 | IACS4: The 4th Conference of the International Association for Cognitive Semiotics Aachen, Germany, June 15-18, 2022 |
| Conference website | https://iacs4.signges.de/ |
| Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iacs4 |
| Submission deadline | January 24, 2022 |
New CALL-for-PAPERS
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to announce an additional call-for-papers for the 4th conference of the International Association for Cognitive Semiotics (IACS) will take place June 15-18, 2022, at RWTH Aachen University in Aachen (Aix-la-Chapelle), Germany.
This event was supposed to take place June 2-4, 2020, but due to the Corona pandemic, it had to be moved as numerous other conferences. To be able to adjust to the dynamic developments of the pandemic situation, IACS4 will be a hybrid event, allowing participants to choose between attending in person or online. In addition to the already accepted papers, we decided, in response to many inquiries, to offer the opportunity to submit new abstracts by January 24, 2022.
IACS4:
15-18 June, 2022
SEMIOTIC COMPLEXITIES: Theory & Analysis
Aachen, Germany
co-organized with KU Leuven, Belgium
The IACS conference series seeks to gather scholars and scientists in semiotics, cognitive science, linguistics, anthropology, philosophy, psychology, art history and theory, media studies, and related fields, who wish to share their research on meaning and contribute to the interdisciplinary endeavor of cognitive semiotics. Previous conferences were held in Lund (2014), Lublin (2016), and Toronto (2018).
Conference theme
The conference theme of IACS4 is “SEMIOTIC COMPLEXITIES: Theory & Analysis.” It aims to account for the complexities of semiosis, that is, for the intricacies of semiotic processes in a broad range of semiotic systems, with a focus on either cognitive, monomodal, crossmodal or multimodal processes of meaning construal. While the theme is rather broad and non-restrictive, it is intended to encourage contributions showing how theoretical frameworks and methods of analysis may mutually enhance each other and thus offer truly new insights into the merits of semiotic inquiry and advance the cross-disciplinary enterprise of cognitive semiotics. In this light, THEORY here is meant to include influential semiotic theories (as proposed by, e.g. Eco, Greimas, Jakobson, Lotman, Peirce, Saussure), as well as theoretical concepts and principles that are central to cognitive linguistics, general linguistics, philosophy, psychology, anthropology, and the cognitive sciences more broadly. ANALYSIS encompasses qualitative, quantitative and experimental methods and tools, as well as mixed-methods approaches developed to derive emerging patterns and regularities but also unique instances of meaning-making in both static and dynamic semiotic fabrics.
Thematic foci of this crossdisciplinary conference include:
- semiotic theory
- cognitive linguistics
- cognitive poetics
- cognitive anthropology
- gesture and sign language
- embodied interaction
- phenomenology
- multimodality (e.g., film, cartoons, comics, advertisement, music)
- modality-specificity and crossmodal principles of meaning-making
- narrativity across different media
- semiotics and art history/archeology/architecture
- visual analysis (the visual arts, images, architecture, etc.)
- iconicity and indexicality (incl. viewpoint) in language and other semiotic resources
- metonymy and metaphor across modalities
- intersubjectivity and mimesis in evolution and development
- experimental semiotics
- biosemiotics / neurosemiotics
- technosemiotics (e.g., social robotics)
Plenary Speakers:
- Morana Alač (University of California, San Diego)
- Riccardo Fusaroli (Aarhus University)
- Sybille Krämer (Free University Berlin)
- Pamela Perniss (University of Cologne)
- Eve Sweetser (University of California, Berkeley)
- Linda R. Waugh (University of Arizona)
- Jordan Zlatev (Lund University)
Pre-conference workshops (June 15)
- John Bateman (University of Bremen), Multimodal Analysis: Towards semiotically-motivated methodologies for empirical research
- Cornelia Müller (European University Viadrina, Frankfurt/Oder), Jana Bressem (Technical University Chemnitz) & Silva Ladewig (European University Viadrina, Frankfurt/Oder), Gesture Analysis
- Geert Brône & Bert Oben (KU Leuven), Eye-tracking in Interaction
- Jan Alber & Ralf Schneider (RWTH Aachen University), Cognitive & Empirical Analysis of Literature
Transregional organizing committee:
Irene Mittelberg (RWTH Aachen University)
Martin Thiering (RWTH Aachen University, TU Berlin)
Alin Olteanu (RWTH Aachen University)
Gabriele Gramelsberger (RWTH Aachen University)
Kurt Feyaerts (KU Leuven)
Paul Sambre (KU Leuven)
Geert Brône (KU Leuven)
Important dates:
- Deadline for submissions of new abstracts: January 24, 2022
- Notification of acceptance: by February 15, 2022
To submit your abstracts please you to the conference website:
or this EasyChair link:
https://easychair.org/cfp/iacs4
If you have any questions, please contact us at
iacs4.2020@signges.rwth-aachen.de
We very much hope to see you – online or in person - in Aachen next year!
Best wishes – on behalf of the conference hosts and IACS board members,
Irene Mittelberg and Martin Thiering