LINGUIST List 21.3324 Wed Aug 18 2010 Calls: Cog Sci, Pragmatics, Psycholing, Semantics/Poland Editor for this issue: Di Wdzenczny <dilinguistlist.org> LINGUIST is pleased to announce the launch of an exciting new feature: Easy Abstracts! Easy Abs is a free abstract submission and review facility designed to help conference organizers and reviewers accept and process abstracts online. Just go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/confcustom, and begin your conference customization process today! With Easy Abstracts, submission and review will be as easy as 1-2-3! Directory         1.    Iwona Plisiecka, Meaning, Context & Cognition Message 1: Meaning, Context & Cognition Date: 16-Aug-2010 From: Iwona Plisiecka <iw.plisieckagmail.com> Subject: Meaning, Context & Cognition E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: Meaning, Context & Cognition Short Title: MCC Date: 24-Mar-2011 - 26-Mar-2011 Location: Lodz, Poland Contact Person: Iwona Plisiecka Meeting Email: mccuni.lodz.pl Web Site: http://ia.uni.lodz.pl/englang/events/MCC Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Pragmatics; Psycholinguistics; Semantics Call Deadline: 15-Nov-2010 Meeting Description: 'Meaning, Context & Cognition' aims to integrate theoretical and applied research from the interface of semantics and pragmatics. During the 2011 meeting we would like to focus on the following areas: - context - speech acts and speech action - language and emotion - linguistic interfaces - intercultural perspectives on discourse semantics - applications Invited Speakers - Plenaries: The following invited speakers confirmed their participation: - Robyn Carston, University College London, UK & CSMN, Oslo, Norway - Anita Fetzer, University of Wuerzburg, Germany - Katarzyna M. Jaszczolt, University of Cambridge, UK - Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, University of ?ód?, Poland - Jef Verschueren University of Antwerp, Belgium - Vladimir ?egarac, University of Bedfordshire, UK Call For Papers Abstracts (max. 300 words) are invited for papers on topics relevant to the fields of meaning, context & cognition with the goal of the conference to integrate and promote both theoretical and applied research from the interface of semantics and pragmatics. During the 2011 meeting we would like to focus on the following areas: - Context (definitions, the semantics-pragmatics interface, the explicit- implicit distinction, context typologies) - Speech Acts and Speech Action (speech act theory-oriented research, interactional approaches, politeness, non-sentential speech acts) - Language and Emotion (emotion and linguistic performance, humour, intercultural perspectives, politeness and emotion) - Linguistic Interfaces (meeting grounds for linguistics and other disciplines, e.g. sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, political studies, media studies, emancipatory pragmatics and anthropological linguistics, cognitive studies, intersection of philosophy of language and linguistics, interdisciplinarity - merits & conflicts) - Intercultural Perspectives on Discourse Semantics (contrastive studies, media discourse, global communication, bilingual and multilingual contexts, intercultural clashes and misunderstandings, translation-related issues) - Applications (corpus studies, LSP, experimental studies, comparative & contrastive studies, enhancing development and teachability of linguistic-pragmatic skills in bilingual and multilingual contexts) Important Dates Abstract submission - 15 November 2010 Notification of acceptance - 30 November 2010 Early payment/registration - 24 January 2011 Payment due - 1 March 2011 Abstract Submission Please email your proposal to: MCCuni.lodz.pl with a copy to Iwona Witczak-Plisiecka (iw.plisieckagmail.com) Abstracts should not be longer than 300 words. Please include your name, affiliation and e-mail address. Abstracts will be double-blind peer-reviewed and should include sufficient details to allow reviewers to judge the scientific merits of the work. Paper presentations will be allowed 20 minutes, plus 10 minutes for discussion. Presentations will be in English; organizers also envisage a possibility of a session in Polish. Please contact the organizers if you want to present in Polish. Participants without a paper are asked to e-mail their affiliation details. Papers and Post-Conference Publications A volume of selected peer-reviewed papers will be published with an international publisher, a selection of papers can also be published in Research in Language, an abstracted international linguistics journal published by Lodz University Press (paper edition) and Versita MetaPress (e-version). Conference Fee: Detailed information is available at: http://ia.uni.lodz.pl/englang/events/MCC Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 18-Aug-2010       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.