Call for Papers

This is a call for submissions for a theme session at the International Conference of Cognitive Linguistics (ICLC-13, 20-25 July 2015, Newcastle, UK).

Building on the tradition developed by Dirven et al. (1982), Schmid (1993), Geeraerts et al. (1994) and Gries (2003), the theme session will focus on usage-based approaches in Cognitive Linguistics. More specifically, the session has two aims:

1. Develop corpus methods for attaining descriptive adequacy.

2. Develop corpus methods for attaining explanatory adequacy.

1. Description and social variation

Given the theoretical assumptions of the Cognitive Linguistics model of language, sociolinguistic variation is integral to structure. Therefore, accounting for this complexity in language description is necessary for descriptive accuracy. This aim continues the line of research represented in Dirven & Kristiansen (2008), Geeraerts et al. (2010), Pütz et al. (2012), and Reif et al. (2013).

2. Explanation and hypothesis testing

Proposals such as (but not restricted to) prototype effects in categorisation, force dynamics in causation, metaphor and metonymy in conceptualisation, frame semantic structuring of argument structure or grounding in construal are central to the paradigm of Cognitive Linguistics. These theories and those like them seek to explain how language production is possible. Examples of recent contributions in this line of research include Gries & Stefanowitsch (2006), Stefanowitsch & Gries (2006), Glynn & Fischer (2010), Glynn & Robinson (2014).

Although these two aims, description and explanation, are inherently related, the theme session hopes to highlight specifically their place in the development of corpus methodology. Studies employing corpora / natural language production that seek to develop the field, in either or both these ways, are invited for submission.

Submission Guidelines
Abstracts not strictly adhering to submission guidelines will not be considered.

Abstracts
Abstracts should be clearly structured:

question / problem
answer / solution
data / method
conclusions / results (expected)

Formatting
Abstracts should be formatted following the guidelines set by the conference:

length: 1 A4 page (including title, name, affiliation, data, figures, references)
typeface: 10 point Arial, single-spaced
margins: 2.5 cm
format: files should be prepared in .doc, .docx, or .odt
file: title of the file should be: CMCL_AUTHOR_NAME

Session Submission
Date: 20 October 2014
Address: dglynn@univ-paris8.fr
Email subject: CMCL Theme session

Conference Submission
After acceptance to the theme session, the abstracts must be reviewed again, following the process for abstract reviewing for general session papers. This second stage will be anonymous, organised by the conference and will involve uploading the abstract to the conference site. This must be done by the 3rd November.

The link to the conference site with further information is:

https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/news-events/events/2015/07/iclc-13-the-13th-international-cognitive-linguistics-conference/

Organisers
Dylan Glynn, University of Paris VIII
Nele Põldvere, Lund University
Jaroslaw Jozefowski, University of Sheffield
Karolina Krawczak, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań

References
Dirven, R., Goossens, L., Putseys, Y., & Vorlat, E. (1982). The scene of linguistic action and its perspectivization by speak, talk, say, and tell. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
Geeraerts, D., Grondelaers, S., & Bakema, P. (1994). The structure of lexical variation. Meaning, naming, and context. Berlin & New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
Geeraerts, D., Kristiansen, G., & Piersman, Y. (Eds.). (2010). Advances in Cognitive Sociolinguistics. Berlin & New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
Glynn, D. & Robinson, J. (Eds.). (2014). Corpus methods for semantics. Quantitative studies in polysemy and synonymy. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
Glynn, D., & Fischer, K. (Eds.) (2010). Quantitative Cognitive Semantics: Corpus-driven approaches. Berlin & New York: Mouton de Gruyter
Gries, St. Th. (2003). Multifactorial analysis in corpus linguistics: A study of particle placement. London & New York: Continuum Press.
Gries, St. Th., & Stefanowitsch, A. (Eds.). (2006). Corpora in Cognitive Linguistics: Corpus-based approaches to syntax and lexis. Berlin & New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
Kristiansen, G., & Dirven, R. (Eds.). (2008). Cognitive Sociolinguistics: Language variation, cultural models, social systems. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Pütz, M., Robinson, J. A., & Reif, M. (Eds.). (2012a). Cognitive Sociolinguistics: Variation in cognition and language use. Special issue of Review of Cognitive Linguistics, 10(2).
Reif, M., Robinson, J. A., & Pütz, M. (Eds.). (2013). Variation in language and language use: Sociolinguistic, socio-cultural and cognitive perspectives. Frankfurt/Main: Peter Lang.
Schmid, H.-J. (1993). Cottage and co., idea, start vs. begin. Die Kategorisierung als Grundprinzip einer differenzierten Bedeutungsbeschreibung. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer.
Stefanowitsch, A., & Gries, St. Th. (Eds.). (2006). Corpus-based approaches to metaphor and metonymy. Berlin & New York: Mouton de Gruyter.