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John Lucy
The University of Chicago, USA |
John A. Lucy received his Ph.D. in Human Development from the University of Chicago in 1987. He has taught in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania and is currently the William Benton Professor in the Departments of Psychology and of Comparative Human Development at the University of Chicago. He has done over thirty years of ethnographic, linguistic, and psychological research among the Mayan-speaking people of the Yucatan region of Mexico.
Lucy's research focuses on the relation between language and thought, especially on the role language plays in shaping thought. His early work was comparative, examining the linguistic relativity hypothesis, that is, the proposal that the particular language we speak influences the way we think. This work appeared in Language Diversity and Thought (Cambridge, 1992), which reviewed the history of research in this field; Grammatical Categories and Cognition (Cambridge, 1992), which outlined a new empirical approach; and in various papers that analyze contemporary research (e.g., Lucy 1996, 1997). His more recent work has added a developmental perspective, exploring how languages come to influence thought during middle childhood. This work has appeared in various book chapters (e.g., Lucy & Gaskins 2001, 2003; Lucy 2004) and in a forthcoming monograph. Running through all this work has been a concern with how language affects how we think about language itself. This work has appeared in his edited volume Reflexive Language: Reported Speech and Metapragmatics (Cambridge, 1993) and in various papers (e.g., Lucy 2010).
Lucy has been Guggenheim Fellow, a Mellon Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and, on three occasions, a Visiting Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. He has received major research grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Institutes of Mental Health, the Department of Education, the Social Science Research Council, and the Spencer Foundation. He has served as an officer in the Society for Linguistic Anthropology and the Society for Psychological Anthropology. At the University of Chicago, he has served as the Chair of the Department of Comparative Human Development, as Master and Deputy Dean of the Social Sciences, and as Coordinator of the indigenous language programs in the Center for Latin American Studies. |
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| • June 16, 2010 |
| Abstract submission begins. |
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| • October 15, 2010 |
| Theme session proposals due |
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| • November 15, 2010 |
| Abstract submission ends. |
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| • February 15, 2011 |
| Notification of acceptance |
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| • March 15, 2011 |
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| • July 11-17, 2011 |
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Harald Baayen, U. of Alberta, Canada |
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Ewa Dabrowska, Northumbria U., UK |
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Mirjam Fried, Czech Academy of
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Kaoru Horie,Nagoya University, Japan |
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Ronald Langacker, UC San Diego, USA |
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John Lucy, The University of Chicago,
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Jiaxuan Shen, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China |
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Contact Us |
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