Our fourth LEAP meeting of Spring Quarter will take place this Friday, 10 May at 11 am in Social Science Research Building 302 and on Zoom. Eugene Yu Ji (Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, Cognitive Science, UChicago) will be presenting.
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Here are the talk details:
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Title: Two Models of Metalinguistics
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Abstract:
In this presentation, I will introduce two innovative cognitive-driven, corpus-based models for investigating “metasemantic presupposition” and “metapragmatic presupposition,” integrating cognition and computation with metalinguistic theory in sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology (Silverstein 1976, 1993; Urban 2006, 2018). The first model develops a distributional metric in hyperbolic coordinates, mapping metasemantic presupposition as co-textual relatedness and metapragmatic presupposition as co-textual dependency. The second model adopts a dynamical-system approach (Niyogi 2006) to map metasemantic and metapragmatic presuppositions conditioned upon meta-level awareness of synchronization of linguistic categories over time. Empirically, the first model is applied to relatively long-term (hundreds to thousands of years) shifts of semantic categories with case studies including color, kinship, smell, and shape-based classifiers based on ancient and modern Chinese texts. The second model is tested against diachronic change data from the Google Ngram corpus of written American English, modeling shorter-term changes spanning decades to centuries in semantic categories related to color, kinship, smell, and political and religious identities. Together, this research advances cognitive-driven computational models informed by the contemporary literature of sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology, and also proposes a novel framework for generating empirical hypotheses that contribute to bridging micro-level psycholinguistic and macro-level sociolinguistic phenomena.
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Here are the Zoom details:
- https://uchicago.zoom.us/j/96745192172?pwd=TXhnZktoTHl0SnNHMDRyMzF4eWdFdz09
- Meeting ID: 967 4519 2172
- Passcode: 430753
Upcoming meeting
The final meeting of Spring Quarter will be on 24 May. I will be presenting.
Thank you for your interest in LEAP!