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<div><span class="gmail_quote"><br></span><br>CONFERENCE: LANGUAGE, CULTURE AND MIND 3<br><br><br>2nd Theme sessions call<br><br>The LCM committee and local organizers call for theme session proposals for the third conference in the series Language, Culture and Mind. The conference will be held in modern and comfortable conference facilities in Odense 14th - 16th July 2008. The conference aims at establishing an interdisciplinary forum for an integration of cognitive, social and cultural perspectives in theoretical and empirical studies of language and communication
<br><br>The special theme of the conference is Social Life and Meaning Construction.<br><br>We call for contributions from scholars and scientists in anthropology, biology, linguistics, philosophy, psychology, semiotics, semantics, social interaction, discourse analysis, cognitive and neuroscience, who wish both to impart their insights and findings, and learn from other disciplines. Preference will be given to submissions which emphasize interdisciplinarity, the interaction between social life, culture, mind and language, and/or multi-methodological approaches in language and communication sciences.
<br><br><br><br>Dates<br><br> *First call for Theme Sessions: April 1, 2007<br> * Second call for Theme Sessions: May 1, 2007<br> * Third call for Theme Sessions: June 1, 2007
<br> * Deadline for Theme Sessions submissions: July 1, 2007<br> * Notification for Theme Sessions : August 1, 2007<br><br><br>NOTICE: calls for the general session and for posters will be made later.
<br><br>Submissions guidelines<br><br>Max. 500 words (including references)<br>To be submitted to <a href="mailto:lcm@language.sdu.dk">lcm@language.sdu.dk</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:lcm@language.sdu.dk">lcm@language.sdu.dk
</a>><br>Submissions will be evaluated according to their<br><br>* Relevance<br>* Quality<br>* Coherence<br>* Originality<br>* Organization<br><br>Once your suggestion is approved, you will need to arrange for Theme Session Contributors for your theme. They will need to submit abstracts for their contributions and as Theme Session Organizer you will be responsible for their review. More than one person may organize a theme.
<br><br>NOTICE: The LCM reserves the right to reject papers accepted by Theme Session reviewers. However, this right will only be exercised if accepted papers deviate too far from the goals of LCM with respect to their content and/or quality.
<br><br><br>Plenary speakers:<br><br>Michael Chandler <<a href="http://www.psych.ubc.ca/faculty/profile/index.psy?fullname=Chandler,%20Michael&area=Developmental&designation=core">http://www.psych.ubc.ca/faculty/profile/index.psy?fullname=Chandler,%20Michael&area=Developmental&designation=core
</a>> (University of British Columbia)<br>Alessandro Duranti <<a href="http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/anthro/faculty/duranti/">http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/anthro/faculty/duranti/</a>> (University of California at Los Angeles)
<br>Derek Edwards <<a href="http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ss/depstaff/staff/edwards.html">http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ss/depstaff/staff/edwards.html</a>> (University of Loughborough)<br>Marianne Gullberg <
<a href="http://www.mpi.nl/Members/MarianneGullberg">http://www.mpi.nl/Members/MarianneGullberg</a>> (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics)<br>Esa Itkonen <<a href="http://notes.utu.fi/ty/webexper.nsf/0/a795abc1fb3b93d8c22566830029cd4b?OpenDocument">
http://notes.utu.fi/ty/webexper.nsf/0/a795abc1fb3b93d8c22566830029cd4b?OpenDocument</a>> (University of Turku)<br><br><br>Conference Website:<br><br><a href="http://www.lcm.sdu.dk">http://www.lcm.sdu.dk</a> <<a href="http://www.lcm.sdu.dk/">
http://www.lcm.sdu.dk/</a>> (under constructon!)<br><br><br>Earlier LCM conferences:<br><br>1st LCM conference: Portsmouth 2004<br>2nd LCM conference: Paris 2006 <<a href="http://www.lcm2006.net/">http://www.lcm2006.net/
</a>><br><br>The international LCM committee:<br><br>Raphael Berthele<br>Carlos Cornejo<br>Caroline David<br>Merlin Donald<br>Barbara Fultner<br>Anders R. Hougaard<br>Jean Lassègue<br>John A Lucy<br>Aliyah Morgenstern<br>
Eve Pinsker<br>Vera da Silva Sinha<br>Chris Sinha<br>Jordan Zlatev<br><br><br>The local organizing committee:<br><br>Center for Social Practises and Cognition (SoPraCon):<br><br>Rineke Brouwer<br>Dennis Day<br>Annette Grindsted
<br>Anders R. Hougaard<br>Gitte R. Hougaard (Director)<br>Kristian Mortensen<br><br><br>Scientific Committee (incomplete list)<br><br>Anne Salazar Orvig<br>Meredith Williams<br>Todd Oakley<br>Jonathan Potter<br>Robin Wooffitt
<br>Alan Cienki<br>Cornellia Müller<br>Ewa Dabrowska<br>Edy Veneziano<br>Shaun Gallagher<br>Edwin Hutchins<br><br>*****<br>Anders R. Hougaard<br>Assistant professor, PhD<br>Institute of Language and Communication<br>University of Southern Denmark, Odense
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