RT list: Fwd: Meaning, Context & Cognition (MCC 2011) cfp

Dear all,

A forwarded message about a conference.

Best,
Nick

Nicholas Allott
RT list admin

> From: Iwona Witczak-Plisiecka <wipiw@uni.lodz.pl>
> Date: 25 August 2010 4:15:02 pm CEST
> Subject: Fwd: Meaning, Context & Cognition (MCC 2011) cfp
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> Below is the first call for ‘Meaning, Context & Cognition’ (MCC 2011), a linguistics conference to be held at University of Lodz, Poland, 24-26 March 2011, which may be of interest to RL subscribers
> (More info at: http://ia.uni.lodz.pl/englang/events/MCC )
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> Call for Papers
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> Meaning, Context & Cognition (MCC 2011)
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> 24-26 March 2011, University of Łódź, Poland
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> http://ia.uni.lodz.pl/englang/events/MCC
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> Abstracts (max. 300 words) 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. We also plan to include a poster session.
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> During the 2011 meeting we would like to focus on the following areas
> context – definitions, the semantics-pragmatics interface, the explicit-implicit distinction, context typologies
> speech acts and speech action – speech act theory-oriented research, interactional approaches, politeness, non-sentential speech acts
> language and emotion – emotion and linguistic performance, humour, intercultural perspectives, politeness and emotion
> linguistic interfaces – meeting grounds for linguistics and other disciplines, e.g. sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, political studies, media studies, emancipatory pragmatics and anthropological linguistics, cognitive studies, intersection of philosophy of language and linguistics, interdisciplinarity – merits & conflicts
> intercultural perspectives on discourse semantics – contrastive studies, media discourse, global communication, bilingual and multilingual contexts, intercultural clashes and misunderstandings, translation-related issues
> applications – corpus studies, LSP, experimental studies, comparative & contrastive studies, enhancing development and teachability of linguistic-pragmatic skills in bilingual and multilingual contexts
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> Invited Speakers - Plenaries:
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> The following invited speakers confirmed their participation:
> Robyn Carston (University College London, UK & CSMN, Oslo, Norway)
> Anita Fetzer (University of Wuerzburg, Germany)
> Katarzyna M. Jaszczolt (University of Cambridge, UK)
> Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk (University of Łódź, Poland)
> Jef Verschueren (University of Antwerp, Belgium)
> Vladimir Žegarac (University of Bedfordshire, UK)
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> The conference is organised by
> Department of English Language and Applied Linguistics (http://ia.uni.lodz.pl/englang/)
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> University of Lodz, Lodz, Poland (www.uni.lodz.pl)
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> Dr. Iwona Witczak-Plisiecka; wipiw@uni.lodz.pl (conference convenor)
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> Mr. Mikołaj Deckert (conference secretary)
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> Scientific Committee:
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> Mario Brdar, J.J. Strossmayer University, Osijek, Croatia
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> Robert M. Harnish, University of Arizona, USA
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> Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, University of Lodz, Poland
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> Belén Soria & Esther Romero, University of Granada, Spain
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> Maciej Witek, University of Szczecin, Poland
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> Igor Ž. Žagar, University of Maribor, Slovenia
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> Important Dates:
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> Abstract submission - 15th November 2010
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> Notification of acceptance - 30th November 2010
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> Early payment/registration - 24th January 2011
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> Payment due - 1st March 2011
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> Abstract submission
> Please email your proposal to: mcc@uni.lodz.pl with a copy to Iwona Witczak-Plisiecka (iw.plisiecka@gmail.com)
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> 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. Please indicate if you would like to present a poster.
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> Presentations will be in English; organizers also envisage a possibility of a session in Polish; please contact the organizers if you want to present in Polish.
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> Participants without a paper are asked to e-mail their affiliation details.
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> Papers and Post-Conference Publications
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> 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).
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> Conference fee and further details:
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> please consult the conference site: http://ia.uni.lodz.pl/englang/events/MCC
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> For more information please contact the organisers at:
> mcc@uni.lodz.pl (conference contact e-mail)
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> Dr. Iwona Witczak-Plisiecka, wipiw@uni.lodz.pl or iw.plisiecka@gmail.com
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> (Conference convenor)
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> 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
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Received on Wed Aug 25 16:05:30 2010