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NEWSLETTER # 2 
(edited by June Luchjenbroers)

April 2008 

FINALLY … another newsletter  

and the focus of this issue is to …

• Give thanks for the wonderful participation at the 2^nd UK-Cognitive Linguistics conference that was held at Cardiff University last August.
• Give introductory information about the 3^rd UK-Cognitive Linguistics conference, to be held at University of Hertfordshire, England. 6-8^th July 2010
• Include some information about the impending new Journal, Language and Cognition: Interdisciplinary journal of cognitive and language science, to be published by Mouton de Gruyter.
• Upcoming events

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 The 2^nd UK Cognitive Linguistics Conference
that was held at Cardiff University (Wales, UK) August 2007.

Our conference feels so long ago now, but we remain pleased at how well it went. Everything ran smoothly, which more than one delegate commented on. There were very few cancellations once the final schedule was released and everyone kept time within the panels. The speakers were also so much more diverse than the name "UK" cognitive linguistics suggests, and the communion between the delegates during every break and social activity was a joy to see. They didn't just come from the predictable locations of the UK, West and Eastern Europe, but also Russia, Asia, the orient, the US, and as far away as the Antipodes, India, South Africa, and Brazil. The result is that papers and posters were offered on cognitive linguistics issues and findings across a wonderful range of languages and data types, and we like to think that everyone found something to discuss with others that complimented their own field of research.  

We want to thank again all those who helped with so many important aspects of running a conference. These include the cognitive linguistics researchers from across the globe who made up the Scientific, Advisory committee, and who helped review the small mountain of abstracts we'd received for this conference. We happily give thanks again to Michel Achard, Frank Brisard, Alan Cienki, Hubert Cuyckens, Adam Glaz, Iraide Ibarretxe-Antuñano, Veronika Keller, Ricardo Maldonado, Gisela Redeker, Wilbert Spooren, Eve Sweetser, Linda L. Thornburg, Margaret Toye, and Satoshi Uehara. Our Plenary speakers also helped out in an advisory capacity, as well as impress us with their research and insights in their plenary lectures: Vyvyan Evans, Lynne Cameron, Seana Coulson, Klaus-Uwe Panther, Chris Sinha, and Arie Verhagen. We also want to give an extra thank you to Wilbert Spooren, whose name regrettably fell off the list in the materials distributed at the conference… you are not forgotten.

From the 120 papers and posters presented at the conference, we received nearly half for the two edited volumes projected from the outset, and we are actively busy with this project. More information will follow (hopefully soon).

In closing, we received many wonderful complements from those who came to Cardiff last year, but one that is easily remembered is "what I liked most was the atmosphere". As thrilled as we are with how well the conference went, and how much we do quietly pat ourselves on the back for a job well done… this complement goes to everyone who was there, and for that we want to also thank YOU.

June Luchjenbroers & Michelle Aldridge

(Conference organisers, Cardiff UK-CLA conference)

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The 3^rd UK Cognitive Linguistics Conference
will be held at the University of Hertfordshire, 6-8^th July, 2010.

This conference promises to build on the success of the previous two UK-CLCs, in providing an important event for the UK Cognitive Linguistics community (cemented in Brighton in 2005), and the international Cognitive Linguistics community at large. The conference will be concerned with all aspects of Cognitive Linguistics but will have a recurring theme of 'Meaning, Mind and (Social) Reality'. Inter-disciplinary perspectives on meaning, mind and reality will be particularly encouraged.

The University of Hertfordshire has a modern campus offering all necessary academic as well as a range of leisure facilities in one convenient location. The University is extremely accessible given its proximity to London whilst Hertfordshire itself seems so far removed from the capital.

 The organising committee

   Chris Hart, Vyvyan Evans and Stephanie Pourcel

 Further information will follow shortly.

Chris Hart

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 NEW Journal

 Language and Cognition: A journal of cognitive and language science

 We'd like to draw your attention to our new journal, that be launched in 2009, published by Mouton de Gruyter. You can find details about our new journal on the UK-CLA website: http://www.cogling.org.uk/language&cognition.htm

We are very excited about this journal, which will initially appear twice a year, and will offer papers dealing with theoretical and/or empirical/ experimental research, that focus on the interface between language and cognition.

 The Editorial Board includes

·        Seana Coulson (UC San Diego, USA),

·        Daniel Casasanto (Stanford, USA),

·        Vyv Evans (Brighton, UK),

·        David Kemmerer (Purdue, USA),

·        Laura Michaelis (UC Boulder, USA)

·        Chris Sinha (Portsmouth, UK)

The Managing Editor is Stephanie Pourcel and a Book Review editor is Dylan Glynn.

A membership application form in order for people to join the UK-CLA and receive the journal is currently being formulated.  More soon….

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 UPCOMING EVENTS

 I  Conference on Language, Communication & Cognition,

to be held at the University of Brighton, 4th-7th August 2008

Information can be found at: http://www.languageandcognition.net/ giving details on the Programme; Plenary Speakers and Travel, Registration and Accommodation

REMEMBER….

·        Early registration ends – 4^th May, 2008

 2  Piggy-backing the Brighton, LCC conference is the

2nd UK Postgraduate Conference in Cognitive Linguistics,
University of Brighton, Grand Parade campus, 8^th August 2008.

·        Registration is now open

 3  CADAAD 2008

(= Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines).

This conference is soon to be held at University of Hertfordshire, England – 10-12^th July, 2008, and is also organised by Christopher Hart.

 Plenary speakers include:

·        Professor Jan Blommaert (University of London)

Discourse and History: A Problem and its History

·        Professor Piotr Cap (University of Lódz)

Axiological Proximization in Political Discourse

·        Professor Jonathan Charteris-Black (University of West England)

Rogue States and Rampant Bodies:
Metaphors of Control in Public and Private Worlds

·        Professor Teun van Dijk (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

Discourse, Communication and Knowledge

·        Professor Frans van Eemeren (University of Amsterdam)

A Pragma-dialectical Approach to the Analysis
and Evaluation of Argumentative Discourse

·        Professor Ruth Wodak (Lancaster University)

The Semiotics of Racism: European Perspectives

 ·        Registration is now open

·        Registrations close: 1 June 2008

Further details available from:   http://cadaad.org/cadaad08

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 Other News….

 This is where I'd like to report stuff about CogLing individual's career movements and achievements; new CogLing publications, and dissertations, etc… Unfortunately only one person got in touch so the news is less comprehensive than I was hoping for…

So please give us your news for the next newsletter and we will spread the news about you or your department… I promise, if I have more news to report, the newsletters will be more frequent.
 

Publications…

A number of notable books on Cognitive Linguistics have appeared in the past year, and a notable author/editor is our own, current President of UK-CLA, Vyvyan Evans. These include the Glossary of Cognitive Linguistics (Edinburgh UP); and also The Cognitive Linguistics Reader, eds. V. Evans, BK Bergen, and J. Zinken (London: Equinox). And there's also his 2006 textbook: Cognitive Linguistics (with M. Green at Edinburgh UP).

We also congratulate Ewa Dabrowska's appointment as editor of the journal Cognitive Linguistics.

Departmental News…

Brighton University is holding an open research lecture series on the cogling-friendly theme of Language, Communication & Cognition. Full programme details at:

http://www.brighton.ac.uk/languages/research/conferences/index.php

Bangor University (Wales, UK) is also inaugurating three new postgraduate degree programmes, to begin Sept. 2008:

·        MA in Cognitive Linguistics,

·        MA in Language, Communication & Cognition.

·        MA in Anthropological Linguistics.

Recruitment is open and further details can be found at

http://www.bangor.ac.uk/linguistics/listcourses_pg.php.en

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UK-CLA BOARD members…

 President: Vyvyan Evans           vyv.evans(a)brighton.ac.uk

Vice-president: Ewa Dabrowska     e.dabrowska(a)sheffield.ac.uk 

Newsletter Editor: June Luchjenbroers j.luchjenbroers(a)bangor.ac.uk

Secretary: Stéphanie Pourcel      s.pourcel(a)brighton.ac.uk

& Webmaster

Regular Members:

Christopher Hart         c.j.hart(a)herts.ac.uk

Chris Sinha              chris.sinha(a)port.ac.uk

Gabriella Rundblad       gabriella.rundblad(a)kcl.ac.uk

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NEWSLETTER # 1

(edited by June Luchjenbroers)

Greetings to all linguists and language scientists who may be reading this newsletter!

The UK- Cognitive Linguistics Association was inaugurated at the 2005 meeting, held at Sussex University, and we are thrilled to be quickly approaching our second Cognitive Linguistics conference on UK soil. The primary themes of this conference include a continuation of the New Directions in Cognitive Linguistics theme used for the first, very successful UK-CLA conference, together with a focus on Cognitive Linguistics, Applied (or more specifically, Applications of cognitive (linguistics) theories and methodologies). This second theme is very current and amplifies the importance of language research to not just describe language in use, but also to relate theory and practice to issues generated in contexts of use. As such, in addition to papers that address cognitive linguistics theory and/or offer new research that supplements our understanding of the cognitive processes involved in language use, we’re also inviting papers that discuss research that applies cognitive theories and methodologies to specific language contexts (e.g., classroom, law, etc.).

We’re thrilled with the line-up of plenary speakers who have committed themselves to this conference. They include internationally renowned professors from the UK, LYNNE CAMERON and the UK-CLA president, CHRIS SINHA; from mainland Europe, ARIE VERHAGEN and the current International Cognitive Linguistics Association president, KLAUS PANTHER; and from the USA, EVE SWEETSER and SEANA COULSON. Their areas of expertise include: Metaphor & Metonomy (Klaus Panther); Metaphor in Educational Discourse (Lynne Cameron); Discourse, Syntax, and Cognition (Arie Verhagen); Language, Cognition and Culture (Chris Sinha); Cultural Aspects of Semantic Structure, Mental Spaces, and Gesture (Eve Sweetser); and finally, ERP research and Conceptual Blending Theory (Seana Coulson).

Our conference shoulders two other UK Linguistics/Language Association conferences: the BAAL (British Assoc. of Applied Linguistics) annual conference to be held in Edinburgh (6-8 Sept. 2007), and the LAGB (Linguistics Assoc. of Great Britain) annual conference to be held at Kings College London (29 Aug – 1 Sept, 2007). Due to the overlap between our conference and the LAGB conference, we (together with the LAGB conference organisers) have put together a program that can enable persons interested in both conferences to have some measure of participation in both.

We plan to finish our conference mid-afternoon on the closing day (Thursday 30^th Aug), to better enable persons with their trip onwards, whether to the LAGB conference or elsewhere. The organisers of the LAGB conference have assured us that all Cogling delegates who are interested in going from our conference to theirs can register using the day-rate (for their final day) during which they hope to attract enough cognitive linguistics papers to create a theme session on cognitive linguistics research to appeal to the rest of their delegates. Similarly, we offer LAGB delegates who might not consider themselves coglingers the opportunity to join us Tuesday 28^th Aug (i.e., before commencement of the LAGB conference) to offer papers that also address cognitively inspired issues relating to language structure and language use. We also offer these delegates a day-rate registration, for the Monday Opening and the Tuesday, to help make this level of participation both attractive and affordable, as well as facilitate communication between our two organisations.

We’ve also made other decisions to help make our conference a little more affordable to conference delegates, such as on our opening day (the 27^th Aug.) registration begins from early afternoon, followed by the first Plenary (Lynne Cameron) at 4:30pm. This should enable many participants to arrive on the opening day and reduce accommodation costs. Similarly, as indicated above, we’re finishing in the afternoon on the closing day (the 30^th) to also better enable people to move on that same day. University accommodation is relatively cheap, though basic (details will be posted when registration details are available on the net in April).

For further details on this conference and how to submit an abstract, go to
http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/encap/ncdl/index.html

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 Further Newsletters:

For future Issues of the UK-CLA newsletter, we would like to invite (future) members to forward to us information to include, such as:

(i)                 publication reviews that members think will be of interest to others

(ii)              news about relevant publications and topical dissertations that further cognitive linguistics research

(iii)            news about academic departments that offer programs dealing with cognitive linguistics research; as well as individual members from those departments

(iv)            news about conferences that may be of interest to members and cognitive linguistics research.

If all goes to plan, the next issue should be sent out in October 2007, which will include all/any of the above information that members have thought to send us, as well as news coming from the Association meeting to be held at the coming conference in Cardiff in August.

June Luchjenbroers

(newsletter editor)

Bangor University, Wales UK.