Dear colleagues,<br>Attached please find the Call for Papers for the Third International <br>Postgraduate Conference on Language and Cognition (ELC3). ELC3 is <br>organized by postgraduate students belonging to the research network <br>
ENGLISH LINGUISTICS CIRCLE, funded by the Directorate General for <br>Scientific and Technological Promotion (Autonomous Government of <br>Galicia; grants 2006/14-0, 2008/047 and CN2011/011).<br><br>DATES of the ELC3 Conference: 21-22 September 2012<br>
VENUE: Faculty of Philology, University of Santiago de Compostela<br>Abstract submission deadline: 15 March 2012<br><br>MEETING DESCRIPTION: ELC3 aims to provide postgraduate students with <br>an opportunity to present and discuss their research in an informal <br>
and intellectually stimulating setting. We welcome proposals for <br>papers characterized by an empirical, cognitive-functional outlook on <br>the study of language and communication; they may cover fields as <br>diverse as grammar and morphosyntax, language change and historical <br>
linguistics, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, speech and language <br>disorders, discourse analysis and pragmatics, lexicology and <br>semantics, contrastive and corpus linguistics, and linguistics applied <br>to the teaching and acquisition of first and second languages.<br>
<br>MEETING URL: <a href="http://elc3.elc-postgraduateconference.es/">http://elc3.elc-postgraduateconference.es/</a><br><br>Best regards,<br><br>Paula Rodríguez-Puente<br>