02/07/2024
🎯🎯🎯 Call for Papers - Inaugural Conference of the Cognitive Linguistics Association of North America (CLANA) 🎯🎯🎯
🎉We are pleased to announce that the Inaugural Conference of the Cognitive Linguistic Association of North America (CLANA1) will be held in Montreal on June 27–29, 2024.
Website: https://www.coglingna.org/
Written abstract submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=clana1
Video abstract submission: See information below.
Abstract submission deadline: April 5, 2024 (11:59PM EST)
Notification of acceptance: by late April
👍We welcome submissions on any topic that takes a cognitive-functional, typological, and/or discourse-based approach to the study of language and cognition. These include, but are not limited to the following areas:
▫️Applied linguistics
▫️Discourse analysis
▫️Cognitive Grammar
▫️Cognitive semiotics
▫️Cognitive sociolinguistics
▫️Construction Grammar
▫️Corpus linguistics
▫️Language acquisition/development
▫️Frame semantics
▫️Gesture
▫️Language acquisition/development
▫️Language change and grammaticalization
▫️Language evolution
▫️Language processing
▫️Metaphor and/or metonymy
▫️Motion and space
▫️Neurolinguistics
▫️Phonology
▫️Pragmatics and cognition
▫️Prototypes and categorization
▫️Signed languages
🎯Conference format
The conference will feature two presentation formats. Talks will be scheduled for 20 minutes followed by 5–10 minutes for questions and discussion. A poster session will also be scheduled during the conference.
🎯The conference languages are American Sign Language (ASL) and English. ASL-English interpreting will be provided at the conference.
🎯Submission Guidelines
Conference abstracts may be submitted in American Sign Language (ASL) or English.
An author's name may appear on a maximum of two submissions. This means that each author may have up to two papers submitted to the conference. Only one single-authored paper submission is allowed per author.
🎯Written abstracts
Written abstract submissions should not exceed 500 words (excluding examples and references). Please copy & paste the title and text from your abstract into the EasyChair window, anonymized for authorship. At the end of your abstract (in the text box), write your preference for format: "talk only," "poster only," or "either format."
You are not required to submit a PDF unless you want to submit figures or other graphics. If you wish to upload a PDF of your full anonymized abstract in addition to the text, please write “see pdf” in the abstract window in EasyChair. You will also be asked to provide at least three keywords.
🎯Video abstracts
ASL video abstracts may be submitted by sending a video in MP4 format to Corrine Occhino at [email protected]. Videos abstracts should be limited to three minutes. In your written email, include the full names of all authors, author affiliation(s), and the title for your presentation, and your preference for format: "talk only," "poster only," or "either format." In your video, you may include the title of your presentation, but do not include author names in the video.
🎯Conference Organizers
Terry Janzen, University of Manitoba
Daz Saunders, University of Manitoba (formerly, Université du Québec à Montréal)
🎯Plenary Speakers
CLANA1 will feature invited speakers. Details forthcoming.
🎯Venue
The conference will be held at the central campus of the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). The campus is located among two vibrant neighborhoods in central Montreal, the Quartier Latin [Latin Quarter] and the Quartier des spectacles [Entertainment District]. UQAM is directly accessible from the Berri-UQAM and Place-des-Arts metro stations and can also be accessed via bicycle paths.
🎯Contact
Please send questions related to the call for papers to Corrine Occhino and Laura Ruth-Hirrel at [email protected].
🎯Sponsors
1. Le Groupe de recherche sur la LSQ (UQAM)
2. Institut des sciences cognitives (UQAM)
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