SALC2009, Call for participation

[Jordan Zlatev]

Second Conference of the Swedish Association for Language and Cognition
http://www.salc-sssk.org/salc09/
SALC
June 10-12, 2009
Arranged by the Departments of English,
Scandinavian Languages, and General Linguistics
Stockholm University

We are pleased to announce the second SALC conference, SALC-2009, where we will bring together researchers from within all areas of language and cognition studies in Sweden and internationally. This Conference of The Swedish Association for Language and Cognition (SALC) / Svenska Sällskapet för Språk och Kognition (SSSK) will be held at Stockholm University between June 10th and 12th, 2009. The conference, and SALC in general, is intended to be a forum for the exchange of ideas between disciplines, fields of study and theoretical frameworks. The presentations for the conference represent a wide variety of issues within the general area of language and cognition. In addition, there will be four theme sessions:
1. Language, Consciousness and Semiosis. Coordinators: Jordan Zlatev, Centre for Languages and Literature and Göran Sonesson, Department of Semiotics, Lund University, Sweden.
2. The function of negation in verbal and nonverbal communication. Coordinators Rachel Giora, Department of Linguistics, Tel Aviv University, Israel, and Carita Paradis, School of Humanities, Växjö University, Sweden.
3. Interfaces of Language and Vision. Coordinator: Pirita Pyykkönen, Department of Psychology, University of Turku, Finland.
4. Cognition and Second Language Use. Coordinator: Alan McMillion, Department of English, Stockholm University, Sweden, and Anna Vogel, Department of Scandinavian Languages, Stockholm University, Sweden.
We are very pleased to announce our plenary speakers for the conference:
• Elizabeth C. Traugott, Professor Emeritus of Linguistics and English at Stanford University
• Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Professor of General Linguistics at Stockholm University.
• Niclas Abrahamsson, Associate Professor at the Centre for Research on Bilingualism at Stockholm University.
• Daniel Casasanto, Senior Scientific Staff at Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen.
Non-presenters are also very welcome to attend the conference. Conference fees should be paid on-line at the conference website ( http://www.salc-sssk.org/salc09/ ) before June 1, 2009. The annual SALC membership is 15 Euros for faculty and 10 Euros for students. There will be a conference dinner for a cost of 40 Euros (450 Skr. after June 1, 2009).

Conference fees for payment made before June 1, 2009:
• 50 Euros for faculty SALC members,
• 70 Euros for faculty non-members
• 40 Euros for student SALC members
• 50 Euros for student non-members
 Conference fees paid on site:
• 700 Skr. for faculty SALC members,
• 900 Skr. for faculty non-members
• 600 Skr. for student SALC members
• 700 Skr. for student non-members