Social Cognition Parallax Interview Corpus (SCOPIC) TUFS Workshop 2018

The Social Cognition Parallax Interview Corpus (SCOPIC) is an open-ended, accessible
multilingual corpus annotated with functional categories relevant to social cognition. SocialCognition is the knowledge of social facts (e.g. kinship, status, ownership) that people use to place
themselves and others within an interconnected social context, and the psychological facts about
their own feelings, attentions, desires and their estimations of these for others (cf. Frith & Frith2007). By ‘parallax corpus’ we mean ‘broadly comparable formulations resulting from a comparabletask’ (cf. Friedrich 1986), to avoid the implications of ‘parallel corpus’ that there will be exact
semantic equivalence across languages. The corpus project uses an innovative stimulus-elicitation
methodology in a language documentation context, resulting in exposition, cooperative
conversation and narrative data (San Roque et al. 2012).
The purpose of the SCOPIC - TUFS Workshop will be(a) to introduce the project to workshop participants,(b) show them in a hands-on way how to work with the stimulus materials as a method of
exploring how particular languages encode aspects of social cognition,(c) support participants in their own annotation in the functional domains of human referent
expression and reported speech, thought and emotion.
Human referent expression is how we refer to ourselves and other humans. How language users
refer to people shows our characterization of roles and relationships (or lack thereof). In using
language, we build or break down these characterizations and relationships. We have a choice of
which aspects of people we highlight or downplay when we talk about them and ourselves,particularly when we use lexical (non-pronominal) reference. The language use we attribute toothers shows our estimation of others’ relationship conceptualization.
Reported Speech, thought and emotion is the domain of how thoughts, feelings and beliefs areexpressed, by a range of linguistic mechanisms from complement clauses to quoted speech and, inthe latter case, ranging from direct to indirect speech. Further relevant here is whether imputed
speech expresses outer or inner worlds, and whether it expresses speech, thoughts, feelings orbeliefs.
The workshop days (19-23 March, 10am-4pm) will feature talks on social cognition generally,
the corpus and annotation schemata, and language profiles. Each workshop day will also have blocksof time for workshop participants to annotate their own data, with help from the workshop
organizers. We will endeavour to provide technical support with the ELAN software, as well as
support with application of the annotation schema and discussion of the sometimes tricky questionsof linguistic analysis that underlie it. The workshop will also provide the opportunity for workshop
participants to provide feedback and engage in discussion about interesting categories and patterns
they see in their own data.

Timetable:* Talks open to the public. (Registration needed for participating in other sessions. For registration,please contact: asako[at]aa.tufs.ac.jp by 14 March (Wed).)Monday, March 19
10am - 10:30 am: Introduction of workshop participants and the languages they work on*10:30 - 11:30: Nick Evans - Social Cognition (OPEN)*11:30 - 12 pm: Danielle Barth - Corpus principles of SCOPIC (OPEN)
12pm - 1pm: Lunch break*1pm - 2pm: Nick Evans & Danielle Barth - Human Referents through a lens of social cognition &SCOPIC coding schema
2pm - 2:30: ELAN set up & annotation in groups
2:30 - 3pm: break
3pm - 4pm: ELAN set up & annotation by individuals & groups
Tuesday, March 20*10am - 10:40 am: Wayan Arka - Human Referents and Social Meaning in Balinese: Some Evidence
from the SCOPIC data
*10:40 - 11:20: Desak P. E. Pratiwi, Wayan Arka, and Asako Shiohara - Benefactives and affectedness
in Balinese: from morpho-syntax to social cognition
11:20 - 12 pm: Annotation of Human Referents by workshop participants
12pm - 1pm: Lunch break
1pm - 2:30: Annotation of Human Referents by workshop participants
2:30 - 3pm: break
3pm - 4pm: Round-table discussion of human referent issues of interest
Wednesday, March 21*10am - 10:40 am: Nick Evans - Social Cognition in Dalabon: a language portrait
10:40 - 12 pm: Annotation of Human Referents by workshop participants
12pm - 1pm: Lunch break*1pm - 2pm: Nick Evans & Danielle Barth - Reported Speech, thought and emotion through a lens ofsocial cognition & SCOPIC coding schema
2pm - 2:30: Annotation of Reported Speech, Thought & Emotion by workshop participants in groups
2:30 - 3pm: break
3pm - 4pm: Annotation of Reported Speech, Thought & Emotion by individuals & groups
Thursday, March 22*10am - 10:40 am: Stefan Schnell - Social Cognition in Vera’a: a language portrait
10:40 - 12 pm: Annotation of Reported Speech, Thought & Emotion by workshop participants
12pm - 1pm: Lunch break
1pm - 2:30: Annotation of Reported Speech, Thought & Emotion by workshop participants
2:30 - 3pm: break
3pm - 4pm: Annotation of Reported Speech, Thought & Emotion by workshop participants
Friday, March 23*10am - 10:40 am: Danielle Barth - Reported Speech, Thought & Emotion in Matukar Panau
10:40 - 12 pm: Annotation of Reported Speech, Thought & Emotion by workshop participants
12pm - 1pm: Lunch break
1pm - 2:30: Round-table discussion of Reported Speech, Thought & Emotion issues of interest
2:30 - 3pm: break
3pm - 4pm: Final Discussion