The Fifth International Conference on Language, Culture and Mind (LCM V) will be held on 27-29 June 2012 at the Catholic University of Portugal in Lisbon. It will be preceded by a Young Researchers Workshop on 26 June 2012 (same venue), in which young researchers will present their ongoing dissertation projects and current work.

The goals of LCM conferences are to contribute to situating the study of language in a contemporary interdisciplinary dialogue (involving philosophy, linguistics, psychology, anthropology, semiotics and other related fields), and to promote a better integration of cognitive and cultural perspectives in empirical and theoretical studies of language.

http://www.salc-sssk.org/lcm/

The theme for LCM V is

Integrating Semiotic Resources in Communication and Creativity

Plenary speakers:

• Nick Enfield, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen
  http://www.mpi.nl/people/enfield-nick
• Cynthia Lightfoot, Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Pennsylvania State University
  http://www.brandywine.psu.edu/Academics/faculty_cgl3.htm
• Dan Slobin, Departments of Psychology and Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley

http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/people/person_detail.php?person=35

• Beata Stawarska, Department of Philosophy, University of Oregon

http://pages.uoregon.edu/uophil/faculty/profiles/stawarsk/

• Sherman Wilcox, Department of Linguistics, University of New Mexico

http://web.mac.com/swilcox/UNM/Welcome.html

The deadline for abstract submission will be Dec 15, 2011.

Detailed instructions for abstract submission and online registration for both LCM V and the LCM V Young Researchers Workshop will be included in the First Call for Papers that will be issued shortly.

Important dates

• Deadline for abstract submission: 15 Dec 2011
• Notification of acceptance: 15 Feb 2012
• Last date for early registration: 1 Mar 2012
• Last date for registration: 1 May 2012
• Final program publication: 15 May 2012

The International LCM organizing committee

• Alan Cienki, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Language and Communication
• Barbara Fultner, Denison University, Philosophy
• John Lucy, University of Chicago, Comparative Human Development and Psychology
• Aliyah Morgenstern, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3, Linguistics
• Anneli Pajunen, University of Tampere, Finnish Language
• Esther Pascual, University of Groningen, Communication Studies
• Victor Rosenthal, Inserm-EHESS, Paris
• Chris Sinha, University of Portsmouth, Psychology
• Jordan Zlatev, Lund University, Linguistics/Cognitive Semiotics

LCM V Local organizing committee

• Ana Margarida Abrantes, Catholic University of Portugal,  Centre for the Study of Communication and Culture
• Peter Hanenberg, Catholic University of Portugal,  Centre for the Study of Communication and Culture

Stylistics across disciplines
University of Leiden, The Netherlands
June 16-17, 2011

Confirmed keynote speakers:
Douglas E. Biber, Northern Arizona University (USA)
Barbara Dancygier, University of British Columbia, Vancouver (Canada)
Arie Verhagen, Leiden University (The Netherlands)

Stylistics is a field of study that is growing and developing fast. Its central concern is the way cognitive and communicative effects are achieved by means of linguistic choices. It therefore encompasses literary studies and linguistics as well as discourse studies. In spite of the shared, overarching definition of what it is, the field of study of Stylistics is highly fragmented. It mainly takes place within the boundaries of the various, more traditional, domains of study, e.g. literary analysis, rhetoric, (critical) discourse analysis, applied linguistics, etc. As a result, a comprehensive understanding of the wide variety of interests and foci of attention in stylistic studies, as well as exchange of knowledge between these research domains, is developing relatively slowly.

In recent years, successful attempts have been made to take an integrative, cross-disciplinary perspective on Stylistics, focusing on the shared research object: language use. An example is the expanding body of studies associated with the International Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA). Especially fruitful has proven to be the developing area of ‘cognitive poetics’, a field closely allied with the theoretical framework of cognitive linguistics, which includes attention for contextual factors and the inherently ‘subjective’ basis of language in linguistic analysis. This Stylistics across disciplines conference links up with these developments and intends to offer a platform for exchange of ideas and to stimulate fruitful collaboration among linguists, literary scholars and discourse scholars studying ‘style’.

We invite participants from all relevant fields to participate in the Stylistics across disciplines conference to discuss the opportunities and problems regarding the development of Stylistics as a coherent and methodologically sound research discipline. We welcome papers on (but not limited to) the subject of:
• Possibilities and limitations of an interdisciplinary perspective: what can literary scholars learn from the way style is studied in linguistics or rhetoric, and vice versa?
• Opportunities and problems of a ‘linguistic stylistics’
• Methodological issues: qualitative (interpretive analysis) or quantitative methods (digital humanities, corpus stylistics) and different research methods (corpus analysis, experimental effect studies) in relation to various research contexts
• Development of theoretical notions and analytical tools especially suited for stylistic analysis
• Context-sensitivity of stylistic patterns and analysis: how does stylistic choice interact with contextual factors such as institution, genre characteristics, etc.?
• Language specificity and culture specificity of stylistic phenomena and analysis

Please submit your abstract (in Word or PDF format, containing the title of your paper, author’s name(s) and affiliation(s), max. 500 words) to stylistics@hum.leidenuniv.nl. The deadline for abstract submission is December 15, 2010. Notification of acceptance will be by February 1, 2011.

Organizing committee:
Suzanne Fagel
Maarten van Leeuwen
Ninke Stukker
stylistics@hum.leidenuniv.nl

Scientific committee:
Jaap Goedegebuure (literary studies)
Ton van Haaften (language and communication)
Jaap de Jong (rhetoric)
Arie Verhagen (linguistics)

The Stylistics across disciplines conference is organized by researchers from the NWO research project Stylistics of Dutch (Leiden University 2007-2012); website: www.stylistics.leidenuniv.nl).

The workshop will bring together specialists in various domains of Dutch grammar, using different approaches or formalisms that fall under the general rubric of construction-based grammar, with the aim of providing an overview of current research into aspects of the Dutch constructicon and of stimulating discussion between different (broadly) constructionist approaches. Papers will deal with present-day standard Dutch as well as earlier stages of the
language and/or other present-day varieties. The workshop organizers are Ronny Boogaart, Timothy Colleman, and Gijsbert Rutten.

Confirmed speakers include Rens Bod, Geert Booij, Ad Foolen, Dirk
Geeraerts et al., Freek Van de Velde, Ton van der Wouden, and Arie
Verhagen. In addition, there will be an invited talk by William Croft on recent theoretical advances in construction grammar. The workshop languages are English and Dutch.

As there is a small number of open slots in the programme, we invite
proposals for 20-minute talks on any aspect of Dutch grammar addressed from a construction-based perspective. Papers with a contrastive focus are welcome, too, as are papers with a more general theoretical and/or methodological focus, provided they deal with issues directly relevant to the study of Dutch.

Abstracts should reach us by December 15, 2010. Send your abstract, in Dutch or in English, to CxGDutch@gmail.com, as an e-mail attachment in .rtf or .pdf format. Abstracts should not exceed 400 words (not including references and figures or tables). Notification of acceptance will be given by January 15, 2011.

Stylistics across disciplines
University of Leiden, The Netherlands
June 16-17, 2011

Confirmed keynote speakers:
Douglas E. Biber, Northern Arizona University (USA)
Barbara Dancygier, University of British Columbia, Vancouver (Canada)
Arie Verhagen, Leiden University (The Netherlands)

Stylistics is a field of study that is growing and developing fast. Its central concern is the way cognitive and communicative effects are achieved by means of linguistic choices. It therefore encompasses literary studies and linguistics as well as discourse studies. In spite of the shared, overarching definition of what it is, the field of study of Stylistics is highly fragmented. It mainly takes place within the boundaries of the various, more traditional, domains of study, e.g. literary analysis, rhetoric, (critical) discourse analysis, applied linguistics, etc. As a result, a comprehensive understanding of the wide variety of interests and foci of attention in stylistic studies, as well as exchange of knowledge between these research domains, is developing relatively slowly.

In recent years, successful attempts have been made to take an integrative, cross-disciplinary perspective on Stylistics, focusing on the shared research object: language use. An example is the expanding body of studies associated with the International Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA). Especially fruitful has proven to be the developing area of ‘cognitive poetics’, a field closely allied with the theoretical framework of cognitive linguistics, which includes attention for contextual factors and the inherently ‘subjective’ basis of language in linguistic analysis. This Stylistics across disciplines conference links up with these developments and intends to offer a platform for exchange of ideas and to stimulate fruitful collaboration among linguists, literary scholars and discourse scholars studying ‘style’.

We invite participants from all relevant fields to participate in the Stylistics across disciplines conference to discuss the opportunities and problems regarding the development of Stylistics as a coherent and methodologically sound research discipline. We welcome papers on (but not limited to) the subject of:
• Possibilities and limitations of an interdisciplinary perspective: what can literary scholars learn from the way style is studied in linguistics or rhetoric, and vice versa?
• Opportunities and problems of a ‘linguistic stylistics’
• Methodological issues: qualitative (interpretive analysis) or quantitative methods (digital humanities, corpus stylistics) and different research methods (corpus analysis, experimental effect studies) in relation to various research contexts
• Development of theoretical notions and analytical tools especially suited for stylistic analysis
• Context-sensitivity of stylistic patterns and analysis: how does stylistic choice interact with contextual factors such as institution, genre characteristics, etc.?
• Language specificity and culture specificity of stylistic phenomena and analysis

Please submit your abstract (in Word or PDF format, containing the title of your paper, author’s name(s) and affiliation(s), max. 500 words) to stylistics@hum.leidenuniv.nl. The deadline for abstract submission is December 15, 2010. Notification of acceptance will be by February 1, 2011.

Organizing committee:
Suzanne Fagel
Maarten van Leeuwen
Ninke Stukker
stylistics@hum.leidenuniv.nl

Scientific committee:
Jaap Goedegebuure (literary studies)
Ton van Haaften (language and communication)
Jaap de Jong (rhetoric)
Arie Verhagen (linguistics)

The Stylistics across disciplines conference is organized by researchers from the NWO research project Stylistics of Dutch (Leiden University 2007-2012); website: www.stylistics.leidenuniv.nl).

EXTENDED DEADLINE – 15th May 2010

After three fruitful meetings in Utrecht (2004), Leuven (2006) and Leiden (2008), Antwerp is hosting the fourth biannual conference of the Belgian Netherlands Cognitive Linguistics Association (BeNeCLA, http://benecla.com/ ). The event is jointly organized by the University of Antwerp and Lessius University College Antwerp on Friday 17th and Saturday 18th December 2010. The two-day conference offers a venue for researchers from the Low Countries to present and discuss their research results in the various strands of cognitive linguistics. It explicitly aims at offering junior researchers, including doctoral students and postdocs, the opportunity to present their (ongoing) work. All interested scholars working in the field of cognitive linguistics or related areas are invited to submit an abstract for the conference.

Plenary speakers

Ronny Boogaart (University of Leiden)

Kristin Davidse (University of Leuven)

Irene Mittelberg (RWTH University Aachen)

Ted Sanders (University of Utrecht)

Abstracts

We invite abstracts for poster presentations and regular conference papers (20 min. talk plus 10 min. discussion), the length of which should not exceed 600 words, including references and data. Paper proposals are expected to clearly formulate the main research question(s), methodology, dataset and (expected) results.

They will be reviewed anonymously and cannot therefore include any reference to the identity of the author. In the body of your email, please include the following information: author’s name and affiliation and title of the submission. Please also indicate whether you would like your abstract to be considered for a regular or a poster presentation.

Abstracts in Dutch or English have to be submitted electronically, as attachment files in PDF format, to the following address:

coglingdagen2010@lessius.eu

Deadline for submission: extended deadline 15th May 2010

Notification of acceptance: 20th June 2010

Scientific committee

Ronny Boogaart (Universiteit Leiden), Tine Breban (FWO- KU Leuven), Bert Cappelle (Hogeschool Gent), Alan Cienki (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), Timothy Colleman (UGent), Bert Cornillie (FWO- KU Leuven), Liesbeth Degand (UCLouvain), Walter De Mulder (Universiteit Antwerpen), Jan Nuyts (Universiteit Antwerpen), Esther Pascual (RU Groningen), Elena Tribushinina (Universiteit Antwerpen), Lieven Vandelanotte (FUNDP Namur), Marjolein Verspoor (RUGroningen),

Organizing committee

Frank Brisard (Universiteit Antwerpen), Geert Brône (Lessius Antwerp – KU Leuven), Astrid De Wit (Universiteit Antwerpen), Liesbet Heyvaert (FWO- KU Leuven), Tanja Mortelmans (Universiteit Antwerpen), Paul Sambre (Lessius Antwerp – KU Leuven)

Vrijdag/Friday/Vendredi
23 april/23 avril 2010, Universiteit Utrecht

Op 23 april 2010 organiseert Anéla, in samenwerking met ABLA en BeNeCLA, haar jaarlijkse Voorjaarsstudiedag. Het thema voor deze dag is “Toegepaste Taalwetenschap Cognitief Benaderd”, waarbij we geïnteresseerd zijn in raakvlakken tussen cognitieve, functionele en usage-based benaderingen van taal enerzijds en de Toegepaste Taalwetenschap anderzijds. Mogelijke thema’s zijn eerste of tweede taalontwikkeling, -verwerking, -onderwijs, discourse analyse, sociolinguïstiek, lexicografie en vertaalwetenschap.

In cooperation with ABLA and BeNeCLA, Anéla organizes the Anéla Spring Conference 2010. The theme is “Cognitive approaches to Applied Linguistics”, focusing on the interface between cognitive linguistic, functional or other usage-based approaches to the field of Applied Linguistics. Possible themes are language (L1 or L2) acquisition, processing, teaching, discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, lexicography and translation studies.

En collaboration avec l’ABLA et BeNeCLA, l’Anéla organise sa « Journée d’études de printemps 2010 » sur le thème de l’application des approches cognitives, fonctionnelles et ‘basées sur l’usage’ en linguistique appliquée. Thèmes possibles sont acquisition du langage (L1 et L2), traitement du langage, développement langagier, enseignement des langues, analyse textuelle, analyse du discours, sociolinguistique, lexicographie et traductologie

Abstracts (200 words/woorden/môts)
voor/before/avant 31 januari/January/Janvier 2010
Indienen via: http://linguistlist.org/confcustom/anela2010

For more detail see: http://www.anela.nl

Notification of acceptance: 23 februari 2010

Organiserend comité : Marjolijn Verspoor, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen ; Elena Tribushinina, Universiteit Utrecht ; Esther Pascual, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen ; Jacqueline Evers-Vermeul, Universiteit Utrecht ; Laurent Rasier, Université Catholique de Louvain

Anéla (Nederlandse Vereniging voor Toegepaste Taalwetenschap): http://www.anela.nl/
ABLA (Association Belge de Linguistique appliquée): http://www.abla.be/
BeNeCla (Belgian Netherlands Cognitive Lingusitics Association): http://benecla.com/

Date: 11-Nov-2010 – 13-Nov-2010
Location: Brussels, Belgium
Contact Person: Jan Nuyts
Meeting Email: gramis2010@ua.ac.be
Web Site: http://webh01.ua.ac.be/gramis/conference/conference.html

Call Deadline: 15-Feb-2010

Call for Papers

We invite papers dealing with any aspect of the processes of grammaticalization and (inter)subjectification, both empirical and conceptual, from any theoretical angle, but we are especially interested in papers dealing with
- the interaction between the processes of grammaticalization and (inter)subjectification;
- the relation of grammaticalization and (inter)subjectification to other mechanisms of language change, including, most notably, analogy; and
- processes of degrammaticalization and de-(inter)subjectification: how (in)frequent are they, what kinds of factors trigger them, and what mechanisms are at work in them?

Presentations are 20 minutes, followed by 5 minutes discussion.

Abstracts of max. 4000 characters (i.e. app. 500 words; including references) should be submitted via the conference website.

Deadline for submission of abstracts: February 15, 2010
Notification of acceptance: late March, 2010

Information regarding registration, accommodation and other practical matters will be provided in the second circular, to be distributed early 2010, and will be posted on the conference website as soon as they are available.

Plenary speakers:
Kasper Boye/Peter Harder
Hilary Chappell
Bernd Heine
Heiko Narrog
Muriel Norde

Organizers: Johan van der Auwera & Jan Nuyts (Antwerp)

Frequency of occurrence is central to the process of learning: the frequency with which a person experiences an event or executes an action plays an significant role in building a mental representation of that event or action. This is an important reason why usage-based approaches to language in particular have considered the frequency
with which linguistic structures are used to be a central factor in the development of language. By now, many frequency-related effects such as the interplay between frequency and grammaticality judgements have been revealed. Therefore, frequency
increasingly finds its way as an explanatory factor also in other linguistic approaches.

At the same time, it seems clear that the communicative or semantic function of a linguistic structure plays a major part in language development as well, and that it is related to frequency. For example, some individual speakers might not use a linguistic structure in spite of a high overall frequency of occurrence in the speech community because the structure does not meet these speakers’ communicative
purposes. This in turn can feed back to these speakers’ representation of the structure and lower the overall frequency of that structure. Another example is the number of linguistic forms used in a language to carve up a given functional domain (e.g., colors or spatial relations). This ratio between linguistic form and semantic function affects
the amount of variation in a language in that domain. Again, this influences the frequency of occurrence, and possibly also the opacity of form-function-mappings and the ease with which linguistic forms may therefore be learnt. The symposium seeks to look at the two factors of frequency and function and illuminate their role.

Six invited speakers will present their work: Heike Behrens, Jack
Hoeksema, Angeliek van Hout, Elena Lieven, Rasmus Steinkrauss and Rosie van Veen. Dan Slobin will moderate the final discussion.
The symposium is supported by the School of Behavioral and Neurosciences Groningen (BCN).

Wat: 8th biennial conference of the Researching and Applying Metaphor (RaAM) International Association
Wanneer: 30 June – 3 July 2010
Waar: Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, NL
Website: http://www.raam.org.uk/Amsterdam_2010.html
Deadline abstracts: 31 Dec. 2009

Wat: 3rd Biennial Conference of the UK Cognitive Linguistics
Association: Language, mind and social reality
Website: http://uk-clc3.org/
Wanneer: July 6th-8th inclusive 2010
Waar: University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield England (www.herts.ac.uk)
Deadline abstracts: 15 december 2009

Wat: Sixth International Conference on Construction Grammar (ICCG6)
Wanneer: 03-Sep-2010 – 05-Sep-2010
Waar: Prague, Czech Republic
Web Site: http://constructiongrammar.org/iccg6
Deadline abstracts: 1 maart 2010