CFP: Language, Culture, and Mind 9

Sensory Experience and Communication
University of Almería, Spain
4th-7th July 2022

The Language, Culture and Mind conference series provides an international and interdisciplinary forum for the integration of biological, cognitive, social, and cultural perspectives in theoretical and empirical studies of language and communication. 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. The keynote theme of LCM 9 is Sensory Experience and Communication, but we invite contributions in any area of interest to the LCM community from scholars and scientists in anthropology, biology, linguistics, philosophy, psychology, semiotics, semantics, discourse analysis, cognitive sciences and neurosciences who wish both to impart their insights and findings, and to learn from other disciplines.

The following plenary speakers have confirmed their participation:

• Vittorio Gallese, Full Professor of Psychobiology at the Department of Medicine and Surgery – Neuroscience Unit – of the University of Parma, Italy
• Rukmini Bhaya Nair, Professor of Linguistics and English at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India
• Iraide Ibarretxe-Antuñano, Professor of Linguistics at the University of Zaragoza, Spain
• Anna Harris, Professor in the Department of Society Studies at the University of Maastricht, Netherlands

Abstract submission deadline: March 20th, 2022
Notification of acceptance: April 1st, 2022

Topics include but are not limited to:

• sensory experience, sensory integration, synaesthesia
• language in multimodal interaction
• culture, education, and communication
• biological and cultural co-evolution
• comparative study of communication systems
• cognitive and cultural schematization in language
• emergence of language in ontogeny and phylogeny
• language and thought, emotion and consciousness

The conference will be a hybrid in-person and online event (see www.lcm2022.com). The official languages will be Spanish and English. General session slots will be 30 minutes long (20 minutes for each presentation, followed by 5 minutes for questions and discussion, and 5 minutes to change rooms). Each contributor will be allowed to submit a maximum of two abstracts (a fully authored abstract and a co-authored abstract, or two co-authored abstracts). Submissions will take place via EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lcm2022)

For additional information, see https://lcm2022.com/index.php/call-for-papers/