CALL FOR PAPERS
The Fourth Cultural Linguistics International Conference (CLIC-2023)
Cultural Linguistics: The Interface between Language, Culture, and Cognition
Date: 22−24 September 2023
Venue: Chongqing (China)
Contact: Xu Wen
Organizer: Southwest University
Contact e-mail: clic2023@126.com
Meeting URL: http://clic2023.swu.edu.cn/
Abstracts of 400-500 words should be submitted through the EasyChair electronic submission system using the template available on the website
(The submission Web page for CLIC-2023 is https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=clic2023).
Abstract submission deadline: 22th August 2023.
The authors of selected papers will be invited to publish in a special issue of Cognitive Linguistic Studies and other volumes in book series published by reputable international publishers.
Aims and scope: Cultural Linguistics is an interdisciplinary field which studies how language and cultural cognition interrelate. It takes language to be a symbolic system that reflects, constructs and reproduces cultural concepts and practices. Under the influence of Cognitive Linguistics, Cultural Linguistics focuses on the mutual interrelations between language and cultural conceptualisation, and more generally between language, culture and cognition. Over the last two decades, Cultural Linguistics has witnessed tremendous growth and development in terms of theory, methodology, and application. The Cultural Linguistic framework has been applied to a range of phenomena within and beyond language, culture, and cognition, integrating the theory and methodological tools of various disciplines, such as cognitive psychology, Complexity Science, Distributed Cognition, anthropology, and ethnography.
Current research in Cultural Linguistics demonstrates that its analytical framework can offer fruitful inquiries into research areas such as writing system, semantics, pragmatics, discourse analysis, emotions, religion, sociolinguistics, gesture, signed language, intercultural communication, and Teaching English as an International Language (TEIL). Within these domains, cultural conceptualizations manifest in the forms of cultural schemata, cultural metaphors and metonymies, and cultural categories.
CLIC-2023 welcomes presentations based on studies conducted from a Cultural Linguistic perspective, involving research into how culture informs language and cognition, the nature of underlying cultural conceptualizations in language and the interface between Cultural Linguistics and other disciplines. Typical topics treated in the conference include, but are not limited to, the following:
· Language and cultural categorization
· Metaphors and metonymies across languages and cultures
· Cultural conceptualizations in signed languages
· Cultural conceptualizations and syntax
· Cultural conceptualizations and semantics
· Cultural conceptualizations and pragmatics
· Language and cultural conceptualizations of emotion/ religion/ kinship / addressing etc.
· Intercultural linguistics
· Intercultural cognitive linguistics
· Applied Cultural Linguistics (language learning and teaching, translation and interpreting)
· Diachronic Cultural Linguistics
· Cultural Linguistics and sociolinguistics
· Cultural Linguistics and intercultural communication
· Cultural Linguistics and political linguistics
· Cultural Linguistics and multimodality
· Cultural Linguistics and corpus linguistics
· Cultural Linguistics and philosophy of language
· Cultural Linguistics and gesture
· Theoretical construction and research methods in Cultural Linguistics
Keynote speakers:
Professor Chris Sinha | University of East Anglia, UK
Professor Daniel Casasanto | Cornell University, USA
Professor Dennis Tay | The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
Professor Diana Prodanović Stankić | University of Novi Sad, Serbia
Professor Gang He | East China Normal University, China
Professor Gábor Győri and Tímea Berényi-Nagy | J. Selye University, Slovakia/ University of Pécs, Hungary
Professor Judit Baranyiné Kóczy | University of Pannonia, Hungary
Professor Ning Yu | Pennsylvania State University, USA
Professor Rita Brdar-Szabó and Mario Brdar | Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary/ University of Osijek, Croatia
Professor Shihong Du | Southwest University, China
Dr. Vera da Silva Sinha | The University of Oxford, UK and the University of Bergen, Norway
Professor Xu Wen | Southwest University, China
Professor Zoltán Kövecses | Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary
Committees:
Chair: Professor Xu Wen |Southwest University, China
International Scientific Board:
Professor Angeliki Athanasiadou | Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Professor Daniel Casasanto| Cornell University
Professor Xiuwei Chu | Southwest University
Professor Jean-Marc Dewaele | University of London
Professor Shihong Du | Southwest University
Dr. Ad Foolen | Radboud University Nijmegen
Professor Roslyn M. Frank | University of Iowa
Professor Xianyao Hu | Southwest University
Professor Zoltán Kövecses | Eötvös Loránd University
Dr. Wei-lun Lu | Masaryk University
Professor Ian Malcolm | Edith Cowan University
Professor Qiyang Mo | Chongqing University
Professor Andreas Musolff | University of East Anglia
Professor Martin Pütz | Koblenz University
Dr. Frank Polzenhagen | Heidelberg University
Professor Chris Sinha | University of East Anglia
Professor James W. Underhill, Université de Rouen Normandie
Professor Kairong Xiao | Southwest University
Professor Ning Yu | Pennsylvania State University
Organizing Committee:
Dr. Liwei Chen | Southwest University, China
Mr. Qiang He | Southwest University, China
Ms. Elham Akhlaghi | Ferdowsi University, Iran
Dr. Andrijana Broćić | University of Belgrade, Serbia
Ms. Sarah Ghazi | Monash University, Australia
Dr. Judit Baranyiné Kóczy | University of Pannonia, Hungary
Dr. Marzieh Sadeghpour | Monash University, Australia
Dr. Ruiliang Tang | Southwest University, China
Dr. Li Yan, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, China
Professor Kun Yang | Southwest University, China
