Conference on Language, Communication and Cognition
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Event 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 |  |
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