We welcome scholars to participate in a one-day workshop on how language has been defined and approached differentially throughout history within philosophical, linguistic, psychological, and socio-anthropological schools of thought. Possible topics can include but are not limited to:

• Origins and rationale of logic and semantics as areas of research;
• Origins, histories, and methodologies of philology, diachronic and synchronic linguistics, Chomsky’s linguistics, biolinguistics and cognitive linguistics;
• Origins, histories, and methodologies of anthropological linguistics and sociolinguistics;
• The role of language in different cosmologies, religions and ideologies;
• Language as order, knowledge and reason (logos theories, universalia debates, rationalism);
• The social and political role of language as debated by social contract theoreticians and moral philosophers;
• The search for an “Adamic” language or the reconstruction of a “mother language,” “primordial”- or “proto”-language;
• Ideas on the “purification” of existing languages for purposes of knowledge acquisition or communication;
• Language versus communication;
• The reference problem & the indeterminacy of translation;
• Language as the limit of one’s world;
• Language games, language as power, language as identity and nationality;
• Signs and codes as defined in (bio)semiotics and their relation to concepts of information, communication and language;
• Evolutionary epistemology and language;
• Language and consciousness, language and cognition;
• Embodiment and language;
• Body language;
• Language as culture;
• Language and art.

Abstract submission by April 15th, 2019.

The workshop will be organized as a satellite event following the Protolang 6 conference.