Theme Session Procedures

Theme sessions at ICLC 11, Xi'an are expected to encourage the broadest participation possible by scholars in the entire cognitive linguistics community and to present studies that are of as high caliber as those presented in the general session. We ask that theme session organizers follow these procedures:

1. Announce their call for papers on the listserv Cogling and send it to the conference website for posting (Contact email: iclc11@xisu.edu.cn).  They are also encouraged to publicize their calls on other popular listservs (e.g., funknet, linguistlist) or venues.
2. By October 15, 2010 Nov. 5, 2010, submit to the Organizing Committee a one-page proposal plus a list of potential presenters and their titles (with a maximum of three-sentence description for each) for review by a panel composed of members of the Organizing Committee (iclc11@xisu.edu.cn) and the Advisory Committee.
3. In the latter part of October By Nov. 7, 2010, theme session organizers will receive decisions on their sessions from the review panel. For an approved theme session, the organizer should remind his/her presenters to submit their abstracts to the Organizing Committee by November 15, 2010. Should a session not be approved, the organizer is asked to encourage his/her presenters to submit their abstracts to the general session.
4. By February 15, 2011, theme session organizers will have received the results of the abstract review. Should the number of accepted presentations for a theme session fall below 5, the session will be cancelled. Should it be greater than 24, the organizer will be asked to select no more than 24 for the session. Those presentations not selected by the organizer will be automatically routed to the general session.