LINGUIST List 21.4761 Fri Nov 26 2010 Calls: Cog Science, Lang Acquisition, Psycholing/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.     Marta Dynel , Cognition, Conduct & Communication Message 1: Cognition, Conduct & Communication Date: 24-Nov-2010 From: Marta Dynel <marta.dynelyahoo.com> Subject: Cognition, Conduct & Communication E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: Cognition, Conduct & Communication Short Title: CCC2011 Date: 06-Oct-2011 - 08-Oct-2011 Location: ?ód?, Poland Contact Person: Marta Dynel Meeting Email: ccc2011conferencegmail.com Web Site: http://ia.uni.lodz.pl/CCC2011/ Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Language Acquisition; Psycholinguistics Call Deadline: 01-Mar-2011 Meeting Description: The Chair of Pragmatics at the University of ?ód?, Poland, is starting a new conference series: Cognition, Conduct & Communication. CCC2011 is the first international conference devoted to a complex yet integrated study of cognitive approaches to pragmatics and discourse analysis, language learning and use, and language disorders. Conference discussions will proceed at the intersection of the following areas:cognitive pragmatics, societal pragmatics, clinical pragmatics, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, educational psychology, cognitive linguistics, cognitive psychology, applied linguistics, discourse analysis. Plenary speakers The following scholars have been invited to address the conference as plenary speakers: Raymond Gibbs (Department of Psychology, University of California, Santa Cruz) Robert J. Stainton (The University of Western Ontario, Department of Philosophy) David Singleton (Centre for Language and Communication Studies, Trinity College, Dublin) Derek Bousfield (School of Journalism, Media and Communication, University of Central Lancashire) Gabriele Kasper (Department of Second Language Studies, University of Hawai'i at Manoa) Conference focus: -interdisciplinary yet synergical research in diversified cognitive and pragmatic phenomena and processes pertaining to communication in native and second/foreign language in normally developing as well as disordered individuals -cognitive, pragmatic and discourse analytic concepts at work across the contexts of first, second, foreign language acquisition, learning, processing, comprehension and production -pragmatic competence and pragmatic awareness development in naturalistic and educational settings, including the effectiveness of educational interventions undertaken to enhance pragmatic skills -individual learner/language user differences and pragmatic disorders Call For Papers Papers will be allocated 20 minutes plus 10 minutes for questions. The language of the conference is English. Abstracts of c. 250-300 words (exclusive of references) should be submitted on-line at http://ia.uni.lodz.pl/CCC2011 by 1 March 2011. Abstracts will be blind- reviewed by an international Scientific Committee. Notification of acceptance/ rejection decisions will be communicated via email by 1 April 2011. Research scope/Conceptual instruments/Submission keywords: deixis semantic/pragmatic presupposition speech acts, activity types, genres implicature/impliciture/implicit meaning context relevance (im)politeness intentionality pragmatics of interaction conceptual metaphor rhetorical figures, in particular: irony, metaphor and metonymy persuasion and manipulation humour gendered language non-verbal communication language and emotions interlanguage pragmatics pragmatic development and pragmatic awareness in first/second/foreign language context pragmatics and language teaching; developing communicative competence developing teaching materials for function-focused/pragmatics-driven L2 instruction disorders of language learning and cognition clinical pragmatics; pragmatic disorders The list is NOT exhaustive Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 26-Nov-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.