Suggested topics for papers include but are not limited to:

  • Language and cognition
  • Evolutionary origins of human cognition and communication
  • Linguistic relativism
  • Embodiment and experientialism
  • Frames, domains, ICMs
  • Cognitive models of grammar
  • Cognitive mechanisms in meaning construction
  • Attention phenomena
  • Conceptual integration (blends)
  • Conceptual structure of linguistic units
  • Categorization, prototypicality, polysemy
  • Salience, entrenchment, schematicity
  • Cognitive aspects of language change
  • Conceptualization of emotions/Emotions in conceptualization
  • Aspects of cognitive applied linguistics
  • Cognitive aspects of translation
  • Cognitive text and discourse analysis