12th Conference on Language, Discourse, and Cognition
Short Title: CLDC 12
Theme: Language across Minds: Diversity, Aging, and Digitization

Date: 01-May-2026 - 02-May-2026
Location: Taipei, Taiwan
Meeting URL: https://sites.google.com/view/cldc12/homepage

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Computational Linguistics; Pragmatics; Semantics; Syntax

Submission Deadline: 01-Dec-2025

The CLDC provides a forum for researchers interested in language, discourse, and cognition to present new findings, exchange innovative ideas, and share approaches across disciplines. Topics relevant to these areas, as well as interdisciplinary studies stimulated over the past years, have given rise to a growing body of critical insights, making CLDC an important event in the field of cognitive linguistics in East Asia.

Building on this tradition, studies presented at CLDC address languages from diverse perspectives in order to enrich dialogue across the cognitive sciences. For 2026, the special theme of the conference is Language across Minds: Diversity, Aging, and Digitization, highlighting how language is acquired, processed, and adapted across the lifespan, and how research on aging, bilingualism, ambiguity, and digitization opens new directions for the study of language and cognition.