ICLA Governing Board Meeting; Business Meeting of the ICLA Assembly; and
Conference Closing Ceremonies, ICLC 10, Kraków, Poland, July 2007
1. Report on the ICLA Governing Board Meeting/CL Editorial Board Meeting
Date/time: Tuesday, July 17, 2007, 7:00 pm Location: Kraków, ul. Krupnicza 35 (conference venue), Room 115
A supper before the meeting
is generously provided by the conference organization at a nearby
restaurant. Present:
--Governing Board members: Klaus-Uwe Panther (President), Ad Foolen
(Secretary/Treasurer), David Tuggy (Regular Member), Hubert Cuyckens
(Regular Member), Jeong-Hwa Lee (Regular Member), Suzanne Kemmer (most
recent Past President), Ewa Dabrowska (ex officio member, Editor of
Cognitive Linguistics), Elzbieta Tabakowska (ex-officio member,
Representative of the ICLC 10 Organizing Committee)
--By invitation of the President:
Anke Beck (CL Publisher),
Sherman Wilcox (for Item 7 on Sign Language
Interpreting), Ron Langacker (advisory for various items), Qilong
Cheng (vice-president of CCLA for Items 3 and 4), Thomas Fuyin Li (for
Item 4).
Items of Business
Call to order by the President Klaus-Uwe Panther.
Minutes from ICLC 9, Seoul. The President requests approval
of the minutes of the Board Meeting and the Business Meeting of ICLC
9, Seoul, from 2005. They were re-approved. [They had already been
approved by email on August 15, 2006. They are posted at
Meeting Reports 2005.]
Request for affiliation: China Cognitive Linguistics Association
(CCLA), submitted by Qilong Cheng and others. The Board approves (with
some minor changes) the proposed Constitution; thus the new affiliate
is approved. The application
documents can be checked with the Secretary.
Proposals for ICLC in 2011. Two proposals are presented: One from
the CCLA, proposing to hold the 2011 ICLC in Shanghai, and one by
Thomas Li of Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics
(BUAA), now Beihang University. Dr. Li confirms his proposal (now
substantially revised with added detail) submitted at the Seoul ICLA
Board Meeting in 2005 to hold an ICLC in Beijing. The Board finds both
proposals attractive and decides that the ICLC in 2011 will take place
in China (subject to a vote by the Assembly). After answering
questions of the Board, Qilong Cheng and Thomas Li leave the
meeting. Subsequent discussion among the board members does not lead
to a clear decision in favor of one of the two proposals. The Board
further considers it important that the two groups from China who made
a proposal, work together. Therefore, it is decided to ask the two
groups to come up with a joint proposal before the end of the
year. [Update: This led to the joint proposal by CCLA and Li's group,
submitted after the conference, to hold the 12th ICLC, 2011 in Xi'an,
China, July 11-17, 2011.] [Update 2009: Due to the cancellation of the
Berkeley conference, the Xi'an conference has been renumbered to ICLC
11 (2011).]
Consideration criterion for ICLC proposals: The Board decides that
when considering future ICLC proposals, whether or not a proposal is
supported by a local affiliate organization will be taken into
account. Such local affiliate support will be considered a positive
factor in the application.
Report on ICLC 10 by Elzbieta Tabakowska, Chair of the ICLC
10 Organizing Committee. The number of accepted
papers is 444 (298 in general session, 246 in theme sessions), and
there are 36 accepted posters. The number of paying participants is
502. Financially, the conference is healthy. ICLA has paid $300 for
Signed Language interpretation and in addition the flight ticket of Len
Talmy. The conference organization defrayed all other expenses except
a few during-conference expenses (listed in connection with the
Treasurer's Report below).
The President thanks the Organizers for their wonderfully
well-run conference. The Board thanks them also for providing the
restaurant supper.
Report on ICLC 11 (2009) in Berkeley. Eve Sweetser reports that she
will include colleagues from Stanford, Davis, and Santa Cruz in the
organizing committee. She announces that advance money from ICLA will
be necessary to set up a website. The conference will take place from
17 to 23 of July, 2009. [Update: In March 2009, the conference was cancelled
by the organizer.]
Sign Language Interpreting Fund. Two documents are presented, one
by Sherman Wilcox, "Interpreter Services for ICLC: Report and
Proposal", and one by Suzanne Kemmer, "Sign Language Interpreting at
ICLA Conferences". Both documents plead for setting up a committee
that advises the Board and future conference organizers on sign
language interpretation. The document by Suzanne Kemmer contains the
recommendation that interpreting expenses be built into the budget of
future conferences and that the ICLA support sign language
interpreting services (as practiced since 2001). The Board approves
the proposals and decides that the President nominates a committee
(ICLA Accessibility Committee / Committee on Interpreting).
President's report. The President reports that in the past two years
two new affiliates have been approved: UK-CLA (United Kingdom) and
SALC (Sweden). [Update: In 2009, SALC announced that the Swedish Association
for Language and Cognition will change its name into Scandinavian
Association for Language and Cognition. This is considered a name
change rather than a new organization].
Secretary/Treasurer's report.
Ad Foolen presents his financial report on the organization from 2005-2007.
Balance of funds as of June 2005: €16.154,27 In
Membership fees 2005
€2.753
(301x8 + 69x5)
Membership fees 2006
€2.921
(312x8 + 85x5)
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Total income
€5.674
Out
ICLA contribution to ICLC9
€4.446,49
5000 ICLA flyers
€528,30
(design concept and printing)
Bank pass
€20,90
Costs for account
€0,71
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Total expenses
€4.996,50
In minus Out
€677,50
Beginning balance June 2005
€16.154,27
Net increase
€677,50
Ending balance June 2007
€16.831,77
Of this €15.100 is in a special account with 2,7% interest.
[Note: The following special costs for ICLC10 paid by ICLA
are not included in the
above overview, since they were accounted for after the conference:
Flowers for organization helpers, €500 prize for
best presentation, $300 for sign language interpretation, flight
ticket Len Talmy.
The Kraków conference organization
has covered the following extra expenses not in its original budget:
the board supper, registration fees for the Signed Language
interpreting team, and reimbursement for plane ticket for the head
interpreter. These expenses were taken on by the conference organizer
once it became clear that all necessary expenses were covered and the
conference was in the black.]
Cognitive Linguistics (journal). Ewa Dabrowska thanks the
outgoing editor Adele Goldberg for her work and for the smooth
transition. Ewa announces that she plans to appoint Associate
Editors. [Implemented in 2009: Antonio Barcelona, Benjamin Bergen,
Stefan Gries, Laura Janda.] The number of submissions in the past year
was 71. The period of notification is under 3 months. Some special
issues are in preparation.
Publisher's Report.
Anke Beck, Editor in Chief of Mouton, reports the following:
The journal is an A-journal in the European Science Foundation (ESF)
ranking.
Cognitive Linguistics Bibliography. CogBib will be
web-based in the future. Authors can add new titles via a special website on a platform
at Mouton.
Mouton will introduce a platform that gives ICLA members electronic
access to the journal and to CogBib. [Update: has been
implemented in 2009].
Definitions of ICLA Governing Board Roles and Non-Board ICLA Roles
- Suzanne Kemmer, following up on the board's decision in Seoul in
2005 (see Board Meeting 2005, Regular
business Item 4) that the roles and duties of the ICLA Governing
Board Members be specified more explicitly, and also the role of the
American Treasurer and the Webmaster, presents an updated document
(with feedback from other Board Members as well as Ron Langacker and Arie
Verhagen) outlining the Board roles and also some non-Board roles for
others serving the ICLA. The Board approves the document. It is
agreed that the Board Roles will be posted to the website as
organizational information under Policies and Procedures. [Update: posted 2008
as
Definitions and Responsibilities of the ICLA Governing Board Roles and
Non-Board Roles.]
John Benjamins special offer for ICLA members: Bibliography of Metaphor and
Metonymy. Benjamins has requested that ICLA put a link on its
website to the above-mentioned bibliography, with a special offer for
ICLA members. The Board approves the request. [Update: Link to this offer
posted on the ICLA
website membership pages here and here.]
Contest for best presentation by a young scholar. 34 young scholars
have shown interest to participate in the contest. A committee (Ad
Foolen, Marjolijn Verspoor, Maarten Lemmens, Jeong-Hwa Lee, Hubert
Cuyckens) will visit the presentations and posters, 2 evaluators per
presentation. [Update: See announcement of prizewinners
in the report on the Business Meeting of the ICLA Assembly below.]
Conference organization guidelines booklet. Suzanne Kemmer,
following up on the Board's decision to adopt her suggestion made at
Seoul (see 2005 Board meeting
report, Regular business item 7), presents the latest incarnation
of the Guidelines and Expectations for ICLC Organization and its
Aftermath. This document was originally begun after the
Logroño conference based on the many improvements suggested by
Board members at that conference. Since then, experience from the
Seoul conference has been incorporated by Suzanne; also, the document now
includes a draft timeline for major organizational tasks. These
documents will be given to the organizer of ICLC 11 after the
conference, and posted on the ICLA website so that the organization's
objectives and expectations of the conference organization can be
publicly available to prospective organizers, current organizers, and
participants. [Update: The Guidelines and attached timeline was sent
to Eve Sweetser, conference organizer of ICLC 11, in December 2007 and
posted on the ICLA website at ICLC Guidelines in May 2008.]
Election of ICLA President and Governing Board (2007-2009):
suggestions for nominees. Board members suggest that the present
President be nominated at the Business Meeting for another term in
this role; the President indicates willingness to serve. As candidates
for regular members are mentioned: Arie Verhagen, David Tuggy, Yo
Matsumoto, Andrea Tyler, Elzbieta Tabakowska, and Barbara
Dancygier. These names will be proposed at the Business Meeting.
Adjournment - The President adjourned the meeting at 12.00 a.m.
2. Report on the Business Meeting of the ICLA General Assembly,
ICLC 10
Date/time: Tuesday July 19, 2007, 5.45-6.45 pm Location: Auditorium Maximum, Univ. of Kraków Attendance: ca. 100
Items of Business
Call to order by the President, Klaus-Uwe Panther
President's report.
- Klaus Panther reports that ICLC 10
is attended by a total of 502 participants.
- In 2006, UK-CLA and SALC were accepted as new affiliate
organizations, and CCLA in 2007. The number of affiliate
organizations is now 13.
- Ewa Dabrowska is the new editor of Cognitive
Linguistics. ICLA welcomes her.
- The ICLA website continues to be based at
Rice University, with Suzanne Kemmer as Webmaster, together with
Martin Hilpert, who is serving as Web Editor.
The President invites
members to send in books for review or write a review of a book for
the ICLA website. See the instructions for prospective reviewers and
for those who would like to make their books available for review on
the ICLA book review
page.
[Update: Martin Hilpert continues as Web Editor after 2007 although he
has moved on to a faculty position at U. Freiburg. Members are urged
to continue to send in book reviews to the above site. Haowen Jiang
(haowen AT rice.edu) became Assistant Webmaster in Fall 2009 and will
post the reviews to the site once they have been selected and edited
by Martin. As of March 2011 Haowen continues in this role.]
- At the closing meeting of ICLC 10 on Friday, there will be a
celebration to honor the 'Founding Fathers' of
Cognitive Linguistics (George Lakoff, Ron Langacker, Len
Talmy, and René Dirven) at 5 p.m., followed by
a closing reception sponsored by Mouton at 6 p.m., at which the
prizes for best student conference papers will be awarded.
- At the last conference in Seoul, the Board
accepted a conference proposal by Eve Sweetser and
so the ICLC 11 (2009) will take place in Berkeley CA, USA.
Also at that time, The Board agreed that the
ICLC 12 (2011) would be held in China, although the final proposal had
not been selected. [Update: The 2009 conference was
cancelled and the 2011 conference is now numbered as ICLC 11. ICLC 11
2011 will be held July 11-17, 2011.]
The President explains why the Board proposes to have the 2011 conference
in China: There is a strong interest in Cognitive Linguistics in China
and an ICLC will have a positive influence on this interest. China may
grow to be an important area of membership if we encourage and foster
such interest and an ICLC in China would do exactly this.
From the floor, Anatol Stefanowitsch initiates a discussion on China
as a possible venue for ICLA. He disapproves of the ICLC's going to
China because of the restrictions on internet access implemented by
the Chinese government, because of the suppression of dissidents in
that country, and most importantly because of violations of human
rights. He proposes that the ICLA boycott China as
its conference venue.
President Klaus Panther responds that academic boycotts are
detrimental to scholarly exchange, and unfairly harm members of the
organization in the boycotted country. He gives the example of East
Germany, and the fact that despite strong disagreement with its
political system and complaints of serious human rights violations,
western linguists went to conferences there, in part
to allow the eastern Germans to participate and not be locked out of
academic exchange.
After various further points for and against a boycott, Ad Foolen
points out that if there is to be enough time in the meeting to hold
elections, the discussion cannot continue much longer. There is
unfortunately not enough time available to fully discuss the issue,
because buses will be leaving for a museum event immediately following
the business meeting and their departure cannot be postponed. [Update:
the language preceding in this paragraph was stylistically simplified
3/11/2012.] Marjolijn Verspoor initiates a vote regarding the
question of whether the issue of going to China should be discussed
further at the meeting and it is immediately seconded. The majority
of those present vote for postponing the discussion.
[Update: After the conference, the new President Laura Janda sets up a blog so
that the desired discussion among members could take place outside the
limited time of the assembly meeting. This discussion, on the issue of
whether the ICLA should hold a conference in China or should boycott
China as an ICLA conference venue, takesplace in Autumn 2007 on the
blog ICLA China
discussion. The majority of the discussants support the Board's
proposal to hold the 2011 meeting in China.]
Secretary/Treasurer's report. Ad Foolen reports that the number of
paying members has increased from 358 (2005) to 420 (2007). There are
318 regular members and 102 student members. The top 10 by country
are given below for 2007 and 2005.
2007
2005
1.
USA
72
1.
Japan
72
2.
Japan
71
2.
USA
71
3.
Germany
41
3.
Germany
31
4.
U.K.
23
4.
Spain
19
5.
Netherlands
21
5.
U.K.
18
6.
Spain
19
6.
Korea
16
7.
Norway
12
7.
Netherlands
16
8.
Belgium
11
8.
France
10
9.
Sweden
11
9.
Belgium
10
10.
France
10
10.
Australia
9
For the financial report, see item 10 of the Board Meeting [above].
Maarten Lemmens gives a presentation on the activities of the French
Association of Cognitive Linguistics (AFLiCo) and on its new on-line
peer-reviewed journal CogniTextes
Election of President. Members of the Board nominate Klaus-Uwe
Panther. From the floor Laura Janda is nominated. Result: Panther 41,
Janda 58, Abstention 1. Laura Janda is thus elected as the new
President.
The Secretary/Treasurer was elected in 2005 for four years, so
his function is not open for election. Other roles are ex officio,
except the following.
Election of Regular Members. As per the Constitution, 3 Board
positions in this role are required to be filled.
Voting procedure.
Since the role of Regular Member typically has many candidates,
the Secretary-Treasurer adopts a voting procedure that will shorten
the voting process. David Tuggy explains this procedure: the Single
Transferable Vote system.
In this procedure each voter lists the candidates for a given position
in his/her order of preference on the ballot. The least preferred
candidates for a position on the first ballot count are eliminated and
the votes they garnered are given to other ranked candidates on the
same ballot who are still in the running, until a majority candidate
for the position is reached. [Update: The Single Transferable Vote system,
often used in organizations run on a parliamentary basis, was
afterwards explained in detail to members on the ICLA site at Single-Transferable-Vote
System].
Nominations for Regular Members.
Nominated as candidates for Regular Member by the members of the
Board: Barbara Dancygier, Andrea Tyler, Elzbieta Tabakowska, Arie
Verhagen, David Tuggy, Yo Matsumoto, and Maarten Lemmens. Nominated
from the floor: Anatol Stefanowitsch and Sherman Wilcox.
Election for Regular Members. ICLA Members present are asked
to rank as many nominees from the above list as they wish, and the
paper ballots are collected.
In a first round of counting, David Tuggy is elected (24 first
votes). In the second round of counting, Arie Verhagen is elected
(24), and in the third round, Maarten Lemmens is elected (43).
Summary of Results.
The Governing Board for 2007-2009 will thus consist of: Laura Janda, President Ad Foolen, Secretary/Treasurer (continuing constitutionally from prior
election) Maarten Lemmens, Regular Member David Tuggy, Regular Member (re-elected) Arie Verhagen, Regular Member Klaus-Uwe Panther, most recent Past President (ex officio) Ewa Dabrowska, Cognitive Linguistics journal Editor (ex
officio) [Update: corrected 3/11/2012 from original version in which
Dabrowska was mistakenly listed as invited attendee rather than ex
officio Board member.]
Eve Sweetser, representative of the ICLC 11 Organizing
Committee (ex officio)
[Update: After the cancellation of ICLC 11 (2009), Eve Sweetser is
replaced on the Governing Board by Thomas Li and Dingfang Shu,
organizers of the ICLC for 2011, now renumbered to ICLC 11 (2011).]
The new 2007-2009 Governing Board will begin
its term immediately after the ICLC 10 conferences is over. Their term
will continue until the end of the ICLC 11 conference in 2009 at
U.C. Berkeley.
[Update: The cancellation of the 2009 conference means there is no
2009 Board meeting or Business Meeting and thus no normally-scheduled
election. The Board Members agree to serve the ICLA until the
election at the next
Business Meeting in Xi'an in 2011. ICLC 11 2011 will be held July
11-17, 2011].
Adjournment. The President adjourns the meeting at 6.45pm.
3. Closing Ceremony and Reception
On Friday, 20 July, at 5:00 p.m., a plenary meeting takes place in the
conference building gallery, in which the "Founding Fathers" of
Cognitive Linguistics are honored. Laudatory speeches ("Laudationen")
were given by Martin Pütz on René Dirven; Suzanne Kemmer
on Ronald Langacker; Klaus-Uwe Panther on George Lakoff; and Eve
Sweetser on Leonard Talmy. The speech ceremonies were closed off by
the eerie sound of a ram's horn, in ancient Semitic tradition used for
celebration of a Jubilee, meaning an anniversary of an event. (The word
jubilee comes from Hebrew yobhel 'jubilee, 50th
anniversary of emancipation from slavery celebrated every 50th year',
earlier 'a trumpet, ram's horn' lit. 'ram', in a fine example of a
historical metonymy chain.)
6.30-7.30 p.m.: The above ceremonies lead into the Closing Reception
of the ICLA, sponsored by Mouton de Gruyter, held in the same locale.
The prizes are announced for best student papers of the 10th
ICLC. First prize: A joint paper by Mateusz-Milan Stanojevic & Renata
Geld. The prize from the ICLA coffers is €500, plus a free book
from Mouton. Second and Third prizes go to Arne Zeschel and Justyna
Robinson, respectively. Each receives a free book from Mouton.
The Organizer and her organizing committee are heartily thanked for
all their hard work in putting on a successful conference and for
extending Kraków's hospitality to the participants of the
ICLC. Bouquets of flowers are presented to the Organizer and her
assistants.
Draft submitted by Ad Foolen, Fall 2009 Approved by the ICLC
Governing Board 20 Dec 2009. [Update 3/11/2012: at the ICLC Governing
Board meeting in Xi'an in 2011, some small corrections to these
reports were requested. One slight inaccuracy and one stylistic update
are flagged above with
"[Update...]" and the 3/11/2012 date; the remaining suggestions
were to change verb tenses to harmonize tense throughout the document,
and these are incorporated silently above.]