CALL: INTERNATIONAL COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS CONFERENCE (ICLC'97)
ICLC'97 Local Organizers
iclc97 at WIM.LET.VU.NL
Mon Sep 16 22:20:43 UTC 1996
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5th INTERNATIONAL COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS CONFERENCE
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, July 14 - 19, 1997
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The 1997 conference of the International Cognitive Linguistics Association
(ICLA) will be hosted by the Faculteit der Letteren of Vrije Universiteit
Amsterdam. The deadline for abstracts is November 15, 1996 (address below).
We are planning to provide up-to-date information about this conference at
http://www.vu.nl/ICLC97/index.htm (after October 1, 1996).
Conference topics include:
- structural characteristics of natural language categorization (such
as prototypicality, metaphor, mental imagery, and cognitive models)
- the functional principles of linguistic organization (such as
iconicity and naturalness)
- the interrelatedness syntax and semantics
- the experiential and pragmatic background of language-in-use
(including discourse analysis and conversation analysis)
- the relationship between language and thought
Invited Speakers:
Melissa Bowerman (MPI Nijmegen) George Lakoff (UCB)
William Croft (Manchester Univ.) Ron Langacker (UCSD)
Gilles Fauconnier (UCSD) Stephen Levinson (MPI Nijmegen)(tbc)
Dirk Geeraerts (Univ. of Leuven) Eve Sweetser (UCB)
Peter Harder (Univ. of Copenhagen) Len Talmy (SUNY Buffalo)
SPECIAL THEME SESSIONS
Note: Theme session organizers' addresses are included only if there
is still some room for additional presenters/discussants. Please
contact those organizers directly for further information.
FRIDAY, July 18 (afternoon):
On the place of metaphors in cognitive and cultural models
(organizer: Alan Cienki, Emory University)
Lexical and grammatical classification: same or different?
(organizers: Ellen Contini-Morava, University of Virginia, and
Yishai Tobin, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
Complementation: Interface of Cognitive, Functional and Typological Perspectives
(organizer: Kaoru Horie, Tohoku University; khorie at intcul.tohoku.ac.jp,
fax: +81-22-217-7842)
Computer Models in Cognitive Linguistics (organizer: David Powers, The
Flinders University of South Australia; David.Powers at flinders.edu.au)
SATURDAY, July 19 (morning):
"Cultural scripts" and "explications" as conceptual instruments in
foreign language learning (organizer: Rene Dirven, Duisburg University;
Rene.Dirven at ping.be; fax: +32-15-414455)
Courting the Other: Cognitive Approaches to Literary texts
(organizer: Margaret H. Freeman, Los Angeles Valley College;
freemaMH at lccd.cc.ca.us; fax: +1-310-455-3686)
Storage versus computation of polysemous meanings
(organizers: David Tuggy, Summer Institute of Linguistics, and
Theo Janssen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; contact: David_Tuggy at sil.org)
Cognitive linguistic approaches to signed language research
(organizer: Sherman Wilcox, University of New Mexico; wilcox at unm.edu,
fax: +1-505-277-6355)
SATURDAY, July 19 (afternoon):
Metonymy as a conceptual motivation of metaphorical mappings (organizer:
Antonio Barcelona Sanchez, University of Murcia; abs at fcu.um.es; on leave
at Cambridge University 9/15/96-1/25/97: fax +44-1223-335062)
Cognitive Linguistic Relativity: On the Centenary of Benjamin Whorf's Birth
(organizer: Caitlin Hines, San Francisco State University; chines at sfsu.edu)
The linguistic realization of causality (organizers: Ted Sanders and Arie
Verhagen, Utrecht University; contact: Ted.Sanders at let.ruu.nl; fax:
+31-30-253-6000)
The psychological status of semantic networks (organizers: Dominiek Sandra
and Hubert Cuyckens, University of Antwerp, and Sally Rice, University of
Alberta at Edmonton; contact: Sandra at uia.ua.ac.be; fax: +32-3-220-4420)
** Special Interest Group Meeting ** (Monday, July 14)
Pedagogy: Cognitive Linguistics in the Curriculum (organizer: Lewis Sego,
Indiana State University, ejlpseg at root.indstate.edu; fax: +1-812-237-3156)
CALL FOR PAPER AND POSTER PRESENTATIONS
Abstracts are solicited for 20-min oral presentations to be presented in
parallel sessions, and for poster presentations. Each proposal will be
reviewed anonymously by two members of a large international panel.
Notifications of the Organizing Committee's decisions will be sent out
by February 15, 1997.
As this is the first time ICLC is admitting posters, some explanation
may be in order:
Poster sessions have been gaining increased popularity at a variety of
conferences. They allow conference participants to choose how much time
and attention they allocate to each presentation, varying from a short
glance to thorough reading and intensive interaction with the presenters;
more simultaneous presentations can be accommodated, allowing a larger
number of high-quality abstracts to be accepted; finally, if posters are
allowed to stay up for an extended period of time, even participants who
miss the discussion period have a good chance of still seeing them (and
picking up handouts the presenters may provide).
The poster sessions will be located in a spacious transitional area near
the book exhibit and cafeteria. A maximum of about 20 to 30 posters will
stay up for at least one whole day (longer if very few posters are accepted),
and authors will be expected to be available for discussion of their poster
for a one-hour period during which no other sessions will be scheduled.
Nota bene: The abstracts for posters will undergo the same reviewing
procedure as those submitted for oral presentations. The abstracts of
accepted posters will be included in the abstracts volume. Papers based on
oral presentations or posters will be equally eligible for publication in
the conference proceedings; all submissions for those volumes will undergo
the same reviewing process.
ABSTRACTS
Please submit by November 15, 1996 an abstract containing the following
information:
- author name(s) and affiliation(s)
- address information (incl. fax and email)
- title of presentation
- preferred format (oral presentation or poster)
- three to five keywords
- a 500-word summary (about one page) specifying research
question(s), approach/method/data, and (expected) results
Electronic submission (to iclc97 at let.vu.nl) instead of or in addition to
hardcopy is strongly encouraged. Acceptable formats are:
- plain ASCII text
- ASCII text with minimal html coding + fax/hardcopy of formatted text
- WordPerfect (any version between 4.2 and 6.1)
- Word 6.0
The organizers reserve the right to reformat accepted abstracts for
publication on the www and in the conference program. Any potentially
distorting changes will be cleared with the authors.
Submissions by hardcopy only: Send one high-quality print (definitely no
more than one page; font no smaller than 11pt) including your name and
affiliation, the title, and the abstract (do not center name or title; do
not include a header "Abstract"), three copies of an anonymous abstract,
and a separate sheet for the other requested information.
Registration forms and hotel reservation forms will be available at our
www-site and via ftp after November 1, 1996 and will be distributed to
participants and mailing lists after February 15, 1997.
Organizing Committee:
Theo Janssen (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, chair)
Gisela Redeker (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, secretary)
Ad Foolen (Nijmegen University)
Ton Goeman (Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen, Amsterdam)
Frederike van der Leek (University of Amsterdam)
Fons Moerdijk (Instituut voor Nederlandse Lexicologie, Leyden)
Wilbert Spooren (Tilburg University)
Arie Verhagen (Utrecht University)
Marjolijn Verspoor (Groningen University)
Address:
ICLC'97 (Theo Janssen / Gisela Redeker)
Faculteit der Letteren, Vrije Universiteit
De Boelelaan 1105, NL-1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands
fax: +31-20-4446500
iclc97 at let.vu.nl http://www.vu.nl/ICLC97/index.htm ftp.vu.nl/pub/ICLC97/
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