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From:  (David Stodolsky)
Subject: Fwd: SELF AS A SIGN
Date: Wed, 6 Mar 96 17:54:00 +0100

Forward of letter from PSYCOLOQUY <>:

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From: Maxim Stamenov <MAXSTAM%>
Subject: (4) Conference: Self as a Sign, Sept 19-21, Bulgaria

           First Announcement and Call for Papers
                  International Conference

                       SELF AS A SIGN
 Aspects of self-representation, self-consciousness and self-interpretation

           September 19-21, 1996, Varna, Bulgaria

Organized by: The New Bulgarian University, Sofia, BULGARIA

OBJECTIVE: The aim of this conference will be to consider the
applicability of the notion of sign to the structure and functions of
the self. Contributions are invited from the disciplines of
linguistics, semiotics, cognitive psychology, philosophy of language
and mind and the adjacent disciplines and areas of research. The topics
under discussion include (but are not limited to): the `meaning' and
`form' of the self; the language-specific and language-nonspecific
aspects of subjecthood and representability to oneself of the self; the
ontogenetic `roots' of the self; the specificity of the experience of
the self; the relationships between self-image and body-schema; the
self- and other-image in developmental perspective; multiple selves and
multiple presentations in the social context and in pathology;
syntax/semantics of the presentation of the subject in everyday life
and in everyday-sentence perspective; the discursive basis of the self,
etc.

WORKSHOP: The Cognitive Turn in Semiotics
Dr. Maxim STAMENOV, Institute of the Bulgarian Language
Shipchenski Prokhod St. 52, bl. 17, 1113 Sofia, BULGARIA;


OBJECTIVE: The aim of the workshop will be to discuss the applicability
of the concept of sign with its structure of signifier/signified to
cognitive structures at different levels of their formation and
functioning. Contributions are invited from the disciplines of
semiotics, cognitive psychology, linguistics, philosophy of language
and mind.  While during the sessions of conference the focus will be on
the signs of subjectivity, here the participants will be supposed to
face the sign as an object along the following lines (among others):
the relationships between image and sign, concept and sign, symptom and
sign; the specificity of signifying structures in cognition, emotion,
perception, and imagination; the relationships between signs and names,
sentences, utterances, discourses, texts, etc.; the concept of sign in
symbolic and subsymbolic (connectionist) theories of mind; the emergent
signs -- the signifier/signified relationship in the top-down and
bottom-up hierarchies of information processing in mind and brain
functioning, etc.

Further proposals for workshops are welcome.

All requests for information and further orientation for the CONFERENCE
should be addressed to:

Maxim Stamenov, Institute of the Bulgarian Language,
Shipchenski Prokhod St. 52, bl. 17, 1113 Sofia, BULGARIA
Tel./fax (359-2) 732-217; E-mail: 

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