The aim of the 5th CLDC conference is to bring together researchers interested in discourse-functional linguistics and cognitive linguistics to exchange ideas and present new research findings in all areas related to language, discourse and cognition.  Recent research in the areas of functional grammar and interactional linguistics has produced a wealth of findings with important implications for cognitive linguistics. We believe that the study of language investigated in a situated and embodied context for its complex relationships to cognition is a critical issue in the cognitive sciences. Thus, we have set the CLDS 2011 theme as “discourse and cognitive linguistics” in the hope that we can fully explore the various issues relating  discourse structure to cognition from the perspective of functional-cognitive linguistics. Based on the considerations outlined above, we would like to invite original abstracts on topics dealing with the theme of the general session. Possible topics include, but are not restricted to, the followings:


GENERAL SESSION


Theme: Discourse and Cognitive Linguistics
The aim of the 5th CLDC conference is to bring together researchers interested in discourse-functional linguistics and cognitive linguistics to exchange ideas and present new research findings in all areas related to language, discourse and cognition.  Recent research in the areas of functional grammar and interactional linguistics has produced a wealth of findings with important implications for cognitive linguistics. We believe that the study of language investigated in a situated and embodied context for its complex relationships to cognition is a critical issue in the cognitive sciences. Thus, we have set the CLDS 2011 theme as “discourse and cognitive linguistics” in the hope that we can fully explore the various issues relating  discourse structure to cognition from the perspective of functional-cognitive linguistics. Based on the considerations outlined above, we would like to invite original abstracts on topics dealing with the theme of the general session. Possible topics include, but are not restricted to, the followings:
  • Conversational interaction and conceptual structure
  • Discourse and constituent structure
  • Discourse and construal
  • Discourse structure and grammaticalization
  • Discourse and social cognitive linguistics
  • Disfluency and human comprehension system
  • Grounding and language structure in discourse
  • Pragmatic markers in discourse
  • Projection and grammatical structure
  • Subjectivity/intersubjectivity in discourse
  • Typological perspectives on discourse and cognition
  • Usage-based approach to language acquisition

SPECIAL SESSION
Theme: Metaphor and Cognition

CLDC 2011 will introduce a new special session: Metaphor and Cognition. Currently, metaphor-related research is extremely important in cognitive linguistics and the cognitive sciences in general. It is also a research theme deemed significant in interdisciplinary research areas related to cognitive sciences and has produced breakthrough research findings. While metaphor and cognition research has contributed significantly to the relationship between human language and thought over the past decades, we believe that there are still many issues worth exploring in this area of research or that there are new possibilities in research methodology – for example, the new directions and aggregate innovations in metaphor research that interdisciplinary integration and exchange is facilitating. With this in mind, CLDC 2011 Special Session invites abstracts on innovative research related to all the various aspects of metaphor and cognition, including theoretical or applied research and interdisciplinary research. Possible topics include, but are not restricted to, the following:

  • Corpus approaches to metaphor
  • Neurolinguistic aspects of metaphor
  • Metaphor, analogy, and category
  • Metaphor and blending
  • Metaphor and construction
  • Metaphor and culture
  • Metaphor and discourse
  • Metaphor and embodiment
  • Metaphor and its application
  • Metaphor and metonymy
  • Metaphor and other rhetoric strategies
  • Multimodal metaphor
  • Psycholinguistic aspects of metaphor
  • Typological studies of metaphor

 

POST-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP ON CHINESE LEXICAL SEMANTICS
Theme: Cognitive Aspects of Lexical Semantics

The 12th Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop (CLSW 2011) will be held from May 3th to 4th, 2011 in conjunction with the 5th Conference on Language, Discourse and Cognition (CLDC 2011) as a post-conference workshop. CLSW was initiated in 2000 by Researcher Chin-chuan Cheng at Academia Sinica, Prof. Shiwen Yu from the Institute of Computational Linguistics of Peking University, and Prof. Chu-Ren Huang of the Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies of Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Previous workshops have been held in different Asia Pacific cities, including Hong Kong, Beijing, Taipei, Singapore, and Xiamen. CLSW has become one of the most important meetings for scholars of Chinese lexical semantics and related fields, including theoretical linguistics, information processing, and computational lexicography.
As a post-conference event, the CLSW 2011 is intended to bring together researchers involved in cognitive aspects of lexical semantics, including cognitive approaches to word senses analysis, mental network of lexical knowledge, lexicalization of concepts, synonym differentiation, computational simulation of word senses, etc. For this workshop we invite papers including but not limited to the following topics: 

  • Corpus approaches to metaphor
  • Lexical categories
  • Computational lexical semantics
  • Lexicon and ontology
  • Metahpor and lexical semantics
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