Final Call for Papers and Extended Deadline:

International Conference and Constituting Meeting of the Swedish Cognitive
Linguistics Association at Umeå University, Sweden, 15-17 June 2006

Discussions have been going on for some time about forming a Swedish Cognitive
Linguistics Association affiliated with ICLA. An invitation was posted on the cogling list to
find out the potential number of scholars interested in membership. In that invitation,
a conference was preliminarily announced with the purpose of presenting papers and of
officially forming SweCLA, electing its board and formulating its constitution.

Our invitation was received favourably. We now have a list of about forty prospective
members and have decided to arrange an International Conference and Constituting Meeting
of the Swedish Cognitive Linguistics Association (SweCLA).

Time and place
From Thursday, 15 June at 13.00 to Saturday, 17 June at 13.00 on campus at Umeå University,
Umeå, Sweden. There will be one or two series of presentations depending on the number of
abstracts accepted.

Conference theme
Empirical research on language and communication from a cognitive perspective and with an
emphasis on human understanding of the environment in terms of the self.

Conference language
English and Swedish

Abstracts
Send abstracts as Word attachments to the following e-mail address:
Marie.Nordlund@ltu.se
They should be no more than one A4 page, including references and keywords,
and printed in Times New Roman, 12 pts, single line spacing. Indicate name,
address and affiliation in the body of the e-mail message but not on the abstract.

Extended deadline for receipt of abstracts:8 April 2006
Notification of acceptance:22 April 2006
Confirmation by presenters:30 April 2006
Registration:1-15 May 2006

 

 

 

 

Local organising committee
Ulf Magnusson, Professor of English, Luleå University of Technology, Gunnar Persson,
Professor Emeritus of English, Luleå University of Technology, Anders Steinvall, Senior
University Lecturer, Umeå University, Marlene Johansson Falck, University Lecturer of
English, Stockholm University, Carita Lundmark, PhD in English linguistics (Luleå
University of Technology), Marie Nordlund, Doctorate student in English, Luleå University
of Technology, Daniel Andersson Malmgren, Doctorate student in Scandinavian Languages,
Umeå University.

Scientific Committee
Igor Burkhanov, University of Gdansk, Poland, Seana Coulson, University of California San
Diego, U.S.A., Kerstin Norén, Göteborg, Sweden, Klaus-Uwe Panther, Hamburg, Germany,
President of ICLA.

Conference fee: € 40 (+ € 10 VAT) including lunches and coffees or € 80 (+ € 20 VAT) also including conference dinner.

Plenary Speakers

Suzanne Kemmer, Associate Professor of Linguistics, Rice University.

Vyvyan Evans, Senior Lecturer in Linguistics, University of Sussex.

Chris Sinha, Professor of Psychology of Language, University of Portsmouth.

Seana Coulson, Assistant Professor, Department of Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego.

Jordan Zlatev, Associate Professor in General Linguistics at the Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University, Sweden

Sven Strömqvist, Professor of Language Acquisition at Lund University and Affiliate Professor at the Center for Reading Research, Stavanger.