LCM 3: 2nd CfP

Mon Oct 22 10:56:55 UTC 2007

CONFERENCE:

LANGUAGE, CULTURE AND MIND 3

Odense, 14th-16th July 2008 

2ND CALL FOR INDIVIDUAL PAPERS    

NEW! LCM III satellite event: Empirical Methods in Cognitive Linguistics, 7th-11th July

The LCM committee and local organizers call for theme session proposals for the third conference in the series Language, Culture and Mind. The conference will be held in modern and comfortable conference facilities in ODENSE 14TH-16TH JULY, 2008. The conference aims at establishing an interdisciplinary forum for an integration of cognitive, social and cultural perspectives in theoretical and empirical studies of language and communication. The special theme of the conference is Social Life and Meaning Construction.

We call for contributions from scholars and scientists in anthropology, biology, linguistics, philosophy, psychology, semiotics, semantics, social interaction, discourse analysis, cognitive and neuroscience, who wish both to impart their insights and findings, and learn from other disciplines. Preference will be given to submissions which emphasize interdisciplinarity, the interaction between social life, culture, mind and language, and/or multi-methodological approaches in language and communication sciences.

Description of the LCM conference series: see bottom.

NEW! LCM III satellite event: Empirical Methods in Cognitive Linguistics, 7th-11th July

DATES

       *First call for Theme Sessions:                       April 1, 2007
       * Second call for Theme Sessions:                    May 1, 2007
       * Third call for Theme Sessions:                     August 1, 2007
       * Deadline for Theme Sessions submissions:      September 1, 2007
       * Notification for Theme Sessions :                  October 1, 2007
       * Deadline for individual paper submissions :  January 1, 2008
       * Notification for Individual Papers :                 March 1, 2008

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

Max. 500 words (including references)
To be submitted to lcm at language.sdu.dk
Submissions will be evaluated according to their

 *       Relevance
 *       Quality
 *       Coherence
 *       Originality

PLENARY SPEAKERS:

Michael Chandler (University of British Columbia)
Alessandro Duranti (University of California at Los Angeles)               
Derek Edwards (University of Loughborough)
Marianne Gullberg  (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics)                                                                           Esa Itkonen (University of Turku)                                                                                                                Meredith Williams (Johns Hopkins University)

CONFERENCE WEBSITE:

http://www.lcm.sdu.dk <https://sdumail.sdu.dk/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.lcm.sdu.dk>                 

NEW! LCM III satellite event: Empirical Methods in Cognitive Linguistics, 7-11th July

Organizers: Monica Gonzalez-Marquez, Raymond Becker, Anders R Hougaard, Gitte R Hougaard and Todd Oakley

More Information follows later!

EARLIER LCM CONFERENCES:

1st LCM conference: Portsmouth 2004
2nd LCM conference: Paris 2006 <http://www.lcm2006.net/ <https://sdumail.sdu.dk/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.lcm2006.net/> >

THE INTERNATIONAL LCM COMMITTEE:

Raphael Berthele
Carlos Cornejo
Caroline David
Merlin Donald
Barbara Fultner
Anders R. Hougaard
Jean Lassègue
John A Lucy
Aliyah Morgenstern
Eve Pinsker
Vera da Silva Sinha
Chris Sinha

THE LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

Center for Social Practises and Cognition (SoPraCon):

Rineke Brouwer
Dennis Day
Annette Grindsted
Anders R. Hougaard
Gitte R. Hougaard (Director)
Kristian Mortensen

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

Anne Salazar Orvig
Meredith Williams
Todd Oakley
Jonathan Potter
Robin Wooffitt
Alan Cienki
Cornellia Müller
Ewa Dabrowska
Edy Veneziano
Shaun Gallagher
Edwin Hutchins                                                                                                                                        Johannes Wagner

THE LCM CONFERENCES:

The goals of LCM conferences are to contribute to situating the study of language in a contemporary interdisciplinary dialogue, and to promote a better integration of cognitive and cultural perspectives in empirical and theoretical studies of language. Human natural languages are biologically based, cognitively motivated, affectively rich, socially shared, grammatically organized symbolic systems. They provide the principal semiotic means for the complexity and diversity of human cultural life. As has long been recognized, no single discipline or methodology is sufficient to capture all the dimensions of this complex and multifaceted phenomenon, which lies at the heart of what it is to be human.
Theories of cognition and perception, and their neural foundations, are central to many current approaches in language science. However, a genuinely integrative perspective requires that attention also be paid to the foundations of cultural life in social interaction, empathy, mimesis, intersubjectivity, dialogicality, normativity, agentivity and narrativity. Significant theoretical, methodological and empirical advancements across relevant disciplines now provide a realistic basis for such a broadened perspective.
This conference will articulate and discuss approaches to human natural language and to diverse genres of language activity which aim to integrate its cultural, social, cognitive, affective and bodily foundations. We call for contributions from scholars and scientists in anthropology, biology, linguistics, philosophy, psychology, semiotics, semantics, discourse analysis, cognitive and neuroscience, who wish both to share their insights and findings, and learn from other disciplines. Preference will be given to submissions which emphasize interdisciplinarity, the interaction between culture, mind and language, and/or multi-methodological approaches in language sciences.

NEW! LCM III satellite event: Empirical Methods in Cognitive Linguistics, 7-11th July

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Anders R. Hougaard
Assistant professor, PhD
Institute of Language and Communication
University of Southern Denmark, Odense
hougaard at language.sdu.dk
Phone: +45 65503154
Fax: + 45 65932483