Third CFP: The Seventeenth International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC-17)

The special theme Culture, Discourse and Cognition

Confirmed Plenary Speakers:

• Concepción Company Company (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México – Ciudad de México)
• Alice Gaby (Monash University – Melbourne – Australia)
• Maarten Lemmens (Université de Lille – France)
• André Nogueira Xavier (Universidade Federal do Paraná – Curitiba – Brasil)

Further plenary speakers will be added in the coming days.

Important Dates

• Deadline for theme session proposals: November 1, 2024
• Notification of acceptance of theme session proposals: December 1, 2024
• Deadline for abstract submission: January 30, 2025 February 15, 2025
• Notification of acceptance: February, 2025
• Dates of conference: July 14-18, 2025


Abstract Submission

All abstracts should be submitted electronically through EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iclc17).

The submission portal will be available during the submission period, from September 1, 2024, to February 15, 2025 (deadline extended!).

Abstracts should not exceed 500 words (excluding examples and references). Author names should not appear anywhere in the text (you may cite yourself as [Author] or in the third person for previously published work). A PDF file is optional at this stage. If you want to include figures or graphics, feel free to upload the abstract as a PDF and write "see pdf" in the abstract window. Theme session authors should make sure to note the title of the theme session at the top of their abstracts. References should be formatted according to the Unified Style Sheet for Linguistics Journals.

The title must be at the top of the abstract. Please include a list of five keywords right below the title to assist in the reviewing process. The first keyword is preferably selected from among the topics listed in the second paragraph of this call for papers.

We invite a broad range of papers on any topic taking a cognitive, functional, typological, or discourse approach to the study of language and cognition. Typical topics treated in the conference include (but are not limited to) the following:

• cognitive grammar
• construction grammar
• metaphor and metonymy
• frame semantics
• prototype and categorization
• cognitive phonology
• discourse analysis
• pragmatics and cognition
• corpus linguistics
• language processing
• neurolinguistics
• language change and grammaticalization
• cognitive typology
• motion and space
• first language acquisition
• applied linguistics and pedagogy
• language evolution
• translation and cognition
• multimodality
• sign language
• writing systems
• cognitive sociolinguistics
• cognitive semiotics




Organizing committee


• Claudia Borzi (Chair; UBA and Conicet)
• María Soledad Funes (UBA and Conicet)
• Vanina Barbeito (UBA)
• Ana María Marcovecchio (UCA and UBA)
• Rocío Martínez (Conicet)
Please direct all enquiries to info@iclc17.com




There is no requirement to be an ICLA member for conference participation, but members will get a substantial reduction in the conference fees as well as enjoy other benefits (more information and member signup via the ICLA website). The ICLA has set up a fund for student scholarships; students who have their abstract for a poster or presentation accepted can apply for a scholarship.

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