Cognition, Conduct & Communication

Date

February 13, 2011

source

Cognition, Conduct & Communication CCC2011
06.10.11-08.10.11
University of Lódz, Poland

The Chair of Pragmatics at the University of Lódz, Poland is starting a new conference series: Cognition, Conduct & Communication. CCC2011 is the first international conference devoted to a complex yet integrated and consistent study of cognitive approaches to pragmatics and discourse analysis, language learning and use, and language disorders.

Conference focus

interdisciplinary yet synergical research in diversified cognitive and pragmatic phenomena and processes pertaining to communication in native and second/foreign language in normally developing as well as disordered individuals
cognitive, pragmatic and discourse analytic concepts at work across the contexts of first, second, foreign language acquisition, learning, processing, comprehension and production
pragmatic competence and pragmatic awareness development in naturalistic and educational settings, including the effectiveness of educational interventions undertaken to enhance pragmatic skills
individual learner/language user differences and pragmatic disorders

Conference discussions will proceed at the intersection of the following areas: cognitive pragmatics, societal pragmatics, clinical pragmatics, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, educational psychology, cognitive linguistics, cognitive psychology, applied linguistics, discourse analysis
Research scope/Conceptual instruments/Submission keywords:

deixis
semantic/pragmatic presupposition
speech acts, activity types, genres
implicature/impliciture/implicit meaning
context
relevance
(im)politeness
intentionality
pragmatics of interaction
conceptual metaphor
rhetorical figures, in particular: irony, metaphor and metonymy
persuasion and manipulation
humour
gendered language
non-verbal communication
language and emotions
interlanguage pragmatics
pragmatic development and pragmatic awareness in first/second/foreign language context
pragmatics and language teaching; developing communicative competence
developing teaching materials for function-focused/pragmatics-driven L2 instruction
disorders of language learning and cognition
clinical pragmatics; pragmatic disorders