The 2nd International Conference on Sociality Culture and Humanities

The 2014 2nd International Conference on Sociality Culture and Humanities – ICSCH 2014, is held during June 22-23, 2014, in Moscow, Russia. ICSCH 2014, aims to bring together researchers, scientists, engineers, and scholar students to exchange and share their experiences, new ideas, and research results about all aspects of Sociality Culture and Humanities, and discuss the practical challenges encountered and the solutions adopted.

The conference is held every year to make it an ideal platform for people to share views and experiences in Humanities, Culture and Sociality and related areas. ICSCH 2014 is the premier forum for the presentation of new advances and research results in the fields of theoretical, experimental, and applied Sociality Culture and Humanities. The conference will bring together leading researchers, engineers and scientists in the domain of interest from around the world.

Topics of interest for submission include, but are not limited to:

* Anthropology

* Business

* Communities and Communications

* Economics, Financial and Industrial Systems

* Environmental studies

* Finance

* Human Rights Development

* Journalism

* Law and Justice

* Management

* Psychology

* Sociology

* Technology and Education

The Keynote Speakers of is Dr. Rimantas Dapkus (Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania).

Event website: http://www.icsch.org/

12th International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities

The International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities is held from 11th to 13th June 2014 in Madrid, Spain. This interdisciplinary conference is a place to share humanities perspectives through cultural, literary, philosophical, political, linguistic, and educational studies.

The International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities provides spaces for dialogue and for the publication of new knowledge in the humanities. These forums support the work of scholars who are building upon settled traditions in the humanities while at the same time setting a renewed agenda for their future.

Techno-science and econo-production. These present themselves daily as enormously powerful forces, driving us alternately to doom or salvation. They weigh their domineering presence ever more heavily in places of learning and research, often at the expense of the humanities.

Language in the Online and Offline World 4: The Latitude

The 3rd International Conference on Language, Medias and Culture is held in Surabaya, Indonesia from 27th to 28th May 2014.

Today’s world sees how online world influences the way we use language. Development in information technology changes interconnectivity and attitude toward linguistic norms. This situation has sparked interests in exploring language in the new atmosphere.

The International Conference on Language, Literature and Culture in Education 2014

The International Conference on Language, Literature and Culture in Education (LLCE 2014) will be held during May 7-9, 2014, in the historic city of Nitra, Slovakia – a European city of extraordinary historic and cultural importance. These days, being a site of two universities and several research institutes, it is also the centre of modern research and education.

The 3rd International Conference on Language, Medias and Culture

The 3rd International Conference on Language, Medias and Culture is held in Seoul, South Korea during April 12-13, 2014. ICLMC 2014 is an international forum for state-of-the-art research in Language, Medias and Culture.

It is one of the leading international conferences for presenting novel and fundamental advances in the fields of Language, Medias and Culture.

International Conference on Arts and Humanities- 2014 (ICOAH 2014)

International Conference on Arts & Humanities 2014 will be held on 2nd and 3rd April 2014 at Sri Lanka. The conference is organized by The International Institute of Knowledge Management (TIIKM). It will address the themes in the field of art & humanities. Areas such Visual and performing Arts, Folklore and Ethnomusicology, Linguistics and Multilingual Studies, Film/Media and Graphic Designing, Culture/Religion and Ethnic Studies, Anthropology/literature and some more related topics will be examining in this conference. Sessions will bring researchers from across the globe together to discuss broad questions of common interest and provide a platform to establish relationships with new colleagues.

Conceptual Metaphor

Conceptual metaphor: In cognitive linguistics, metaphor is defined as understanding one conceptual domain in terms of another conceptual domain; for example, using one person’s life experience to understand a different person’s experience. A conceptual domain can be any coherent organization of experience.

Different languages, different cultures, different consciousnesses…

According to the Russian dictionary of association norms «the core» of Russian linguistic consciousness is represented by different values concerning individual life:

Association (reaction)	Number of stimuli causing this association (reaction)
Home, house ( Дом) Life (Жизнь) Money (Деньги) Love (Любовь)	864 711 587 428

Having marshaled data processed by linguists of Novosibirsk State University, we got a list of the most frequent reactions (caused by the number of stimuli) which is the core of French linguistic consciousness:

Association (reaction)	Number of stimuli causing this association (reaction)
Life (Vie) Love (Amour) Man (Homme) Well, good (Bien)	315 245 193 166

Comparing the core of Russian linguistic consciousness to the French one we scientifically prove the idea that the basis of every culture has its own system of values, meanings, social stereotypes and cognitive schemes (established by the method of fixation of the first response to one lexical stimulus: for more information see «Creation of the Verbal Association Thesaurus» – 05/02/2014).

http://dictaverf.nsu.ru/dict

*Русский ассоциативный словарь. В 2 т. / Ю.Н.Караулов, Г.А. Черкасова, Н.В. Уфимцева, Ю.А. Сорокин, Е.Ф. Тарасов. АСТ-Астрель, 2002. 784 с.

Does Language Shape How We Think?

When we talk about language, we often dig down to “universal” categories like nouns & verbs, consonants & vowels, phrases & sentences. We end up with these cross-language concepts that individual languages are built on, almost as if the colorful diversity found in the world’s languages is just icing on the strong unity of the linguistic cake. And LANGUAGE is grounded in our way of thinking and processing information, which is itself universal among humans. So, languages and cultures are superficial, but language and cognition run deep. But this isn’t the only way to look at language. What if the language we are brought up to speak actually relates to the way we look at reality? From this perspective, a language is a particular way of conceptualizing the world, and has close ties to culture. In the 1930’s, Benjamin Lee Whorf talked about language this way. Building on his mentor, Edward Sapir, he argued that different languages represent different ways of thinking about the world around us. This view has come to be called linguistic relativity. Because of this idea, Whorf was on the lookout for examples of language being culturally bound. Exploring the grammar of the Hopi language, he concluded that the Hopi have an entirely different concept of “time” than European languages do, and that the European concepts of “time” and “matter” are actually conditioned by language itself. One practical consequence of linguistic relativity: direct translation between languages isn’t always possible. Since Hopi and English aren’t simply ways of expressing the same thing in different words, you can’t preserve thoughts or viewpoints when you translate between them. In its strongest expression, linguistic relativity – the idea that viewpoints vary from language to language – relies on linguistic determinism – the idea that language determines thought. In other words, how people think doesn’t just vary depending on their language, but is actually grounded in, determined by, the specific language of their community. Linguistic relativity has been abandoned and criticized over the decades, with critics aiming to show that perception and cognition are universal, not tied to language and culture. But some psychologists and anthropologists continue to argue that differences in a language’s structure and words may play a role in determining how we think. Experiments on how color terms influence color perception and how speakers of different languages approach non-linguistic tasks continue to spark debate.

Source: http://www.nativlang.com/linguistics/linguistic-relativity.php

Speech Acts and Speech Genres across Languages and Cultures

Every culture has its own repertoire of characteristic speech acts and speech genres. The idea that different cultures can be studied and compared via their characteristic speech genres has by now become widely accepted, although it is seldom recognized that this statement applies to simple speech acts as much as to complex speech genres. The authors of a recent study (Fracer – Rintell – Walters,1980: 78) say that their research is based on the following assumptions: “Every language makes available to the user the same basic set of speech acts, such as requesting,