The Slavic Cognitive Linguistics Association pursues a threefold mission:
Laura A. Janda (then of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and now at the University of Tromsø) and Stephen M. Dickey (then of the University of Virginia and now at the University of Kansas) founded the Slavic Cognitive Linguistics Association (SCLA) in Spring 2000 and was approved as an affiliate of the International Cognitive Linguistics Association in 2001. The inaugural conference for the group was held at UNC-Chapel Hill in Autumn 2000. The organization has continued annual meetings in most years since then.
| 2000 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| 2001 | University of Virginia (Charleston, Virginia) |
| 2002 | Joint conference with FiCLA at the University of Turku (Turku, Finland) |
| 2003 | (no conference) |
| 2004 | Joint conference with Perspectives on Slavistics at University of Leuven (Leuven, Belgium) |
| 2005 | University of Kansas (Lawrence, Kansas) |
| 2006 | Sessions at the Society for Slavic Linguistics 1st Annual Conference, Indiana University (Bloomington Indiana) |
| 2007 | SCLC-2007 at the University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois) (more information) |
| 2008 | SCLC-2008 as a joint conference with the Estonian Cognitive Linguistics Association (ECLA) at the University of Tartu (Tartu, Estonia) (call for papers, more information) |
SCLA officers have consisted of a president and vice-president who serve for indefinite terms.
| First Term | Second Term | Third Term | |
| President | Laura A. Janda | Stephen M. Dickey | Steven J. Clancy |
| Vice-President | Stephen M. Dickey | Alina Israeli | Tore Nesset |
Since we do not collect dues, we've never had need for a treasurer or a formal constitution and by-laws. Steven Clancy has served as a sort of Secretary for the group (processing new member information in the membership database and email list) and he continues to maintain the database of members and the mailing list. Anyone on the SCLA list <scla@listhost.uchicago.edu> can send out messages to the more than 175 SCLA members. Please contact Steven Clancy sclancy@uchicago.edu if you would like to be added to the SCLA mailing list.
Congratulations to Laura Janda, who was elected president of the ICLA at the Kraków conference in 2007.
At the business meeting of the SCLC-2007 conference it was decided that:
The Slavic Cognitive Linguistics Association (SCLA) announces the call for papers for the SCLC-2008 annual conference. We are very pleased to hold SCLC-2008 in conjunction with the Cognitive and Functional Perspectives on Dynamic Tendencies in Languages conference of the Estonian Cognitive Linguistics Association (ECLA) in Tartu, Estonia (May 29-June 1, 2008). For more information on the ECLA conference, the venue, plenary lecturers, etc., please see the ECLA website:
http://www.fl.ut.ee/kttdk/ecla
We plan to run either a single session or parallel sessions (depending on the number of submissions) for the full day of May 29, 2008. The ECLA conference will hold a reception that evening and start in earnest on May 30. Since our SCLA panels will run entirely on May 29, you will be free to fully enjoy the ECLA conference and it's wonderful group of keynote speakers (Bernd Heine, Ronald Langacker, Ewa Dabrowska, and Martin Haspelmath).
CALL FOR PAPERS
Abstracts are invited for presentations addressing issues of significance for cognitive linguistics with some bearing on data from the Slavic languages. As long as there is a cognitive orientation, papers may be in any of the traditional areas of synchronic or diachronic phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, discourse analysis or sociolinguistics.
Presentations may be in the native language of the presenter; however, if the presentation is not to be made in English we ask that you provide the abstract in English in addition to an abstract in any other language.
Abstracts may be submitted up until the deadline of January 15, 2008 to Steven Clancy <sclancy@uchicago.edu>. Abstracts should be 500-750 words, but strict word limits are not required. Notification of acceptance will be provided by February 15, 2008.
We hope you will be able to join us for SCLC-2008. Please forward this call for papers to your colleagues and graduate students who may be interested in presenting or attending.
Sincerely,
Steven Clancy Tore Nesset
President, SCLA Vice-President, SCLA
on behalf of the SCLC-2008 organizing committee