Theme:Cognitive Approaches to Language Acquisition
Organizers
* The International Cognitive Linguistics Association (ICLA)
* Polish Cognitive Linguistics Association (PCLA)
* Jagiellonian University, Krak
Topic areas
* Cognitive sociolinguistics
* Historical Linguistics in a Cognitive Framework
* Motivation in Language
* Embodiment via Body Parts
Plenary speakers
* Dirk Geeraerts, professor of linguistics, University of Leuven. He specialized in theoretical linguistics.
* Laura Janda, a linguist with training in Russian, Czech, and other Slavic languages. Her theoretical framework is cognitive linguistics.
* George Lakoff, professor of Linguistics University of California, Berkeley.
* Chris Sinha, professor of Psychology of Language and an experienced plenary lecturer
Background information
International Linguistics Conferences are held every second year in different parts of the world:United States of America, 1991; Belgium, 1993; United States of America, 1995; Netherland, 1997; Sweden, 1999;United States of America, 2001; Spain, 2003, and Seoul in Korea, 2005. The jubilee 10th Conference, will be held in Krakow, Poland, in July 2007; it is organized at Jagiellonian University by Polskie Towarzystwo Jozykoznawstwa Kognitywnego，Polish Cognitive Linguistics Association(PTJK/PCLA) and officially approved as an affiliate of ICLA in September/October 2007.
For more information, please visit http://www.iclc2007.pl/.
