LINGUIST List 9.1388

Tue Oct 6 1998

Calls: Cognitive linguistics & language acquisition

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1. alan harris, SEMCOM:CL and Language Acquisition-Call for Papers

6th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference
Stockholm, 11th-16th July 1999.

Theme Session: First and Second Language Acquisition

Call for Abstracts

The purpose of this theme session is to highlight the mutual
importance of language acquisition for cognitive linguistics (CL),
and CL for language acquisition research.

Accounting for language acquisition is crucial for any linguistic
theory, and CL is as yet in its infancy in this regard. However, CL
research in diverse areas has reached a stage of development at which
language acquisition research can benefit greatly from its insights
and theoretical and methodological tools. CL-based approaches to 
first and second language acquisition constitute a rapidly growing
field of research. Amongst the CL-inspired issues which are
attracting the attention of L1 and L2 acquisition researchers are:

grammaticalization, island phenomena and the acquisition of grammar;
metaphor, analogy and embodiment in lexical development;
cultural and cognitive motivations in structure-learning;
typological influences on acquisition patterns;

We invite abstracts on any topic of L1/L2 acquisition which either
apply CL-based explanatory tools, or which offer insights which can 
enrich the CL perspective. Critical appraisals of CL from an 
acquisition perspective are also encouraged, as are submissions 
relating to the cultural and communicative contexts of cognition 
and language acquisition.

Half- to one page abstracts should be submitted by e-mail to
Michel Achard (achardrice.edu) by November 1st. 1998.

Notification of acceptance will be by November 15th.

Further information about the 6th International Cognitive 
Linguistics Conference can be obtained at the conference website:

http://bamse.ling.su.se/iclc99

Theme session organizers:
Michel Achard, Susanne Niemeyer, Chris Sinha, Sven Stroemqvist

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