We are delighted to announce the 52nd edition of the Poznań Linguistic Meeting on 13–15 September 2023. The Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań will organise the meeting. The submission deadline has been extended to 30 April 2023.
The leitmotif of the 52nd PLM will be “Why are some theories more successful than others?” Kurt Lewin (1952) wrote that “there is nothing more practical than a good theory.” At this year's PLM, we would like to reflect on the general question of what makes a theory good in linguistics. In particular, we would like to consider the issue of why some ideas are more successful than others – what makes some approaches enter the mainstream and become extremely popular, while others remain in the niche? Is it elegance of the proposed explanations? Economy? Predictive power? Social and political context? Or is it the support provided by empirical studies? We encourage participants to submit contributions from any area of linguistics, from any perspective.
Plenary events
Confirmed plenary lectures:
- Joseph V. Casillas (Rutgers University)
- Miriam Meyerhoff (University of Oxford)
- Wolfgang U. Dressler (Vienna University)
- Ophelia Deroy (Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich)
As is our tradition, we will conclude with a Grand Debate related to the leitmotif.
Submission guidelines
Proposals of thematic/workshop sessions and papers are invited for both oral and poster presentations related to the leitmotif, to other topics within modern linguistics, and to the topics of the thematic sessions.
Each paper in the general oral sessions will be given 30 minutes, including 10 minutes for discussion. Poster sessions will form an integral part of the conference programme. The number of submissions is limited to one single-authored plus one co-authored abstract per author (or two co-authored ones). This limitation does not apply to PhD candidate posters. The language of the conference is English. The submissions will be reviewed by our International Advisory Board.
More information about the event is available here.
he Poznań Linguistic Meeting (PLM) is an annual general linguistics conference that continues the tradition of the Polish–English contrastive conferences started by Jacek Fisiak in 1970. The name "Poznań Linguistic Meeting" was adopted in 1997, when Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk took over as the Head of the Organising Committee. The Meetings are organised by the Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań.