CfP: First International Association for Cognitive Semiotics (IACS) Conference, IACS-2014

[Mats Andrén]

First Call for Papers

First International Association for Cognitive Semiotics (IACS) 
Conference, IACS-2014
September 25-27, 2014
Lund, Sweden

http://conference.sol.lu.se/en/iacs-2014
IACS-2014 at semiotik.lu.se

The First International Association for Cognitive Semiotics (IACS) 
Conference (IACS-2014) will be held in September 25-27, at Lund 
University, Sweden. Founded in Aarhus, Denmark, on May 29, 2013, The 
International Association for Cognitive Semiotics aims at the further 
establishment of Cognitive Semiotics as the trans-disciplinary study of 
meaning, combining concepts, theories and methods from the humanities 
and the social and natural sciences. Central topics are the evolution, 
development of, and interaction between different semiotic resources 
such as language, gestures and pictorial representations.

Plenary speakers
* Søren Brier, Copenhagen Business School
http://cybersemiotics.com/
* Merlin Donald, Queens University
http://www.queensu.ca/psychology/MerlinDonald.html
* Brian MacWhinney, Carnegie Mellon University
http://psyling.psy.cmu.edu/
* Cornelia Müller, European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder)
http://www.europa-uni.de/en/forschung/vcgs/dmc/Graduiertenschule/0_Professoren/mueller/index.html
* Raymond Tallis, University of Manchester
http://www.raymondtallis.com/

Theme of the conference: Establishing Cognitive Semiotics

Over the past two decades or so, a number of researchers from semiotics, 
linguistics, cognitive science and related fields, from several European 
and North American research centres, have experienced the needs to 
combine theoretical knowledge and methodological expertise in order to 
be able to tackle challenging questions concerning the nature of 
meaning, the role of consciousness, the unique cognitive features of 
mankind, the interaction of nature and nurture in development, and the 
interplay of biological and cultural evolution in phylogeny. The product 
of these collaborations has been the emergence of the field of Cognitive 
Semiotics, with its own journal (http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/cogsem) 
and academic association. The conference aims both to celebrate this, 
and to look forward into possibilities for further development.

We invite the submission of 400 word abstracts for one of the three 
categories:
1. Oral presentations (20 min presentation + 5 minute discussion)
2. Posters (at a dedicated poster session)
3. Theme sessions (3 to 6 thematically linked oral presentations, 
introduced by a discussant.
The individual abstracts should be preceded by an abstract for the theme 
session as a whole. In case the theme session is not accepted, 
individual abstracts will be reviewed as submissions for oral 
presentations.)

The abstracts can be related, though need not be restricted, to the 
following topics:
• Biological and cultural evolution of human cognitive specificity
• Cognitive linguistics and phenomenology
• Communication across cultural barriers
• Cross-species comparative semiotics
• Evolutionary perspectives on altruism
• Experimental semiotics
• Iconicity in language and other semiotic resources
• Intersubjectivity and mimesis in evolution and development
• Multimodality
• Narrativity across different media
• Semantic typology and linguistic relativity
• Semiosis (sense-making) in social interaction
• Semiotic and cognitive development in children
• Sign use and cognition
• Signs, affordances, and other meanings
• Speech and gesture
• The comparative semiotics of iconicity and indexicality
• The evolution of language

Abstracts should be submitted at the site: 
http://conference.sol.lu.se/en/iacs-2014

Important dates
• Deadline for abstract submission (theme sessions): 31 Dec 2013
• Deadline for abstract submission (oral presentations, posters): 1 Feb 
2014
• Notification of acceptance (theme sessions): 15 Feb 2014
• Notification of acceptance (oral presentations, posters): 1 April 2014
• Last date for early registration: 1 July 2014

Local organizing committee
• Mats Andrén
• Johan Blomberg
• Anna Redei Cabak
• Sara Lenninger
• Göran Sonesson
• Jordan Zlatev

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