2nd Call for Papers
We invite contributions in any area of interest to the LCM community from scholars and scientists in anthropology, biology, education, 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.
Topics include but are not limited to:
- New vistas in multicultural neurolinguistics / cultural neuroscience
- Language and brain development in multilingual environments
- Intercultural communication in multicultural settings
- Biocultural language science, evolution and the post-human imagination
- Language, culture and emotion
- Language and communication disorders in multicultural contexts
- Language contact, literacies and hybridization in the global digital universe
- Language, identity and ageing minds
- Linguistic discrimination, culture wars and the politics of language and culture
- Language in ‘post-truth’ discourses, infodemics, conspiracy theories and propaganda
- Preservation and revitalization of endangered languages and cultures
- Indigenous minority perspectives on language, culture, mind and identity
- Language, cultural and identity heritages of mixed-race individuals
- Machine learning, text analysis and Large Language Models
- Linguistic landscapes in multicultural environments
The format of the conference is hybrid. We will meet in Brno in person and we will also organize accessible online sessions for scholars who for different reasons find traveling difficult. The plenary and roundtable slots will be 1 hour long (a 45-minute presentation followed by a 10-minute discussion and 5 minutes for room change); the general session slots will be 30 minutes long (20 minutes for presentation followed by a 5-minute discussion and 5 minutes for room change). There will also be structured poster sessions. Each contributor may submit a maximum of two abstracts as an author (a solo-authored abstract and a co-authored abstract, or two co-authored abstracts).
Theme session proposals should include: the session title, the name and affiliation of the theme session organizer, an introduction of around 300 words (excluding examples and references) explaining the theme, as well as a list of the authors and titles of the individual papers. A theme session may consist of four to six papers, plus an introduction by the convenors and a discussion in the last slot.
Important dates:
15 October 2023: Publication of 1st circular
30 November 2023: Deadline for theme session proposals
15 December 2024: Notification of acceptance for theme session proposals, publication of 2nd circular
31 March 2024: Deadline for abstract submissions
10 April 2024: Notification of acceptance, early-bird registration starts
15 May 2024: Early-bird registration ends; regular registration starts
15 June 2024: Regular registration closes; late-bird registration starts