Call for Papers

Call for papers


We invite the submission of abstracts for oral or poster presentations for the "Second Conference of the Swedish Association for Language and Cognition (SALC) / Svenska Sällskapet för Språk och Kognition (SSSK)" to be held at Stockholm University between June 10th and 12th, 2009. Presentations should involve research based on structures and processes of general cognition (e.g. perception, memory and reasoning) and social cognition (e.g. joint attention and imitation), and as affecting such structures and processes. The conference, as SALC in general, is intended to be a forum for the exchange of ideas between disciplines, fields of study and theoretical frameworks. Topics include, but are not limited to: 

  • psycholinguistic  approaches to language and cognition
  • language acquisition/use and cognition
  • language structure and cognition
  • language and cognitive development and evolution
  • language change and cognition
  • language and gesture
  • language and consciousness
  • linguistic typology and cognition
  • linguistic relativity
  • The deadline for abstract submission is December 15, 2008. Please send two copies of an abstract of about 400 words (excluding references) to SALC2009@english.su.se , with your name and affiliation written under the title in one copy; one copy must remain anonymous. Presentations should last 20 minutes with 5 minutes for questions. After the process of peer-revision, e-mail notifications will be sent out by March 1, 2009.


    Conference fees: 

    50 Euros for faculty SALC members,

    70 Euros for faculty non-members,

    40 Euros for student SALC members,

    50 Euros for student non-members.

     

    The annual SALC membership is 15 Euros for faculty and 10 Euros for students. There will be a conference dinner for a cost of 40 Euros. Registration and payments can be made on-line at:

                                http://www.salc-sssk.org/salc09/

    Need more information? E-mail: salc2009@english.su.se