Convenors: Jamin Pelkey, Ľudmila Lacková Bennett and Mark Turner
Theme sessions.
The following theme sessions have been developed during ICLC 17:
Advances in Conceptual Blending Theory: Past and future
Extravagance and creativity through the empirical lens
Convenors: Stefan Hartmann and Tobías Ungerer
Stance-taking and gesture
Convenors: Maíra Avelar, Alan Cienki and Olga Iriskhanova
Cognitive insights, pedagogical shifts: Rethinking language teaching
Convenors: Helen Zhao and Kyoko Masuda
Intersubjectivity in grammar, discourse and cognition
Convenors: Augusto Soares da Silva and Diogo Pinheiro
Language as human behavior: The legacy of William Diver and Érica García
Convenors: Ludmila Novotny, Lucía Zanfardini, Ilia Afanasev and Daan van Soeren
Studies on the Río de la Plata Spanish from a cognitive linguistic approach
Convenors: Adriana Collado, Patricia C. Hernández and María Soledad Funes
Compositionality in Cognitive Constructional Perspective
Convenors: Corrine Occhino, Terry Janzen, Daz Saunders, Sally Rice, Jalon Begay and Cornelia Müller