PUBLICATION

We're happy to inform our presenters that we're planning a two-volume publication based on your talks with the following tentative titles:

- Socially relevant applied linguistics: translating research into practice
- Linguistic takes on the mind and brain: psycho-, neuro- and cognitive perspectives

YLMP2012 and 2014 participants whose talks fit these leitmotifs should have received email notifications with guidelines by now. 

Young Linguists' Meeting in Poznań (YLMP) is a congress organised by and for young linguists
who appreciate the significance of interdisciplinary research and therefore want to go beyond
the traditional branches of linguistics. We believe that the connection between linguistics
and other fields of study, such as psychology or sociology, is both crucial and pervasive.
Our goal is to present the advantages of an integrated approach and emphasize its importance for contemporary linguistic research.

The interdisciplinarity of the conference is expressed in its leitmotif, which is

"Directions in interdisciplinary linguistic research: Embracing diversity"

young linguist /jʌŋ ' lɪŋɡwɪst/ noun [countable]

• person enrolled in a BA, MA or a PhD programme 
• BA- and MA holder
• PhD holder up to five years after their defence

It goes without saying that people who fall outside this definition are more than welcome to attend the event without a paper of their own and contribute to the discussions. 

Plenary speakers already confirmed:

• Paul Baker (Lancaster University, UK)
  title: Mars and Venus Re-appraised: Exploring the idea of “genderlects” in the British National Corpus
• Heiko Motschenbacher (Goethe-Universität, Germany)
  title: Normativity as a Key Concept in Language and Sexuality Studies
• Srikant Sarangi (Aalborg University, Denmark)
  title: Towards an epistemology of professional practice: blending expertise with responsibility
• Johanna Kissler (Bielefeld University, Germany)
  title: Emotion and word processing-from lexical to social relevance
• Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland)
  title: Are frequent, early and easy clusters also unmarked?
• Jane Sunderland (Lancaster University, UK)
  title: Gender representation in language textbooks: moving on
• Gregory Kroliczak (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland)
  title:The organization of gesture and language, and their relationships to hand dominance. Evidence from functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)

To have a look at this edition's workshops offer, click here and then select the 'workshops' bookmark. Enjoy! 

What makes it worth participating in YLMP conferences? Without any doubt we could give a plethora of reasons for doing so. There is one problem – our words might not seem credible. This, however, does not concern our former participants and special guest s. Below you can find some thoughts and reflections that participants of the previous YLMP editions kindly shared with us.

• Prof. Gerlinde Mautner (Vienna University of Economisc and Business)
  I very much enjoyed YLMP 2012. It was an honour and a pleasure to deliver a plenary to such a receptive and friendly audience. I have many happy memories of the conference – VIP treatment by the faultlessly professional organisers, really interesting papers by an impressive array of very talented young linguists, and all that against the backdrop of a stunningly beautiful city. All the best for YLMP 2014, which I'm sure will also be a resounding success. Many "Old Linguists' Meetings" could take a leaf out of your book... 

• Dr. Alexander Rapp (Die Universitatsklinik fur Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie: die Arbeitsgruppe Kognitive Neuropsychiatrie, Tubingen): 
  "I definitively enjoyed my time at the YLMP every minute: the organisation was perfect and      couldn´t be better, the venue is ideal for the meeting, but the best thing was the fresh and stimulating atmosphere during the meeting. A lot has been said about problems to arouse interest for research in students these days, but meetings like the YLMP are definitively an absolutely excellent idea. I can only advice young colleagues to join the 2010 meeting! The meeting is as well brilliant for non-linguists who want to learn in this field, really interdisciplinary in its very best sense! It would be a pleasure for me to come back in 2010."
   

• Prof. Patrick Hanks (Charles University in Prague):
  "YLMP 2009 was a most impressive and enjoyable event. It was organized by junior faculty and research students, but was in no way inferior to longer-established senior linguistic congresses. The quality of the selected papers was first class, with some well-researched and thought-provoking contributions, presented in a professional style. The organization and admin. was faultless. Perhaps because the congress was organized by young Polish academics and attended by young linguics from all over the world, it was especially notable for its buzz of intellectual excitement and enthusiasm. The choice of visiting speakers was imaginative, with a stimulating interdisciplinary mixture. It was a great pleasure for me to be able to attend, to meet new people, and to learn so much. Well done, YLMP! I wish you equally successful congresses in future years. The future of linguistics in Poznan is in good hands."