4.1086 Confs: Language Origins; CILS; Asian Music (3/146)

Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Mon, 25 Feb 91 21:06:20 EST

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 4, No. 1086. Monday, 25 Feb 1991.


(1) Date: Mon, 11 Feb 91 10:39 CST (55 lines)
From: TB0EXC1%NIU.BITNET@uicvm.uic.edu
Subject: Language Origins: second call for papers

(2) Date: Mon, 18 Feb 91 13:43:56 -0600 (43 lines)
From: colleen@tira.uchicago.edu
Subject: CILS Calendar 2/18

(3) Date: Thu, 07 Feb 91 17:11:21 EST (48 lines)
From: Randal Baier <REBX@CORNELLC>
Subject: Call for Papers: Asian Popular Music

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Date: Mon, 11 Feb 91 10:39 CST
From: TB0EXC1%NIU.BITNET@uicvm.uic.edu
Subject: Language Origins: second call for papers

***SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS***

LANGUAGE ORIGINS SOCIETY

7th Annual Meeting

July 18-20 1991

Northern Illinois University
DeKalb Il 60115 USA

The Language Origins Society invites abstracts for papers on aspects of
language origins and evolution.

Language Origins is construed very broadly and includes investigations
into the philosophical, neurological, biological or social bases of the
phylogeny and/or ontogeny of language in any of its forms (speech,
writing, sign) or the social and/or linguistic bases of language
evolution and change.

Possible topics include (but are not limited to) the origins and
development of:
phonetic systems
grammatical systems
semantic systems
writing systems
speech and language
biological, neurological and medical aspects
non-human communication systems
particular language families and subfamilies
pidgin and creole languages

Send abstracts of 500 words or less and requests for further information
to:

Edward Callary
Coordinator, LOS
English Department
Northern Illinois University
DeKalb Il 60115 USA

e-mail: TB0EXC1@NIU.BITNET
(TB ZERO, not the letter O)

FAX:815-753-1824
TELEPHONE: 815-753-0611

Deadline for receipt of abstracts is 10 March, 1991

Promising abstracts from advanced students are especially welcome.

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Date: Mon, 18 Feb 91 13:43:56 -0600
From: colleen@tira.uchicago.edu
Subject: CILS Calendar 2/18

_________________ T H E C I L S C A L E N D A R ________________

The Center for Information and Language Studies
Joseph Regenstein Library, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637

Subscription requests to: cils@tira.uchicago.edu
Vol. 1, No. 16 February 18, 1991

Upcoming events:
2/25 14:30 Ry 276 Lecture C. M. Sperburg-McQueen, UIC
2/25 16:00 Wb 130 Workshop Dennis Stampe, U of Wisconsin
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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25
2:30 Lecture
Ry 276 C. M. Sperburg-McQueen
ACH/ACL/ALLC Text Encoding Initiative
University of Illinois at Chicago
(u35395@uicvm.bitnet)
"The Validated -- or Violated? -- Text:
Issues in Specifying Document Structures"
Abstract in last week's calendar.

*****

4:00 Workshop
Wb 130 The Pragmatics of Language
Dennis Stampe, Dept. of Philosophy
University of Wisconsin, Madison

Readings will be available in the Department of Philosophy and the Center
for Information and Language Studies.

For more information, please contact Jerrold Sadock (2-8524), Department
of Linguistics, or Josef Stern, Department of Philosophy (2-8594).

The next workshop will be March 11. The speaker will be Ronald
McClamrock, Department of Philosophy.

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Date: Thu, 07 Feb 91 17:11:21 EST
From: Randal Baier <REBX@CORNELLC>
Subject: Call for Papers


CALL FOR PAPERS
Society for Asian Music Pre-Conference Symposium
SEM, October 9, 1991, Chicago

Theme: Asian Popular Music

Abstracts are invited for papers to be presented at the Society for
Asian Music Pre-Conference Symposium, to be held October 9, 1991,
preceding the 1991 Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Conference in
Chicago. The general theme of the symposium is ASIAN POPULAR MUSIC.

While abstracts on any aspect of Asian popular music will be considered,
preference will be given to those addressing the more specific themes
proposed for the symposium. These concern the relationship between
control of the mass media and the extent to which popular music
disseminated therein reflects and affirms pluralism and grassroots
identity.

Does popular music, as disseminated by the mass media, reinforce a sense
of local community (be it constituted by class, region, ethnicity,
religion, gender, etc.), or does it tend to superimpose mass-produced,
common-denominator product on a mass audience? Does it promote
homogeneity or diversity in parameters of style, language, and content?
Does popular music, in association with the mass media and commercial
and/or state entertainment industries, manipulate community taste or
respond to it? What are the factors that influence this process? How
are they influenced by the nature of the mass medium in question, and by
the nature of its control or ownership? Finally, is the given tendency
(i.e., homogeneity or pluralism) to be seen as positive or negative?

Participants may be encouraged to address issues raised by position
papers delivered by invited guest speakers.


Program committee: Peter Manuel (chair), Randal Baier, Philip Schuyler,
Deborah Wong, and Virgina Danielson. Local arrangements: Carolyn
Johnson.

Abstracts should be sent to: Randal Baier, 110 Olin Library, Cornell
University, Ithaca NY 14853-5301. 607-272-4118 (Home). E-mail:
REBX@CORNELLC.Bitnet.

DEADLINE: April 15, 1991