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Abstracts (max. 300 words) are invited for papers on topics relevant to the fields of meaning, context & cognition with the goal of the conference to integrate and promote both theoretical and applied research from the interface of semantics and pragmatics.

The topics on which we would like to focus during the 2012 MCC meeting include the following areas:

• context – definitions, the semantics-pragmatics interface, the explicit-implicit distinction, context typologies
• speech acts, speech action, formulaic discourse – speech act theory-oriented research, interactional approaches, politeness, non-sentential speech acts, formulaic language in use, rituals, magic, inter-cultural encounters
• semoitics of language – e.g. language, music and cognition
• linguistic interfaces – meeting grounds for linguistics and other disciplines, e.g. sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, political studies, media studies, emancipatory pragmatics and anthropological linguistics, cognitive studies, intersection of philosophy of language and linguistics, interdisciplinarity – merits & conflicts
• cognitive perspectives on language-oriented phenomena, language and emotion – emotion and linguistic performance, humour, intercultural perspectives, politeness and emotion
• intercultural perspectives on discourse semantics – contrastive studies, media discourse, global communication, bilingual and multilingual contexts, intercultural clashes and misunderstandings, translation-related issues
• applications – corpus studies, LSP, experimental studies, comparative & contrastive studies, political linguistics; enhancing development and teachability of linguistic-pragmatic skills in bilingual and multilingual contexts

Abstract submission

Please email your proposal to: MCC@uni.lodz.pl with a copy to Iwona Witczak-Plisiecka (iw.plisiecka@gmail.com).

Abstracts should not be longer than 300 words. Please, include your name, affiliation and e-mail address. Abstracts will be double-blind peer-reviewed, and should include sufficient details to allow reviewers to judge the scientific merits of the work. Paper presentations will be allowed 20 minutes, plus 10 minutes for discussion. Presentations will be in English; organizers also envisage a possibility of a session in Polish.

Please contact the organizers if you want to present in Polish

[Osoby zainteresowane wygłoszeniem prezentacji w języku polskim prosimy o bezpośredni kontakt]

Participants without a paper are asked to e-mail their affiliation details.

Important Dates

Abstract submission: 14 December 2011

Notification of acceptance: 4 January 2012

Early payment/registration: 24 January 2012

Payment due: 1 March 2012