CFP: Clinical Pragmatics and the Cognitive Sciences

CALL FOR CHAPTERS

CLINICAL PRAGMATICS AND THE COGNITIVE SCIENCES
Language, Mind, and Communication Across the Lifespan

Edited by Paola Pennisi
University of Messina, Italy

Proposed for the Springer series
Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy & Psychology

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ABOUT THE VOLUME

Clinical pragmatics offers a privileged perspective on the relationships between language, meaning, cognition, and social interaction.

This edited volume will bring together clinical, linguistic, philosophical, psychological, neuropsychological, and cognitive-scientific approaches to pragmatic communication across the lifespan.

We particularly welcome contributions that begin with the description or analysis of clinical and atypical pragmatic-linguistic profiles and use this evidence to develop, refine, or challenge broader theories of language, meaning, cognition, and interaction.

There are no submission or publication fees for contributors.

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TOPICS MAY INCLUDE

• Autism and other neurodevelopmental conditions
• Social and pragmatic communication disorders
• Developmental language disorder and intellectual disability
• Genetic and rare syndromes
• Schizophrenia, psychosis, and psychiatric conditions
• Aphasia and right-hemisphere communication disorders
• Traumatic brain injury
• Parkinson’s disease, dementia, and other neurodegenerative conditions
• Hearing loss, visual impairment, and multimodal communication
• Pragmatic development and pragmatic changes across the lifespan
• Theory of mind, mentalizing, and social cognition
• Executive functions, memory, attention, emotion, and cognitive flexibility
• Pragmatic inference, implicature, presupposition, and speech acts
• Metaphor, irony, humour, sarcasm, and indirect language
• Narrative, discourse, conversation, prosody, gesture, and gaze
• Embodied, enactive, phenomenological, ecological, and interactional approaches
• Pragmatic assessment, diagnosis, intervention, and rehabilitation
• Cross-linguistic, cross-cultural, and multilingual perspectives
• Digital technologies, computational methods, and artificial intelligence

Related proposals are also welcome.

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TYPES OF CONTRIBUTIONS

The volume welcomes:

• Experimental and observational studies
• Descriptions of pragmatic-linguistic profiles
• Qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-method studies
• Conversation, discourse, narrative, and multimodal analyses
• Clinical case studies and case series
• Comparative and transdiagnostic studies
• Assessment and intervention studies
• Methodological contributions
• Theoretical and philosophical papers
• Systematic, scoping, and narrative reviews
• Meta-analyses and interdisciplinary position papers

Contributions may address any age group, from early childhood to older adulthood.

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SUBMISSION

Please submit:

• A provisional title
• An abstract of approximately 300–500 words
• Five keywords
• Authors’ names, affiliations, and contact details
• A short biographical note
• The proposed type of contribution

Abstracts should be sent to:

Paola Pennisi
University of Messina
[email protected]

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IMPORTANT DATES

Abstract submission: 31 January 2027
Notification of acceptance: 14 February 2027
Full chapter submission: 7 January 2028
Peer-review reports: 28 February 2028
Final manuscript submission to Springer: June 2028

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All chapters will undergo scholarly peer review. Acceptance of an abstract does not automatically guarantee publication of the final chapter.

Prospective contributors are welcome to circulate this call among interested colleagues.