First International Association for Cognitive Semiotics Conference
The First
International Association for Cognitive Semiotics (IACS) Conference (IACS-2014)
will be held in September 25-27, at Lund University, Sweden. Founded in Aarhus,
Denmark, on May 29, 2013, The International Association for Cognitive Semiotics
aims at the further establishment of Cognitive Semiotics as the
trans-disciplinary study of meaning, combining concepts, theories and methods
from the humanities and the social and natural sciences. Central topics are the
evolution, development of, and interaction between different semiotic resources
such as language, gestures and pictorial representations.
Plenary
speakers
Soren Brier, Copenhagen Business School
Merlin Donald, Queens University
Brian MacWhinney, Carnegie
Mellon University
Cornelia Müller, European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder)
Raymond Tallis, University of Manchester
Theme
of the conference: Establishing Cognitive Semiotics
Over the past two
decades or so, a number of researchers from semiotics, linguistics, cognitive
science and related fields, from several European and North American research
centres, have experienced the needs to combine theoretical knowledge and
methodological expertise in order to be able to tackle challenging questions
concerning the nature of meaning, the role of consciousness, the unique
cognitive features of mankind, the interaction of nature and nurture in
development, and the interplay of biological and cultural evolution in
phylogeny. The product of these collaborations has been the emergence of the
field of Cognitive Semiotics, with its own journal
(http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/cogsem) and academic association. The conference
aims both to celebrate this, and to look forward into possibilities for further
development.
We invite the
submission of 400 word abstracts (excluding title and references) for one of
the three categories:
1. Oral
presentations (20 min presentation + 5 minute discussion)
2. Posters (at a
dedicated poster session)
3. Theme
sessions (3 to 6 thematically linked oral presentations.)
Such proposals
are to include: (a) Title of proposed session, (b) name(s) of convener(s), (c)
max 400 word motivation of the session, (d) abstracts for 3 to 6
individual papers, (e) name of discussant - if such is
involved. All this information should be sent TOGETHER to
the conference organizers at iacs-2014@semiotik.lu.se
The individual
abstracts should be preceded by an abstract for the theme session as a whole.
In case the theme session is not accepted, individual abstracts will be
reviewed as submissions for oral presentations.)
The abstracts can
be related, though need not be restricted, to the following topics:
• Biological and
cultural evolution of human cognitive specificity
• Cognitive
linguistics and phenomenology
• Communication
across cultural barriers
• Cross-species
comparative semiotics
• Evolutionary
perspectives on altruism
• Experimental
semiotics
• Iconicity in
language and other semiotic resources
• Intersubjectivity
and mimesis in evolution and development
• Multimodality
• Narrativity
across different media
• Semantic typology
and linguistic relativity
• Semiosis
(sense-making) in social interaction
• Semiotic and
cognitive development in children
• Sign use and
cognition
• Signs,
affordances, and other meanings
• Speech and
gesture
• The comparative
semiotics of iconicity and indexicality
• The evolution of
language
Individual
abstracts should be submitted at the site of the conference. Note: you
need to register first, by clicking on Registration Page to the left, and then
follow the instructions.
Important
dates
• Deadline for
submission of theme sessions: 31 Dec 2013 (by email)
• Deadline for
abstract submission (oral presentations, posters): 1 Feb 2014 (by
website)
• Notification of
acceptance (theme sessions): 15 Feb 2014
• Notification of
acceptance (oral presentations, posters): 1 April 2014
• Last date for
early registration: 1 July 2014
For information: http://conference.ht.lu.se/iacs-2014/
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