Book of Abstracts containing summaries of all YLMP2012 plenary talks, presentations and workshops can be accessed here. Please note, however, that every registered and paid up participant is eligible for a hard copy on their arrival at the RegDesk. 

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• Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk & Marcin Kilarski (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland)
  title: Phonetic descriptions of "primitive" languages: What do we learn from history?
• Alan Cienki (VU University, Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
  title: The variable time scales of verbal and gestural expression:
  Challenges for cognitive linguistics as a usage-based approach 
• Michal Starke (University of Tromsø, Norway)
  title: Impossible syncretisms - a new tool for discovering syntactic structures
• Gerlinde Mautner (Vienna University of Economics and Business)
  title: When Silence is not so Golden:
  On the Lack of Dialogue Between Linguistics and Management Studies
• Dennis Preston (Oklahoma State University)
  title: Linguistic Insecurity 40 years later
• Kevin Harvey (The University of Nottingham)
  title: A corpus linguistics approach to online health communication: Using keywords to interrogate issues of emotional distress 
  
  

Impossible syncretisms - a new tool for discovering syntactic structures

• Gerlinde Mautner (Vienna University of Economics and Business)
  title: Critical discourse analysis and corpus linguistics: An exercise in reflexive methodology
• Kevin Harvey (The University of Nottingham)
  title: Introducing Health Communication: Discourse-based approaches
• Karolina Rataj (Adam Mickiewicz University)
  title: Introduction to research methods in psycholinguistics
• Ronald Kim (Adam Mickiewicz University)
  title: From West Germanic to World Englishes:internal and external change in the history of English
• Alan Cienki (VU University, Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
  title: Analyzing metaphor in gesture: An introduction
• Aleksandra Jankowska & Iwona Łęska-Drajerczak (Adam Mickiewicz University) 
  title: Subtitled video materials as a versatile resource for foreign language learning 

We are happy to announce that a panel devoted to Language and Communication in Media and Political Contexts will take place during YLMP2012. Please see the abstract for more details.