Special issue of Interaction Studies (John Benjamins)

A special issue of Interaction Studies will be dedicated to the theme of EXTERNAL SYMBOL GROUNDING.

It is generally accepted that cognition cannot exist without the grounding of mental symbols. External symbol grounding argues that this grounding process is more than just an linking of symbols to the physical world by individual, but this process is also subject to cultural agreements between individuals, making symbol grounding a social process. Cognition is thus the combination of what happens in the head together with causal processes organised by historically rooted customs and artefacts. This special issue aims at collecting new insights and views on external symbol grounding from a range of different disciplines, ranging from psychology to computational modelling. Theoretical as well as experimental work is welcomed.

Submission

Authors are requested to notify the guest editors at esg2006@plymouth.ac.uk as soon as possible of their intention to submit a manuscript, please include a tentative title, names of any co-authors and a brief abstract.

Manuscripts should be submitted by email to the guest editors at esg2006@plymouth.ac.uk. All submissions will undergo a peer review process, and papers will be selected on quality and relevance.

Formatting instructions can be found at the journal's web site:

http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_seriesview.cgi?series=IS

Important dates

Due to the increased popularity of Interaction Studies, we have a number of hard and rapidly approaching deadlines.

15 July 2006: submission deadline

1 September 2006: notification to authors

1 October 2006: revised papers due

Publication: End of October 2006

The journal

The journal aims to advance knowledge in the growing and strongly interdisciplinary area of interaction studies in biological and artificial systems. It intends to act as a medium for dialogues across the boundaries of academic disciplines for research into social behaviour and communication that has traditionally been presented in separate specialist journals.

Editors: Kerstin Dautenhahn (University of Hertfordshire) and Jim Hurford (University of Edinburgh).

More information on Interaction Studies can be found at http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_seriesview.cgi?series=IS