Font: Program of the satellite VCL’13 – Sociocomplexitat.

 VARIATION AND CONTACT IN LANGUAGING:

ECOLOGICAL AND COMPLEX APPROACHES

Barcelona, September 19^th 2013

9:00                 Presentation of the Satellite

Modeling Language Contact: The Unbearable Lightness of Complexity

                        Lucía Loureiro (Universitat de les Illes Balears)

 

9:45                Complex Theoretical and Computational Models in Contact Sociolinguistics: How can we cooperate?

                        Albert Bastardas-Boada (Universitat de Barcelona)           

 

10:05               The Impact of Social Reputation in Language Evolution: a Simple Simulation Approach

                        Gemma Bel-Enguix (Université d’Aix-Marseille)

 

10:25               Linguistic Variation: Approach from the Perspective of Complex Adaptive Systems

                        Àngels Massip-Bonet (Universitat de Barcelona)

 

10:45               Coffee break

 

11:15               A Comparative Study of the Effect of Consciousness-Raising and Input Processing on Some Specified Grammatical Form

                        Afrooz Arianfar and Parviz Maftoon (Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran)

 

11.35               Using Language, Using a Language and Using Languages. CommonKnowledge in Conversation of Bilinguals

                        Roland Terborg and Raquel Acosta (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)

           

11:55              Generic Framework for Simulation of Cognitive Systems: a Case Study of Color Category Boundaries

Dariusz Plewczynski*¹, Franciszek Rakowski*¹, Peter Lewiński⁶, Michał Łukasik³, Konrad Kurdej⁴, Filip Leonarski¹, Natalia Bielczyk⁵, Joanna Rączaszek-Leonardi³

Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling¹, Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics⁴, University of Warsaw; Amsterdam School of Communication Research, University of Amsterdam⁶, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, Netherlands⁵; Institute of Psychology², and Institute of Computer Science³, Polish Academy of Sciences; *contributed equally

                       

12:15               Articulate While Black: Barack Obama, Race, and the (Style-)Shifting Politics of “Sounding Presidential”

                        H. Samy Alim (Stanford University)

 

12.35               Harnessing the Complexity of Social Phenomena 

                        Carlos Gershenson García (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)