Tomorrow and saturday: Coglingdays 5, Groningen!

All information including the abstract booklet can be found here:

http://www.rug.nl/research/clcg/about-the-institute/events/cogling2012/

See you all there.

Reading groups on grammar and on gesture at the VU

Two PhD projects are now underway at the Vrije Universiteit (Amsterdam) on cognitive linguistic theories of grammar seen in relation to multimodal spoken communication, and in connection with them we have started two new readings groups:

– an introduction to cognitive grammar and construction grammar, and

– an introduction to gesture studies.

Each of the groups will meet at the VU about once a week on days/times determined within the groups. If you would like to be added to the mailing list for the grammar group, the gesture group, or both, please e-mail Alan Cienki at a [dot] cienki [at] vu [dot] nl.

CogLingDays 5: deadline for abstract submission extended to June 10th

After four fruitful meetings in Utrecht (2004), Leuven (2006), Leiden (2008), and Antwerp (2010), Groningen will host the fifth biennial conference of the Belgium Netherlands Cognitive Linguistics Association (BeNeCLA, http://benecla.com/). The event is being organized by the University of Groningen in cooperation with the BeNeCLA board.

The two-day conference offers a venue for researchers from the Low Countries to present and discuss their research results in the various strands of cognitive linguistics or other cognitively inspired usage based approaches. These may encompass a variety of perspectives, but they share the view that grammar is not only a socially grounded system for producing and understanding language, but is also shaped by those processes during linguistic interactions.

All interested scholars working in the field of cognitive linguistics or related areas are invited to submit an abstract for the conference.

Invited speakers

Mirjam Fried, Dagmar Divjak, and Alan Cienki

Forum

The Faculty of Language: a debate

with Arie Verhagen, Jan Wouter Zwart, and Muriel Norde

Abstracts
We invite abstracts for poster presentations (with a one-minute presentation) and regular conference papers (20 min. talk plus 10 min. discussion), which will be reviewed anonymously.

The abstract text in PDF format should be limited to 400 words, including references and data, and mention main research question(s), methodology, dataset and (expected) results. Please do not reveal the identity of the author(s) in the text itself. Please indicate preference for poster or regular presentation and provide three key words to help the organizers put the presentations in coherent sessions.

Please submit electronically at http://linguistlist.org/confcustom/CogLingdays2012. In the submission process, author(s) name(s) and affiliation are asked for.

Deadline for submission: extended to june 10th 2012

Organizing committee at the University of Groningen

Marjolijn Verspoor (Chair), Mike Huiskes, Muriel Norde, Rasmus Steinkrauss, Esther Pascual, Susanne Grassmann, Rimke Groeneveld

Email: cogling2012@gmail.com

Web site: www.rug.nl/let/CogLing2012

BeNeCla board and scientific committee
Ronny Boogaart (University Leiden), Alan Cienki (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), Dirk Geeraerts (Universiteit Leuven), Maarten van Leeuwen (Unviersiteit Leiden), Paul Sambre (Lessius/ Antwerpen/Leuven), Elena Tribushinina (Universiteit Utrecht) Marjolijn Verspoor (RU Groningen) .

Call for papers: ICLC7-UCCTS3, Gent, July 2013

ICLC7-UCCTS3 is an international academic conference in the fields of contrastive linguistics and corpus-based translation studies, which combines in a single venue the latest editions of two conference series: the 7th edition of the International Contrastive Linguistics Conference (ICLC), which will be officially hosted by the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy of Ghent University (UGent), and the 3rd edition of Using Corpora in Contrastive and Translation Studies (UCCTS), which will be officially hosted by the Faculty of Applied Language Studies of University College Ghent (HoGent). Between them, ICLC7 and UCCTS3 encompass the full range of contrastive linguistics and corpus-based translation studies, including corpus-based interpreting studies. Given the complementary nature of these fields of study, and the methodological overlap between them, the primary aim of ICLC7-UCCTS3 is to bring together people and create theoretical and empirical synergies across disciplinary boundaries.

 

Invited speakers: Volker Gast (Jena), Giannoula Giannoulopoulou (Athens), Sylviane Granger (Louvain-la-Neuve), Anna Mauranen (Helsinki), Sandra L. Halverson (Bergen)

 

Website: http://www.iclc7-uccts3.ugent.be/

 

Papers are invited on a broad range of themes in the areas of contrastive linguistics and corpus-based translation/interpreting studies, provided they address one or more of the following issues:

 

• the aims, objectives and scope of contrastive linguistics; its relationship with neighbouring disciplines such as historical, typological, micro-variationist, intercultural and contact linguistics
• the aims, objectives and scope of corpus-based translation studies, in particular the ongoing debate about so-called translation universals: criticism and explanation (regarding e.g. the role of ‘risk aversion’), the ‘dominance’ of the source language, interaction between universals (e.g. explicitation v. normalisation), effects of genre and other external variables
• corpus-based interpreting research and its relationship with translation research
• the role of theoretical frameworks; comparability, incommensurability and the tertium comparationis; the necessity and significance of the ‘socio-cultural link’
• types, uses and mutual limitations of corpus data; the benefits of combining parallel and comparable corpora and their methodological relationship; the benefits of combining different methodologies, including multivariate statistics, distinctive collexeme analysis, etc.
• the significance of the contrastive perspective for language-specific description on the one hand and general interface issues on the other (e.g. syntax/morphology, syntax/pragmatics)
• contrasts between languages at the levels of text, register, discourse, and information structure
• the effect of the source language or of particular language pairs on translation and how to factor it into quantificational analyses

 

Papers will last 30 minutes: 20 minutes for presentation, 10 minutes for discussion. All submissions will be anonymously evaluated by members of the scientific committee with the relevant expertise, and the conference programme will combine mixed sessions with sessions focusing on contrastive linguistics or translation/interpreting studies, as appropriate.

 

Submissions must be made through the EasyChair system, which may be accessed at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iclc7uccts3, no later than October 1st, 2012. Abstracts must be anonymous and should not exceed 500 words, excluding references. Submissions are limited to two per individual, at least one of which must be co-authored.

 

Notifications of acceptance will be sent out by December 15th, 2012.

In the meantime, please direct any inquiries to iclc7uccts3@easychair.org.

 

Organising committee (UGent/Hogent): Torsten Leuschner (chair), Bart Defrancq (chair), Petra Campe, Timothy Colleman, Gert De Sutter, Renata Enghels, Patrick Goethals, Gudrun Rawoens, Miriam Taverniers, Sonia Vandepitte, Marleen Van Peteghem, Piet Van Poucke

Call for papers: CogLingDagen/CogLingDays 2012

After four fruitful meetings in Utrecht (2004), Leuven (2006), Leiden (2008), and Antwerp (2010), Groningen will host the fifth  biennial conference of the Belgium Netherlands Cognitive Linguistics Association (BeNeCLA, http://benecla.com/). The event is being organized by the University of Groningen in cooperation with the BeNeCLA board.

The two-day conference offers a venue for researchers from the Low Countries to present and discuss their research results in the various strands of cognitive linguistics or other cognitively inspired usage based approaches. These may encompass a variety of perspectives, but they share the view that grammar is not only a socially grounded system for producing and understanding language, but is also shaped by those processes during linguistic interactions.

All interested scholars working in the field of cognitive linguistics or related areas are invited to submit an abstract for the conference.

Invited speakers

Mirjam Fried, Dagmar Divjak, and Alan Cienki

Forum

The Faculty of Language: a debate

with Arie Verhagen, Jan Wouter Zwart, and Muriel Norde

Abstracts
We invite abstracts for poster presentations (with a one-minute presentation) and regular conference papers (20 min. talk plus 10 min. discussion), which will be reviewed anonymously.

The abstract text in PDF format should be limited to 400 words, including references and data, and mention main research question(s), methodology, dataset and (expected) results. Please do not reveal the identity of the author(s) in the text itself. Please indicate preference for  poster or regular presentation and provide three key words to help the organizers put the presentations in coherent sessions.

Please submit electronically at http://linguistlist.org/confcustom/CogLingdays2012. In the submission process, author(s) name(s) and affiliation are asked for.

Deadline for submission: 31^st of   May 2012
Notification of acceptance: 20th July 2012
Organizing committee at the University of Groningen

Marjolijn Verspoor (Chair), Mike Huiskes, Muriel Norde, Rasmus Steinkrauss, Esther Pascual, Susanne Grassmann, Rimke Groeneveld

Email: cogling2012@gmail.com

Web site: www.rug.nl/let/CogLing2012

BeNeCla board and scientific committee
Ronny Boogaart (University Leiden), Alan Cienki (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam),  Dirk Geeraerts (Universiteit Leuven), Maarten van Leeuwen (Unviersiteit Leiden), Paul Sambre (Lessius/ Antwerpen/Leuven), Elena Tribushinina (Universiteit Utrecht) Marjolijn Verspoor (RU Groningen) .

Talk by Nick Enfield on March 23, Leiden

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CogLingdays 5: 14-15 December 2012, University of Groningen

Just a short message to announce that CogLingdays 5 (the biannual meeting of BeNeCLA) will be organized this year, at the University of Groningen, 14-15 December. More information will follow shortly.

Kind regards,

The organizing committee,

Marjolijn Verspoor (chair)

Susanne Grassman

Rimke Groenewold

Mike Huiskes

Muriel Norde

Esther Pascual

Rasmus Steinkraus

BeNeCla board and scientific committee

Ronny Boogaart (Universiteit Leiden)

Alan Cienki (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

Dirk Geeraerts (Universiteit Leuven)

Maarten van Leeuwen (Universiteit Leiden)

Paul Sambre (Lessius/ Antwerpen/Leuven)

Elena Tribushinina (Universiteit Utrecht)

Marjolijn Verspoor (RU Groningen)