The 2nd UK Postgraduate Conference in Cognitive Linguistics provides a forum for postgraduate students working within Cognitive Linguistics, language and cognition, and related areas of research to share and discuss their individual research, current methodologies and frameworks, and future directions of study. The conference will be held


Friday, 8 August 2008

University of Brighton, Grand Parade campus

Brighton, UK


as a satellite event to the international conference on Language, Communication and Cognition.

 

Dr Ewa Dąbrowska, University of Sheffield, England, Vice President of the UK Cognitive Linguistics Association, Editor of Cognitive Linguistics.

“Empirical Investigations of the Cognitive Reality of Cognitive Grammar”


Prof Vyvyan Evans, University of Brighton, England, President of the UK Cognitive Linguistics Association.

“LCCM Theory: Assumptions, Antecedents and Architecture”

Dr Daniel Casasanto, Stanford University, USA.

Editor of Language and Cognition, a new, interdisciplinary journal of language and cognitive science (2009 launch).

“From Ideas to Experiments”

You. Registration is now open.


Thanks to the Linguistics Association of Great Britain for funding this event.

Update 16.3.08:

  1. •Plenary talk titles have been posted.

  2. •We are thankful for funding from the LAGB.

  3. •Conference fees have been posted.

Update 10.4.08:

  1. •We are no longer accepting abstracts. Notifications will be sent on 17 April.

  2. •Registration is open.

Update 18.7.08:

  1. •The programme is available for download in PDF format.

Update 7.8.08:

  1. •The Book of Abstracts is up on the Programme page.

Update 9.7.08:

  1. •Many thanks to all who helped with and participated in the conference – it was a hugely successful event!