UNIVERSITY OF ŁÓDŹ, POLAND
INSTITUTE OF ENGLISH STUDIES
CHAIR OF ENGLISH AND GENERAL LINGUISTICS

The aim of the conference is to provide a multilingual, international platform for exploration and exchange of research findings, perspectives, and experience in the field of discourse and conversation analysis across communicative and cultural contexts. The event will bring together academics, researchers, practitioners, and students concerned with the analysis of language in use. Special emphasis will be given to empirical research on manifestation of mental representations in interaction.

We invite papers on all topics related to how mental representations get surfaced, performed, and accomplished in interactional contexts including, but not limited to:

• Goals, intentions and commitments in communication
• Non-linguistic interaction in communication
• Gestures as a communicative system
• Natural language understanding and reasoning in spoken language
• Multimodal interaction
• Meaning in institutional contexts
• Interaction in a foreign language
• Identities as discursive-performative / multiple / fragmented / constructed and negotiated / narrated / etc.
• Categorization and personal identity
• Construal of meaning
• Identity and bilingualism
• Identity and foreign language learning/teaching
• Identity and belonging
• Discourse analysis
• Conversation analysis

The Following key note speakers have been invited and confirmed their participation in the conference:

Prof. Alan Cienki – Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Prof. Anna Cieślicka – UAM, Poznań, Poland
Prof. Jean-Rémi Lapaire – University of Bordeaux, France
Prof. Sue Widdicombe – University of Edinburgh, UK
Prof. Robin Wooffitt – University of York, UK

The event will combine plenary addresses, discussions, and paper sessions in thematic strands. Papers will be allocated 20 minutes plus 10 minutes for questions. The language of the conference is English

Important Dates
15 June 2012, abstracts due
30 June 2012, notification of acceptance
30 September 2012, all conference fees due
15 September 2012, final program
03 – 05 October 2012 conference

Abstracts
300 word abstracts should be submitted by JUNE 15, 2012 /see above/. Abstracts should be registered via this web page at
www.filolog.uni.lodz.pl/action/form_registration.php

Only plain text will be accepted by the web page, so abstain from using footnotes or any special formatting, characters or emphasis (such as bold, italics or underline). The length of the presentation will be limited to 20 minutes with a 10 minute discussion following each.