8th International Conference on Language, Culture and Mind

LCM conferences articulate and discuss approaches to diverse genres of language activity which aim to understand their cultural, social, cognitive and bodily foundations. LCM conferences welcome contributions from scholars and scientists in anthropology, biology, linguistics, philosophy, psychology, semiotics, semantics, discourse analysis, cognitive and neuroscience, and from other disciplines, who wish both to impart their insights and findings, and learn from other disciplines.

Human natural languages are biologically based, cognitively motivated, affectively rich, socially shared, grammatically organized symbolic systems. They provide the principal semiotic means for the complexity and diversity of human cultural life.

As has long been recognized, no single discipline or methodology is sufficient to capture all the dimensions of this complex and multifaceted phenomenon, which lies at the heart of what it is to be human. In the recent past, perception and cognition have been the basis of general unifying models of language and language activity. However, a genuine integrative perspective must also incorporate the intersubjective dimension of cultural symbols, cultural norms and cultural practices.

LCM conferences articulate and discuss approaches to diverse genres of language activity which aim to understand their cultural, social, cognitive and bodily foundations. LCM conferences welcome contributions from scholars and scientists in anthropology, biology, linguistics, philosophy, psychology, semiotics, semantics, discourse analysis, cognitive and neuroscience, and from other disciplines, who wish both to impart their insights and findings, and learn from other disciplines.

LCM 8 participation can be combined with attendance at the next conference of the International Cognitive Semiotics Association, which will be held in the neighboring Toronto, Canada, on 13-15 July.


Plenary Speakers :

  • Asifa Majid, Center for Language Studies, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands
  • Harry Heft, Department of Psychology, Denison University, Granville, USA
  • Dan Everett, Departments of Global Studies and Sociology, Bentley University, Waltham, USA
  • Lorraine Code, Department of Philosophy, York University, Toronto, Canada

  • IMPORTANT DATES :

    Deadline for abstract submission: 1 January, 2018

    Notification of acceptance: 15 February, 2018

    Deadline for early registration: 15 April, 2018

    Deadline for registration: 1 June, 2018


    Abstract Submission :

    Submissions (individual papers and symposia) are welcome on any theme relevant to the interdisciplinary study of language, culture and mind, including (but not limited to):

  • ecological conceptions of language, culture, and mind
  • biological and cultural co-evolution
  • comparative study of communication systems
  • cognitive and cultural schematization and semantics
  • emergence of language in ontogeny and phylogeny
  • language and intersubjectivity
  • language in multi-modal communication
  • language and thought, emotion and consciousness
  • language, culture and identity
  • https://denison.wufoo.com/forms/m20ky4c1jr2tqm/


    Organizing Committee :

    Barbara Fultner, Denison University, Philosophy (chair of the local LCM 8 committee)

    John Lucy, University of Chicago, Comparative Human Development and Psychology

    Ana Moreno-Nuñez, Nanyang Technological University‎, Singapore National Institute of Education

    Aliyah Morgenstern, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3, Linguistics

    Esther Pascual, Zhejiang University, Spanish Language and Culture, and Linguistics

    Vera Silva, University of East Anglia, Linguistic Anthropology

    Chris Sinha, Hunan University, Cognitive Science, School of Foreign Languages

    Crystal Tian Zhen, Hunan University, Cognitive Science, School of Foreign Languages


    Location :

    Denison is a leading college of liberal arts and sciences where students from around the world come to pursue academic inquiry and research, to analyze and solve problems, and to forge the skills needed to succeed. The beautiful, fully residential campus, is located in Granville, Ohio, just 35 minutes outside of Columbus, Ohio. For more information, see: www.denison.edu.

    More information on :

    https://conferences.denison.edu/lcm8/





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