29.1006, Calls: Cognitive Science/Poland

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Subject: 29.1006, Calls: Cognitive Science/Poland

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Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2018 18:34:04
From: Anna Jelec [jelec at amu.edu.pl]
Subject: Cognitive Grammar: Grammatical patterns as patterns of meaning

 
Full Title: Cognitive Grammar: Grammatical patterns as patterns of meaning 

Date: 24-Sep-2018 - 26-Sep-2018
Location: Poznan, Poland 
Contact Person: Iwona Kokorniak
Meeting Email: kokorniak at wa.amu.edu.pl

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science 

Call Deadline: 11-Mar-2018 

Meeting Description:

One of the basic assumptions of Cognitive Grammar is that language is
fundamentally symbolic in nature, that is, that the lexical and grammatical
resources of a language alike can, and should be, properly characterized as
form-meaning pairings. This means that grammatical units such as tense,
aspect, modality, determiners, particles, grammatical constructions of various
sorts, etc. “can be semantically characterised along the same lines” as
lexical units (Evans and Green 2006: 512) and that grammatical phenomena are
conceptually motivated (cf. ibid.).

This session focuses on the grammatical end of the lexicon-grammar spectrum.
Our aim will be to provide conceptual characterizations of diverse grammatical
phenomena along the lines proposed by Langacker (e.g. 1987, 1991, 1999, 2008,
2009, 2016) and Talmy (2000a, 2000b, 2007) and to demonstrate that the
conventional schematic conceptual import of grammatical structures motivates
their distribution in specific contexts, as well as the specific semantic and
pragmatic effects the structures in question produce in these contexts.


Call for Papers:

We invite papers analyzing the conceptual import of grammatical structures of
diverse sorts and attempting to offer a conceptual motivation for their
behavior in context. The analyses can be conducted either at the very generic
level of abstract categories, such as tense, aspect, modality, etc., or at the
more specific level of construction items, such as verb particles or
determiners. The papers may involve either cross-linguistic comparisons or an
in- depth analysis of a particular phenomenon within a single language. The
general topics to be considered may include the role of grammatical structures
as imposing particular schematic construals on the conceived scene, grounding,
the epistemic, interactive and/or interpersonal import of grammatical
structures, methodological issues, etc.

Submission Guidelines: 

Please submit your abstract of no more than 500 words (including references)
by March, 11 2018. Abstracts should be submitted in English or Polish.
Submission link:https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ptjk2018
Your abstract should clearly state the scope and aims of your research, the
methodology applied, the (expected) results, etc. Above all, it must be
evident that your research lies within the cognitive linguistics enterprise.
Please do not include your name and affiliation in the abstract.
If the abstract you are submitting is for a particular theme session, please
include this information at the top of the abstract.




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