Call for papers

We encourage prospective participants to submit proposals involved with the issue of salience from the following research perspectives:

● Sociolinguistics

● Historical Linguistics

● Lexicology and Lexicography

● Cognitive Linguistics

● Pragmatics

● Second Language Acquisition

● Other perspectives

Proposals for presentations should be submitted in the form of an abstract (max. 500 words including references). Presentations will last 20 minutes followed by 10 minutes for questions and feedback. Abstracts may report on case studies, theoretical issues or any research topic concerned with the notion of salience and its field-specific use.

Please, send your abstract as both a modifiable file (.docx or .odt) and PDF document to the following email (salienza.convegno@gmail.com).

In the body of the message, please clearly state: title of the proposal, author’s name and affiliation, preferred modality for attendance (in-person/online).

The subject line should read as follows: abstract_Salience_SUBFIELD_ SURNAME.

The possible subfields to choose from are: SOCIO; HISTORICAL; LEXICON; COGNITIVE; PRAGMATICS; SLA