the 10th International Conference of the Scandinavian Association for Language and Cognition (SALC10
Schedule
Tue, 23 Jun, 2026 at 12:00 am to Fri, 26 Jun, 2026 at 03:00 am
UTC+02:00Location
Humanisthuset | Umea, VB
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Call for papers - Please share!We invite proposals for oral presentation sessions as part of the 10th International Conference of the Scandinavian Association for Language and Cognition (SALC10) https://www.salc10.com/ at Umeå University, June 23-25, 2026.
The theme of the conference is Language, Cognition, and Learning.
Topics for oral presentations may include (but are not limited to):
• Language acquisition and cognition
• Cognitive perspectives on education and learning practices
• Discourse, metaphor, and learning
• Language and cognitive development and evolution
• Embodied cognition
• Neuro- and psycholinguistic approaches to language and cognition
• Language and cognition
• Discourse and cognition
• Metaphor, metonymy and cognition
• Language change and cognition
• Multicultural communication and cognition
• Perception, cognition and language
• Language and consciousness
• Language and gesture
• Linguistic typology and cognition
• Translation and cognition
• Cognitive impairment and language use
The conference will include plenary talks by Lars Nyberg, Marianne Gullberg, Mikkel Wallentin, and Reyes Llopis-García and the following theme sessions:
• Cognitive Aesthetics, Poetics, and Multimodal Creativity – organized by Lacey Okonski and Ljiliana Saric.
• Learning new languages changes the way we think: evidence from categorisation, judgment and decision-making - organized by Alexandra Dylman and Panos Athanasopoulos.
• Metaphorical competence in multicultural educational contexts – organized by Ana M. Piquer- Píriz.
• Metaphor and Learning: Conceptualization and Cognitive Dynamics – organized by Misuzu Shimotori and Niamh Anna O’Dowd.
• Motion events in focus: Encoding strategies, conceptual modelling and variation across and within languages - organized by Rickard Nilsson and Andrea C. Schalley.
Submission deadline: 30 November 2025
Welcome to Umeå University and SALC 10 - 20 years after the first International Conference and Constituting Meeting of SALC was held here!
The local organizing committee:
Marlene Johansson Falck, Per Boström & Kajsa Törmä in collaboration with:
Lacey Okonski, Anders Steinvall, Heli Tissari, Yulia Kashevarova, Maria Rosenberg, Linda Sandström & Qiujun Zhang
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