LINGUIST List 23.295 Mon Jan 16 2012 Calls: Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics, Semantics, Cognitive Sci/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.     Wladyslaw Chlopicki , 24th International Society for Humor Studies Conference Message 1: 24th International Society for Humor Studies Conference Date: 16-Jan-2012 From: Wladyslaw Chlopicki <krakow.ishsgmail.com> Subject: 24th International Society for Humor Studies Conference E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: 24th International Society for Humor Studies Conference Short Title: 24th ISHS Date: 25-Jun-2012 - 29-Jun-2012 Location: Krakow, Poland Contact Person: Wladyslaw Chlopicki Meeting Email: < click here to access email > Web Site: http://www.humor-conference2012.info Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Discourse Analysis; Pragmatics; Semantics Call Deadline: 01-Mar-2012 Meeting Description: We are pleased to announce that the next interdisciplinary Humor Conference will take place at the historic Jagiellonian University in Kraków! It will be hosted by the Institute of English Philology, the oldest English Studies Department in Poland, which has just celebrated the centenary of its foundation. The ISHS conference will merge with the HumorTap 4 conference as well as the 2nd Lafal Symposium, both biannual international humor conferences organized in Poland. The Conference schedule will open with Pre-Conference Tutorials (June 25) for those participants who have not had previous exposure to humor research. Tutors are eminent humor researchers: Christie Davies, Jessica Milner Davis, Giselinde Kuipers, Victor Raskin and Willibald Ruch. Call for Papers: For the 2012 ISHS Conference, scholars, professionals, and students are invited to submit proposals for papers, panels, workshops, and posters. The deadline is March 15, 2012. All prospective paper presenters must register for the entire conference and pay registration fees at the time that they submit their proposal. If your proposal is not accepted for the conference, a full refund will be made at your request. More than one panel or paper can be submitted. Presentations should be planned according to the following guidelines: Paper Sessions: Paper sessions will be 90 minutes in length with each speaker allotted twenty to twenty-five minutes for presentation with additional time for questions. Papers should focus on original research dealing with humor. Paper proposals should include an abstract that is no more than 350 words in length. Panels: Panels or symposia should be planned for either a 90 or 180 minute format with three to four presentations per 90-minute time period. Along with a completed submission form, proposals should contain the title of the panel and include the names, affiliations, and email addresses of the chair and each contributor. Each proposal should also include an overview of the session along with separate abstracts for each paper presentation. Neither the overview nor the paper abstracts should exceed 350 words in length. Workshops: Workshops should be planned for a single 90 minute instructional/working session with one, two or three presenters/facilitators. Proposals should provide the names, affiliations, and email addresses of all presenters along with a 200 to 350 word abstract of the proposed presentation. Poster Sessions: Poster sessions will run 30 minutes with each individual poster assigned a four-by-five foot space for presentation. All poster proposals should follow the same guidelines as for individual papers (see above). Poster sessions are generally made up of research that is in progress and not quite ready for full presentation. The following is a recommended (but not exhaustive) list of areas where scholarly contributions are welcome (submission of moderated panels is encouraged): Anthropology Applications of humor and laughter Business and management Computational humor Cultural dimensions of humor European humor Education, children's humor Gelotophobia Health/laughter therapy History/comparative studies Humor and gender/race/ethnicity Humor and emotion Humor and cognition Humor in arts/Visual humor Jokes, cartoons and other forms of humor Linguistics Literature Media Measuring sense of humor Metaphor/irony/humor Neuroscience Performance - appreciation of comedy Personality Philosophy Politics/satire Sociology of humor Styles of humor/humor taste Translation Special interdisciplinary panels are planned on: Political humor (convener: Diana Popa) Meaning and humor (convener: Andrew Goatly) Polish humor (conveners: Władysław Chłopicki and Dorota Brzozowska) Hungarian humor (convener: Anna Litovkina) Italian humor (convener: Monica Boria) Three Men in a Boat (convener: Lorene Birden) Good Soldier Svejk (convener: Michal Křístek) Contributions are solicited for all the above. Contact the conference secretary or the conveners if you wish to sign up for one of the panels. Further information is available on the conference website. Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 16-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.