Given the way Europe is becoming more and more integrated, cultural linguistics is certainly a very relevant approach. When it comes both to exploring individual national languages and the linguistic worldviews that form within them and also when looking for unity in diversity, e. g. searching for common European values, culturally based linguistics should prove an enlightening approach. The wealth and variety of European languages and their worldviews will be explored not only within the scope of verbal-acoustic languages but also within the scope of visual-motor languages, esp. the Czech Sign Language. Leading researchers in Cultural Linguistics from six European universities (Rouen, Grenoble, Lublin, Berlin, Bratislava, Prague) will contribute to the Cultural Linguistics for Today’s Europe: Man, Languages, Values conference as well as students and academic staff of the Faculty of Arts at the Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. The conference presentations will investigate various aspects of linguistic worldviews in particular languages as well as the research methods that are likely to be used for European scholars studying what language means for Europe.

Contact : james-william.underhill@univ-rouen.fr

Monday, June 27

Morning Session

• James W. Underhill: Individuals or Peoples for Europe?
• J. Trabant: Vanishing World Views
• M. Gianninoto: Translating European concepts into Chinese. Dà gōngmín or xiǎo shìmí.

Some considerations on the terms for citizen in Mandarin Chinese

Afternoon Session: Spoken languages

1.30–3.30 pm

• Veronika Čurdová: The PATH schema in Czech somatic phraseology
  • Barbora Bendíková: Kinegrams – (Non)verbal communication in Czech somatic phraseology
  • Natalia Zanegina: What an elbow is for: On fragments of Russian and Czech linguistic worldview
  • Veronika Vitkovská: EYE-EYES: the FUNCTION profile and its subprofiles in naive and scientific worldview
  • Radka Zbořilová: Emotions in Czech somatic phraseology
  • Tereza Nakaya: Poetic view of Japanese mental space KOKORO

Coffee break (30 minutes)

4.00–6.00 pm

• Lucie Šťastná: The “man–animal” opposition in language
  • Anna Christou: “If the Devil Can’t Get You Any Other Way, He Sends an Old Woman.” Old woman in the traditional worldview
  • Jakub Marek: City stereotypes: Czech toponyms in the cognitive ethnolinguistics perspective
  • Jan Huleja: Ostrava in Czech linguistic Worldview
  • Zuzana Wildová: Czechs – liver of Europe? French linguistic worldview of a Czech

Evening

Guided tour in Carolinum, the oldest building of the Charles University, and a small reception

Tuesday, June 28

Morning Session

• Alena Bohunická: Otherness from the European Identity Perspective
• Ludmila Volná: Josef Čapek’s World: Translating Dogs and Cats within Europe
• Irena Vaňková – Alena Macurová – Naďa Hynková Dingová: Man in language: spaces, stories, states of mind – experience (Spoken and sign languages)

Afternoon Session: Signed languages

1.30–3.30 pm

• Anna Moudrá: The metaphor LIFE IS PATH in Czech Sign Language
  • Karla Pokorná: The CONTAINER schema and spatial orientation FROM BODY – TO BODY in Czech Sign Language
  • Klára Richterová – Milan Fritz: The structuring of time in Czech Sign Language (Calendar units)
  • Vladimír Šimon: Stories of the Czech Deaf (On the storytelling research)
  • Barbora Gardelková: Anger in Czech Sign Language

Coffee break (30 minutes)

4.00–6.00 pm

• Lucie Břinková: Survey of ethnic stereotypes in Czech Sign Language
  • Jan Šimůnek: The doctor stereotype in the perspective of the Czech Deaf
  • Lenka Okrouhlíková: Animals in sign languages in the 19th century
  • Andrea Hudáková – Milena Čiháková: Doggie and pussycat in the communication of Czech deaf children and their deaf parents
  • Lucie Půlpánová – Romana Petráňová: Translation of biblical texts into Czech Sign Language from the cognitive perspective (Selected aspects)

Evening

Performance composed by Deaf artists

Wednesday, June 29

Morning Session

• Jerzy Bartmiński (Lublin): The cognitive definition as a method of concept explication
• Stanisława Niebrzegowska-Bartmińska (Lublin): On the profiling of concepts: issues debatable and nondebatable

Afternoon Session

Round table

Schedule as of May 27 2016.

Lien : http://ujkn.ff.cuni.cz/en/cultural-linguistics-conference