36.3548, Calls: 12th Conference on Language, Discourse, and Cognition (Taiwan)

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Date: 19-Nov-2025
From: Pin-Er Chen [f10142001 at ntu.edu.tw]
Subject: 12th Conference on Language, Discourse, and Cognition


Full Title: 12th Conference on Language, Discourse, and Cognition
Short Title: CLDC 12
Theme: Language across Minds: Diversity, Aging, and Digitization

Date: 01-May-2026 - 02-May-2026
Location: Taipei, Taiwan
Web Site: https://sites.google.com/view/cldc12/homepage

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Computational Linguistics;
Pragmatics; Semantics; Syntax

Call Deadline: 14-Dec-2025

Call for Papers:
The CLDC provides a forum for researchers interested in language,
discourse, and cognition to present new findings, exchange innovative
ideas, and share approaches across disciplines. Topics relevant to
these areas, as well as interdisciplinary studies stimulated over the
past years, have given rise to a growing body of critical insights,
making CLDC an important event in the field of cognitive linguistics
in East Asia.
Building on this tradition, studies presented at CLDC address
languages from diverse perspectives in order to enrich dialogue across
the cognitive sciences. For 2026, the special theme of the conference
is Language across Minds: Diversity, Aging, and Digitization,
highlighting how language is acquired, processed, and adapted across
the lifespan, and how research on aging, bilingualism, ambiguity, and
digitization opens new directions for the study of language and
cognition.
We invite submissions of original abstracts on topics including, but
not limited to:
 - Cognitive Syntax
 - Cognitive Semantics
 - Cognitive Pragmatics
 - Cognitive Sociolinguistics
 - Corpus and Computational Linguistics
 - Linguistic Typology
 - Cognitive Linguistics and Interdisciplinary Studies (Psychology,
Neuroscience, Biology, Cognitive Science, Speech Science,
    Social Science, Computer Science, etc.)
Special Theme: Language across Minds: Diversity, Aging, and
Digitization
CLDC 12 spotlights how language is acquired, processed, and adapted
across the lifespan. This theme links research on linguistic
diversity, semantic ambiguity, bilingualism, aging, cognitive reserve,
digitization of languages, and the integration of insights from
linguistics, psychology, neuroscience, social sciences, and
computational studies.
Anchored in this theme, the keynote addresses will reflect ongoing
research in areas such as bilingualism and multilingual processing,
psycholinguistic approaches to meaning and context, and cognitive
linguistic perspectives on language and aging. Together, these
perspectives underscore how language and cognition interact across
different stages of life and in diverse communicative contexts.
Highlighted panels will further extend this focus, examining topics
such as language-based cognitive interventions for healthy aging, as
well as inclusive NLP, corpus building, and community partnerships
that sustain linguistic diversity in the digital era.
Other areas of interest include form–meaning mapping, multilingual
processing, neuro/behavioral methods, and model–human alignment. CLDC
aims to catalyze collaboration, share open tools and datasets, and
chart responsible, human-centered language technologies.
Prospective topics may include, but are certainly not limited to, the
following areas:
 - Language aging, attrition, and cognitive reserve
 - Language-based interventions for communication in older adults
 - Bilingualism, cross-language interaction, and neurocognitive
processing
 - Semantic ambiguity resolution, lexical meaning, and context in
comprehension
 - Digitization and corpus construction for linguistic diversity
 - Inclusive NLP and digital approaches to language documentation
 - Multimodal and cross-disciplinary methods in language research
 - Human–machine comparisons in language processing and model–human
alignment
The committee eagerly anticipates original, cutting-edge contributions
that advance our understanding of language and cognition across the
lifespan, while opening new directions for research on aging,
diversity, and digitization.



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