LINGUIST List 23.22 Tue Jan 03 2012 Calls: Cognitive Sci, Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis/Poland Editor for this issue: Alison Zaharee <alisonlinguistlist.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 Witczak-Plisiecka , Meaning, Context & Cognition 2012 Message 1: Meaning, Context & Cognition 2012 Date: 01-Jan-2012 From: Iwona Witczak-Plisiecka <wipiwuni.lodz.pl> Subject: Meaning, Context & Cognition 2012 E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: Meaning, Context & Cognition 2012 Short Title: MCC 2012 Date: 22-Mar-2012 - 24-Mar-2012 Location: Lodz, Poland Contact Person: Iwona Plisiecka Meeting Email: < click here to access email > Web Site: http://ia.uni.lodz.pl/mcc/ Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Discourse Analysis; Philosophy of Language; Pragmatics; Semantics Call Deadline: 07-Jan-2012 Meeting Description: Chair of English Language & Applied Linguistics, University of Lodz, Poland announces the 2nd of the annual series of conferences Meaning, Context & Cognition (MCC 2012) (to continue the discussions of MCC 2011, the first international conference in Poland subsuming cognitive approaches to pragmatics) to be held 22-24 March 2012 at the University of Lodz. Conference contact email: mccuni.lodz.pl General daily-updated info: http://ia.uni.lodz.pl/englang/events/MCC_2012 New conference website: http://ia.uni.lodz.pl/mcc/ (being updated for 2012) MCC 2012 (2nd meeting in the series) explores topics relevant to the fields of meaning, context and cognition with the goal of the conference to be a forum of discussion and to integrate and promote both theoretical and applied research from the interface of semantics and pragmatics. The topics invited for the 2012 meeting include cognitive pragmatics, actional nature of language, language as a means to do things with words, linguistic interfaces, semiotics of communication, studies of cross- and intercultural contexts, applications of linguistic theories, e.g. clinical linguistics, language teaching, translation, media. Plenaries: Deirdre Wilson (University College London, UK & CSMN, Oslo, Norway) Kepa Korta (University of the Basque Country, Donostia - San Sebastián) Eva Ogiermann (University of Surrey, UK) Jesus Romero-Trillo (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain) Elżbieta Tabakowska (Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland) Tahir Wood (University of the Western Cape, South Africa) 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 (e.g. corpus studies, interdisciplinary research) from the interface of semantics, linguistic pragmatics and semiotics. Final deadline for abstract submission: 7 January 2012 For more information please contact the organisers at mccuni.lodz.pl. Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 03-Jan-2012       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.