'Language & Cognition': New journal website now live

[Vyvyan Evans]

Dear Colleagues.
 
We are delighted to announce that the website for the new journal: 'Language & Cognition' is now live.  Please check out the website for full details on the journal:  
www.languageandcognition.net/journal/
 
The journal is provided to all members of the UK-Cognitive Linguistics Association.  Membership of the Association is free for 2009 and available at a 50% reduction for 2010.  Membership application details will be available soon on the journal website.  All are welcome to join the Association regardless of nationality or geographical location.
 
The table of contents for 2009 and 2010 is detailed below:

Volume 1 (2009)
Issue 1
How infants build a semantic system. Kim Plunkett (University of Oxford)

The cognitive poetics of literary resonance. Peter Stockwell (University of Nottingham)

Action in cognition: The case of language. Lawrence J. Taylor and Rolf A. Zwaan  (Erasmus University of Rotterdam) 

Prototype constructions in early language development. Paul Ibbotson (University of Manchester) and Michael Tomasello (MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig)

The Enactment of Language: 20 Years of Interactions Between Linguistic and Motor Processes. Michael Spivey (University of California, Merced) and Sarah Anderson (Cornell University) 

Episodic affordances contribute to language comprehension. Arthur M. Glenberg  (Arizona State Universtiy), Raymond Becker (Wilfrid Laurier University), Susann Klötzer, Lidia Kolanko, Silvana Müller (Dresden University of Technology), and Mike Rinck (Radboud University Nijmegen)

Reviews:
Daniel D. Hutto.  2008. Folk Psychological Narratives: The Sociocultural Basis of Understanding Reasons (MIT Press).  Reviewed by Chris Sinha

Aniruddh Patel.  2008.  Music, Language, and the Brain  (Oxford Univeristy Press).  Reviewed by Daniel Casasanto

Issue 2
Pronunciation reflects syntactic probabilities: Evidence from spontaneous speech. Harry Tily (Stanford University), Susanne Gahl (University of California, Berkeley), Inbal Arnon, Anubha 
Kothari, Neal Snider and Joan Bresnan (Stanford University)

Causal agents in English, Korean and Chinese: The role of internal and external causation. Phillip Wolff, Ga-hyun Jeon, and Yu Li (Emory University)

Ontology as correlations:  How language and perception interact to create knowledge. Linda Smith (Indiana University) and Eliana Colunga (University of Colorado at Boulder)

Toward a theory of word meaning. Gabriella Vigliocco, Lotte Meteyard and Mark Andrews (University College London)

Spatial language in the brain. Mikkel Wallentin  (University of Aarhus)  

The neural basis of semantic memory: Insights from neuroimaging. Uta Noppeney  (MPI for Biological Cybernetics, Tuebingen)

Reviews:
Ronald Langacker.  2008.  Cognitive Grammar: A basic introduction.  (Oxford University Press).  Reviewed by Vyvyan Evans

Giacomo Rizzolatti and Corrado Sinigagalia.  Mirrors in the brain: How our minds share actions and emotions.  2008.  (Oxford University Press).  Reviewed by David Kemmerer. 

Volume 2 (2010)
Issue 1

Adaptive cognition without massive modularity: The context-sensitivity of language use.  Raymond W. Gibbs (University of California, Santa Cruz) and Guy Van Orden (University of Cincinnati)

Spatial foundations of the conceptual system.  Jean Mandler (University California, San Diego and University College London)

Metaphor: Old words, new concepts, imagined worlds.  Robyn Carston (University College London)

Language Development and Linguistic Relativity.  John A. Lucy  (University of Chicago)

Construction Learning. Adele Goldberg (Princeton University)

Space and Language: some neural considerations.  Anjan Chatterjee  (University of Pennsylvania)

Issue 2

What can language tell us about psychotic thought?  Gina Kuperberg (Tufts University)

Abstract motion is no longer abstract.  Teenie Matlock  (University California, Merced)

When gesture does and doesn't promote learning.  Susan Goldin-Meadow  (University of Chicago)

Discourse Space Theory. Paul Chilton  (Lancaster University)

Relational language supports relational cognition.  Dedre Gentner  (Northwestern University)

Talking about quantities in space.  Kenny Coventry  (Northumbria University).

Sincerely,
 
Vyv Evans
President, UK-CLA
 
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Vyv Evans
Professor of Cognitive Linguistics
www.vyvevans.net