The Slavic Cognitive Linguistics Association (SCLA) 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.
Membership in SCLA is free. If you would like to join, please send your contact information to Steven Clancy. We request the following information for our membership database:
Last name:
First name:
Middle name, initial, or patronymic (if used):
Preferred email address:
Country:
University or other affiliation:
Rank/Title:
Research Languages:
| 2000 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina), November 2000 |
| 2001 | University of Virginia (Charleston, Virginia), October 2001 |
| 2002 | Joint conference with FiCLA at the University of Turku (Turku, Finland), September 2002 |
| 2003 | (no conference) |
| 2004 | Joint conference with Perspectives on Slavistics at University of Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), September 2004 |
| 2005 | University of Kansas (Lawrence, Kansas), October 2005 |
| 2006 | Sessions at the Society for Slavic Linguistics 1st Annual Conference, Indiana University (Bloomington Indiana), September 2006 |
| 2007 | SCLC-2007 at the University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois) (more information), October 12-14, 2007 |
| 2008 | SCLC-2008 as a joint conference with the Estonian Cognitive Linguistics Association (ECLA) at the University of Tartu (Tartu, Estonia) (more information), May 29-June 1, 2008 |
| 2009 | SCLC-2009 at Charles University (Prague, Czech Republic) (call for papers and more information), October 15-17, 2009 |
The current SCLA officers are:
Steven J. Clancy, President since 2007
Tore Nesset, Vice-President since 2007
SCLA officers have consisted of a president and vice-president who serve for indefinite terms.
| First Term | Second Term | Third Term (current) |
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| 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 2009 Slavic Cognitive Linguistics Conference (SCLC-2009), October 15-17, 2009. We are very pleased to hold SCLC-2009 in conjunction with the Department of Czech Language and Theory of Communication of the Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. Full information about the conference may be found at the official conference website (http://ucjtk.ff.cuni.cz/sclc/sclc_eng.htm).
Papers concerning all aspects of Slavic languages (phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, sociolinguistic and broadly cultural aspects) from the perspective of cognitive linguistics are welcome. Abstracts may be submitted up until the deadline of March 31, 2009 to Steven Clancy <sclancy@uchicago.edu>. Abstracts should be approximately 500 words, but strict word limits are not required. Notification of acceptance will be provided by May 31, 2009. Please see the official conference website (http://ucjtk.ff.cuni.cz/sclc/sclc_eng.htm) for more details.
We hope you will be able to join us in Prague for SCLC-2009. Please forward this call for papers to your colleagues and graduate students who may be interested in presenting or attending.
All the best,
Steven Clancy
| Steven Clancy | Tore Nesset |
| President, SCLA | Vice-President, SCLA |
on behalf of the SCLC-2009 organizing committee
Team of organizers in Prague:
Mgr. Jan Chromý (chief coordinator)
doc. PhDr. Ivana Bozděchová, CSc.
Veronika Čurdová
PhDr. Jasňa Pacovská, CSc.
PhDr. Lucie Saicová Římalová, Ph.D.
PhDr. Lucie Šůchová
doc. PhDr. Irena Vaňková, CSc.
We also plan to organize a one-day pre-conference workshop on corpus linguistics, experimental methods and statistical analysis. This will take place on October 15, 2009 before the start of the main SCLC-2009 conference. More details forthcoming.