Fwd: CL and LA: Call for abstract

6th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference Stockholm, 11th-16th July 1999. Theme Session: First and Second Language Acquisition Call for Abstracts The purpose of this theme session is to highlight the mutual importance of language acquisition for cognitive linguistics (CL), and CL for language acquisition research. Accounting for language acquisition is crucial for any linguistic theory, and CL is as yet in its infancy in this regard. However, CL research in diverse areas has reached a stage of development at which language acquisition research can benefit greatly from its insights and theoretical and methodological tools. CL-based approaches to first and second language acquisition constitute a rapidly growing field of research. Amongst the CL-inspired issues which are attracting the attention of L1 and L2 acquisition researchers are: grammaticalization, island phenomena and the acquisition of grammar; metaphor, analogy and embodiment in lexical development; cultural and cognitive motivations in structure-learning; typological influences on acquisition patterns; We invite abstracts on any topic of L1/L2 acquisition which either apply CL-based explanatory tools, or which offer insights which can enrich the CL perspective. Critical appraisals of CL from an acquisition perspective are also encouraged, as are submissions relating to the cultural and communicative contexts of cognition and language acquisition. Half- to one page abstracts should be submitted by e-mail to Michel Achard (achard(a)rice.edu) by November 1st. 1998. Notification of acceptance will be by November 15th. Further information about the 6th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference can be obtained at the conference website: http://bamse.ling.su.se/iclc99 Theme session organizers: Michel Achard, Susanne Niemeyer, Chris Sinha, Sven Stroemqvist