ICLA Governing Board Meeting; Business Meeting of the ICLA
Assembly, ICLC 11, Xi'an, China, July 2011
I. Report on the ICLA Governing Board Meeting/CL Editorial Board Meeting
Date/time: Monday, July 11, 2011, 6:00 pm Location: Xi'an International Studies University
A supper before the meeting
is generously provided by the conference organization
Present:
ICLA Governing Board members: Laura A. Janda (President), Ad Foolen
(Secretary/Treasurer), Arie Verhagen (Regular Member), Maarten Lemmens
(Regular Member), Klaus-Uwe Panther
(Past President), Ewa Dabrowska (ex officio member, Editor of
Cognitive Linguistics), Fuyin Li (ex-officio member,
Co-representative of the ICLC 11 Organizing Committee), Dingfang Shu,
(ex-officio member, Co-representative of the ICLC 11 Organizing Committee)
Others:
Uri Tadmor (representing Mouton de Gruyter, CL Publisher),
Kaori Kabata (U. Alberta, re: ICLC 2013 proposal), Jane Klavan
(U. Tarttu re: ICLC 2015 proposal), Jaakko Leino (U. Helsinki re: ICLC
2015 proposal)
Items of Business
Call to order by the President Laura A. Janda.
Welcome by Xi'an International Studies University President
Dr. Hu Sishe and Vice President Ms. Liu Yue Lian. Laura Janda offers
thank yous and recognition to both on behalf of the ICLA, pictures are
taken.
Proposals for ICLC in 2013
Proposal 1. Kaori Kabata answers questions regarding the proposal
for ICLC 2013 from the University of Alberta.
Board finds this to be an excellent proposal (facilities and
arrangements all seem good), and makes the following
recommendations:
Some European Universities are still in session until July 15, so it
might be better to move the date if possible
The time for presentations is quite short. Try 15 minutes for each
talk, plus three minutes for discussion and 2 minutes for moving from
one room to another. An evaluation of the shortened time slots should
be conducted.
The idea of separating the theme sessions from the general session
is probably a good one, but we recommend that these be organized as
separate daytime slots instead of using evening hours. An evaluation
of the separation of theme sessions from the general session should be
conducted.
The Open Forum idea might not work. We recommend either very
careful planning or that this idea be scrapped.
The Board requests clarification of the 18 euro fee to cover
sign-language interpretation (it may be the case that the ICLA will be
able to cover this cost, see below)
Kaori Kabata leaves the meeting.
Proposal 2. Ewa Dabrowska answers questions re UKCLA proposal for 2015.
The Board finds this an attractive proposal, with excellent
facilities, dates, professional conference services, and proximity to
airport and other means of transportation. Comments:
The projected price per participant is high (207 euros for ICLA
members). The proposal states that the fees are a conservative
(pessismistic) estimate and that they may be lower if more funding is
secured. The Board recommends holding the cost for ICLA members at or
below 200 euros if at all possible.
Proposal 3. Jane Klavan & Jaakko Leino answer questions re: a joint ECLA/FiCLA proposal
for 2015.
The Board finds this an attractive proposal, with good facilities
and a very low price for ICLA members (120 euros, including conference
dinner). Comments:
The dates are at the beginning of July, but late July might be
better
The Assembly Hall might not be big enough. Repsonse: Video link to
auxiliary rooms can be set up
There is concern about the plan to do all the organization work
without use of a conference service. Response: A Finno-Ugric
conference with 1000 participants was held in Tartu 11 years ago
without problems. Smaller conferences (200-300) have been held this
way recently as well.
The difference in fees for ICLA members vs. non-members should be
larger to encourage people to become members and the conference dinner
should be paid for separately.
Jane Klavan & Jaakko Leino leave the meeting.
Board members are recruited to introduce plenary speakers at the
ICLC 2011 and to chair sessions.
Minutes from the ICLA Board meeting in Krakow 2007 are approved, with
the following comments:
The minutes should be edited to use present tense throughout.
Ewa Dabrowska should be listed as an ex-officio member of the Board.
These minutes are posted at
Meeting Reports 2007.
[Update: These corrections were requested by the Secretary in
March 2012 and were made online by the webmaster in March
2012.]
Reports from affiliates
Reports received from the following affiliates:
AELCO/SCOLA (Spain)
JCLA (Japan)
CSDLA (North America)
SCLA (Slavic languages)
SALC (Scandinavia)
BeNeCla (Belgium & Netherlands)
The following affiliates did not submit a report but did respond to
our request citing that information is available at their websites:
PTJK/PCLA (Poland)
GCLA/DGKL (Germany)
AFLiCo (France)
UKCLA (UK)
CCLA (China)
The following affiliates did not respond and the links to their
websites do not work:
RCLA/RALK (Russia)
DISCOG (Korea)
Concerning c) above, Laura Janda reports that there have been Cognitive Linguistics
conferences in Russia; and she will make a new attempt to receive
information from that organization. [Note: Contact with RCLA/RALK has
been re-established with the help of Andrej Kibrik and Irina
Tomacheva, Secretary of RCLA]. Klaus Panther will make similar
inquiries concerning the Korean organisation. [Note: Suzanne Kemmer
made inquiries in Summer 2011, which have not resulted in a renewed
contact. She will try with another DisCog member.]
New affiliates. The Board approves the following requests for affiliation:
ECLA (Estonian Cognitive Linguistics Association)
i)The Secretary/Treasurer will ask for clarification concerning who is
the person in charge of this organization and proposes some changes to
the concept text of the Constitution. [Note: Jane Klavan will act as
contact person; the text of the Constitution was revised at the
general meeting of ECLA on November 18, 2011].
NORKOG (Norway)
i)The Board asks for clarification concerning the relationship between
NORKOG and SALC. Laura Janda responds that NORKOG has a different,
more casual structure (no membership fees) and will hold NORKOG
conferences in the years when SALC does not hold its conferences and
encourage members to attend that conference as well.
The Board approves the ICLA Financial report [details in Report
on Meeting of the ICLA Membership Assembly, below].
The Board finds that ICLA is accumulating funds and should spend
more, reserving less. Suggestions:
The ICLA can offer greater support to sign-language interpretation at ICLC conferences
The ICLA can offer support to EMCL (see below)
The Board moves to send a thank you to Vyv Evans for receipt of
royalty funds
Report from the Publisher Mouton de Gruyter
The Board approves the modest increases in fees beginning 2012
suggested by Mouton de Gruyter. This increase will also yield more
revenue for ICLA, since the organization will receive 9 euros per
regular member, and 5.5 euros per student member.
Mouton de Gruyter reports that they are very pleased with the
organization and with the performance of the journal, with the special
comment that Ewa Dabrowska is the only journal editor who uses all of
the funds provided to her for an assistant.
Mouton de Gruyter has a book display at ICLC 2011 and will donate
all books on display to local scholars in China.
The Board thanks Mouton de Gruyter for their loyal support of the
organization, the conference, and the journal.
Ewa Dabrowska reports on the journal Cognitive Linguistics.
Submissions have tripled in the past decade, now approximately 100
per year, with about 22 articles published per year (this including
special issues); acceptance rate (excluding special issues) is about 1
in 6 or 7.
New editorial structure with 4 associate editors works
well. Average turnaround time is about 2 months (but this includes
outright rejections).
Impact factor continues to climb and among
journals on general linguistics only Language has a higher
ranking.
Mouton de Gruyter suggests not having more than one special
issue per year -- perhaps there should be special sections on occasion
rather than special issues?
The option of submitting supplementary
materials for online access is not used enough and needs to be
publicized to authors.
Current editorial board needs to be
refreshed for 2012, possibly extended.
Report on the ICLA Website.
Suzanne Kemmer is willing to continue as webmaster and the Board
approves.
Request from EMCL (Empirical Methods in Cognitive
Linguistics). Monica Gonzales-Marquez has contacted ICLA to state that
she will not be able to continue to organize EMCL workshops and would
like ICLA to take this over. ICLA could do this if an individual
scholar can be identified to take responsibility. [Update 2/16/2013:
ICLA sponsored EMCL6 with €2000. EMCL6 took place at Case Western
University Aug 1-5, 2012.]
Memorials. The Board moves to hold a moment of silence for members
who have passed away at beginning of Membership Assembly.
Single Transferable Vote System. David Tuggy leads the Board in a
review of the voting system in preparation for the Membership
Assembly. Board members will serve as "tellers".
The Board discusses possible nominees for Secretary/Treasurer,
President, and 3 additional Board members.
However, the Board will not suggest any nominations, but will rely on
members to make nominations from the floor.
Future venues
ICLC 2013 at University of Alberta -- the Board approves of the
proposal to hold ICLC 2013 at University of Alberta, with the
comments above in 2).
ICLC 2015: after considerable deliberation, the Board approves of
the proposal to hold ICLC 2015 at Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK.
Approval of Agenda for the Membership Assembly
Other Business: none.
Adjournment - Board meeting is adjourned at 9:40 p.m.
II. Report on the Business Meeting of the ICLA General Assembly
ICLC 11, July 2011
Date/time: July 15, 2011, 4:00pm Location: Xi'an International Studies University Attendance: [estimate based on votes: ca. 50]
Items of Business
Call to order by the President, Laura A. Janda.
Opening remarks. (a) Laura Janda, ICLA President, congratulates the
organizers Dingfang Shu and Thomas
Li, and their team of conference workers, for a successful and well-run
conference, and thanks them for their wonderful
hospitality. The Chinese Cognitive Linguistics Association is
recognized for its contributions to the conference organization and
conference. (b) Laura Janda invites the members to stand for a moment
of silence for ICLA members who have passed away.
Elections. The President quotes the ICLA constitution Article 8:
The President and the three regular members are elected by the
Assembly for two-year terms and the Secretary/Treasurer for a
four-year term at the business meeting held during a regular ICLA
conference. Nominations for these positions can be made from the floor
during the meeting, or else by prior notification of the
Secretary/Treasurer from any five ICLA members. The editor of
Cognitive Linguistics is selected, for a term not to exceed six years,
by joint approval of the Governing Board, the Assembly, and the
publisher of the journal. [Editor selection procedure amended by
Governing Board, July 2001, see
Policies and Procedures.] If duly elected or appointed, any Board member can serve multiple terms.
Laura Janda explains the procedure that will be followed in the
election. The positions of President, Secretary/Treasurer and 3 Board
Members are open for election. ICLA uses the Single Transferable Vote
System (see the description The Single
Transferable Vote System on the ICLA website).
ICLA Board Members will serve as
tellers; elections will be held sequentially during this meeting.
Nominations for President: Chris Sinha, Laura Janda, and Maarten
Lemmens. Chris Sinha is elected.
Secretary/Treasurer is a 4-year term. Ad Foolen was elected in 2005,
and would have been up for reelection in 2009, but since the
biennial conference did not take place that year, his term was
extended to 2011 along with those of the other Board members.
Nomination for Secretary/Treasurer: Ad Foolen. Ad Foolen is elected
for a second term, which will run until 2015.
Nominations for Regular Board Members: Dafu Yang, Barbara
Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, Rong Chen, Thomas Li, Dingfang Shu, Maarten
Lemmens, Margaret Winters. Elected are Rong Chen, Maarten Lemmens, and
Margaret Winters.
Summary of Results:
The Governing Board for 2011-2013 will thus consist of: Chris Sinha, President Ad Foolen, Secretary/Treasurer (2nd 4-year term) Rong Chen Regular Member Maarten Lemmens Regular Member (re-elected) Margaret Winters Regular Member Laura Janda, most recent Past President (ex officio) Ewa Dabrowska, Cognitive Linguistics journal Editor (ex officio) John Newman and Sally Rice, representatives of the ICLC 11 Organizing
Committee (ex officio)
The new 2011-2013 Governing Board will begin
its term immediately after the ICLC 11 conference is over. Their term
will continue until the end of ICLC-12 in 2013 at the
University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada.
Financial report July 2007 - July 2011.
Ad Foolen (Secretary/Treasurer) delivers the ICLA financial report for
the period from the last conference to the current conference. All
figures are in Euros.
Account Total, June 2007: 16.154
In
Membership fees
Total membership fees received as of July 2011
11.885
Interest from savings account
782
Royalties from Vyv Evans book
173
Total income
12.840
Out
ICLC10 (Krakow 2007)
1.965
ICLC11 (Xi'an 2011)
5.400
Bank fees
426
Flyers ICLA
309
Total expenses
8.100
In minus Out
In
12.840
Out
8.100
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Increase
4.740
June 2007
16.154
Increase
4.740
July 2011
20.894
Funds disposition: €19.200 in savings account, the rest in
current account.
Membership report
Regular Members: €8 per member 2011
Student Members: €5 per member 2011
Average number members per year, 2007-2011:
Regular
320
Student
80
Membership by country
Country
July 2011
members
USA
83
Japan
70
Germany
41
UK
24
China
22
Spain
20
Netherlands
19
France
14
Poland
12
Croatia
11
Brazil
9
Italy
9
Korea
8
Canada
7
Belgium
7
Norway
7
Greece
7
Sweden
6
Switzerland
5
Less than 5: Australia, Austria, Bulgaria, Denmark, Estonia, Finland,
Ghana, Hungary, Indonesia,
Ireland, Israel, Kenya, Latvia, Lithuania, Mexico, New Zealand,
Persia, Peru, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Russia, Serbia, Singapore,
Turkey, South Africa, Slovenia, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam.
Report from Publisher Mouton de Gruyter.
The report is delivered by Uri Tadmor and Birgit Sievert.
The membership prices for print only have not been increased since
2009.
The current situation as of July 2011 is:
print only regular
€68
online only regular
€84
print only student
€39
The increase of membership prices as of 2012 for ICLA members:
print only regular
€72 / $108 (+ shipping and handling)
online only regular
€72 / $108 (includes back issues of the previous 13 years)
print only student:
€42 / $63 (+ shipping and handling)
online only student:
€42 / $63 (includes back issues of the previous 13 years)
Online subscription is encouraged.
Report on Journal Cognitive Linguistics
Ewa Dabrowska (Editor-in-Chief of the journal) delivers the report.
Some statistics
Royal Alberta Museum (natural history and aboriginal
art)
Hiking/canoeing at Elk Island National Park/North
Saskatchewan River
Plane ride over Alberta Tar Sands
Edmonton Queen Steamship
Kaori Kabata is available to answer questions
The proposal is adopted by the Assembly.
ICLC 2015
Two excellent and very attractive proposals:
University of Northumbria (Newcastle, UK)
University of Tartu (Tartu, Estonia)
The ICLA Board recommends approval of the proposal from the University
of Northumbria (Newcastle, UK). The Assembly adopts the recommendation.
Organizers: Amanda Patten, Ewa Dabrowska, Christopher Hart, Mimi Huang, James Street
Experience hosting major conferences
July 20-25, 2015 (tentative)
Proximity to transportation, accommodations, dining options
City Campus East facility, with abundant auditoria and floor space
for registration, coffee breaks, receptions
Professional Convention Services
Reasonable pricing for accommodations and conference dinner
Excursion options
Durham city (cathedral, castle)
Hadrian's Wall
Newcastle Quayside culture, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art
UK has 24 ICLA members (4th largest contingent in the world)
UK-CLA affiliate organization has regular successful meetings
UK-CLA has successful peer-reviewed journal Language and Cognition
A conference in Newcastle will have good potential for membership
recruitment
Ewa Dabrowka is available to answer questions.
The Assembly adopts the recommendation.
Report on Language, Culture and Mind 5, 27-29 June 2012, Lisbon
Chris Sinha presents the outline of LCM5.
Title: Integrating Semiotic Resources in Communication and
Creativity
Plenary Speakers:
Nick Enfield (MPI, Nijmegen)
Cynthia Lightfoot (Penn State U.)
Dan Slobin (UC Berkeley)
Barbara Stawarska (U. Oregon)
Sherman Wilcox (U. New Mexico)
Young Researcher Workshop on 26 June
Adjournment. The President adjourns the meeting at 15.45pm.
Submitted by Ad Foolen, March 2012 Approved by the ICLC Governing
Board March 2012. Draft posted March 2012. Web version approved by the
Governing Board at ICLC-12, 25 June 2013.