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Op vrijdag 6 december vindt de editie 2013 van het jaarlijkse Taal
en Tongvalcolloquium plaats, in het gebouw van de Koninklijke Academie
voor Nederlandse Taal en Letterkunde (KANTL) in Gent (Koningstraat 18).
Het thema van het colloquium is Constructies in variatie en
verandering/Verandering en variatie in constructies: op het programma
staan 13 lezingen over aspecten van synchrone en/of diachrone variatie
in de eigenschappen van (grammaticale) constructies in het Nederlands of
verwante talen en/of over de rol van constructies in processen van
taalverandering en variatie. Het volledige programma is te raadplegen
via de onderstaande link.

http://www.contragram-network.ugent.be/node/8

De organisatoren zijn Timothy Colleman (Universiteit Gent) en Freek
Van de Velde (KU Leuven). Het colloquium wordt mede mogelijk gemaakt
door de financiële steun van FWO-Vlaanderen, de KANTL en de
onderzoeksgroep Contragram van de Universiteit Gent.

Alle belangstellenden zijn van harte welkom. Deelname aan het
colloquium is gratis, maar aan de deelnemers wordt gevraagd om zich
vooraf aan te melden via timothy.colleman@UGent.be of valerie.bouckaert@UGent.be of op +32 (0)9 264 40 75, bij voorkeur voor 1 december.

http://lcm6.umcs.lublin.pl/ contact: info@lcm6.umcs.lublin.pl

The Sixth International Conference on Language, Culture and Mind (LCM VI) will be held on 24-26 June 2014 at the Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin, Poland. It will be preceded by a Young Researchers Workshop on 23 June 2014 (same venue), where young researchers will present their ongoing dissertation projects and other 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 related fields), and to promote a better integration of cognitive and cultural perspectives in empirical and theoretical studies of language.

The theme for LCM VI is: Inside/Out: Practice and Representation. While some focus on the representational nature of language and mind, others regard them as socially embedded and embodied practices. We encourage submissions that further investigate the dynamic between practice and representation and critically examine stereotypical or mainstream conceptions of representations as internal and practices as external.

Plenary speakers: Nancy Budwig, Henryk Kardela, Alan Rumsey, Farzad Sharifian, Beata Stawarska

Deadline for abstract submission: 30 Nov 2013 (symposia), 31 Dec 2013 (papers, posters).

The LCM VI Young Researchers Workshop is a satellite event of the LCM VI conference, aimed at graduate students and junior scholars conducting theoretical or empirical research in language and communication including, but not limited to cognitive, social, affective, embodied and/or cultural perspectives. The workshop aims at providing a forum for presenting results and foster interaction and debate in the context of interdisciplinary collaboration. Young researchers in anthropology, biology, linguistics, philosophy, psychology, semiotics, semantics, discourse analysis, cognitive and neuroscience are invited to share, and thereby enrich, their study of human natural language and communication. A specialist’s comment on each accepted contribution makes the workshop a unique opportunity to receive expert feedback.

Deadline for abstract submission: 31 Dec 2013.

Two PhD projects are now underway at the Vrije Universiteit (Amsterdam) on cognitive linguistic theories of grammar seen in relation to multimodal spoken communication, and in connection with them we have started two new readings groups:

— an introduction to cognitive grammar and construction grammar, and

— an introduction to gesture studies.

Each of the groups will meet at the VU about once a week on days/times determined within the groups. If you would like to be added to the mailing list for the grammar group, the gesture group, or both, please e-mail Alan Cienki at a [dot] cienki [at] vu [dot] nl.

ICLC7-UCCTS3 is an international academic conference in the fields of contrastive linguistics and corpus-based translation studies, which combines in a single venue the latest editions of two conference series: the 7th edition of the International Contrastive Linguistics Conference (ICLC), which will be officially hosted by the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy of Ghent University (UGent), and the 3rd edition of Using Corpora in Contrastive and Translation Studies (UCCTS), which will be officially hosted by the Faculty of Applied Language Studies of University College Ghent (HoGent). Between them, ICLC7 and UCCTS3 encompass the full range of contrastive linguistics and corpus-based translation studies, including corpus-based interpreting studies. Given the complementary nature of these fields of study, and the methodological overlap between them, the primary aim of ICLC7-UCCTS3 is to bring together people and create theoretical and empirical synergies across disciplinary boundaries.

Invited speakers: Volker Gast (Jena), Giannoula Giannoulopoulou (Athens), Sylviane Granger (Louvain-la-Neuve), Anna Mauranen (Helsinki), Sandra L. Halverson (Bergen)

Website: http://www.iclc7-uccts3.ugent.be/

Papers are invited on a broad range of themes in the areas of contrastive linguistics and corpus-based translation/interpreting studies, provided they address one or more of the following issues:

• the aims, objectives and scope of contrastive linguistics; its relationship with neighbouring disciplines such as historical, typological, micro-variationist, intercultural and contact linguistics
• the aims, objectives and scope of corpus-based translation studies, in particular the ongoing debate about so-called translation universals: criticism and explanation (regarding e.g. the role of ‘risk aversion’), the ‘dominance’ of the source language, interaction between universals (e.g. explicitation v. normalisation), effects of genre and other external variables
• corpus-based interpreting research and its relationship with translation research
• the role of theoretical frameworks; comparability, incommensurability and the tertium comparationis; the necessity and significance of the ‘socio-cultural link’
• types, uses and mutual limitations of corpus data; the benefits of combining parallel and comparable corpora and their methodological relationship; the benefits of combining different methodologies, including multivariate statistics, distinctive collexeme analysis, etc.
• the significance of the contrastive perspective for language-specific description on the one hand and general interface issues on the other (e.g. syntax/morphology, syntax/pragmatics)
• contrasts between languages at the levels of text, register, discourse, and information structure
• the effect of the source language or of particular language pairs on translation and how to factor it into quantificational analyses

Papers will last 30 minutes: 20 minutes for presentation, 10 minutes for discussion. All submissions will be anonymously evaluated by members of the scientific committee with the relevant expertise, and the conference programme will combine mixed sessions with sessions focusing on contrastive linguistics or translation/interpreting studies, as appropriate.

Submissions must be made through the EasyChair system, which may be accessed at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iclc7uccts3, no later than October 1st, 2012. Abstracts must be anonymous and should not exceed 500 words, excluding references. Submissions are limited to two per individual, at least one of which must be co-authored.

Notifications of acceptance will be sent out by December 15th, 2012.

In the meantime, please direct any inquiries to iclc7uccts3@easychair.org.

Organising committee (UGent/Hogent): Torsten Leuschner (chair), Bart Defrancq (chair), Petra Campe, Timothy Colleman, Gert De Sutter, Renata Enghels, Patrick Goethals, Gudrun Rawoens, Miriam Taverniers, Sonia Vandepitte, Marleen Van Peteghem, Piet Van Poucke