RT list: Fwd: 'Meaning, Context & Cognition' mcc 2011 conference.

*** 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS ***

*Meaning, Context & Cognition *MCC 2011

to be held 24-26 March 2011; University of Lodz, Poland

http://ia.uni.lodz.pl/englang/events/MCC

Abstracts are invited for papers on topics relevant to the fields of
meaning, context & cognition with the goal of the conference to integrate
and promote both theoretical and applied research from the interface of
semantics and pragmatics:

   - CONTEXT
   - SPEECH ACTS AND SPEECH ACTION
   - FORMULAIC DISCOURSE
   - LANGUAGE AND EMOTION
   - LINGUISTIC INTERFACES
   - INTERCULTURAL PERSPECTIVES ON DISCOURSE SEMANTICS
   - APPLICATIONS

 INVITED SPEAKERS - PLENARIES:

*Robyn CARSTON*

     (University College London, UK & CSMN, Oslo, Norway)*: 'Cognitive
contexts and speakers' intentions'*

*Anita FETZER *

     (University of Wuerzburg, Germany)*: 'Whose context?'*

*Kasia M. JASZCZOLT *

     (University of Cambridge, UK)*: 'Context: Gricean intentions vis-à-vis
two-dimensional semantics'*

*Barbara LEWANDOWSKA-TOMASZCZYK* *& Paul WILSON** *

     (University of Lodz, Poland)*: 'Prototypical and discourse meaning of
emotions'*

*Jef VERSCHUEREN** *

     (University of Antwerp, Belgium)*: 'Notes on the explicit-implicit
scale of meaning'*

*Igor Ž. ŽAGAR** *

     (University of Maribor, Slovenia)*: 'Formal constraints on
performativity: aspect and beyond'*

*Vladimir ŽEGARAC
*

* *(University of Bedfordshire, UK)*: 'Emotions, Communication and
Relevance'*

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*ABSTRACT SUBMISSION*

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*Deadline for abstract submission: 15 November 2010*

Please email your proposal to: MCC@uni.lodz.pl with a copy to Iwona
Witczak-Plisiecka (iw.plisiecka@gmail.com)

Abstracts should not be longer than 300 words. Please include your name,
affiliation and e-mail address. Abstracts will be double-blind peer-reviewed
and should include sufficient details to allow reviewers to judge the
scientific merits of the work. Paper presentations will be allowed 20
minutes, plus 10 minutes for discussion.

Participants without a paper are asked to e-mail their affiliation details.

*PAPERS AND POST-CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS*

A *volume** *of peer-reviewed selected papers will be published with an
international publisher, a selection of papers can also be published
in *Research
in Language*, an abstracted international linguistics journal published by
Lodz University Press (paper edition) and Versita MetaPress (e-version).

*For more information please contact the organisers at:*

 <MCC@uni.lodz.pl>

*MCC@uni.lodz.pl* (conference contact e-mail)

Dr. Iwona Witczak-Plisiecka, wipiw@uni.lodz.pl or iw.plisiecka@gmail.com

(Conference convenor)

Mr. Mikołaj Deckert (Conference secretary)

Department of English Language and Applied Linguistics

University of Lodz

Al. Kosciuszki 65

90-514 Lodz, Poland

tel/fax +48 42 6655220
Received on Sun Nov 7 21:19:46 2010