Detailed information about the course
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. |
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Places | 20 |
Deadline for registration | 05.05.2017 |