LINGUIST List 18.3626

Tue Dec 04 2007

Calls: Cognitive Science,Discourse Analysis/Denmark; General Ling/UK

Editor for this issue: Ania Kubisz <anialinguistlist.org>


Directory         1.    Izaskun Elorza, Bridging the gap in cultural studies
        2.    Elena (Lena) Papadopoulou, Language at the University of Essex


Message 1: Bridging the gap in cultural studies
Date: 02-Dec-2007
From: Izaskun Elorza <ieausal.es>
Subject: Bridging the gap in cultural studies
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Full Title: Bridging the gap in cultural studies

Date: 14-Jul-2008 - 16-Jul-2008 Location: Odense, Denmark Contact Person: Izaskun Elorza Meeting Email: ieausal.es) before January 1st 2008. Final notice of acceptance will be given by mid March 2008. Submissions will be evaluated according to their - Relevance - Quality - Coherence - Originality - Organization

Conference description: This is the third conference in the series Language, Culture and Mind (LCM) This time the conference will be held in modern and comfortable conference facilities at the University of Southern Denmark in Odense 14th - 16th July 2008. The conference aims at establishing an interdisciplinary forum for an integration of cognitive, social and cultural perspectives in theoretical and empirical studies of language and communication and the special theme of this conference is Social Life and Meaning Construction.

We call for contributions from scholars and scientists in anthropology, biology, linguistics, philosophy, psychology, semiotics, semantics, social interaction, discourse analysis, cognitive and neuroscience, who wish both to impart their insights and findings, and learn from other disciplines. Preference will be given to submissions which emphasize interdisciplinarity, the interaction between social life, culture, mind and language, and/or multi-methodological approaches in language and communication sciences.

Time frame for submissions & notification of Theme Session Contributions: First and only call for Theme Session Contributions: November 30, 2007 Deadline for Theme Session Submissions: December 31, 2007 Notification of acceptance: Mid March, 2008

More information about LCM3 is available at http://www.lcm.sdu.dk/

Please submit your proposal attached in a Word file by e-mail by December 31st, 2007.

Izaskun Elorza and Ovidi Carbonell Theme Session Organizers
Message 2: Language at the University of Essex
Date: 01-Dec-2007
From: Elena (Lena) Papadopoulou <epapadbessex.ac.uk>
Subject: Language at the University of Essex
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Full Title: Language at the University of Essex Short Title: LangUE2008

Date: 15-Mar-2008 - 15-Mar-2008 Location: Colchester, United Kingdom Contact Person: Kakia Chatsiou Meeting Email: achatsessex.ac.uk. Note that no late submissions will be accepted. All submissions will be peer-reviewed.

Please specify whether you intend to present a paper or a poster.

Authors will be notified of acceptance by 15th February 2008.

Conference format

The conference will include presentation of papers, posters and a plenary panel.

Invited Plenary Speakers

We are pleased to announce

Prof. Ian Roberts (University of Cambridge, UK) and Prof. Harald Clahsen (University of Essex, UK)

as this year's invited plenary speakers.

Further Information

Registration and Accommodation details will be available soon. Please see http://www.essex.ac.uk/linguistics/pgr/LangUE/LangUE2008/Home.shtm for further details and updates. Do not hesitate to contact us if you need further information.

Best regards,

The LangUE Committee

Kholoud Al-Thubaiti Claire Batterham Aikaterini Chatsiou Sirirat Na Ranong Elena (Lena) Papadopoulou Philip Tipton Keisuke Yoshimoto