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
The list is NOT exhaustive
institution: University of Lódz
Chair of Pragmatics (http://ia.uni.lodz.pl/pragmatics)
participants: Piotr Cap (http://ia.uni.lodz.pl/pragmatics/faculty/pcap)
Joanna Nijakowska (http://ia.uni.lodz.pl/pragmatics/faculty/jnijakowska)
Marta Dynel (http://ia.uni.lodz.pl/pragmatics/faculty/mdynel)
contact person: Joanna Nijakowska
email: ccc2011conference@gmail.com
Click link for more information…
http://ia.uni.lodz.pl/CCC2011/
