The Department of English Studies at the University of Rzeszów has the pleasure of announcing the
fourth edition of the conference Culture and Cognition in Language: CCL 4. The conference is aimed
at viewing language as a both cultural and cognitive phenomenon.

Intending to stay in touch with challenges and problems of the contemporary world, discourse
analysis focuses on how language both shapes and is shaped by social, cultural and cognitive
contexts. Thus, linguists involved in discourse studies have been constantly addressing current
social issues, such as, the censorship of offensive metaphors, anti-immigrant attitudes among
politicians, figurative conceptualisation of emotions accompanying death of a child
or metaphorical scenarios in conspiracy theories. Given this, we would like to suggest submissions
concerning the analysis of discourses on issues relevant to the contemporary society, e.g.

• Power and ideology
• Manipulation vs persuasion
• Misinformation: fake news and conspiracy theories
• Prejudice and stereotypes
• Inequality
• Crisis and conflict (social, inter- and intra-personal, etc.)
• Identity (social, national, gender, etc.)
• Relationships
• Health and illness
• Natural world

This year’s leading theme is: Current approaches to discourse analysis

CCL 4 website: http://ur.edu.pl/ccl

While we will especially appreciate presentations aligned with the theme of the conference, and
proposed topics, we are open to papers on all topics discussing language from the cultural and
cognitive perspective.
We invite proposal submissions for 20-minute presentations. Abstracts of a maximum 300 words
(excluding references) should be submitted in .docx format by November 30th, 2024 via
conference e-mail: ccl@ur.edu.pl. Notification of acceptance will be sent by January 15, 2025.

Contact: ccl@ur.edu.pl

Date: 11-14 July 2024

Website: www.ur.edu.pl/ccl

The Language, Culture, and Mind (LCM) conference series provides an interdisciplinary and international forum for dialogue and exchange in and between 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 language as a complex and multifaceted phenomenon, which lies at the heart of what it is to be human.

The theme of this jubilee LCM conference, the 10th in the series which will take place 20 years after the first LCM, is ‘Celebrating Linguistic and Cultural Diversity’.

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

More information can be found at: HERE