Meaning, Context & Cognition (2nd symposium) MCC 2012

Chair of English Language and Applied Linguistics invites to the 2nd Symposium 

Meaning Context & Cognition (mcc 2012)

to continue the discussions started at MCC 2011 (http://ia.uni.lodz.pl/mcc/), the first international conference in Poland subsuming cognitive approaches to pragmatics, which gathered over 160 researchers from 5 continents and 51 countries

 CALL FOR PAPERS

Meaning, Context & Cognition (mcc 2012)

University of Lodz
Chair of English Language & Applied Linguistics
[ Katedra Języka Angielskiego i Językoznawstwa Stosowanego ]

Conference contact e-mail: mcc@uni.lodz.pl

download MCC program here

download MCC BoA here

(download PDF call here)

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 (e.g. corpus studies, interdisciplinary research) from the interface of semantics and pragmatics.

The topics on which we would like to focus during the 2012 MCC meeting include the following areas:

• CONTEXT – definitions, the semantics-pragmatics interface, the explicit-implicit distinction, context typologies
• SPEECH ACTS, SPEECH ACTION, FORMULAIC DISCOURSE – speech act theory-oriented research, interactional approaches, politeness, non-sentential speech acts, formulaic language in use, rituals, magic, inter-cultural encounters

• SEMIOTICS OF LANGUAGE - e.g. language, music and cognition
  
• LINGUISTIC INTERFACES – meeting grounds for linguistics and other disciplines, e.g. sociolinguistics, clinical linguistics, neurolinguistics, political studies, media studies, emancipatory pragmatics and anthropological linguistics, cognitive studies, intersection of philosophy of language and linguistics, interdisciplinarity – merits & conflicts
• COGNITIVE PERSPECTIVES ON LANGUAGE-ORIENTED PHENOMENA, LANGUAGE AND EMOTION – emotion and linguistic performance, humour, intercultural perspectives, politeness and emotion
• 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, clinical linguistics, experimental studies, comparative & contrastive studies, enhancing development and teachability of linguistic-pragmatic skills in bilingual and multilingual contexts

INVITED SPEAKERS - PLENARIES:

The following invited speakers confirmed their participation:

ORGANISERS

The conference is organised by Chair of English Language and Applied Linguistics (http://ia.uni.lodz.pl/englang/)

University of Lodz, Poland (www.uni.lodz.pl)

Dr. Iwona Witczak-Plisiecka; wipiw@uni.lodz.pl (conference convenor)

Dr. Anna Cichosz

Mr. Mikołaj Deckert (conference secretary)

Scientific Committee:

Mario Brdar                                         J. J. Strossmayer University, Osijek, Croatia

Piotr Chruszczewski                           University of Wroclaw, Poland

Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk   University of Łódź, Poland

Manuel Padilla-Cruz                            University of Seville, Spain

Esther Romero                                   University of Granada, Spain

Belen Soria                                         University of Granada, Spain

Jef Verschueren                                  University of Antwerp, Belgium

Ewa Waniek-Klimczak                         University of Lodz, Poland

Iwona Witczak-Plisiecka                     University of Lodz, Poland

Maciej Witek                                       University of Szczecin, Poland

Tahir Wood                                         University of the Western Cape, South Africa

Igor Ž. Žagar                                      University of Maribor, Slovenia

IMPORTANT DATES

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION

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. 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.

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

PAPERS AND POST-CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS

At least one 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).

We also envisage a volume published in the new Springer series 'Yearbook of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics' (series Editor-in-Chief: Jesus Romero-Trillo).

CONFERENCE FEE AND FURTHER DETAILS:

Payment of the conference fee should be transferred to the following account:

!!! (Please mark MCC 2012 in the first line in your transfer)

Alternatively cash or SWIFT payment can be made on arrival. This will incur an additional charge of 25 EUR. We regret that neither cheques nor credit cards can be accepted on site.

Conference fee & further details

*  prices subject to change (dependent on exchange rates)

**also selected other discount countries; please contact the organisers to check whether you qualify

 You can download Registration form here

The accommodation offered by the organizers is Lodz University Conference Centre, which is also the conference venue.  It is located within the walking distance from the city centre. All rooms are equipped with a private bathroom, refrigerator, TV and free internet access (via ethernet cable).

The conference package advertised above includes accommodation (2 nights:  22/23 & 23/24 March), meals (22: supper, 23 breakfast, lunch, 24: breakfast, lunch) and conference dinner on 23^rd March 2012.

Individual meals can also be bought on site.

Individual conference dinner price is € 50 and can be paid on site.

Extended stays at the Lodz Conference Centre and booking accommodation for persons accompanying the participants are also possible and are both arranged by the organizers. Please contact us at MCC@uni.lodz.pl for more details.

For participants from Poland - additional financial information:

Osoby, które chcą otrzymać fakturę w czasie konferencji proszone są o dokonanie płatności przelewem najpóźniej do końca lutego 2012 i przesłanie danych do faktury na adres mcc@uni.lodz.pl.  Przypominamy, że faktury wystawiane są zgodnie z danymi konta, z którego wykonany został przelew, nie jest zatem możliwe wystawienie faktury na uczelnię przy płatności przelewem z prywatnego konta bankowego.

Druk danych do faktury - do pobrania

CONFERENCE DINNER

Conference dinner will be organised on 23 March

and concert)

TRAVEL TO LODZ

Lodz is accessible by plane, although the small local airport has a limited number of flights (mainly 'cheap' airlines). Among others it has a regular service to London (Stansted), Birmingham, UK and Israel.

Link to Lodz airport information:  www.airport.lodz.pl/en/for-passengers/tourist-information

The closest international airport outside of Lodz is in Warsaw.

Warsaw airport information: http://www.lotnisko-chopina.pl/en/passenger?cl=en&set_language=en

There is a regular train service between Warsaw and Lodz (approximately every hour)

Information about trains between Warsaw and Lodz:  http://rozklad-pkp.pl/?q=en/node/143

Tourist information about Lodz:

http://www.lodz-online.eu/introducing.php

http://www.lodz.world-guides.com/

http://en.cityoflodz.com/ 

For more information please contact the organisers at:

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, mdeckert@o2.pl  

(Conference secretary)

Chair of English Language and Applied Linguistics

University of Lodz

Al. Kosciuszki 65

90-514 Lodz, Poland

tel/fax +48 42 6655220