From the President:
ICLA News, Board term 2003-2005
Suzanne Kemmer
(ICLA News from 2003 and from July 2005, pre-conference, were consolidated
on this page from two earlier separate pages on October 20, 2006. The
2003 News is placed below the 2005 news and the updates are in the
order 'most recent' to 'earliest'.)
ICLA News 2005 (last updated 4 July 2005)
ICLC 9 2005, Seoul - 4 July 05
The ICLC conference in Seoul, Korea is fast approaching. The dates of
ICLC 9 are July 17-22, 2005.
The organizers extended the June 15 deadline ten days to June 25, and
then to July 2, due to technical difficulties. Those deadlines are
now past and the organizers have made it clear that no further
extensions are possible. If the preregistration payment has not
already been received by July 2, then regular registration prices
apply. Please see the conference site for further details.
Remember that ICLA members receive a substantial discount on the
conference registration fee, so it is worthwhile to become an ICLA
member if you are not already. See the membership link in the footer
below for membership. You must sign up before preregistering for the
conference to get the members' preregistration discount (similarly for
walk-on member registration).
A technical note: Registration
via the conference website can apparently only be accomplished via
certain browsers. Internet Explorer works well.
Other browsers, such as Firefox/Mozilla do not seem to work, at least
for some who have tried. If you still have difficulties registering for
the conference even via Explorer, please contact the organizers immediately.
A second technical note: If you receive no answers from
the organizers, check your institution's or your personal
computer's spam settings. It was discovered that some institutions
in the U.K., for example, adopted a spam policy for their email
accounts that bounced all mail with any Asian language characters in it, even
in the sender's line. Thus, the organizers' mail was not getting
through to these participants.
The Seoul organizers have selected a number of student presenters
to receive a US$150 scholarship to attend the conference. These
scholarships were provided for by ICLA funds. See the conference
website (link above) for the names of the recipients. Each scholarship
provides for registration in the appropriate category.
Recipients must preregister (via the conference website)
to get this registration amount. In addition, they will
receive a small cash stipend for the remainder of the $150. A
student ICLA member registrant, for example, would receive $70 for
that category of registration, plus US$80 cash for other conference expenses.
See the conference schedules posted on the conference
site to see the timeframes and presenters for the general and poster
sessions.
Participants and schedules for the theme sessions will be posted later.
We hope to see you in Seoul!
CSDL - 4 July 05
The seventh conference on Conceptual Structure, Discourse, and
Language (CSDL 7)
took place at the University of Alberta in Edmonton in October 2004,
organized by Sally Rice and John Newman. It was a great conference in
very comfortable and pleasant facilities.
At the conference, a fair number of CSDL regulars met and agreed to
set up an association that will keep CSDL going.
So far the conferences
have taken place with no central organizing body, which has at times
made planning difficult. The new organization is called the
Conceptual Structure, Discourse, and Language Association (CSDLA).
The current members are all those who have attended one or both of the
last two CSDL conferences, plus any others who would like to be
members.
A second decision taken at the conference was to apply for affiliation
of the new organization with the ICLA. The idea is to have a new North
American affiliate of ICLA. The two organizations share
many of the same aims and members. CSDLA is perhaps broader in its
aims, explicitly attempting to attract linguists and other scholars outside strictly
cognitive analytical frameworks, such as discourse linguists,
sociolinguists, and people in allied disciplines.
It was thought that perhaps CSDLA could also affiliate with a
discourse-oriented organization, and the two 'parent' organizations might alternate in
co-sponsoring CSDL. Right now there does not seem to be any central
organization for discourse linguistics that some CSDLA members regularly
go to; but this may change in future.
The volume of selected papers from CSDL 6, held at Rice University in
October 2002, appeared in October 2004. The full reference is
Language, Culture and Mind, ed. by Michel Achard and Suzanne Kemmer,
Stanford: CSLI Publications, 2004. It includes two substantial keynote
articles, by John Lucy and Ronald Langacker, and 33 other papers by
CSDL participants, for a total of 35 of the 70 papers presented at the
conference. See the
Table of Contents for a full list of papers and
LCM volume for price and ordering information.
Sign Language Interpreting - 13 June 05
The organizers of ICLC 9 in Seoul are building Sign Language
Interpreting into the conference plans. While it is difficult to
provide even minimally sufficient interpreting, the ICLA is committed
to providing some level of sign language interpreting and to this end
a fund has been set up to help defray the costs. The Governing Board
committed $5,000 to the sign language interpreting fund for the Seoul
conference. The conference organizers have also done their part by building
some interpretation costs into the budget of the conference.
If you know of any deaf students or scholars who plan to attend the
meeting in Seoul,
please let Sherman Wilcox (wilcox AT unm.edu) or Paul Dudis know.
They are planning the scale of interpretation depending on demand. So far there
is one main interpreter, a second, part-time interpreter, plus a few other
presenting participants who will provide interpretation of occasional talks as
they can.
Donations to ICLA - 6 April 05
Gary Palmer and Debra Occhi received a royalty check for their
co-edited book Languages of Sentiment (John Benjamins 1999). Rather
than disburse small payments among the several contributors, they have
generously donated the check for use by the ICLA in subsidizing the expenses of
students or scholars needing funding for travel to the meetings.
We are very grateful to these members for thinking of this brilliant
idea. A few hundred dollars can make the
difference between a student or scholar in a currency-challenged
country being able to attend an ICLC meeting, or not.
I would like to
encourage ICLA members who receive royalties to consider donating
them to the organization.
Particularly in the case of royalties that would not make much
difference if split among twelve or so contributors to a volume,
donation would be a small gesture with large consequences for individuals.
Donations to the ICLA, a non-profit
organization registered in the Netherlands, are tax deductible in many
countries. We now can take funds in American dollars as well as other
currencies. See the Donations link in the footer to find out how to donate.
Affiliates and Events - 18 April 05
There is quite a lot of activity going on right now by regional
cognitive linguistics associations. A number of them are holding
conferences and/or notifying us that they intend to request
affiliation with ICLA.
The latest ICLA affiliate we took on board is the German Cognitive
Linguistics Association/Deutsche Gesellschaft für Kognitive
Linguistik. The GCLA/DGKL, approved by the ICLA Governing Board in
March 2005, has as its first President Professor Klaus-Uwe Panther of
the University of Hamburg, who was elected
at the Current Trends in Cognitive Linguistics Conference in Hamburg
in December 2004.
The goal of ICLA affiliate organizations is
to support the aims of the ICLA in furthering Cognitive Linguistics
research and promoting and sponsoring scholarly activities among their
(usually regional) members and students. See Affiliates for the ICLA
affiliates approved to date.
Four more regional associations that we expect to be approved by the
Governing Board soon as ICLA affiliates are:
a new North American affiliate (see CSDL below)
the Japanese Cognitive Linguistics Association (JCLA),
which in April voted to request affiliation with the ICLA
the UK Cognitive Linguistics Association (UKCLA) which is having
an inaugural conference in Brighton in late October
the Association Française de Linguistique Cognitive (AFLiCo), which
came into being with the group's stimulating inaugural conference
in Bordeaux in May 2005. AFLiCo is currently preparing its affiliation
documents and will most likely present them at the ICLA meeting in Seoul.
There is another group that is organizing an association of cognitive
linguistics in Central Europe, and they are having their first meeting
in Dubrovnik, Croatia, in October 2005.
Finally, another newly-formed association is sponsoring cognitive
linguistic activities in the Netherlands and Flanders, e.g. a
conference in December 2004, and we hope
to hear more about this prospective affiliate soon.
Many of these groups have been active for years in Cognitive
Linguistics without having actually been formally affiliated with
ICLA (e.g., CSDL); others have come into existence via sponsoring a
conference and almost immediately applied for affiliation (e.g. the
GCLA). Look at the Events page of this site to
see how many conferences in Cognitive Linguistics have been held or
are coming up.
This list is not exhaustive. If you know of other
conferences in Cognitive Linguistics,
please send the notice to
Martin Hilpert, hilpert AT rice.edu
If you know of regional groups of cognitive
linguists who might like to affiliate with ICLA, please send a note
to me, Suzanne Kemmer (kemmer AT rice.edu), or to Ad Foolen
(a.foolen AT let.ru.nl).
The ICLA is waiting to welcome
all these new affiliates, which testify to the growing popularity and
importance of cognitive linguistic activities in Linguistics.
Organizations that have been affiliates for more than a year will soon
be asked by the Secretary/Treasurer, Ad Foolen, to update their
affiliation information.
ICLA website - 18 April 05
The ICLA site will continue to be housed at Rice with Suzanne Kemmer
as webmaster. Rice doctoral student Martin Hilpert of Rice is
our Web Editor and he is helping to build out the site. We have new
links to Donations, places to study Cognitive Linguistics, and the
latest links to relevant research websites and places to publish CL
work. We plan to add two new pages which we hope will be
useful resources:
a page for recent monographs and edited volumes
published in the field of cognitive linguistics, particularly by ICLA members.
If you would like to have a link on this page to the page on
your publisher's site (or Amazon) for your book, please send
the relevant URL to Martin Hilpert, hilpert AT rice.edu.
a page listing all the homepages
of cognitive linguists. Many of these are full of links to their papers
and other valuable sites. Let us add your website by emailing the URL
to Martin Hilpert (hilpert AT rice.edu).
Eventually, we also hope to make some more recent
papers in cognitive linguistics available on the web in .pdf
format, to the extent we can do this without copyright infringement.
Future ICLCs - 23 March 05
We are hoping that the ICLC will return to North America in 2009 after
an 8-year sojourn in Europe and Asia. However, we are interested in
all bids to host the conference. Those interested in putting in a bid
should read the guidelines for Proposals for Hosting the
ICLC.
Any questions you have can be addressed to
Ad Foolen, a.foolen AT let.ru.nl or to me,
Suzanne Kemmer, kemmer AT rice.edu.
ICLC 10 2007 - 28 Jan 05
In October 2003, the Governing Board formally approved
Krakow, Poland as the site of ICLC 10 in July 2007. The organizing
committee is headed by Prof. Elzbieta Tabakowska.
ICLA Board News - 28 Jan 05
Marjolijn Verspoor stepped down as
Secretary/Treasurer of ICLA at the end of 2004. Ad Foolen was selected
by the Governing Board as Acting Secretary/Treasurer, and Ad will serve
the remainder of Marjolijn's term in her stead (up until the ICLA
meeting in Seoul). The Board gives its heartfelt thanks to Marjolijn
for her dedicated service during the last three and a half years (as
well the earlier full term she served in the 1990s). We
are also very grateful to Ad for stepping into the breach with his
service until the 2005 election.
Cognitive Linguistics - 28 Jan 05
Adele Goldberg has been Editor-in-Chief of
Cognitive Linguistics
since January 2004. She is responsible for all new submissions to
the journal. There may be some articles still appearing under the
editorship of Arie Verhagen which were accepted last year.
Thanks to Anke Beck of Mouton, the journal has temporarily increased
in size in 2004-2005 to help with the backlog of
papers in the pipeline from the last editorial term.
The journal is now over 15 years old. Some of us remember the early
rocky start when the ICLA itself had to send out the journal and keep
track of members and subscription fees. Mouton took over that burden
some years ago, and introduced many innovations
such as making the journal accessible online for
subscribers. Since its early days, the journal has expanded its reach and
become ever more recognized and respected as a locus of linguistic
research.
Adele's aim is to build the journal's reputation still further in the
field of Linguistics and to make it a desirable locus of publication
for the best new work on the relation of language and cognition to
come out in the field. The new issues in the pipeline contain some
exciting work that is sure to make members eagerly anticipate the arrival
of their copy. See the
Cognitive
Linguistics website for more information about the journal, including the table of contents of the upcoming 2005 issues.
A related goal stated by Adele is to increase subscriptions.
ICLA members, please support the ICLA by encouraging
students, colleagues, and your library to subscribe to the journal.
The membership price of ICLA includes the journal and it is one of the
more reasonably priced journal subscriptions in the field.
--Suzanne Kemmer
ICLA News 2003 (last updated October 2003)
Welcome back to another academic year of cognitive linguistic
research, teaching, conferences, and other activities. In this space
I will report on some recent ICLA news and events.
ICLC 8 2003, Logroño
ICLA members converged on the University of Logroño, Spain, for
the 8th
International Cognitive Linguistics Conference July 20-25. It was
discovered that La Rioja wine goes very well with cognitive
linguistics! Our deepest thanks go to the organizing team headed by
Francisco Ruiz de Mendoza Ibañez (francisco.ruiz AT
dfm.unirioja.es for all the work they put in to make ICLC 8 a
memorable conference. It was the largest ICLC to date, with over 630
participants. Spain is the locus of a burgeoning cognitive linguistic
community, and we look forward to many more conferences, journals and
other activities of our AELCO-SCOLA affiliate.
Did anybody take pictures at the conference that can be sent online?
If so, please send them to me at kemmer AT rice.edu, and I will figure out
how to get them posted. Laura Janda usually takes an "ICLC regulars"
picture (conference attendees since at least 1991). I must have missed
it this year; Laura, if you took one, please send!
ICLC 9 2005
The next ICLC conference venue, selected already in 2001, will be
Seoul, South Korea. The organizers are Kee Dong Lee and Hyon-Sook
Shin, with the assistance of Jeong-Hwa Lee (Rice Ph.D. 1998).
We are all looking forward to the GREAT Korean food as well as
another stimulating and eventful conference in 2005.
Of course, Korea is far away for two large centers of ICLA membership,
the North Americans and especially the Europeans. It was proposed by
Ron Langacker at the Governing Board meeting to devote some of the
accumulated surplus of ICLA funds to a Travel Fund for those needing
assistance to come to the conference in Seoul. The Board, followed by
the ICLA Assembly, approved
$5000 for this Fund, which will provide applicants small stipends for
travel, to be adminstered by the ICLC 9 Organizing Committee.
We hope that the ICLA becomes rich enough again some day to provide stipends
for conference attendees from Asia to attend an ICLC meeting in Europe!
In any case, this meeting is going to be worth it, even if we go
broke getting there. When is the next time any of us in the Western
Hemisphere will get a chance to go to Korea? It is a lovely country,
and Yonsei University, the venue, has a hilly, wooded campus somewhat
reminiscent of UC Santa Cruz. (OK, no ocean right next to it, but it
is really nice!). I went to Korea in 2001 and found so many
fascinating things there that I wanted to go back and explore some
more. I didn't know at the time that the ICLC would be heading there
in a few years. What luck! Believe me, you will not want to miss
it.
ICLC 10 2007
The big question at the end of the ICLA Business Meeting of the Assembly in
Logroño was: where will ICLC 10 be held in 2007? An excellent
proposal by the ICLA affiliate group PCLA from Poland was presented
to the Governing Board, and was approved by the
Assembly for EITHER 2007 OR 2009. The purpose of deferring the final
decision was to allow the possibility of conjoining the ICLC with a
Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute, an arrangement which
proved optimal in Albuquerque in 1995 and Santa Barbara in 2001.
As of October 2003, the Board has decided to proceed with the
conference in Krakow in 2007. The organizing committee for ICLC 10,
headed by Prof. Elzbieta Tabakowska, have hit the ground running and
have already begun to lay the groundwork for the conference.
Although it is not certain that ICLC will be able to link up with the
LSA Summer Institute in 2009, the Board has reason to hope that UC
Berkeley will put in a bid for the LSA Institute and the ICLC
conference for that summer. Some other possible bids in the offing for
future ICLC conferences include the University of Alberta and the
Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
Those interested in putting in a bid should
read the guidelines for Proposals for Hosting the
ICLC. Any questions you have can be addressed to
Marjolijn Verspoor at m.h.verspoor AT let.rug.nl or
to me at kemmer AT rice.edu.
Sign Language Interpreting
Thanks to the organizational work of Francisco Ruiz de Mendoza and
Sherman Wilcox, as well as interpreting coordination and
professional interpreting by Dawn
Meyers, and further interpreting work by Dan Parvaz, Barbara
Shaffer, and Terry Janzen, ICLC 8 was provided with ASL
interpreters for the keynote lectures and some other talks. After ICLC 7,
the organizing committee under Ron Langacker decided to devote the
surplus conference funds (ca. $3000) to start a Signed Language
Interpreting Fund. Francisco Ruiz used conference funds to support the
interpreters at ICLC 8, and was even able to return some money to the
Fund. At the ICLA Governing Board meeting at ICLC 8, the Board
proposed designating $5000 of current ICLA funds to replenishing and
extending the Interpreting Fund. The proposal was approved by the
Assembly.
The ICLA aims to continue this support of
Signed Language Interpreting by encouraging conference organizers to
build interpreting costs into the conference budget and to replenish
the Interpreting Fund after the conference. Although the amount of interpreting
that can be provided will probably never be wholly sufficient, the
ICLA wishes to support the Deaf community of cognitive linguists and
foster their research and participation in the conferences to the
greatest extent possible.
ICLA website
Our faithful webmaster, Dan Parvaz, who provided the great design for this
site and the site's useful interactive membership form, has left the
University of New Mexico to take a job with a computer company in
Florida. He will be too busy making money to
maintain the website for us unfortunately!! But thanks to Dan, we have
an attractive and functional site, and I'd like to thank him for
that as well as for his wonderful Webmastership of the ICLC 7 conference in
Santa Barbara 2001. I have enjoyed working with Dan these last 2 1/2 years!
And his technical mastery will be sorely missed.
At the end of the academic year I had the site moved to my own
university, Rice University, to take the opportunity to put in place
some of the unfinished links and get the whole thing at least
looking complete, until we find a new
webmaster and/or web editor. I would be grateful for suggestions,
links, and other help in making the site maximally useful to ICLA members
and others interested in Cognitive Linguistics.
Governing Board 2003-2005
The ICLA Governing Board welcomes new members Laura Janda and Klaus
Panther. The rest of the
Governing Board remains the same(!) for this board
term. So, we will have the
continuity provided by six of eight members, at least until
January 2004, when the Board will get a new member, as seen in
the next section.
Cognitive Linguistics
In January 2004, Adele Goldberg of the University of Illinois will
join the Board and become the Incoming Editor of Cognitive
Linguistics. Adele will begin editorial work at the beginning of
2004, but will share the helm with Outgoing Editor Arie Verhagen, who
continues to be responsible for articles in process through 2004 or
until all papers accepted under his editorship appear. Arie will no
longer be formally on the Board, but will participate in issues
concerning the journal. On behalf of the ICLA, I would like to thank
Arie for his dedicated service on the journal for the last 6 years (8
years, counting his entering transition stage).
In part to facilitate the transition, the journal's publisher, Mouton,
has announced that Cognitive Linguistics will increase its
size, to 600 pages a year instead of 400 starting with the first issue
of 2004. This enlargement has no implications for the ICLA membership
fee, which was already set for 2004 at €60 regular/ €32.95 for
students. This is GREAT news for ICLA members, who will see the value
of their membership increase. Thanks to Anke Beck of Mouton, who
shepherded through this change with the Mouton Board of Governors.
Please note that new members signing up during calendar year 2003 will
by default get all 2003 issues (at 2003 prices, €56 regular/
€32.95 students), unless they specify a start date of January 2004.
I wish everybody a productive and enjoyable year!
--Suzanne Kemmer
September 2003, minor updates October 2003