GCLA-5 conference announcement

[martin.hilpert at frias.uni-freiburg.de]

*Apologies for cross-postings*

Dear Funknetters,

The Fifth International Conference of the German Cognitive
Linguistics Association (DGKL/GCLA), Cognitive Linguistics
in the World: Situated and Embodied Approaches, will be
held from October 10-12, 2012 in Freiburg, Germany.


Executive Summary of the following:

Call for papers: Presentations, Posters and Theme Sessions;
Deadline for abstracts and proposals: February 15, 2012;
Notification of acceptance/rejection: March 15, 2012;
Registration opens: April 15, 2012;
Conference Website: www.dgkl.uni-freiburg.de;
Conference Committee email address:
dgkl2012 at googlemail.com.



Call for papers

We look forward to your abstracts dealing with topics in
cognitive-functional linguistics. We welcome contributions
dealing with all research areas of cognitive linguistics as
well as contributions taking a cognitive perspective on
language on the basis of methods from psychology,
psycholinguistics, corpus linguistics, historical
linguistics and artificial intelligence or explorations of
the connections between these disciplines and cognitive
linguistics.

Conference languages are English and German.

There are two types of presentation:

20-minute oral presentations (plus 10 minutes question
period);
Poster presentations
Submission of abstracts for oral and poster presentations

Please submit your abstract by February 15th, 2012 via
email to dgkl2012 at googlemail.com.

The subject line of your email should be "Abstract
Submission - AUTHOR NAME(S)".

The file name of your abstract should consist of the first
five letters of your last name, followed by the first three
letters of your first name.

The main body of your email message should contain the
following information:

Title of your presentation;
Name(s) of author(s);
Affiliation;
Email address for correspondence;
3-5 key words;
Preferred presentation type (oral or poster).
When preparing your abstract, please note:

The abstract should be no longer than 500 words (plus
references);
Please give your presentation a clear, descriptive title;
The abstract should not contain your name(s), as abstracts
will be reviewed anonymously;
Please keep figures and diagrams to a minimum. If they are
necessary, please embed them in the file in a standard
graphics format (PNG, JPEG);
Permissible filetypes are (in order of preference): ODF,
RTF, TXT, PDF or DOC.
The abstracts will be reviewed on the basis of the
following criteria:

Topical relevance;
Originality;
Clear structure;
Plausible argumentation.
Theme Session

In addition to the general sessions, the conference will
include up to six theme sessions dealing with specific
topics in cognitive-functional linguistics. As in the case
of the general sessions, these topics include all research
areas of cognitive linguistics as well as topics focusing
on connections to psychology, psycholinguistics and
artificial intelligence. Theme sessions are expected to
conform to the 30-minute rhythm of the general sessions and
may contain up to seven 30-minute slots.

The main body of your email message should contain the
following information:

Title of the theme session;
Name(s) of organizer(s);
Affiliation;
Email address for correspondence;
3-5 key words;
Titles and names of individual talks.
When preparing your theme session proposal, please note:

The description of the theme session should be no longer
than 500 words (plus references);
The abstracts of the individual talks should be contained
in the same file as the description of the theme session
and should be no longer than 200 words each;
Please give your theme session and the individual talks
clear, descriptive titles;
The proposal should not contain the names of authors and
organizers, as proposals will be reviewed anonymously;
Please keep figures and diagrams to a minimum. If they are
necessary, please embed them in the file in a standard
graphics format (PNG, JPEG);
Permissible filetypes are (in order of preference): ODF,
RTF, TXT, PDF or DOC.
Each theme session proposal will be reviewed as a whole.
Organizers are thus asked to ensure a high quality of the
individual contributions. The proposals will be reviewed on
the basis of the following criteria:

Topical coherence;
Cross-references among the individual contributions;
Topical relevance;
Originality;
Clear structure;
Plausible argumentation.
General remark concerning submission

Submission by email always carries the risk that individual
emails will be caught by spam filters. Thus, if you have
not received an acknowledgement that your submission has
been received within a week after submission, please
contact the conference committee by email.