SALC2009: Second call for papers/theme sessions

[Jordan Zlatev]

With apologies for cross-postings

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Second Conference of the Swedish Association for Language and Cognition  
(SALC)
June 10-12, 2009

Arranged by the Departments of English,
Scandinavian Languages, and General Linguistics
Stockholm University

Second Circular

We are pleased to announce the second SALC conference, SALC-2009, where  
we hope to bring together researchers from within all areas of language  
and cognition studies in Sweden and internationally. We welcome  
discussions on a wide variety of issues within the general area of  
language and cognition, and with particular focus on the areas of  
cognitive linguistic approaches to language acquisition and the  
contributions of psycholinguistics to linguistic theory.

We are very pleased to announce our plenary speakers for the conference:

* Elizabeth C. Traugott - Professor Emeritus of Linguistics and English  
at Stanford University. She has done research in historical syntax,  
semantics, and pragmatics, lexicalization, socio-historical  
linguistics, and linguistics and literature. Her current research  
focuses on ways to bring the theories of grammaticalization and  
Construction Grammar to bear on accounts of micro-changes.

* Daniel Casasanto - Postdoctoral Researcher, Senior Scientific Staff  
at Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen. His research  
integrates methods from cognitive psychology, developmental psychology,  
linguistics, and cognitive neuroscience to explore connections between  
talking, thinking, perceiving, and acting.

* Maria Koptjevskaja Tamm - Professor in General Linguistics
at Department of Linguistics, Stockholm University. Her interests  
include: typology, lexical typology, nominal juxtaposition, the origin,  
meaning(s) and grammatical properties of kin and temperature terms.  
Maria's current research focuses on areal phenomena in the languages  
spoken around the Baltic Sea and also recurrent semantic shifts and  
form/meaning correlations in the core vocabulary of human languages.

* Niclas Abrahamsson - Associate Professor at the Centre for Research  
on Bilingualism Stockholm University. His research interests include  
first and second language acquisition, cognitive, psycholinguistic and  
neurolinguistic aspects of language acquisition and language use and  
maturational constraints and the critical period, language aptitude,  
first language attrition and also second language phonology and  
phonetics.

Call for papers

We invite the submission of abstracts for oral or poster presentations  
for the "Second Conference of the Swedish Association for Language and  
Cognition (SALC) / Svenska Sällskapet för Språk och Kognition (SSSK)"  
to be held at Stockholm University between June 10th and 12th, 2009.  
Presentations should involve research based on structures and processes  
of general cognition (e.g. perception, memory and reasoning) and social  
cognition (e.g. joint attention and imitation), and as affecting such  
structures and processes. The conference, as SALC in general, is  
intended to be a forum for the exchange of ideas between disciplines,  
fields of study and theoretical frameworks. Topics include, but are not  
limited to:

* psycholinguistic  approaches to language and cognition
* language acquisition/use and cognition
* language structure and cognition
* language and cognitive development and evolution
* language change and cognition
* language and gesture
* language and consciousness
* linguistic typology and cognition
* linguistic relativity

The deadline for abstract submission is December 15, 2008. Please send  
two copies of an abstract of about 400 words (excluding references) to  
SALC2009 at english.su.se , with your name and affiliation written under  
the title in one copy; one copy must remain anonymous. Presentations  
should last 20 minutes with 5 minutes for questions. After the process  
of peer-revision, e-mail notifications will be sent out by March 1,  
2009.

Conference fees:
* 50 Euros for faculty SALC members,
* 70 Euros for faculty non-members
* 40 Euros for student SALC members
* 50 Euros for student non-members

The annual SALC membership is 15 Euros for faculty and 10 Euros for  
students. There will be a conference dinner for a cost of 40 Euros.  
Registration and payments can be made on-line at  
http://www.salc-sssk.org/salc09/

Theme sessions. As part of SALC-2009 there will be four theme sessions:

1. Interfaces of Language and Vision. Coordinator: Pirita Pyykkönen,  
Department of Psychology, University of Turku, Finland.

2. Cognition and Second Language Use. Coordinator: Alan Mcmillion,  
English Language Department, Stockholm University, Sweden.

3. Language, Consciousness and Semiosis. Coordinators: Jordan Zlatev,  
Centre for Languages and Literature and Göran Sonesson, Department of  
Semiotics, Lund University, Sweden.

4. When a Word Makes a World. Coordinator: Tetyana Lunyova, English  
Philology Department, Poltava State Pedagogical University, Ukraine.

If you are interested in submitting a paper to one of the theme  
sessions, please mark your abstract clearly with your intended theme  
session. All submissions, both general and for theme sessions, will be  
peer-reviewed, after which e-mail notifications will be sent out by  
March 1, 2009.




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Jordan Zlatev, Associate Professor
Department of Linguistics
Center for Languages and Literature
Lund University
Box 201
221 00 Lund, Sweden

email: jordan.zlatev at ling.lu.se
http://www.ling.lu.se/persons/JordanZlatev.html
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