The conference will take place in Bielsko-Biala, Sept. 11-13, 2008.
The venue will be the University of Bielsko-Biala, ul. Willowa 2.


Scientific committee:

Professor Iwona Nowakowska-Kempny
Professor Bogusław Bierwiaczonek
dr Carl Humphries humgin4@yahoo.co.uk
dr Anna Turula aturula@ath.bielsko.pl

Organising committee:

Institute of English:
dr Krzysztof Polok sworntran@interia.pl
mgr Sławomir Konkol stawek@yahoo.com

Institute of General Linguistics and Humanities Research Methodologies:
dr Agnieszka Będkowska-Kopczyk kopczyk@poczta.onet.pl
dr Ewa Michalska emichalska@ath.bielsko.pl
mgr Agnieszka Pasik

Plenary lectures:

Ewa Dabrowska, Empirical methods in cognitive semantics
Klaus Uwe-Panther, A Scenario Approach to English Question Tags
Margaret Winters, Linguistic Categories and Language Change
Jordan Zlatev, Cognitive Linguistics and Phenomenology: Will the two ever meet?

The main areas of interest for the conference are:

semantics in morphology (polysemy of affixes, semantics of grammatical cases, conceptual integration in compounds, acquisition of morphology etc.)
lexical semantics (theories of word meaning and semantic representation, cognitive principles in historical semantics, semantic relations, acquisition of lexical meaning, etc.)
semantics of grammar (grammaticalization, construction grammar, metaphor and metonymy in grammar, acquisition of syntax)
construction of meaning in context (cognitive foundations of pragmatics, semantics of speech acts, grounding in grammar, scenarios, frames and spaces in meaning construction, body in communication, intersubjectivity, acquisition of pragmatics)
motivation and embodiment of language

Important dates:

30/04/2008 - deadline for abstract submission
(contact e-mails: aturula@ath.bielsko.pl, humgin4@yahoo.co.uk)
30/06/2008 - acceptance notification and first draft of conference programme
31/07/2008 - early bird registration; early bird payment deadline
11/09/2008 - registration deadline
11-13/09/2008 - the conference

Early bird payment:
150 euros/PLN 300 for participants from currency problem countries/ should be paid to

w zlotych: Bank Pekao S.A. 02 1240 4142 1111 0000 4827 8261

w euro: Bank Pekao S.A. 39 1240 4142 1978 0000 4824 0356

SWIFT: PKOPPLPW

!!! When completing your bank transfer form please write the conference payment reference code in the place reserved for additional correspondence/messages. The code is SWB.

Payment after the early-bird deadline (after 31/07/2008):
180 euros/PLN360 for participants from currency problem countries

Our postal address:
Akademia Techniczno-Humanistyczna
ul. Willowa 2, 43-309 Bielsko-Biała
Poland.

We look forward to seeing you in Bielsko-Biała

Conference Organisers