Conference Programme

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

THURSDAYEVENT
13.00-13.45Registration & coffee
Chair: Emeritus Professor Gunnar Persson, Luleå University of Technology
13.45-13.50 Official opening of the International Conference and Constituting Meeting of the Swedish Cognitive Linguistics Association (SweCLA)
13.50-14.00 Opening address: Emeritus Professor Ulf Magnusson
14.00-15.00Plenary speaker: Professor Sven Strömqvist, Lund University
From thought to text – contributions to a model of language production
15.00-15.30 Marlene Johansson Falck, Stockholm University
Electrifying performances and brains that fuse: How electricity is involved in the embodiment of metaphorical concepts
15.30-16.00 Dylan Glynn, University of Leuven
Fields, constructions and metaphors: The complex place of metaphors between lexical and syntactic semantics
16.00-16.15Coffee
16.15-16.45 Elisabeth Wulff Sahlén, Stockholm University
Metaphor-metonymy interaction in figurative extensions of body parts: The case of head
16.45-17.15 Christina Alm-Arvius, Stockholm University
Metonymy and the interface between cognition and language
17.15-17.45 Carita Lundmark, Luleå University of Technology
Supermodel crackers and voluptuous cars: Personification and body-related metaphors in advertising
17.45-18.45Plenary speaker: Professor Chris Sinha, University of Portsmouth
Language as a biocultural niche
18.45--Social events
FRIDAYEVENT
Chair: Daniel Andersson Malmgren, Doctoral Student, Umeå University
09.00-10.00Plenary Speaker: Dr. Vyvyan Evans, University of Sussex
Towards a usage-based account of figurative language
10.00-10.30 Dimitrios Kotsifas & Barbara Gawronska, University College of Skövde /(The National Kapodistrian University of Athens)
Contrastive analysis of ergative verbs in English and Greek and their translation equivalents in French
10.30-10.45Coffee
10.45-11.15 Åke Viberg, Uppsala University
Aspects of the lexical profile of Swedish
11.15-11.45 Ulf Magnusson, Luleå University of Technology
Actions of the hand, reactions of the mind
11.45-12.15 Marie Nordlund, Luleå University of Technology
Own and possess in context
12.15-12.45 Alan McMillion, Stockholm University
A constructional approach to labile verbs in English
12.45-13.30Lunch
Chair: Dr. Carita Lundmark, Luleå University of Technology
13.30-14.00Cecilia Hemming & Barbara Gawronska, University College of Skövde
The role of prepositions in French binominal compounds
14.00-14.30 Kris Heylen, University of Leuven
Word order variants as pragmatic constructions: A corpus-based study of German
14.30-15.00 Martin Hilpert, Rice University, Houston
Using collocates to investigate constructional semantics: A case study of obligation-based future constructions
15.00-15.30Barbara Gawronska & Olga Nikolaenkova, University College of Skövde /(The National Kapodistrian University of Athens)
In time, on time or at the time? A cognitive analysis of English, Greek, Polish, Swedish and Russian prepositions
15.30-15.45Coffee
15.45-16.15 Esa Itkonen, University of Turku
Metatypology: From morpho-syntactic via lexical to semantic
16.15-17.15Plenary speaker: Professor Seana Coulson, University of California, San Diego
Rationality reconstrued: Framing and persuasive discourse
17.15-18.45Business meeting: Constituting the Swedish Cognitive Linguistics Association (SweCLA)
20.00--Conference dinner
SATURDAYEVENT
Chair: Marie Nordlund, Doctoral Student, Luleå University of Technology
09.00-09.30 Erling Wande, Stockholm University
A cognitive revisit into the semilingualism debate
09.30-10.00 Anna Vogel, Stockholm University
Aspects on collecting data from various sources for a cognitive semantic study
10.00-10.30 Lisa Christensen, Lund University
The Vendlerian typology transformed into “a scale of verbal types”
10.30-10.45Coffee
10.45-11.45Plenary speaker: Professor Suzanne Kemmer, Rice University
Lexical Semantics and Corpora: English
Dimensional Terms
11.45-12.15 Marta Andersson, Stockholm University
Presuppositions as anaphors in therapeutic discourse
12.15-12.45 Sofia Kasviki & Barbara Gawronska, University College of Skövde /(The National Kapodistrian University of Athens)
Mental spaces and anaphora resolution
12.45-13.30Lunch
Chair: Dr. Anders Steinvall, Senior University Lecturer, Umeå University
13.30-14.00 Stephanie Sandra Pourcel, University of Sussex
A conceptual typology of the domain of motion
14.00-14.30 Adam Glaz, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University (UMCS), Lublin
The father, his son, their sins and … cognitive linguistics
14.30-15.00 Przemyslaw Lozowski, UMCS, Lublin
A system of signs or a symbolic system: In-between Saussurean and Peircean traditions in cognitive linguistics
15.00-16.00The First SweCLA Speaker Associate Professor Jordan Zlatev
Language, Mimesis and Autism
16.00-16.05The First President of SweCLA: On Behalf of the Association
16.05-16.15Closing Address: Emeritus Professor Ulf Magnusson
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