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Rationale...
The
conference on Language, Communication and Cognition aims to promote
an interdisciplinary, comparative, multi-methodological approach to the
study of language, communication and cognition, informed by method and
practice as developed in Cognitive Linguistics. The objective is to
contribute to our understanding of language as a key aspect of human
cognition, using converging and multi-disciplinary methodologies, based
upon cross-linguistic, cross-cultural, cross-population comparisons.
In order to do this, the conference brings together a range of
international scholars, drawn from representative disciplines in the
social and cognitive sciences, as well as the humanities in order to
address the following broad range of issues:
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The
transformative nature of the role of language and communication in
human cognition
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The
analysis of language and language use as providing a window into
non-linguistic cognitive processes and structures
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The
relationship between linguistic structure and cognitive processes
and cultural factors, including cultural practices and knowledge
anchored by material culture
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The
nature of language universals as cognitively-based constraints on
language variation
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Applications
of research in language, communication and cognition including
teacher education, translation, literature and the social sciences
Invited
speakers...
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Lera
Boroditsky (Stanford University) How the languages we speak
shape the ways we think.
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Herbert
H. Clark (Stanford
University) Depiction in communication.
Adele
Goldberg (Princeton
University) Generalizations
in language.
Sotaro
Kita (University of Birmingham) Gesture, language and thought.
George
Lakoff (University of California, Berkeley) The
nature of thought: the multiple roles of the neural theory of
metaphor.
Michael
Tomasello (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology,
Leipzig) The role of prototype
constructions in early language development,
Conference
themes...
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Language,
creativity and imagination
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Language
in use
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Meaning
and grammar
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Communication,
conceptualisation and gesture
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Language
and its influence on thought
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Language
acquisition and conceptual development
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Origins
and evolution of language and mind
Conference
information...
The call for papers is
now closed.
The conference will take place on the Grand Parade campus of the
University of Brighton.
The
conference will be followed by the 2nd
Postgraduate Conference in Cognitive Linguistics. CFP is now open
and will close April 2nd for this event.
The
conference is sponsored by the British
Academy and is organised in association with the UK
Cognitive Linguistics Association.
Cognitive linguistics in the UK...
For details of
graduate programmes in Cognitive Linguistics,
Language, Communication and Cognition, and Anthropological
Linguistics in the UK, click here.
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