SBLR 2012 - Call for Contributions: "Spatial Behavior and Linguistic Representation"

Call for Contributions: "Spatial Behavior and Linguistic Representation"

Edited book by

Thora Tenbrink, Jan Wiener, and Christophe Claramunt

as part of the series:

"Explorations in Language and Space" , Oxford University Press

Goal:

To provide a representative collection of recent progress in understanding, analyzing, and modelling spatial behavior and associated language, with a specific emphasis on interrelationships between, and combinations of, interdisciplinary approaches and methods.

Details:

We invite submissions of papers (ranging between 5.000 and 12.000 words) to this collection which should either
contribute centrally to any of the following 3 specific research areas while elaborating findings in relation to the other two,
or else deal directly with combinations of these:
Spatial behavior and cognitive strategies
Language as a representation of spatial thought
Representation and modelling frameworks

Timeline:

Please send your intention to submit to Thora Tenbrink at your earliest convenience, with title and allocation to one or more of the three topic areas (and, if possible, the estimated length of your paper). As soon as we have a substantial basis, we will send a book proposal to the OUP series editor, which will speed up the publication process.

September 30, 2010 Deadline for full paper submissions to the editors

December 31, 2010 Notification of authors

February 15, 2011 Revised versions due

Formatting:

Here are some guidelines about formatting, geared towards OUP requirements. It is not required to conform to all standards in your initial submission, but this might help avoid reformatting problems later on.

Editors:

Thora Tenbrink (University of Bremen, Germany)
Jan Wiener (Bournemouth University, UK)
Christophe Claramunt (Naval Academy Research Institute, France)

Detailed description:

Research in the areas of spatial cognition and geographic information science has undergone a rapid development within the past decades, as reflected by steadily growing numbers of researchers addressing spatial topics, national as well as transregional conferences and meetings, and major research projects spanning a wide variety of related issues, transcending disciplinary boundaries. Recent developments have now highlighted a widespread substantial interest in establishing a reliable basis for combining insights and representation models from various sources. In particular, the existing manifold approaches to interpreting spatial representations in language deserve to be systematically combined with behavioral navigation data, associated cognitive processes and strategies, and formal representation systems capturing cognitively relevant categories and features of space. Substantial steps towards this goal have been gained at the recent collaborative interdisciplinary specialized workshop located at the HWK Hanse Institute for Advanced Studies in Delmenhorst (Germany). Based on the invitation of renowned experts in the various related fields, this workshop triggered energetic discussion and a broad variety of inspirations for future research desiderata. The aim of this book is to capture this spirit and enhance progress in this direction.