LCM Conference

[Aliyah MORGENSTERN]

CONFERENCE:

LANGUAGE, CULTURE AND MIND 3


1ST CALL FOR INDIVIDUAL PAPERS

The LCM committee and local organizers call for theme session  
proposals for the third conference in the series Language, Culture  
and Mind. The conference will be held in modern and comfortable  
conference facilities in ODENSE 14TH-16TH JULY, 2008. The conference  
aims at establishing an interdisciplinary forum for an integration of  
cognitive, social and cultural perspectives in theoretical and  
empirical studies of language and communication. The special theme of  
the conference is Social Life and Meaning Construction.

We call for contributions from scholars and scientists in  
anthropology, biology, linguistics, philosophy, psychology,  
semiotics, semantics, social interaction, discourse analysis,  
cognitive and neuroscience, who wish both to impart their insights  
and findings, and learn from other disciplines. Preference will be  
given to submissions which emphasize interdisciplinarity, the  
interaction between social life, culture, mind and language, and/or  
multi-methodological approaches in language and communication sciences.

Description of the LCM conference series: see bottom.

DATES


        * Deadline for individual paper submissions :  January 1, 2008
        * Notification for Individual Papers :                 March  
1, 2008


SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

Max. 500 words (including references)
To be submitted to lcm at language.sdu.dk
Submissions will be evaluated according to their

  *       Relevance
  *       Quality
  *       Coherence
  *       Originality
  *       Organization


PLENARY SPEAKERS:

Michael Chandler (University of British Columbia)
Alessandro Duranti (University of California at Los Angeles)
Derek Edwards (University of Loughborough)
Marianne Gullberg  (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics)
Esa Itkonen (University of Turku)

CONFERENCE WEBSITE:

http://www.lcm.sdu.dk <https://sdumail.sdu.dk/exchweb/bin/redir.asp? 
URL=http://www.lcm.sdu.dk/>

EARLIER LCM CONFERENCES:

1st LCM conference: Portsmouth 2004
2nd LCM conference: Paris 2006: http://www.lcm2006.net/

THE INTERNATIONAL LCM COMMITTEE:

Raphael Berthele
Carlos Cornejo
Caroline David
Merlin Donald
Barbara Fultner
Anders R. Hougaard
Jean Lassègue
John A Lucy
Aliyah Morgenstern
Eve Pinsker
Vera da Silva Sinha
Chris Sinha


THE LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

Center for Social Practises and Cognition (SoPraCon):

Rineke Brouwer
Dennis Day
Annette Grindsted
Anders R. Hougaard
Gitte R. Hougaard (Director)
Kristian Mortensen


SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

Anne Salazar Orvig
Meredith Williams
Todd Oakley
Jonathan Potter
Robin Wooffitt
Alan Cienki
Cornellia Müller
Ewa Dabrowska
Edy Veneziano
Shaun Gallagher
Edwin Hutchins


THE LCM CONFERENCES:

The goals of LCM conferences are to contribute to situating the study  
of language in a contemporary interdisciplinary dialogue, and to  
promote a better integration of cognitive and cultural perspectives  
in empirical and theoretical studies of language. Human natural  
languages are biologically based, cognitively motivated, affectively  
rich, socially shared, grammatically organized symbolic systems. They  
provide the principal semiotic means for the complexity and diversity  
of human cultural life. As has long been recognized, no single  
discipline or methodology is sufficient to capture all the dimensions  
of this complex and multifaceted phenomenon, which lies at the heart  
of what it is to be human.
Theories of cognition and perception, and their neural foundations,  
are central to many current approaches in language science. However,  
a genuinely integrative perspective requires that attention also be  
paid to the foundations of cultural life in social interaction,  
empathy, mimesis, intersubjectivity, dialogicality, normativity,  
agentivity and narrativity. Significant theoretical, methodological  
and empirical advancements across relevant disciplines now provide a  
realistic basis for such a broadened perspective.
This conference will articulate and discuss approaches to human  
natural language and to diverse genres of language activity which aim  
to integrate its cultural, social, cognitive, affective and bodily  
foundations. We call for contributions from scholars and scientists  
in anthropology, biology, linguistics, philosophy, psychology,  
semiotics, semantics, discourse analysis, cognitive and neuroscience,  
who wish both to share their insights and findings, and learn from  
other disciplines. Preference will be given to submissions which  
emphasize interdisciplinarity, the interaction between culture, mind  
and language, and/or multi-methodological approaches in language  
sciences.


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