Constructions & Cognition - DGKL 6 Erlangen - Sixth International Conference of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association, Erlangen, September 30 - October 2, 2014

Executive Summary

Call for Papers

The Sixth International Conference of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association (DGKL/GCLA), Constructions & Cognition, will be held from September 30 to October 2, 2014 at FAU in Erlangen, Germany.

Presentations

We are looking forward to your abstracts for papers dealing with Constructions & Cognition or other topics in the area of cognitive usage-based linguistics. We welcome contributions dealing with different aspects of cognitive linguistics as well as contributions taking a cognitive perspective on language on the basis of methods employed in psychology, psycholinguistics, corpus linguistics, historical linguistics and artificial intelligence or explorations of the links between these disciplines and cognitive linguistics.

Conference languages are English and German.

There are two types of presentation:

Submission of abstracts for oral and poster presentations

Please submit your abstract by extended: March 14, 2014 via email to kongress-dgkl@fau.de.

The subject line of your email should read "Abstract Submission - AUTHOR NAME(S)".

The file name of your abstract should consist of your last name followed by your first name. In the case of multiple submissions by the same person, please number the files.

The main body of your email message should contain the following information:

When preparing your abstract, please note:

The abstracts will be reviewed on the basis of the following criteria:

Theme Session

In addition to the general sessions, the conference will include roughly 4 theme sessions dealing with specific topics in cognitive usage-based linguistics. As in the case of the general sessions, these topics include all research areas of cognitive linguistics as well as topics focusing on links to psychology, psycholinguistics and artificial intelligence. Theme sessions are expected to conform to the 30-minute time slots of the general sessions and may contain up to seven 30-minute slots.

The main body of your email message should contain the following information:

When preparing your theme session proposal, please note:

Each theme session proposal will be reviewed as a whole. Organizers are thus asked to ensure a high quality of the individual contributions. The proposals will be reviewed on the basis of the following criteria:

General remark concerning submission

Submission by email always carries the risk that individual emails will be caught by spam filters. Thus, if you have not received an acknowledgement that your submission has been received within a week after submission, please contact the conference committee by email.