Second CfP, Language, Culture, Mind 2010 (LCM 4)

[Jordan Zlatev]

Second Call for abstracts

LANGUAGE, CULTURE AND MIND 2010 (LCM 4)

http://web.abo.fi/fak/hf/fin/LCM4

The 4th International Conference on Language, Culture and Mind (LCM 4)
will be held in Turku, Finland, at Åbo Akademi University, 21st-23rd
June 2010. The goals of LCM conferences are to contribute to situating
the study of language in a contemporary interdisciplinary dialogue
(involving linguistics, psychology, philosophy, anthropology, semiotics
and other related fields), and to promote a better integration of
cognitive and cultural perspectives in empirical and theoretical studies
of language.

Currently confirmed plenary speakers:

Jukka Hyönä, University of Turku
Peggy Miller, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana
Cornelia Müller, Berlin Gesture Centre and Europa Universität Viadrina
Bradd Shore, Emory University, Atlanta
Dan Zahavi, Centre for Subjectivity Research, Copenhagen

The International LCM committee invites the submission of abstracts for
presentations (oral and posters), on topics including but not limited
to:

* biological and cultural co-evolution
* comparative study of communication systems
* cognitive and cultural schematization in language
* emergence of language in ontogeny and phylogeny
* language in social interaction and multi-modal communication
* language, intersubjectivity and normativity
* language and thought, emotion and consciousness

Abstracts of up to 500 words, including references, should be sent to
lcm4turku at gmail.com as an attachment, in pdf or rtf format. Indicate if
the abstract is for an oral or poster presentation. Note that there will
be proper poster session(s), with one minute self-presentations to the
audience in the plenary hall, just before the poster session.
Round tables with invited participants will focus on certain key themes.
 
Presenters are asked to bear in mind that the audience will consist of
people from 
various disciplines, each of which has its own theoretical assumptions 
and methodological approaches. Therefore, presenters should make an 
effort to reflect a bit on the assumptions behind the theories and 
methods they themselves are using, and then bring these up explicitly 
in their talks/posters.
 
The deadline for abstract submission is Dec 15, 
2009. Please see the homesite for additional information on abstract 
formatting.Registration for the conference should be done through the 
online registration form; see
http://web.abo.fi/fak/hf/fin/LCM4/registration.html.

The fees for the LCM conference are:
* Early registration (until 1st March 2010): 140 euros
* Late registration (from 2nd March 2010 to 1st May 2010): 165 euros
* Reduced registration fee (see registration form): 125 euros
* The Finnish Evening 70 euros
Members of The Scandinavian Association for Language and Cognition
(SALC), which is sponsoring the event, will receive 20% discount on
registration fees.
 
The registration fee includes lunch and coffee breaks during the
conference, admission to all scientific sessions, all congress materials
and administration costs. The Finnish evening fee includes a steam ship
trip, dinner and sauna (swimming), and Finnish tango music.

Important dates
* Deadline for abstract submission 15 Dec 2009
* Notification of acceptance 15 Feb 2010
* Last date for early registration 1 Mar 2010
* Last date for registration 1 May 2010
* Final program publication 15th May 2010

The international LCM committee
* Alan Cienki, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Language and Communication
* Carlos Cornejo, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Psychology
* Barbara Fultner, Denison University, Philosophy
* Anders Hougaard, University of Southern Denmark, Social Cognition
* Esa Itkonen, University of Turku, Linguistics
* John Lucy, University of Chicago, Comparative Human Development and
Psychology
* Aliyah Morgenstern, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3, Linguistics
* Chris Sinha, University of Portsmouth, Psychol
ogy
* Daniel Wolk, University of Kurdistan Hawler, Sociology
LCM4 Local organizing committee
* Urpo Nikanne, Åbo Akademi University, Finnish language
* Anneli Pajunen, University of Tampere, Finnish languge
* Esa Itkonen, University of Turku, General linguistics