27.757, Calls: English, General Ling/Poland

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Subject: 27.757, Calls: English, General Ling/Poland

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Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2016 13:25:39
From: Marcin Kuczok [marcin.kuczok at us.edu.pl]
Subject: Various Dimensions of Contrastive Studies 2016

Full Title: Various Dimensions of Contrastive Studies 2016 
Short Title: VDOCS 2016 

Date: 24-Oct-2016 - 25-Oct-2016
Location: Katowice, Poland 
Contact Person: Marcin Kuczok
Meeting Email: vdocs2016 at gmail.com
Web Site: http://ija.us.edu.pl/sub/vdocs/ 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Call Deadline: 31-May-2016 

Meeting Description:

The conference aims at focusing on a variety of possible approaches to
contrasting languages. We want to welcome academics who represent various
methodologies and perspectives on linguistic analysis: formal, functional,
cognitive-semantic, pragmatic, and anthropological. This year’s leading theme
is: Between Literal Language and Figurative Meaning.

In recent decades linguistic research has experienced a revival of interest in
figurative thought and language. Scholars have emphasized the significance of
such phenomena as metaphor, metonymy, analogy, personification, or synesthesia
in different types of specialized discourse, as well as in everyday
communication.

The list of suggested topics for conference presentations may include,
although will not be limited to, the problems of both literal language, as
well as figurative meaning, in such areas of linguistics as: contrastive
phonetics and phonology, contrastive morphology, contrastive syntax,
contrastive semantics and lexicology, contrastive pragmatics, contrastive
discourse studies, contrastive cognitive-linguistic studies, contrastive
cultural-linguistic studies, bi- and multilingual lexicography, language
contact, borrowing and code-switching, contrastive perspective on diachronic
studies, teaching contrastive grammar at the university level.

Plenary speakers:
Prof. dr María de los Ángeles Gómez Gonzáles (University of Santiago de
Compostella, Spain)
Prof. KUL dr hab. Anna Malicka-Kleparska (John Paul II Catholic University of
Lublin)
Prof. AJD dr hab. Piotr Mamet (Jan Długosz University, Częstochowa)
Dr hab. Ewa Bogdanowska-Jakubowska (University of Silesia, Katowice)

Call for Abstracts:

Abstract submission:

Abstracts describing the topic of a presentation in up to 300 words, attached
as a doc/docx file should be sent to vdocs2016 at gmail.com no later than 31 May
2016.

Important dates:

Abstract submission: 31 May 2016
Confirmation of acceptance: 30 June 2016
Early bird payment: 31 July 2016
Regular payment: 15 September 2016
Conference: 24-25 October 2016

Conference venue:

The conference will be held in the new building of CINiBA (The Scientific
Information Centre and Academic Library), located in the University of Silesia
campus, at 11A Bankowa Street in Katowice (http://www.ciniba.edu.pl/).

Conference fee:

The fee will cover the participation costs, conference materials, coffee
breaks during the conference, the conference dinner (optional), the visit to
the Museum of Silesia, and the costs of publishing a post-conference
monograph. Accommodation and meals are not included in the fee (except for the
optional conference dinner).

Fee options:

Early bird payment (paid by 31 July 2016):
- With the conference dinner included: 350 PLN / 90 Euros
- Without the conference dinner: 300 PLN / 80 Euros

Regular payment (paid by 15 September 2016):
- With the conference dinner included: 400 PLN / 100 Euros
- Without the conference dinner: 350 PLN / 90 Euros

Conference dinner:

The conference dinner is planned for Monday, 24 October, at 7 pm in a
restaurant located in the vicinity of the university campus (details to be
announced soon).

Social event:

On Tuesday (25.10) afternoon the organizers are planning a tour of the newly
opened Museum of Silesia in Katowice, with a visit to the top of the hoist
tower of the former pit shaft (http://www.muzeumslaskie.pl/en/index.php).

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