Detailed information about the course

[ Back ]
Title

Literature, Language, and Cognition

Dates

May 12–13

Responsable de l'activité

Oliver Morgan

Organizer(s)

Dr Sarah Brazil, UniGe

Dr Oliver Morgan, Unige

Speakers

Prof. Guillemette Bolens, UniGe

Prof. Terence Cave, University of Oxford

Dr Raphael Lyne, University of Cambridge

Prof. Deirdre Wilson, University College London

Description

 

 

This event, split over two days, will bring together literary critics and linguists who have a shared interest in cognition. It will ask a single, simple question-what do the cognitive sciences have to contribute to the study of language and literature? It's a question to which a growing number of scholars are finding increasingly rich, diverse, and complex answers. Research into the cognitive processes that underlie speaking and listening, reading, spectating, and performance, turn-taking, gesture, memory, and intention-each of these has the potential to alter our understanding of language and enrich our engagement with literary texts. Most strikingly perhaps, recent work on embodied and distributed cognition has brought about a fundamental reassessment of the relation of the mind to the body and the world.

The event will feature some of the leading scholars in the fields of literary and linguistic cognition, as well as offering a platform for doctoral students to discuss their own work. It aims to be of use to all CUSO members-those who are new to such questions as well as those already occupied with them, without restriction as to discipline, approach, genre, or period.

Location

Genève

Information
Places

20

Deadline for registration 05.05.2017
short-url short URL

short-url URL onepage