Cognition, Conduct & Communication CCC2011

The Chair of Pragmatics at the University of Łódź, Poland is starting a new conference series: Cognition, Conduct & Communication. CCC2011 is the first international conference devoted to a complex yet integrated and consistent study of cognitive approaches to pragmatics and discourse analysis, language learning and use, and language disorders.

Plenary speakers
Raymond W. Gibbs (Department of Psychology, University of California, Santa Cruz)
Robert J. Stainton (The University of Western Ontario, Department of Philosophy)
David Singleton (Centre for Language and Communication Studies, Trinity College, Dublin)
Derek Bousfield (School of Journalism, Media and Communication, University of Central Lancashire)
Gabriele Kasper (Department of Second Language Studies, University of Hawai'i at Manoa)

Conference focus
• interdisciplinary yet synergical research in diversified cognitive and pragmatic phenomena and processes pertaining to communication in native and second/foreign language in normally developing as well as disordered individuals
• cognitive, pragmatic and discourse analytic concepts at work across the contexts of first, second, foreign language acquisition, learning, processing, comprehension and production
• pragmatic competence and pragmatic awareness development in naturalistic and educational settings, including the effectiveness of educational interventions undertaken to enhance pragmatic skills
• individual learner/language user differences and pragmatic disorders

Conference discussions will proceed at the intersection of the following areas: cognitive pragmatics, societal pragmatics, clinical pragmatics, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, educational psychology, cognitive linguistics, cognitive psychology, applied linguistics, discourse analysis

Research scope/Conceptual instruments/Submission keywords:
• deixis
• semantic/pragmatic presupposition
• speech acts, activity types, genres
• implicature/impliciture/implicit meaning
• context
• relevance
• (im)politeness
• intentionality
• pragmatics of interaction
• conceptual metaphor
• rhetorical figures, in particular: irony, metaphor and metonymy
• persuasion and manipulation
• humour
• gendered language
• non-verbal communication
• language and emotions
• interlanguage pragmatics
• pragmatic development and pragmatic awareness in first/second/foreign language context
• pragmatics and language teaching; developing communicative competence
• developing teaching materials for function-focused/pragmatics-driven L2 instruction
• disorders of language learning and cognition
• clinical pragmatics; pragmatic disorders
The list is NOT exhaustive