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.

Submission Guidelines

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.

List of Topics

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

Committees

Organizing committee

• dr Bożena Duda
• dr hab. prof. UR Robert Kiełtyka
• dr hab. prof. UR Ewa Konieczna
• dr Beata Kopecka
• dr Marcin Kudła

Invited Speakers

• Prof. Raymond Gibbs (University of California)
• Prof. Christopher Hart (Lancaster University)
• Prof. Jeannette Littlemore (University of Birmingham)
• Prof. Andreas Musolff (University of East Anglia)

Venue

The conference will be held in Hotel SkalnySpa in Polanczyk (https://skalnyspa.pl/)

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to ccl@ur.edu.pl