“Language, Culture, and Mind (LCM) III” Conference
Dates
July 14 — 16, 2008
Venue
University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
Organizer
The LCM committee
Theme
Social Life and Meaning Construction: Integrating Perspectives and Methodologies in the Study of Language
Theme sessions
* Language, sociality, and mind: lessons from a neurodegenerative disorder
* Bridging the gap in cultural studies: from meaning construction to (inter-)cultural communicative competence
* Situating understanding, perception, in social interaction
* Cross-cultural communication
* Communicating and interpreting policy meaning
* Language and cultural change in immigrant and aboriginal communities: transformations at the culture, language, and mind interface
* Social life and meaning construction
* Discourse and psychology: emotion, knowledge and institution interaction
Plenary speakers
* Michael Chandler, professor of social-cognition development, University of British Columbia, Canada
* Derek Edwards, professor of psychology, University of Loughborough, UK
* Marianne Gullberg, scientific staff member of Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, the Netherlands
* Esa Itkonen, professor of general Linguistics, University of Turku, Finland
* Meredith Williams, professor of philosophy of mind and psychology, Johns Hopkins University, US
About the conference
This conference will discuss approaches to human natural languages and to diverse genres of language activity. The LCM committee calls for contributions from scholars in linguistics, semantics, discourse analysis, cognitive and neuroscience. Preference will be given to submissions which emphasize the interaction between culture, mind and language, and/or multi-methodological approaches in language sciences.
