28.1674, Calls: Cognitive Science/Brazil

Wed Apr 5 01:53:08 UTC 2017

LINGUIST List: Vol-28-1674. Tue Apr 04 2017. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 28.1674, Calls: Cognitive Science/Brazil

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Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2017 21:53:01
From: Maíra Avelar [mairavelar at uesb.edu.br]
Subject: 6th International Conference on Metaphor in Language and Thought

Full Title: 6th International Conference on Metaphor in Language and Thought 
Short Title: 6hICMLT 

Date: 24-Oct-2017 - 27-Oct-2017
Location: Salvador/Bahia, Brazil 
Contact Person: Maíra Avelar
Meeting Email: cimlp2017 at gmail.com
Web Site: https://sites.google.com/view/cimlp2017en/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science 

Call Deadline: 30-Jun-2017 

Meeting Description:

The 6th  International Conference on Metaphor in Language and Thought is an
important event for researchers on metaphors and for researchers in Cognitive
Linguistics in general, both nationally and internationally. In its last
editions, the congress has counted on the participation of more than 250
researchers from all over the world and turns to several aspects pertinent to
Cognitive Linguistics, mainly to the current theme Metaphor and
Multimodality.This edition is going to be held in Salvador (Brazil), at UFBA
(Ondina Campus) on October 24-27. The conference is an achievement of the
LeCogLing (Cognition and Language Studies Laboratory), State University of
Southwest Bahia (Vitória da Conquista Campus) and the Study Group on Cognitive
Semantics (GesCog) , from the Federal University of Bahia.

A preliminary program can be found at
https://sites.google.com/view/cimlp2017en/

Call for Papers:

The conference theme is Metaphor and Multimodality. However, we invite a broad
range of papers on all the topics related to Metaphor studies, such as:

- Metaphor and multimodality; 
- Metaphor and complexity;
- Metaphor and teaching; 
- Metaphor and culture;
- Metaphor in different theoretical-methodological views; 
- Metaphor and neurosciences;
- Metaphor and discourse. 

The languages of the conference are English and Portuguese (with translation
for workshops, conferences, and panel sessions)

Submission Formats:

Session slots will be allocated 20 minutes, which includes questions and
discussion.

1. Theme sessions

Deadline for proposals: 1 April - 15 June 2017
Notification: until 29 June 2017
Deadline for abstracts submission: 15 August 2017

- Theme session organizers should submit their theme session proposals over
EasyAbs in  a .doc(x) format. Theme session proposals should include: session
title, name and affiliation of the theme session convener, a proposal of up to
300 words, followed by a list of the authors and titles of the individual
papers, and all abstracts for the theme session in a suitable order.
- The conference schedule particularly suits sessions comprised of 3 slots (20
minutes each), including time for introduction and general discussion. The
maximum length of the theme session is 6 slots. Papers in each theme session
should be thematically linked. We strongly encourage diversity at the level of
the affiliations involved at the theme session. Theme session conveners are
encouraged to launch a broad call for submission.
- Once the theme session has been accepted as a whole, theme session
organisers will need to submit all the abstracts from their theme session in a
single file (with one abstract per sheet).

2. Oral presentations, Works in progress (Master and PhD) and poster sessions

Deadline: 1 April to 30 June 2017
Notification: 15 days after the submission, until 15 August 2017

Abstract Submission:

Submissions should include: title of the presentation, name(s),
affiliation(s), and e-mail address(es) of the author(s), three to five
keywords, and a 300-word abstract (including examples, and excluding figures
and references). Submissions should be formatted in the following way: please
use 10 point Arial font, single-spaced, and set margins to 1 inch (2.54cm) all
around. The submission should be in a .doc(x) format.

Links to EasyAbs abstract submission page:

http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/cimlp2017 (for submissions in Portuguese) and
http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/cimlp2017eng  (for submissions in English).

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