5th INTERNATIONAL COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS CONFERENCE Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, July 14 - 19, 1997 ***************************************************************************** The 1997 conference of the International Cognitive Linguistics Association (ICLA) will be hosted by the Faculteit der Letteren of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. The deadline for abstracts is November 15, 1996 (address below). We are planning to provide up-to-date information about this conference at http://www.vu.nl/ICLC97/index.htm (after October 1, 1996). Conference topics include: - structural characteristics of natural language categorization (such as prototypicality, metaphor, mental imagery, and cognitive models) - the functional principles of linguistic organization (such as iconicity and naturalness) - the interrelatedness syntax and semantics - the experiential and pragmatic background of language-in-use (including discourse analysis and conversation analysis) - the relationship between language and thought Invited Speakers: Melissa Bowerman (MPI Nijmegen) George Lakoff (UCB) William Croft (Manchester Univ.) Ron Langacker (UCSD) Gilles Fauconnier (UCSD) Stephen Levinson (MPI Nijmegen)(tbc) Dirk Geeraerts (Univ. of Leuven) Eve Sweetser (UCB) Peter Harder (Univ. of Copenhagen) Len Talmy (SUNY Buffalo) SPECIAL THEME SESSIONS Note: Theme session organizers' addresses are included only if there is still some room for additional presenters/discussants. Please contact those organizers directly for further information. FRIDAY, July 18 (afternoon): On the place of metaphors in cognitive and cultural models (organizer: Alan Cienki, Emory University) Lexical and grammatical classification: same or different? (organizers: Ellen Contini-Morava, University of Virginia, and Yishai Tobin, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) Complementation: Interface of Cognitive, Functional and Typological Perspectives (organizer: Kaoru Horie, Tohoku University; khorie@intcul.tohoku.ac.jp, fax: +81-22-217-7842) Computer Models in Cognitive Linguistics (organizer: David Powers, The Flinders University of South Australia; David.Powers@flinders.edu.au) SATURDAY, July 19 (morning): "Cultural scripts" and "explications" as conceptual instruments in foreign language learning (organizer: Rene Dirven, Duisburg University; Rene.Dirven@ping.be; fax: +32-15-414455) Courting the Other: Cognitive Approaches to Literary texts (organizer: Margaret H. Freeman, Los Angeles Valley College; freemaMH@lccd.cc.ca.us; fax: +1-310-455-3686) Storage versus computation of polysemous meanings (organizers: David Tuggy, Summer Institute of Linguistics, and Theo Janssen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; contact: David_Tuggy@sil.org) Cognitive linguistic approaches to signed language research (organizer: Sherman Wilcox, University of New Mexico; wilcox@unm.edu, fax: +1-505-277-6355) SATURDAY, July 19 (afternoon): Metonymy as a conceptual motivation of metaphorical mappings (organizer: Antonio Barcelona Sanchez, University of Murcia; abs@fcu.um.es; on leave at Cambridge University 9/15/96-1/25/97: fax +44-1223-335062) Cognitive Linguistic Relativity: On the Centenary of Benjamin Whorf's Birth (organizer: Caitlin Hines, San Francisco State University; chines@sfsu.edu) The linguistic realization of causality (organizers: Ted Sanders and Arie Verhagen, Utrecht University; contact: Ted.Sanders@let.ruu.nl; fax: +31-30-253-6000) The psychological status of semantic networks (organizers: Dominiek Sandra and Hubert Cuyckens, University of Antwerp, and Sally Rice, University of Alberta at Edmonton; contact: Sandra@uia.ua.ac.be; fax: +32-3-220-4420) ** Special Interest Group Meeting ** (Monday, July 14) Pedagogy: Cognitive Linguistics in the Curriculum (organizer: Lewis Sego, Indiana State University, ejlpseg@root.indstate.edu; fax: +1-812-237-3156) CALL FOR PAPER AND POSTER PRESENTATIONS Abstracts are solicited for 20-min oral presentations to be presented in parallel sessions, and for poster presentations. Each proposal will be reviewed anonymously by two members of a large international panel. Notifications of the Organizing Committee's decisions will be sent out by February 15, 1997. As this is the first time ICLC is admitting posters, some explanation may be in order: Poster sessions have been gaining increased popularity at a variety of conferences. They allow conference participants to choose how much time and attention they allocate to each presentation, varying from a short glance to thorough reading and intensive interaction with the presenters; more simultaneous presentations can be accommodated, allowing a larger number of high-quality abstracts to be accepted; finally, if posters are allowed to stay up for an extended period of time, even participants who miss the discussion period have a good chance of still seeing them (and picking up handouts the presenters may provide). The poster sessions will be located in a spacious transitional area near the book exhibit and cafeteria. A maximum of about 20 to 30 posters will stay up for at least one whole day (longer if very few posters are accepted), and authors will be expected to be available for discussion of their poster for a one-hour period during which no other sessions will be scheduled. Nota bene: The abstracts for posters will undergo the same reviewing procedure as those submitted for oral presentations. The abstracts of accepted posters will be included in the abstracts volume. Papers based on oral presentations or posters will be equally eligible for publication in the conference proceedings; all submissions for those volumes will undergo the same reviewing process. ABSTRACTS Please submit by November 15, 1996 an abstract containing the following information: - author name(s) and affiliation(s) - address information (incl. fax and email) - title of presentation - preferred format (oral presentation or poster) - three to five keywords - a 500-word summary (about one page) specifying research question(s), approach/method/data, and (expected) results Electronic submission (to iclc97@let.vu.nl) instead of or in addition to hardcopy is strongly encouraged. Acceptable formats are: - plain ASCII text - ASCII text with minimal html coding + fax/hardcopy of formatted text - WordPerfect (any version between 4.2 and 6.1) - Word 6.0 The organizers reserve the right to reformat accepted abstracts for publication on the www and in the conference program. Any potentially distorting changes will be cleared with the authors. Submissions by hardcopy only: Send one high-quality print (definitely no more than one page; font no smaller than 11pt) including your name and affiliation, the title, and the abstract (do not center name or title; do not include a header "Abstract"), three copies of an anonymous abstract, and a separate sheet for the other requested information. Registration forms and hotel reservation forms will be available at our www-site and via ftp after November 1, 1996 and will be distributed to participants and mailing lists after February 15, 1997. Organizing Committee: Theo Janssen (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, chair) Gisela Redeker (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, secretary) Ad Foolen (Nijmegen University) Ton Goeman (Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen, Amsterdam) Frederike van der Leek (University of Amsterdam) Fons Moerdijk (Instituut voor Nederlandse Lexicologie, Leyden) Wilbert Spooren (Tilburg University) Arie Verhagen (Utrecht University) Marjolijn Verspoor (Groningen University) Address: ICLC'97 (Theo Janssen / Gisela Redeker) Faculteit der Letteren, Vrije Universiteit De Boelelaan 1105, NL-1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands fax: +31-20-4446500 iclc97@let.vu.nl http://www.vu.nl/ICLC97/index.htm ftp.vu.nl/pub/ICLC97/