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Program Number:	2-044
Type:	Session
Session Title:	THE SENSES IN LANGUAGE AND CULTURE
Session Sponsor:	Society for Linguistic Anthropology
Session Date/Time:	Fri., 8:00 AM-11:45 AM
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Organizer(s):	STEPHEN LEVINSON (MPI for Psycholinguistics), ASIFA MAJID (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics)
Chair(s):	STEPHEN LEVINSON (MPI for Psycholinguistics)
Participants:
8:00 AM:	ASIFA MAJID (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics), STEPHEN LEVINSON (MPI for Psycholinguistics) -- An overview of the senses across languages and cultures
8:15 AM:	N ENFIELD (n/a) -- The senses in contact: A study of Mainland Southeast Asian languages
8:30 AM:	NICLAS BURENHULT (Max Planck Institute), ASIFA MAJID (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics) -- Smell across space, time, and culture: The case of Aslian (Austroasiatic, Malay Peninsula)
8:45 AM:	GUNTER SENFT (Max Planck Institute) -- Talking about color and taste on the Trobriand Islands: A diachronic comparative study
9:00 AM:	CLAIR HILL (Max Planck Institute) -- Ineffability and ‘gaps’ in the linguistic encoding of Umpila visual perception
9:15 AM:	HILARIO DE SOUSA (Max Planck Institute) -- Changes in the society and perception in Cantonese
9:30 AM:	DISCUSSANT: LAWRENCE HIRSCHFELD
9:45 AM:	BREAK
10:00 AM:	CONNIE DE VOS (Max Planck Institute) -- Iconicity and Variation: Conventionalisation of Color Terms in Small versus Large Signing Communities
10:15 AM:	SHAKILA SHAYAN (Max Planck Institute ), OZGE OZTURK (Max Planck Institute ), MARK SICOLI (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics) -- The thickness of pitch: Crossmodal iconicity in three unrelated languages; Farsi, Turkish and Zapotec
10:30 AM:	SYLVIA TUFVESSON (Max Planck Institute) -- Analogy making in the Semai sensory world
10:45 AM:	MARK DINGEMANSE (Max Planck Institute) -- Ideophones and the senses: The interplay of language, culture, and the perceptual world in a West-African society
11:00 AM:	OLIVIER LE GUEN -- The Hidden Grammar of Yucatec Maya: Senses, Language and Perception
11:15 AM:	PENELOPE BROWN (Max Planck Institute ) -- 'It tastes cold-soft-soft': Cross-modal compounding in Tzeltal perception terms
11:30 AM:	DISCUSSANT: WILLIAM HANKS (UC Berkeley)
11:45 AM:	End of Session
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