, Robert Richards, Michael Gordin)

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http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/termine/id=13385 

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