The Polish Cognitive Linguistics Association and the Institute of English and American Studies at the University of Gdańsk invite you to the international conference
Cognitive Linguistics in the Year 2026 to be held in Polish and English.
The leitmotif of this year’s conference is interdisciplinarity, understood as the integration of cognitive linguistics with other fields, including (among others) corpus linguistics, computational linguistics, applied linguistics, pragmatics, discourse analysis, language acquisition, and multimodality.
We particularly welcome active participation from researchers working in:
cognitive linguistics and/or its interfaces with other linguistic subdisciplines,
interdisciplinary approaches to various branches of linguistics that highlight potential implications or demonstrate practical applications in specific contexts.
We invite scholars from diverse backgrounds to present 20-minute papers reflecting contemporary research in the following areas: cognitive linguistics, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, language education, language acquisition, multilingualism, psychology of language, sociology of language, philosophy of language, media studies, political science, sociology, computer science, translation studies, cultural studies, and literary studies.
Within the conference programme, we are pleased to announce Thematic Panel 1 on Computational Methods in Cognitive Linguistics and Discourse Analysis, organised by Prof. Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk and Dr hab. Anna Bączkowska. The panel will focus on the application of corpus and computational linguistics tools, in particular the latest neural network-based methods for textual data analysis, such as Transformer architectures (e.g., BERT). Thematic Panel 2 is devoted to Cognitive perspectives on language in semantically-restricted domains: from lexis to discourse, organised by Dr hab. Iwona Witczak-Plisiecka and Dr Maria Szymańska (University of Łódź). The panel invites contributions focused on cognitive perspective on specialised discourse including professional registers (such as, e.g., legal language and medical discourse) to social varieties (such as gendered language). We are interested in lexical innovation and the motivation behind it, but also in corpus-based or corpus-assisted analyses of the spread of “powerful” items (e.g., “mansplain” or “whitesplain”) and a broader cognitive and sociopragmatic understanding of the convention-creativity continuum, i.e. how particular forms may just reflect social change, and how they sometimes may invite, create, or stabilize changes in society.

We especially welcome contributions addressing topics such as:
collocation and/or trend analysis,
topic modelling,
embeddings,
sentiment analysis (lexicon-based or neural network-based).
We look forward to receiving your abstracts by 10th of April.