Conference Information

Full Title:	Empirical Approaches to Multi-modality and to Language Variation

Short Title:	AFLiCo 5
Location:	Lille, France
Start Date:	15-May-2013 - 17-May-2013
Contact:	Maarten Lemmens
Meeting Email:	click here to access email
Meeting URL:	http://aflico5.sciencesconf.org/
Meeting Description:	This conference will be the fifth international conference of the Association Française de Linguistique Cognitive (AFLiCo; http://www.aflico.fr). The conference’s major foci are in line with the direction the previous AFLiCo conferences were headed in: multi-modality (in particular, co-verbal gestures and signed languages viewed as multi-channel communication systems) and linguistic variation (typology as well as intra-language variation). However, the conference seeks to add an important dimension to this direction, viz. empirical methods in (cognitive) linguistics, which have recently been attracting growing interest. With this emphasis on empirical approaches, the conference meets a real need of the linguistic community (cognitive or otherwise), given that the field of linguistics is shifting ever more rapidly towards interdisciplinary approaches, using various advanced empirical methods, ranging from psycholinguistic experiments to sophisticated analyses based on (large) corpora.
Linguistic Subfield:	Cognitive Science; Psycholinguistics; Sociolinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics; Typology
LL Issue:	24.421


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