EXTENDED DEADLINE: 2nd UK Postgraduate Conference in Cognitive Linguistics

[A.MorgadoDeMatos at brighton.ac.uk]

(apologies for cross-postings)

***EXTENDED DEADLINE: 2ND UK POSTGRADUATE CONFERENCE IN COGNITIVE 
LINGUISTICS *** 

CALL FOR PAPERS
 
2nd UK Postgraduate Conference in COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS
University of Brighton
Brighton, UK
8th of August, 2008
Website: www.languageandcognition.net/pgccl/
Affiliated with the international conference on Language, Communication and 
Cognition, running the 4th – 7th of August, 2008. 
(www.languageandcognition.net for details.)
 
The 2nd UK Postgraduate Conference in Cognitive Linguistics provides a forum 
for postgraduate students working within Cognitive Linguistics, language and 
cognition, and related areas, to share and discuss their individual 
research, current methodologies and frameworks, and future directions of 
study. Empirical, theoretical, methodological abstracts relating to the 
following topics are welcome:

- Language and communication
- Language and cognition
- Metaphor
- Grammar and conceptualisation
- Knowledge structure
- Applied cognitive linguistics
- Cognitive semantics
- Related areas of research
 
Keynote speakers
Dr Ewa D¹browska, University of Sheffield, England, Vice President of the UK 
Cognitive Linguistics Association, Editor of Cognitive Linguistics journal. 
“Empirical Investigations of the Cognitive Reality of Cognitive Grammar” 

Prof Vyvyan Evans, University of Brighton, England, President of the UK 
Cognitive Linguistics Association.
“LCCM Theory: Assumptions, Antecedents and Architecture” 




Workshop chair
Dr Daniel Casasanto, Stanford University, USA. Editor of Language and 
Cognition an interdisciplinary journal of language and cognitive science 
(2009 launch).
“From Ideas to Experiments”

 
Submission of abstracts
Submissions are solicited for the three parallel sessions and the poster 
session.

- Abstracts should not exceed 500 words–references are excluded from this 
count.
- Abstracts should clearly indicate a presentation title.
- Abstracts should be anonymous for purposes of blind review.
- Abstracts should be formatted as Word, RTF or PDF documents.
- Abstracts should be submitted electronically to UKPGCCL at gmail.com.
- Please include the following information in the body of your email:
	title and name of author(s) 
	affiliation 
	email address for correspondence
	presentation title
	3-5 keywords
	preference for presentation or poster session.

Please state in the subject line of your email that this is an abstract 
submission, i.e., “Abstract Submission: Name(s)”

 
EXTENDED ABSTRACT DEADLINE: 9th of April, 2008
 
For full details please consult the conference website: 
http://www.languageandcognition.net/pgccl

Organisers
The conference is organised by Andrea Morgado De Matos and Kyle Jasmin.