SECOND CALL--4th UK COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS CONFERENCE

[Vyv Evans]

SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS

 4^th UK COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS CONFERENCE -- LONDON 2012

 The 4th UK Cognitive Linguistics Conference (UK-CLC4) will take place 
10-12 July 2012 at King's College London.
 
Confirmed keynote speakers:

    * Professor Stephen Levinson (Max Planck Institute for
      Psycholinguistics) <http://www.mpi.nl/people/levinson-stephen-c.>
    * Professor George Lakoff (University of California - Berkeley)
      <http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/people/person_detail.php?person=21>
    * Professor Gilles Fauconnier (University of California - San Diego)
      <http://www.cogsci.ucsd.edu/research/profile/33/>
    * Professor Elena Lieven (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary
      Anthropology) <http://www.eva.mpg.de/psycho/staff/lieven/index.php>
    * Professor Martin Pickering (University of Edinburgh)
      <http://www.psy.ed.ac.uk/people/martinp/>
    * Professor Lawrence Barsalou (Emory University)
      <http://psychology.emory.edu/cognition/barsalou/index.html>

We invite the submission of abstracts (for paper or poster 
presentations) addressing all aspects of Cognitive Linguistics. These 
include, but are by no means limited to:

    * Domains and frame semantics
    * Categorisation, prototypes and polysemy
    * Metaphor and metonymy
    * Mental spaces and conceptual blending
    * Cognitive and construction grammar
    * Embodiment and linguistic relativity
    * Language acquisition and language impairment
    * Language evolution and language change
    * Language use

Cognitive Linguistics is an inherently interdisciplinary enterprise 
which is broadly concerned with the connection between language and 
cognition in relation to body, culture and contexts of use. We therefore 
invite interdisciplinary research that combines theories and methods 
from across the cognitive, biological and social sciences. These 
include, but are not limited to:

    * Linguistics
    * Psycholinguistics
    * Anthropology
    * Evolution
    * Paleoanthropology
    * Primatology
    * Neuroscience
    * Cognitive and developmental psychology
    * Discourse and Communication studies

Talks will be allocated 20 minutes, plus 10 minutes for question. 
Posters will stay up for a day and be allocated to dedicated, timetabled 
sessions. The language of the conference is English.
 
Abstracts of no more than 300 words (excluding references) should be 
submitted online at http://www.cognitivelinguistics.org.uk/submission/
 
All abstracts will be subject to double-blind peer review by an 
international Scientific Committee. The deadline for abstract submission 
is 15 December, 2011. Notification of acceptance decisions will be 
communicated by 15 February 2012.

For further information, please contact the Local Organising Committee 
at uk-clc4 at kcl.ac.uk <mailto:uk-clc4 at kcl.ac.uk>

 

-- 
Prof. Vyv Evans
Professor of Linguistics
www.vyvevans.net

Head of School
School of Linguistics & English Language
Bangor University
www.bangor.ac.uk/linguistics

General Editor of 'Language & Cognition'
A Mouton de Gruyter journal
www.languageandcognition.net