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Language & Cognition:
An interdisciplinary journal of language and cognitive science
***Language &
Cognition is the journal of the UK-CLA. Membership is free for
2009, and being offered at a 50% discount for 2010. Membership
applications will open soon.***
General editors:
Daniel Casasanto (MPI for Psycholinguistics, The Netherlands)
Seana Coulson (UC San Diego)
Vyvyan Evans (Bangor University)
David Kemmerer (Purdue University)
Laura Michaelis (University of Colorado, Boulder)
Chris Sinha
(University of Portsmouth)
Managing editor:
Stéphanie Pourcel (Bangor University)
Review editor:
Dylan Glynn (University of Leuven)
Board of consultant editors:
click here
[Consultant editors.pdf]
Table of contents:
Volume 1 (2009)
issue 1
How infants build a semantic system.
Kim Plunkett (University of Oxford)
The cognitive poetics of literary resonance.
Peter Stockwell (University of Nottingham)
Action in cognition: The case of language.
Lawrence J. Taylor and Rolf A. Zwaan (Erasmus University of
Rotterdam)
Prototype constructions in early language development. Paul Ibbotson (University of Manchester) and Michael
Tomasello (MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig)
The Enactment of Language: 20 Years of Interactions Between
Linguistic and Motor Processes.
Michael Spivey (University of California, Merced) and Sarah
Anderson (Cornell University)
Episodic affordances contribute to language comprehension. Arthur M. Glenberg (Arizona State Universtiy), Raymond
Becker (Wilfrid
Laurier University), Susann Klötzer, Lidia
Kolanko, Silvana Müller (Dresden University of Technology), and
Mike Rinck
(Radboud
University Nijmegen)
Reviews:
Daniel D. Hutto. 2008. Folk Psychological Narratives: The
Sociocultural Basis of Understanding Reasons (MIT Press).
Reviewed by Chris Sinha
Aniruddh Patel. 2008. Music, Language, and the Brain
(Oxford
Univeristy Press). Reviewed by Daniel Casasanto
issue 2
Pronunciation reflects syntactic probabilities: Evidence from
spontaneous speech.
Harry Tily (Stanford University), Susanne Gahl (University of
California, Berkeley), Inbal Arnon, Anubha
Kothari, Neal Snider
and Joan Bresnan (Stanford University)
Causal agents in English, Korean and Chinese: The role of
internal and external causation.
Phillip Wolff, Ga-hyun Jeon, and Yu Li (Emory University)
Ontology as correlations: How language and perception interact
to create knowledge.
Linda Smith (Indiana University) and Eliana Colunga (University
of Colorado at Boulder)
Toward a theory of word meaning.
Gabriella Vigliocco, Lotte Meteyard and Mark Andrews
(University College London
Spatial language in the brain.
Mikkel Wallentin (University of Aarhus)
The neural basis of semantic memory: Insights from neuroimaging. Uta Noppeney (MPI for Biological Cybernetics, Tuebingen)
Reviews:
Ronald Langacker. 2008. Cognitive Grammar: A basic
introduction. (Oxford University Press).
Reviewed by Vyvyan Evans
Giacomo Rizzolatti and Corrado Sinigagalia. Mirrors in the
brain: How our minds share actions and emotions. 2008. (Oxford
University Press). Reviewed by David Kemmerer.
Volume 2 (2010)
issue 1
Adaptive cognition without massive modularity: The
context-sensitivity of language use.
Raymond W. Gibbs (University of California, Santa Cruz) and Guy
Van Orden (University of Cincinnati)
Spatial foundations of the conceptual system. Jean Mandler (University California, San Diego and
University College London)
Metaphor: Old words, new concepts, imagined worlds. Robyn Carston (University College London)
Language Development and Linguistic Relativity.
John A. Lucy (University of Chicago)
Construction Learning.
Adele Goldberg (Princeton University)
Space and Language: some neural considerations. Anjan Chatterjee (University of Pennsylvania)
issue 2
What can language tell us about psychotic thought? Gina Kuperberg (Tufts University)
Abstract motion is no longer abstract.
Teenie Matlock (University California, Merced)
When gesture does and doesn't promote learning. Susan Goldin-Meadow (University of Chicago)
Discourse Space Theory.
Paul Chilton (Lancaster University)
Relational language supports relational cognition. Dedre Gentner (Northwestern University)
Talking about quantities in space.
Kenny Coventry (Northumbria University).
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Launch: 2009,
to appear twice a year (May & November)
Publisher: Mouton de
Gruyter
Submissions: for blind peer review will be accepted from 1st
January 2009. Details of how to submit will be announced in due
course.
About:
Language and Cognition
is the journal of the UK Cognitive Linguistics
Association. It is a
venue for the publication of high quality peer-reviewed research of a
theoretical and/or empirical/experimental nature,
focusing on the interface between language and
cognition. It will be open to research
from the full range of subject disciplines,
theoretical backgrounds, and analytical frameworks
that populate the language and cognitive sciences,
on a wide range of topics (see an indicative listing
below). Research
published in the journal will typically adopt an
interdisciplinary, comparative, multi-methodological
approach to the study of language and cognition and
their intersection.
Subscription: Members of the UK-CLA automatically receive Language & Cognition.
Membership of the UK-CLA is free of charge for 2009
and available at a 50% reduction during 2010.
During this period, members will receive Language &
Cognition as a downloadable e-file. The
usual price for membership of the Association is
€60.
Details of how to
become a member of the UK-CLA will be available
soon. Membership of the Association is
open to all, regardless of geographical location or
nationality.
Representative
topics published in the journal:
1.
methodological topics
o
interdisciplinary methods of
investigations in the linguistic
and cognitive sciences (as
related to given study topics)
2.
theoretical topics
o
theories and models of language
in the mind
3.
disciplinary topics
o
gesture and communication
o
psycholinguistic processing
o
neurolinguistics
o
origins and evolution of
language and mind
o
human linguistic and conceptual
development
o
non-human communication and
cognition
o
symbolic cognition
o
the nature of semantic and
conceptual representations
o
language, creativity and
imagination
o
Figurative language and thought
o
blending
o
language, cognition, and
behaviour
o
the cognitive dimension of
linguistic socialisation
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the intersection between
language, thought and culture
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discourse and embodied practice
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language as a window onto
cognition
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the relationship between
linguistic structure and
cognitive processes
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language and its influences on
thought
4.
applied topics
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applications of cognitive
perspectives onto language for
language education, therapy,
translation practice, forensics,
and more
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