Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!news.cs.indiana.edu!ariel.unm.edu!nmsu!opus!ted From: ted@nmsu.edu (Ted Dunning) Newsgroups: comp.ai Subject: Call for Papers Message-ID: Date: 29 May 91 18:44:18 GMT Sender: news@NMSU.Edu Reply-To: dascal%taunivm.bitnet@nmsu.edu Distribution: comp Organization: Computing Research Lab Lines: 113 C A L L FOR P A P E R S PRAGMATICS AND COGNITION Editor: Marcelo Dascal, Philosophy, Tel Aviv University (Israel) Associate Editors: Jens Allwood, Linguistics, University of Gothenburg (Sweden) Benny Shanon, Psychology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel) Stephen Stich, Cognitive Science, Rutgers University (U.S.A.) Yorick Wilks, Computer Science, New Nexico State University (U.S.A.) Assistant Editors: Itiel Dror, Edson Francozo, Amir Horowitz Publisher: John Benjamins, B.V. (Amsterdam) Purpose and Scope: A new journal, especially an interdisciplinary one, helps to shape a new research niche, carved out by a critical mass of work already in the making, but which has not so far found an adequate vehicle of diffusion and crystallization. The niche PRAGMATICS AND COGNITION has identified, and purports to develop, lies at the intersection between two rapidly expanding areas of research: pragmatics and cognitive science. Each of these disciplines is concerned with one of the two most important kinds of (human) activity -- the use of symbols and the performance of mental operations. Though the interdependence between these activities has been often asserted and discussed, it has not so far received the kind of systematic attention and specific research it well deserves. Pragmatics has been mostly concerned with accounting for the communicative use of language and other semiotic systems, taking for granted (or simply ignoring) its mental underpinnings. Cognitive Science has been mainly concerned either with the grand issue of mental architecture or with detailed analyses of certain mental processes, without focusing on their pragmatic aspects. But researchers in both areas have again and again stumbled against the need for interrelating systematically semiotic and mental activity, and they have quite often developed fruitful ideas on how to go about doing it. It is this body of research and ideas that PRAGMATICS AND COGNITION seeks to foster, by creating a dedicated space for its critical discussion and development. PRAGMATICS AND COGNITION is interested in the interrelations between the use of any semiotic system by any being and that being's `inner life'. Its scope covers a wide variety of semiotic systems (natural languages, computer languages, writing, gesture, facial expression, etc.), as used by humans, animals and machines, in connection with a broad range of `mental' activities (pattern recognition, problem solving, sensation, emotion, fantasy, interpretation of experience, hallucination, dreaming, understanding, humor, creativity, mental modeling, conceptualization, aesthetic pleasure, etc.). The journal seeks to explore relations of all sorts between the former and the latter: logical and causal dependence; conditions of acquisition, development or loss; modeling, simulation and formalization; shared or separate biological and neurological basis; social etc. It goes without saying that, given its scope, PRAGMATICS AND COGNITION must be an interdisciplinary journal. Among the disciplines whose separate paths it seeks to bring together, Philosophy, Psychology, Linguistics, Semiotics, Cognitive Science, Neuroscience, Artificial Intelligence, Ethology, and Cognitive Anthropology. But this is not, of course, an exhaustive list. Contributions steming from any discipline, relevant to the Technical information: Initially the journal will be published twice a year (in May and November). Each volume will contain approximately 400 pages. The first issue is scheduled for May 1992. Authors should send 4 copies of manuscripts, in English, to the Editor. Only original manuscripts, not yet published elsewhere nor under consideration for publication elsewhere will be considered. Final versions of the manuscript should be supplied in both hard copy and disc, preferably on WordPerfect format, IBM compatible. Use of other wordprocessors requires previous consent by the editor. Manuscripts should conform to the journal's specifications, which can be obtained upon request. They should contain a 400 word abstract. Name, address, institutional affiliation of the author(s), and e-mail address should be written in a separate title page. All manuscripts will be refereed. Editorial address: Prof. Marcelo Dascal, Department of Philosophy, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel Fax: 972-3-6425201 or 972-3-6422554 E-mail: dascal at taunivm.bitnet Subscriptions: John Benjamins B.V. P.O.Box 75577, 1070 AN Amsterdam, The Netherlands Fax: 31-20-6738156 -- Offer void except where prohibited by law.