The Scandinavian Association for Language and Cognition (SALC)

SALC was formed as the Swedish Association for Language and Cognition on June 17, 2006 at the International Conference and Constituting Meeting of SALC held at the University of Umeå Sweden, between June 15-17, 2006. After a successful conference November 29 - December 1, 2007 at Lund University, discussions began with regard to extending the association to the other Scandinavian/Nordic countries (so far including Denmark, Norway and Finland). On June 11, 2009, the Swedish Association for Language and Cognition became the Scandinavian Association for Language and Cognition (maintaining its acronym SALC).

Aims

The major goal of the Scandinavian Association for Language and Cognition (SALC) is to promote the study of the relationship between language and cognition. This involves any type of research in which language is not treated in isolation (e.g. as a "module"), but both as based on structures and processes of general cognition (e.g. perception, memory and reasoning) and social cognition (e.g. joint attention and imitation), and as affecting such structures and processes.

The Association is intended to be a forum for cooperation and exchange of ideas between disciplines, fields of study and theoretical frameworks. The organisation involves mostly linguists, but also includes psychologists, cognitive scientists and semioticians working on a variety of topics and utilising different methodologies.

SALC Conferences

SALC website

Updated 26 Mar 2010

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