PhD students’ discussion session

Small group discussion session with a distinguished cognitive linguist

During the ICLC-14, we offer an exclusive opportunity for young researchers to meet with leading figures in cognitive linguistics. This event is initiated to give PhD students a unique chance to discuss their research topics with a distinguished linguists. The discussion sessions will take place during the lunch-break on Tuesday (July 11th) or Thursday (July 13th) (lunch and drinks provided) and every mentor will meet with up to 2 PhD students for an informal conversation.

It is our pleasure to announce that there are 14 outstanding cognitive linguists who are happy to meet with the students during the ICLC-14: Ronald W. Langacker, Nick C. Ellis, Laura A. Janda, John Newman, Maarten Lemmens, Jordan Zlatev, Todd Oakley, Arie Verhagen, Ewa Dabrowska, Zoltán Kövecses, Elsi Kaiser, Dagmar Divjak, Asifa Majid and Dirk Geeraerts.

For applying for a position in the discussion session, we kindly ask you to write a short letter of motivation (max 300 words). Based on the letters, the organizers will choose the participants and assign them to a particular distinguished linguist. The letter should address the following questions:

1. From the list of distinguished cognitive linguists mentioned above, who would you like to meet with?

2. Why would you like to meet him/her?

3. What would be the burning questions or topics you would like to discuss with him/her at the discussion session?

4. What do you hope to gain from this session?

The deadline for the motivation letters is June 2nd. Please send your motivation letter to Maria Reile (maria.reile@ut.ee) and Helen Hint (helen.hint@ut.ee).

After the event, all of the participants who attended the discussion session, are requested to write a brief blog-style overview of the meeting (max. 10 sentences) which will be posted to our conference web site.