Final CfP: IACS-2014

[Mats Andrén]

Third and final Call for Papers

First Conference of the International Association for Cognitive 
Semiotics (IACS)
September 25-27, 2014
Lund, Sweden

http://conference.sol.lu.se/en/iacs-2014
IACS-2014 at semiotik.lu.se

Plenary speakers
* Søren Brier, Copenhagen Business School
* Merlin Donald, Queens University
* Brian MacWhinney, Carnegie Mellon University
* Cornelia Müller, European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder)
* Raymond Tallis, University of Manchester

Theme: Establishing Cognitive Semiotics
Over the past two decades or so, a number of researchers from semiotics, 
linguistics, cognitive science and related fields, from several European 
and North American research centres, have experienced the need to 
combine theoretical knowledge and methodological expertise in order to 
tackle challenging questions concerning the nature of meaning, the role 
of consciousness, the unique cognitive features of mankind, the 
interaction of nature and nurture in development, and the interplay of 
biological and cultural evolution in phylogeny. The International 
Association for Cognitive Semiotics (IACS) aims at the further 
establishment of Cognitive Semiotics as the trans-disciplinary study of 
meaning, combining concepts, theories and methods from the humanities 
and the social and natural sciences.

Abstracts
We invite the submission of 400 word abstracts (excluding title and 
references) for either an oral presentation (20 min presentation + 5 
minute discussion) or poster (at a dedicated poster session), by 
uploading to the EasyChair website. The abstracts can be related, though 
need not be restricted, to the following topics:
• Biological and cultural evolution of human cognitive specificity
• Cognitive linguistics and phenomenology
• Communication across cultural barriers
• Cross-species comparative semiotics
• Evolutionary perspectives on altruism
• Experimental semiotics
Iconicity in language and other semiotic resources
• Intersubjectivity and mimesis in evolution and development
• Multimodality
• Narrativity across different media
• Semantic typology and linguistic relativity
• Semiosis (sense-making) in social interaction
• Semiotic and cognitive development in children
• Sign use and cognition
• Signs, affordances, and other meanings
• Speech and gesture
• The comparative semiotics of iconicity and indexicality
• The evolution of language

Important dates
• Deadline for submission of theme sessions: 31 Dec 2013(past)
• Deadline for abstract submission (oral presentations, posters): 1 Feb 
2014
• Notification of acceptance (oral presentations, posters): 1 April 2014
• Last date for early registration: 1 July 2014

Local organizing committee
• Mats Andrén
• Johan Blomberg
• Anna Redei Cabak
• Sara Lenninger
• Joel Parthemore
• Göran Sonesson
• Jordan Zlatev

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