We are pleased to announce that the 2009 conference of the Linguistic Society of Belgium (LSB) will be held at Lessius Antwerp , Belgium, Thursday April 23rd and Friday the 24th.

This meeting will be devoted to Framing: from grammar to application. The conference wants to stimulate reflection on recent insights and future challenges for the development of different approaches to framing and frame semantics. Frame semantics (Ch. Fillmore) arose out of an empirical tradition and gave rise to fundamental new insights in formal linguistics and the semantics of grammar. Right from the start, this grammatical orientation, in line with similar developments in cognitive psychology, led to semantic-role descriptions of lexical domains and so-called Framenet(s), and it has an important impact on the study of how discourse sequences are linguistically structured and interpreted in everyday language or language for specific purposes (LSP).

The textual or discursive aspect of framing implies extra-textual (domain) knowledge, thus touching upon genre on the one hand and ideology on the other. Within the field of lexicography and terminography, frame-based approaches for the processing and representation of definitory knowledge have been elaborated. In the social sciences, based on seminal work by Erving Goffman, framing deals with the analysis of multiple and alternative interpretation schemas active in the social construction of phenomena, which lead the perception of an audience, in fields as different as interaction analysis, psychotherapy, and media language or economic and political discourse, amongst other discourse types.

We invite scholars of diverse disciplines and working on various languages to contribute to this conference. Papers dealing with any facet of frame theory are welcome, including research on the relation between framing and other (cognitive) grammatical models, language use, and discourse analysis. Papers will be selected on the basis of their theoretical or methodological import and/or the thorough analysis of empirical data or specific corpora, both mono- and multilingual. The conference is open to papers with different theoretical backgrounds or empirical orientations.

Issues to be addressed during the conference include but are not limited to:

• critical assessment of framing and frame semantics,
• (interdisciplinary) comparison of framing models,
• the relation between framing and other (cognitive) grammatical models,
• the relation between framing and corpus linguistics,
• frames in interaction analysis,
• Framenet(s) (and the possible relation with Wordnet),
• the use of framing in particular fields or domains of application, such as journalism studies, political science, economics, lexicography and terminography, communication sciences, IT, medicine or law.

The official languages of the conference will be English, French and Dutch.