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<td>[Extern] Call for Papers: CiLD 2026 – Construal in
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<td>Tue, 12 May 2026 12:54:35 +0000</td>
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<td>CiLD <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:cild@uni.lodz.pl"><cild@uni.lodz.pl></a></td>
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<td><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:hartmast@hhu.de">hartmast@hhu.de</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:hartmast@hhu.de"><hartmast@hhu.de></a></td>
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Dear German Cognitive Linguistics Association,</div>
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On behalf of the CiLD 2026 Organising Committee, I am pleased to
invite you to the international conference Construal in Language
and Discourse (CiLD 2026), which will be held on 21–23 September
2026 at the University of Łódź, Poland. </div>
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<span style="color: black;">The conference will focus
on construal in linguistics, encompassing, though not limited
to, cognitive linguistics, discourse studies, pragmatics,
social interaction, narrative, storytelling, and
literature. We would be very grateful if you could circulate
this call for papers among interested colleagues, doctoral
researchers, or relevant mailing lists. Further details can be
found in the attached call for papers and on the
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<span style="color: black;">Selected papers presented at the
conference may be invited for submission to a peer-reviewed
special issue of
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<b>Submission deadline:</b> <b>31 May 2026</b> </div>
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Anna Pietruszewska </div>
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on behalf of the CiLD 2026 Organising Committee </div>
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Prof. Dr. Stefan Hartmann (he/him)
Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
Philosophische Fakultät
Institut für Germanistik, Abt. Germanistische Sprachwissenschaft
Universitätsstraße 1
40225 Düsseldorf
Gebäude: 24.53
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Tel.: +49 211 81-13684
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