Conference on Language, Communication and Cognition
Dates
August 4 - 7, 2008
Venue
University of Brighton, UK
Organizer
UK Cognitive Linguistics Association
Themes
* Language, creativity and imagination
* Language in use
* Meaning and grammar
* Communication, conceptualization and gesture
* Language and its influence on thought
* Language acquisition and conceptual development
* Origins and evolution of language and mind
Theme sessions
* The socio-cultural, cognitive and neurological bases of metaphor
* Cognitive and social processes in language use
* Constructional approaches to grammar and first language acquisition
* The social and cognitive bases of language evolution
* Linguistic relativity: evidence and methods
Keynote speakers
* Lera Boroditsky, assistant professor of cognitive psychology, Stanford University, US (How the Languages We Speak Shape the Ways We Think)
* Herbert H. Clark, professor of psychology, Stanford University, US (Depiction in Communication)
* Adele Goldberg, professor of psychology of language, Princeton University, US (Generalizations in Language)
* Sotaro Kita, reader in psycholinguistics and psychology of communication, Birmingham University, UK (Gesture, Language and Thought)
* George Lakoff, professor of cognitive linguistics, University of California, Berkeley, US (The Nature of Thought: The Multiple Roles of the Neural Theory of Metaphor)
* Michael Tomasello, professor of psychology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany (The Role of Prototype Constructions in Early Language Development)
Registration fee
￡150 ($297)
Registration deadline
July 18, 2008
Contact
E-mail: LCC@Brighton.ac.uk
For more information, go to http://www.languageandcognition.net
