[Lingtyp] Call for abstracts: Causation in Discourse and Cognition - Crosslinguistic perspectives (ICLC-15)

[Bohnemeyer, Juergen]

(Apologies for cross-posting!)

Dear colleagues,

We would like to invite short abstracts (100 words) for contributions to a theme session proposal on “Causation in Discourse and Cognition - Crosslinguistic perspectives” at the 15th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC-15) at Kwansei Gakuin University, Nishinomiya, Japan, August 6-11, 2019 (https://iclc2019.site/conference-information/call-for-papers). The general goal of the session is to bring together presentations of new research relevant to the crosslinguistic exploration of causality, whether these studies are inherently crosslinguistic/typological or not. General themes of particular interest include the representation of causality across the content level of forces and events, the epistemic level, and the speech act level (coherence relations) and the role of iconicity in representations of
causality. Among the research perspectives invited by the conference organizers (https://iclc2019.site/conference-information/call-for-papers), the following are particularly relevant to the goals of the session as we envision them:

cognitive grammar, construction grammar, frame semantics, prototype and categorization, discourse analysis, pragmatics and cognition, corpus linguistics, language processing, language change and grammaticalization, cognitive typology, first language acquisition, language evolution, sign language, cognitive semiotics.

If you are interested in contributing, please send a 100-word abstract by September 3 to all three organizers (see below). In case we receive more abstracts than papers can be accommodated in a theme session, we will prioritize according to fit with the themes of the session and the broader conference and offer alternate status to papers we can’t accommodate right away.

We hope for lively debate and exchange of perspectives!

Kazuhiro Kawachi (National Defense Academy of Japan,kazuhirokawachi at gmail.com)
Anja Latrouite (Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf, latrouite at phil.uni-duesseldorf.de)
Jürgen Bohnemeyer (State University of New York at Buffalo, jb77 at buffalo.edu)

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