Call for papers: AFLiCo 10 "Interaction and Discourse"

10th International Conference of the French Association for Cognitive Linguistics (AFLiCo 9)

Paris, 22-24 June 2026

https://aflico10.sciencesconf.org/

The French Cognitive Linguistics Association (AFLiCo) is pleased to announce its 10th international conference (AFLiCo10), to be held in Paris from June 22nd to June 24th 2026. The theme of the conference will be "Interaction and Discourse".

We encourage contributions that explore the multifaceted interplay between discourse and interaction from a cognitive linguistic perspective. We invite papers on, but not limited to, the following themes: multimodality, interaction, gesture studies, discourse analysis (political discourse, metaphor and/or metonymy), emotion, facial expressions, humor (irony and/or sarcasm, wordplay, spontaneous and non-spontaneous, etc.), stance-taking /intersubjectivity, common ground, didactics and L1/L2 acquisition, eye-tracking studies, corpus studies, etc.

Abstracts of no longer than 500 words (excluding references), in English or French, should be submitted by October 31st 2025 on this website: https://aflico10.sciencesconf.org/

Keynote speakers

Gaëtanelle Gilquin, UC Louvain, Belgium

Geert Brône, KU Leuven, Belgium

Elisabeth Zima, University of Freiburg, Germany

Charles Forceville, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

Important dates

Submission deadline: 31 Octobre 2025

Notification of acceptance: January 2026

Registration: Spring 2026

Conference: 22-24 June 2026

Introduction

The last few years have seen a growing interest for Cognitive Linguistics in France, resulting in new studies and stimulating exchanges. After various cognitively-oriented conferences and workshops, it was time to establish in France a more general hub for discussion, which motivated the creation of the French Association for Cognitive Linguistics (AFLiCo) in 2005.

Although Cognitive Linguistics is the main focus of the AFLiCo, the association aims to maintain a constructive and profitable discussion with the various French theoretical approaches in linguistics. In doing so, it will differ from the International Cognitive Linguistics Association (www.cognitivelinguistics.org), with which the AFLiCo is also associated since its creation. The AFliCo aims to include French scholars working in various theoretical frameworks and to encourage them to take an active part in its activities.

Mission statement (PDF)

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