36.2148, Confs: AFLiCo 10: Interaction and Discourse (France)

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Date: 13-Jul-2025
From: Sophie Raineri [sraineri at parisnanterre.fr]
Subject: AFLiCo 10: Interaction and Discourse


AFLiCo 10: Interaction and Discourse
Short Title: AFLiCo10
Theme: Interaction and Discourse

Date: 22-Jun-2026 - 24-Jun-2026
Location: Paris Campus Condorcet (Aubervilliers), France
Meeting URL: https://aflico10.sciencesconf.org/

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Discourse Analysis;
Pragmatics; Sociolinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics

Submission Deadline: 31-Oct-2025

The French Cognitive Linguistics Association (AFLiCo) is pleased to
announce its 10th international conference (AFLiCo10), to be held in
Paris from June 22nd to June 24th 2026. The theme of the conference
will be Interaction and Discourse.
Going back to Clark’s (1996) joint action hypothesis, language is seen
as a joint activity, which draws on a common ground shared among
speakers, who have to constantly coordinate with each other in order
to make their intentions known to the discourse participants. Central
to the concept of common ground is the theory of mind (Baron-Cohen,
1995; Tomasello, 1999) and the conventions that are intersubjectively
shared by speakers both for the production and the interpretation of
an utterance. These conventions can also be recognized through
multimodal cues, as people make use of different non-verbal elements
when they communicate (Norris, 2004).
Multimodality has been at the center of several studies, allowing a
more fine-grained analysis of discourse use from different sources,
such as animations, films, commercials (see, for example, Forceville,
2024; Forceville, 2025), television series and shows, memes, etc. Such
studies have focused on the role that non-verbal markers play in the
production and interpretation of discourse (for example, Cienki, 2008;
McNeill, 2008; Lapaire, 2013, and many others). This has opened new
pathways for research on gaze (Brône et al., 2017; Brône & Oben,
2018), eye-tracking studies (Zima et al., in print), prosodic cues,
facial expressions, among others. Corpus studies thus allow more data
and theories to be tested (Gilquin, 2024).
Public and mediated discourse has been extensively studied in
cognitive linguistics, particularly with regard to political speeches,
media interviews, and journalistic narratives (Chilton, 2004; Hart,
2013; Musolff, 2016; Koller 2025). Such forms of discourse offer
fertile ground for analyzing how stance-taking, metaphor, and
conceptual framing shape collective understanding and interaction in
the public sphere. In a rapidly evolving media landscape, continued
research is essential to account for new discursive practices, notably
in relation to emerging platforms and shifting patterns of audience
engagement.
For a complete list of references, please visit the conference
website.
We encourage contributions that explore the multifaceted interplay
between discourse and interaction from a cognitive linguistic
perspective. We invite papers on, but not limited to, the following
themes:
 - Multimodality
 - Interaction
 - Gesture studies
 - Discourse analysis (political discourse, metaphor and/or metonymy)
 - Emotion, facial expressions
 - Humor (irony and/or sarcasm, wordplay, spontaneous and
non-spontaneous, etc.)
 - Stance-taking /intersubjectivity
 - Common ground
 - Didactics and L1/L2 acquisition
 - Eye-tracking studies
 - Corpus studies
Abstracts of no more than 500 words (excluding references), in English
or French, should be submitted via https://aflico10.sciencesconf.org/.
Key Dates:
Submission: July 1 to October 31, 2025
Notification of acceptance: January 2026
Registration: Spring 2026
Conference: June 22 to 24, 2026
Event Sponsors:
Paris 8, Paris Cité, Paris Nanterre



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