The Cognitive Research Center for Language and Communication
The Cognitive Research Center for Language and Communication deals with coginitive aspects of different ways of communication
For several years, research on these issues has experienced a real boom in many significant research centers in the world. They are also undertaken by linguists from the Faculty of Philology at the University of Wrocław. Recently, the employees of the Institute of Polish Philology, the Institute of English Philology and the Institute of Romance Philology have joined forces with particularly good and close cooperation in the field of cognitive research. Its fruits included: the international conference “Cognitive Linguistics in the Year 2012”, workshops in corpus and statistical linguistics by prof. Dylan Glyn, lectures by prof. Mark Turner on multimodal communication and conceptual integration connected with workshops, or the publication of the volume “From Conceptual Metaphor Theory To Cognitive Ethnolinguistics. Patterns of Imagery in Language” (2014). Cognitive linguists from the Institute of Polish Philology and the Institute of English Philology, who are part of the Cognitive Research Center for Language and Communication, also have experience of close cooperation in the editorial office of the bilingual, international online magazine “Language, Mind, Culture and Society” (LaMiCuS).
The Faculty Research Center aims to better integrate the existing projects and include them in broader perspectives of research, popularization and didactic activities in cooperation with other Polish and foreign research centers as well as external stakeholders from the socio-economic environment.
We aim, in particular, to conduct scientific research, organize methodological workshops, conduct didactic classes and popularize activities in the field of cognitive linguistics, in particular:
- cognitive meaning research, traditionally placed in the field of linguistic semantics and pragmatics;
- cognitive grammar;
- cognitive ethnolinguistics;
- cognitive research on bilingualism; acquisition of the second and inherited language;
- research on the cognitive aspects of multimodal communication;
- cognitive corpus and statistical research.
We work with entities with similar goals in Poland and abroad, such as the Cognitive Linguistics Institutes at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań and UMCS in Lublin, the Polish Society of Cognitive Linguistics, The Distributed Little Red Hen Lab, Center for Cognitive Science at Hunan Normal University in Changsha, The International Cognitive Linguistics Association, and the research conducted by our team is supported by the Scientific Council.
The Cognitive Research Center for Language and Communication operates at the Institute of Polish Philology:
Nankiera Square 15b
50-140 Wrocław
phone: +48 71 375 28 69
email: ccslc@uwr.edu.pl
