第五届中国认知语言学国际论坛
The 5th China International Forum on Cognitive Linguistics（CIFCL5）
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第5届中国认知语言学国际论坛将在5月9日至16日在北京举办，特邀请您到会。如往届一样，听讲免费。本届论坛所有信息如下：
1. 论坛主讲人：Gilles Fauconnier, Ten Lectures on Cognitive Construction of Meaning，《意义的认知构建十讲》
Gilles Fauconnier, 加州大学圣迭亚哥分校认知科学系教授, 认知语言学领域具有原创性贡献的杰出学者之一, 心理空间，概念整合等理论的创始人。
中方主讲人：
王宁：北京师范大学中文系教授，训诂专家。
彭聃龄：北京师范大学心理学院教授，认知心理学专家。
蔡曙山：清华大学认知科学研究中心教授，逻辑学专家
2. 主办单位：北京航空航天大学。
协办单位：清华大学；北京大学；北京师范大学；北京外国语大学；北京语言大学。
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5. CIFCL5论坛讲座时间安排
此时间安排为预备通知，最终具体时间和地点将在4月30日前发到您邮箱
第1－6讲：5月9－11日。周五，六，日三天。
第7－10讲：5月13－16日。
第一讲Mental Spaces
第二讲Conceptual Integration
第三讲Causal Compressions in Language and Thought
第四讲Emergent Structure in Conceptual Networks
第五讲Metaphor and Conceptual Blending
第六讲Integration and Grammatical Constructions
第七讲Origins of Language
第八讲Material Culture and Meaning Construction
第九讲Generalized Integration Networks
第十讲Methods and Generalizations in Linguistics
6. CIFCL论文提交
《中国认知语言学国际论坛》（第二辑）征稿
China International Forum on Cognitive Linguistics（CIFCL）
本刊第一辑将于今年8月前后出版，第二辑的征稿截止日期为2008年10月31日。本刊使用书号，由外语教学与研究出版社出版。
1 本刊宗旨
本刊一年出一期。本刊刊登和认知语言学研究相关的文章，来稿范围包括以下诸方面：
1.1理论阐释：对当代认知语言学诸理论和方法的阐释。
1.2 实践与应用：认知语言学诸理论的应用，尤其是对汉语语言现象作深入考察。
1.3 综述：对国内外认知语言学相关理论的发展做出综述和评价。
1.4 书评：对认知语言学领域的新书进行述评或介绍。 1.5 一般认为和认知语言学相关的其它论文。 1.6 使用语言：来稿使用汉语或英语。
2. 稿件格式以及投稿方式
2.1第1页（作者信息页）：文章英、中文题目、文章总字数。作者姓名、通讯地址（含邮编）、电话、传真及电子邮件。作者英、中文简介，包括：出生年、性别、籍贯、工作单位、学位（如是博士，获得博士学位的单位及时间）、职称（职务）、研究方向、代表性学术成果。
2.2第2页：英文标题，英文提要（限300字）；中文标题，中文提要（限200字）；及英、中文关键词（限 5个词）。请勿署作者姓名。
2.3第3页：页首中文题目，正文随后，不署作者名。研究论文限10,000字，综述限8,000字，新书述评限4,000字，新书介绍限2,000字。
2.4正文及参考文献一律用双行行距，字号为五号。
2.5一律使用电子邮件附件形式投稿，稿件同时发至以下两个邮箱：thomasli@buaa.edu.cn；thomaslfy@gmail.com；收到确认邮件为投稿成功。
2.6 本刊匿名审稿，3个月内未得采用者，稿件请自行处理。
3 正文体例
3.1 正文章节标题一律顶左独占一行，用阿拉伯数字（从1起）表明次序及级别，如1.,1.1, 1.2, 2., 2.1,2.2等等。不使用三层分类，即，不出现1.1.1, 1.1.2。
3.2 在段落内如需对内容进行罗列，第一层的编码用阿拉伯数字，并用括号括起，如(1)(2)(3) ……，第二层用大写拉丁字母A,B,C, ……，第三层用小写拉丁字母a,b,c, ……，第一层向右空两字，以后每增加一层加空一字，如下所示：
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3.3 正文中非汉语姓氏及地名一律采用外文原名。
3.4 语种名称，除有通用译法外，首次出现时一律采用原文加译文。
3.5外文术语，除有通用译法外，首次出现时一律采用原文加译文。
3.6 行文中的外文例句均夹注中译文；例句如单行列出，译文置于原文下方，不另加园括号。如有必要，还需逐字译成中文置于原文与译文之间。
3.7作为讨论对象的例句或语段一般与行文分开，向右空两个字，并统一用阿拉伯数字编号，置于园括号内。如讨论对象为词或短语，汉语的用单引号表出。外文词或短语例子，出示原文，并置中文译文于园括号内。
3.8 100字以内的引文用双引号标示；100字以上的应另起一段，整个引文与上下正文各隔开一行，且整段引文向右空两个字。
3.9 凡图表必须用阿拉伯数字编号，并标上图名或表名。较大的图表自成一页，在正文中表明插入处。
3.10正文采用脚注，用上标 1、 2、 3……标出。
4. 参考文献体例
4.1 行文中文献引用一律采用下列格式：中文姓名(年代:页码)，如刘坚、蒋绍愚(1995:11)；外文姓(年代:页码)，如Lakoff(1987:5)。
4.2 参考文献必须与正文所引（包括提及的）文献一一对应。
4.3 外文参考文献在先，中文在后。外文按姓氏字母顺序排列，中文按姓氏汉语拼音字母顺序排列。
4.4 每条文献必须顶格写，一行写不完时自动换行写。
4.5 外文期刊论文：Lakoff, George. 1970. Global rules. Language 46. 3. 627-639.
4.6 外文论文集论文： Fillmore, Charles J. 1968. The case for case. Universals in Linguistic Theory, ed., by Emmon Bach and Robert T. Harms, 1-88. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc.
4.7 外文著作： Lyons, John. 1968. Introduction to Theoretical Linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
4.8 外文中译本：Chao, Yuen Ren.1968. A Grammar of Spoken Chinese. 中译本：《汉语口语语法》吕叔湘译，1979，北京：商务印书馆。
4.9 外文未正式发表会议论文：Coulmas, Florian. 1996. Language rights-interests of state, language group and individual. International Conference on Language Rights, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
4.10 外文博士论文：Thomas, Jenny. 1986. The Dynamics of Discourse: A Pragmatic Analysis of Confrontational Interaction. Unpublished Ph.D. Thesis at the University of Lancaster.
4.11中文期刊论文：袁毓林，1998， 语言信息的编码。《当代语言学》第2期，15－23页。
4.12中文论文集论文：陆俭明，1984， 分析方法刍议。见《汉语析句方法讨论集》《中国语文》杂志社编，上海：上海教育出版社。
4.13 中文著作：王力， 1955，《中国语法理论》。北京：中华书局。
4.14 中文未正式发表会议论文：与外文同。
4.15 中文博士论文：与外文同。
5 本刊联系地址
100083 北京市海淀区学院路37号
北京航空航天大学外语学院语言学研究中心
E-mail: thomasli@buaa.edu.cn；thomaslfy@gmail.com；
7. ABSTRACTS for Ten Lectures on Cognitive Construction of Meaning
TEN LECTURES
Cognitive Construction of Meaning
Gilles Fauconnier
1. Mental Spaces
As we think and talk, rich arrays of mental spaces and connections between them are constructed unconsciously. This lecture outlines the simple and general principles that govern mental space construction. When combined and applied to rich pragmatic situations, the principles yield unlimited numbers of meanings and unlimited nesting. Grammar is the link between invisible backstage cognition and the observable behavior of humans when they talk and think. The cognitive theory of mental spaces explains a variety of logical phenomena, such as opacity, presupposition projection, and analogical counterfactuals. It leads to the theory of conceptual integration which will be presented in the following lecture.
2. Conceptual Integration
Conceptual integration (blending) is a basic mental operation that leads to new meaning, global insight, and conceptual compressions useful for memory and manipulation of otherwise diffuse ranges of meaning. It plays a fundamental role in the construction of meaning in everyday life, in the arts and sciences, in mathematics, and in religious thought. The essence of the operation is to construct a partial match between inputs, to project selectively from those inputs into a novel 'blended' mental space, which then dynamically develops emergent structure. It has been suggested that the capacity for complex conceptual blending ("double-scope" integration) is the crucial capacity needed for thought and language. This lecture illustrates conceptual blending through examples drawn from everyday human behavior, and presents the constitutive and governing principles that constrain the cognitive operation.
3. Causal Compressions in Language and Thought
Compression of vital relations is a key component of conceptual integration. This lecture focuses on the compression of causal chains and discusses the remarkable human capacity to decompress elaborate causal chains when prompted by minimal linguistic cues. The overall problem raised by causal compression phenomena is the following: elaborate space configurations are set up and processed in the absence of explicit grammatical markings for the frames, spaces, and connections needed. Language guides us in certain directions and constrains the configurations, but it does not directly specify the causal chains that need to be constructed in order for meaning to emerge. Types of compression are discussed, along with the principles that govern them. Consequences for grammar, design, and communication are discussed.
4. Emergent Structure in Conceptual Networks
A powerful aspect of conceptual integration networks is the dynamic emergence of novel structure. Emergent structure is manifested in the blended spaces created by a network, and also in its overall web of connections between mental spaces. In this lecture we will analyze data from language, mathematics, technology, and advertising. The analysis will highlight the ways in which conceptual structures can evolve, both culturally and individually. Emergent structure that humans can develop through double-scope blending is the key to scientific and artistic creativity, and to the construction of religious experience. But creativity with emergent structure also takes place routinely in everyday life and is especially visible in humor, cartoons, and irony. The unity of human invention in very different areas will be shown through the study of the underlying integration networks.
5. Metaphor and Conceptual Blending
Metaphors are usually double-scope conceptual blends. The standard source-target model has been very useful in developing metaphor theory, but a deeper account requires a framework in which to study emergent structure and compression produced by metaphor. This lecture will focus on the emergence of complex metaphors through successive conceptual blends. The conceptualization of time will be discussed. The time as space metaphor that we observe in everyday language is itself emergent when we consider the full spectrum of relevant data. Multiple inputs and succesive integrations operate in the elaborate conception of time that humans create over long periods and that children acquire in a short period through a mix of supervised and unsupervised learning.
6. Integration and Grammatical Constructions
A basic function of grammar is to prompt for the construction of mental space configurations during ongoing discourse. In particular, grammatical constructions are typically templates for blending form and content. In this lecture, we will look in some detail at causative grammatical constructions in English, French, and Hebrew. Grammar, as it turns out, is a powerful compression tool. Understanding a language is having the ability to decompress grammatical constructions in context. Typically, this depends on the mastery of conventional blends and their creative application to novel situations. We will show that this is equally true of the simplest constructions, such as noun-noun compounds or "x of y", and the most complex ones commonly studied in linguistics as syntax.
7. Origins of Language
During the Upper Paleolithic, human beings developed an unprecedented ability to innovate. They acquired a modern human imagination, which gave them the ability to invent new concepts and to assemble new and dynamic mental patterns. The results of this change were awesome: human beings developed art, science, religion, culture, refined tool use, and language. A key factor was the evolution of the mental capacity for conceptual blending. In this lecture, we will explore the implications of these findings for the origin of language. There are many problems besetting theories of the origin of language. These problems include the absence of intermediate stages in the appearance of language, the absence of existing languages more rudimentary than others, the appeal to some extraordinary genetic event unlike any other we know of, and the difficulty of finding a defensible story of adaptation. Conceptual integration theory opens up a different way of looking at the origin of language that is free of such problems.
8. Material Culture and Meaning Construction
The cognitive anthropologist Ed Hutchins has shown that material objects can be powerful anchors for conceptual blends. In particular, technology evolves to produce cultural human artefacts such as watches, gauges, compasses, airplane cockpit displays, with structure specifically designed to match conceptual inputs and integrate with them into stable blended frames of perception and action that can be memorized, learned by new generations, and thus culturally transmitted. Existing structure in the world can also be recruited opportunistically for the same purpose. Like mathematics and grammar, technology evolves through successive blending, as for example in the case of banking and computing blended to the human manipulation of automatic teller machines. This lecture will discuss such cases and show their importance for understanding how language, whether signed or spoken, is anchored materially by gesture, sound, and writing.
9. Generalized Integration Networks
This lecture will point out some useful generalizations that emerge from the study of integration, along with some of the pervasive fallacies that stand in the way of making such generalizations. Through the analysis of attested data, we will explore the notion of "generalized integration networks" and how they allow the construction of a multiplicity of surface products in human thought and action. Labels like metaphor, metonymy, counterfactual, help to classify our superficial intuitive observations, but they do not correctly reflect the wide array of possibilities offered by conceptual mappings. Surface phenomena need to be analyzed more deeply with a precise characterization of the cognitive operations and constructions involved in each particular case. Specific typical cases will be examined and used to illustrate the more general theoretical consequences for the study of language.
10. Methods and Generalizations in Linguistics
In contrast to sharply autonomous views of language structure, cognitive linguistics has resurrected an older tradition. In that tradition, language is in the service of constructing and communicating meaning, and it is for the linguist and cognitive scientist a window into the mind. Seeing through that window, however, is not obvious. Deep features of our thinking, cognitive processes, and social communication need to be brought in, correlated, and associated with their linguistic manifestations. We are achieving a genuine science of meaning construction and its dynamics by intensively studying and modeling the cognition that lies behind language and goes far beyond it. In this last lecture, I will use the results obtained in the study of conceptual mappings to illustrate the powerful methods developed within cognitive linguistics, guided by the general scientific principles of economy, operational uniformity, and cognitive generalization. |
