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CLANA1: Inaugural Conference of the Cognitive Linguistics Association of North America

Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)

Montreal, Quebec, Canada, June 27-29, 2024

Conference website	https://www.coglingna.org/
Submission link	https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=clana1
Submission deadline	April 8, 2024

Inaugural Conference of the Cognitive Linguistics Association of North America (CLANA)

We are pleased to announce that the Inaugural Conference of the Cognitive Linguistic Association of North America (CLANA1) will be held in Montreal from June 27, 2024 through June 29th, 2024.

We welcome submissions on any topic that takes a cognitive-functional, typological, usage-based, and/or discourse-based approach to the study of language and cognition. These include, but are not limited to the following areas:

Applied cognitive linguistics
Discourse analysis
Cognitive Grammar
Cognitive semiotics
Cognitive sociolinguistics
Conceptual Blending/ Conceptual integration
Construction Grammar
Corpus linguistics
Frame semantics
Gesture
Language development
Language change and grammaticalization
Language evolution
Language processing
Metaphor and/or metonymy
Motion and space
Neurolinguistics
Phonology
Pragmatics and cognition
Signed languages

History of CLANA

A working group of cognitive linguists from Canada, Mexico, and the United States had been meeting periodically during 2023 with the goal of establishing a professional organization and biennial conference for cognitive linguistics in North America. Conference organizers, Terry Janzen (University of Manitoba) & Daz Saunders (University of Manitoba and formerly, Université du Québec à Montréal) were able to secure space to host the inaugural conference at the Université du Québec à Montréal in June 2024. At this point, the working group collectively decided that a formal organization needed to be formed prior to the conference to assist with conference planning. The Cognitive Linguistics Association of North America (CLANA) was officially established on January 11, 2024.

The following people are serving interim roles on the governing board for CLANA:

Ricardo Maldanado (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México), Interim President
Chongwon Park (University of Minnesota Deluth), Interim Vice President
Elise Stickles (University of British Columbia) Interim Membership Officer & Treasurer
Laurence Gagnon (L'Université du Québec à Montréal), Interim Student Representative

Please visit the CLANA Website for membership information: https://www.coglingna.org/

Earlier conferences in North America

While CLANA1 in Montreal will be the first cognitive linguistics conference in North America that is tied to an official organization, the path to CLANA's inception has been paved by decades of work by cognitive linguists in North America. We wish to give special recognition to those who were involved in organizing the Conceptual Structure, Discourse, and Language (CSDL) conferences across a span of 20 years.

The history of the CSDL conferences began in the early 1990's. A yearly series of informal cognitive linguistic workshops were hosted, alternating between the University of California, Berkeley (UCB) and the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). These workshops brought together two sets of faculty (including, Chuck Fillmore, George Lakoff, Paul Kay, and Eve Sweetser from Berkeley, and Ron Langacker and Gilles Fauconnier from UCSD) and graduate students at UCB and UCSD (such as, Michel Achard, Michele Emanatian, Adele Goldberg, Jean-Pierre Koenig, Laura Michaelis, and Mary Ellen Ryder)

By 1994, interest in the workshops had grown to the point where it became obvious that they needed to be expanded into a conference format. Adele Goldberg organized the first CSDL conference in 1994 at UCSD (with support from Ron Langacker and Gilles Fauconnier) and later edited the first proceedings, which came out in 1996. Jean-Pierre Koenig hosted the second conference at the University of Buffalo in 1996. The idea was to hold CSDL conferences every other year, specifically during the years when the International Cognitive Linguistics Association (ICLA) conferences would not be held. The conference name, Conceptual Structure, Discourse, and Language was chosen to promote interaction between cognitive and discourse-functional linguists. CSDL was not affiliated with a specific organization and did not require membership. The conference informally rotated locations based on who was available to organize and host it.

A full list of CSDL conference locations and the names of the primary conference organizers are provided below.

1st - 1994 San Diego (Adele Goldberg)
2nd - 1996 Buffalo (Jean-Pierre Koenig)
3rd - 1997 Colorado (Laura Michaelis)
4th - 1998 Atlanta (Alan Cienki)
5th - 2000 Santa Barbara (Jack DuBois)
6th - 2002 Houston (Suzanne Kemmer)
7th - 2004 Edmonton (Sally Rice)
8th - 2006 San Diego (Seana Coulson)
9th - 2008 Cleveland (Fey Parrill)
10th - 2010 San Diego (Ben Bergen)
11th - 2012 Vancouver (Barbara Dancygier)
12th - 2014 Santa Barbara (Stefan th. Gries)

A number of linguists who were involved with CSDL have been a part of the working group to form CLANA. The founding members of CLANA wish to pay homage to the CSDL community and show recognition of the impact CSDL had on the cognitive linguistics community (and beyond) in North America. The CSDL conferences connected linguists working within cognitive-functional, discourse-functional, and usage-based approaches, creating a home for the exchange of new ideas and fostering the development of many important projects and collaborations.

Conference format

The conference will feature two presentation formats. Talks will be scheduled for 20 minutes followed by 5–10 minutes for questions and discussion. A poster session will also be scheduled during the conference.

The conference languages are American Sign Language (ASL) and English. ASL-English interpretering will be provided at the conference.

Submission Guidelines

Conference abstracts may be submitted in American Sign Language (ASL) or English.

An author's name may appear on a maximum of two submissions. This means that each author may have up to two papers submitted to the conference. Only one single-authored paper submission is allowed per author.

Written abstracts

Written abstract submissions should not exceed 500 words (excluding examples and references). Please copy & paste the title and text from your abstract into the EasyChair window, anonymized for authorship. At the end of your abstract (in the text box), write your preference for format: "talk only," "poster only," or "either format."

You are not required to submit a PDF unless you want to submit figures or other graphics. If you wish to upload a PDF of your full anonymized abstract, please write “see pdf” in the abstract window in EasyChair. You will also be asked to provide at least three keywords.

Video abstracts

ASL video abstracts may be submitted by sending a video in MP4 format to Corrine Occhino at abstracts.clana1@gmail.com. Videos abstracts should be limited to three minutes. In your written email, include the full names of all authors, author affiliation(s), and the title for your presentation, and your preference for format: "talk only," "poster only," or "either format." In your video, you may include the title of your presentation, but do not include author names in the video.

Deadlines

Abstract Submission Deadline: April 8, 2024 (deadline extended from April 5th)

Notification of whether abstract is accepted: late April 2024

Conference Organizers

Terry Janzen, University of Manitoba
Daz Saunders, University of Manitoba (formerly, Université du Québec à Montréal)

Plenary Speakers

1. Barbara Dancygier (University of British Columbia) - "Image-text multimodality : the case of internet memes"

2. Ricardo Maldonado (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) - "A constructional view of mirativity"

3. Sherman Wilcox (University of New Mexico) - "Inside and outside of language: Sign, gesture and cognitive linguistics"

Venue

The conference will be held at the central campus of the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). The campus is located among two vibrant neighborhoods in central Montreal, the Quartier Latin [Latin Quarter] and the Quartier des spectacles [Entertainment District]. UQAM is directly accessible from the Berri-UQAM and Place-des-Arts metro stations and can also be accessed via bicycle paths.

Contact

Please send questions related to the call for papers to Corrine Occhino and Laura Ruth-Hirrel at abstracts.clana1@gmail.com

For general questions about the conference, please use the following email address: org.clana1@gmail.com.