LINGUIST List 21.5183 Mon Dec 20 2010 Calls: Discourse Analysis/Poland Editor for this issue: Amy Brunett <brunettlinguistlist.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.     Malgorzata Fabiszak , Mind, Discourse and Society Message 1: Mind, Discourse and Society Date: 20-Dec-2010 From: Malgorzata Fabiszak <fagosiaifa.amu.edu.pl> Subject: Mind, Discourse and Society E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: Mind, Discourse and Society Date: 01-May-2011 - 03-May-2011 Location: Poznan, Poland Contact Person: Malgorzata Fabiszak Meeting Email: < click here to access email > Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis Call Deadline: 21-Jan-2011 Meeting Description: This session is devoted to an interaction between the mind, discourse and society. In particular it focuses on how certain social actions are mediated by discourse (personal narratives, dynamic negotiation of self and a vision of the world in talk) and encoded in cognitive structures (frames, ICMs, metaphor, metonymy, force dynamics, image schemas). This new area of research has attracted several researchers working within the conceptual metaphor theory, discourse studies and cognitive linguistics. For example, Bernardez (2007) stresses the need to expand cognitive linguistic research beyond the solipsistic mind – container and to place it firmly in cultural interaction including the socio-historical dimension (synergic cognition). The role of metaphor in discourse has been noted already in the seminal studies by Charteris-Black (2004) and Musolff (2004), and this line of research has been steadily developing. Semino (2010) shows how to investigate the influence of text genre on metaphor in academic and educational discourses. Cameron et al. (2009) place metaphor in a discourse-dynamic perspective and show how it can be employed to express values of a particular speech community. Hart (2010) stresses the need for Cognitive Discourse Analysis to expand the discipline beyond metaphor and include Langacker’s construal operations or Talmy’s force dynamics in the investigation of discourse. Van Dijk (2009) advocates a socio-cognitive approach to ideology. Call for Papers: The major objective of the present session is investigating the role of cognitive structures in discourse, in particular with relation to the following topics: -Memorialisation of traumatic historical events -The construction of victim and perpetrator in war narratives -Negotiation of social hierarchy in the workplace -Constructing empathy in conflict situations -Representation of social minorities -Gender and the workplace -Values and their expression in discourse The abstracts for the Session: Mind, Discourse Society should comply with the general guidelines of the PLM conference and be submitted via EasyChair system http://ifa.amu.edu.pl/plm/2011/Abstract_submission by January 21st 2011. Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 20-Dec-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.