Aims and scope: Cultural Linguistics is an interdisciplinary field which studies how language and cultural cognition interrelate. It takes language to be a symbolic system that reflects, constructs and reproduces cultural concepts and practices. Under the influence of Cognitive Linguistics, Cultural Linguistics focuses on the mutual interrelations between language and cultural conceptualisation, and more generally between language, culture and cognition. Over the last two decades, Cultural Linguistics has witnessed tremendous growth and development in terms of theory, methodology, and application. The Cultural Linguistic framework has been applied to a range of phenomena within and beyond language, culture, and cognition, integrating the theory and methodological tools of various disciplines, such as cognitive psychology, Complexity Science, Distributed Cognition, anthropology, and ethnography.

Current research in Cultural Linguistics demonstrates that its analytical framework can offer fruitful inquiries into research areas such as writing system, semantics, pragmatics, discourse analysis, emotions, religion, sociolinguistics, gesture, signed language, intercultural communication, and Teaching English as an International Language (TEIL). Within these domains, cultural conceptualizations manifest in the forms of cultural schemata, cultural metaphors and metonymies, and cultural categories.

CLIC-2023 welcomes presentations based on studies conducted from a Cultural Linguistic perspective, involving research into how culture informs language and cognition, the nature of underlying cultural conceptualizations in language and the interface between Cultural Linguistics and other disciplines. Typical topics treated in the conference include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Language and cultural categorization
• Metaphors and metonymies across languages and cultures
• Cultural conceptualizations in signed languages
• Cultural conceptualizations and syntax
• Cultural conceptualizations and semantics
• Cultural conceptualizations and pragmatics
• Language and cultural conceptualizations of emotion/ religion/ kinship / addressing etc.
• Intercultural linguistics
• Intercultural cognitive linguistics
• Applied Cultural Linguistics (language learning and teaching, translation and interpreting)
• Diachronic Cultural Linguistics
• Cultural Linguistics and sociolinguistics
• Cultural Linguistics and intercultural communication
• Cultural Linguistics and political linguistics
• Cultural Linguistics and multimodality
• Cultural Linguistics and corpus linguistics
• Cultural Linguistics and philosophy of language
• Cultural Linguistics and gesture
• Theoretical construction and research methods in Cultural Linguistics

Chair:Professor Xu Wen |Southwest University, China

International Scientific Board:

Professor Angeliki Athanasiadou | Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Professor Daniel Casasanto| Cornell University

Professor Xiuwei Chu | Southwest University

Professor Jean-Marc Dewaele | University of London

Professor Shihong Du | Southwest University

Dr. Ad Foolen | Radboud University Nijmegen

Professor Roslyn M. Frank | University of Iowa

Professor Xianyao Hu | Southwest University

Professor Zoltán Kövecses | Eötvös Loránd University

Dr. Wei-lun Lu | Masaryk University

Professor Ian Malcolm | Edith Cowan University

Professor Qiyang Mo | Chongqing University

Professor Andreas Musolff | University of East Anglia

Professor Martin Pütz | Koblenz University

Dr. Frank Polzenhagen | Heidelberg University

Professor Chris Sinha | University of East Anglia

Professor James W. Underhill, Université de Rouen Normandie

Professor Kairong Xiao | Southwest University

Professor Ning Yu | Pennsylvania State University

Organizing Committee:

Dr. Liwei Chen | Southwest University, China

Mr. Qiang He | Southwest University, China

Ms. Elham Akhlaghi | Ferdowsi University, Iran

Dr. Andrijana Broćić | University of Belgrade, Serbia

Ms. Sarah Ghazi | Monash University, Australia

Dr. Judit Baranyiné Kóczy | University of Pannonia, Hungary

Dr. Marzieh Sadeghpour | Monash University, Australia

Dr. Ruiliang Tang | Southwest University, China

Dr. Li Yan, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, China

Professor Kun Yang | Southwest University, China

Professor Chris Sinha | University of East Anglia, UK

Professor Daniel Casasanto | Cornell University, USA

Professor Dennis Tay | The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China

Professor Diana Prodanović Stankić | University of Novi Sad, Serbia

Professor Gang He | East China Normal University, China

Professor Gábor Győri and Tímea Berényi-Nagy | J. Selye University, Slovakia/ University of Pécs, Hungary

Professor Judit Baranyiné Kóczy | University of Pannonia, Hungary

Professor Ning Yu | Pennsylvania State University, USA

Professor Rita Brdar-Szabó and Mario Brdar | Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary/ University of Osijek, Croatia

Professor Shihong Du | Southwest University, China

Dr. Vera da Silva Sinha | The University of Oxford, UK and the University of Bergen, Norway

Professor Xu Wen | Southwest University, China

Professor Zoltán Kövecses | Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary