Previous CLDC
The Conference on Language, Discourse, and Cognition
The CLDC aims to provide a forum for researchers interested in language, discourse, and cognition to discuss new research findings, exchange innovative ideas and share the approaches in these fields. Topics relevant to language, discourse, and cognition as well as interdisciplinary studies stimulated over the last few years have given rise to a growing body of critical findings, making CLDC an important event in the field of cognitive linguistics in East Asia.
CLDC 10 (canceled due to COVID-19)
Date: May 1-2, 2020
General Theme: Cognitive Linguistics and Interdisciplinary Studies
Special Theme: Conversation Analysis and Artificial Intelligence
Keynote: Dagmar Divjak
ICPEAL 17–CLDC 9
Date: Oct 19-21, 2018
General Theme: Cognitive Linguistics and Interdisciplinary Studies
Special Theme: Between culture and cognition
Keynote: Raymond Gibbs, Toshio Ōhori 大堀壽夫, Colin Phillips, Li Sheng 盛欐
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CLDC 2016
Date: May 13-14, 2016
General Theme: Cognitive Linguistics and Interdisciplinary Studies
Special Theme: Language variation and cognition
Keynote: Dirk Geeraerts, Harald Baayen, Tsao Feng-Fu
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CLDC 2014
Date: May 3-4, 2014
General Theme: Cognitive Linguistics and Interdisciplinary Studies
Special Theme: Body Experience and Language Processing
Keynote: Arie Verhagen, Toshio Inu, Kara Federmeier
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CLDC 2012
Date: May 4-6, 2012
General Theme: Cognitive Linguistics/Functional Linguistics and Interdisciplinary Studies
Special Theme: Emotion, Language, and Cognition
Keynote: Suzanne Kemmer, James H.-Y. Tai, Leonard Talmy
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CLDC 2011
Date: April 29 - May 1, 2011
General Theme: Discourse and Cognitive Linguistics
Special Theme: Metaphor and Cognition
Keynote: Gilles Fauconnier, Shuanfan Huang, Masa-aki Yamanashi
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CLDC 2010
Date: May 1-2, 2010
General Theme: Pragmatics and Cognitive Linguistics
Special Theme: Pragmatic Markers in Asian Languages
Keynote: Elizabeth Closs Traugott, Yoshihiko Ikegami, Chinfa Lien
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CLDC 2009
Date: May 2-3, 2009
General Theme: NA
Special Theme: Quantitative Approach to Language
Keynote: Sandra A. Thompson, James T. Myers, Hongyin Tao
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CLDC 2008
Date: May 17-18, 2008
General Theme: Cognitive Semantics and Pragmatics
Special Theme: Entrenchment of Pragmatics in Syntax
Keynote: James H.-Y. Tai
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CLDC 2007
Date: May 18-19, 2007
General Theme: NA
Special Theme: NA
Keynote: Shuanfan Huang