The Polish Cognitive Linguistics Association (PCLA), an affiliate of the International Cognitive Linguistics Association (ICLA), is a non-profit science organization existing officially since October 2001 (unofficially a year longer). Among honorary members are Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk (the first president of the Association; between 2001 and 2008), Ronald W. Langacker, and Laura Janda.
News
7 May 2026
We are pleased to invite you to the international conference CiLD 2026, held on 21–23 September 2026 at the University of Łódź, Poland. The conference explores construal as a central concept for understanding meaning construction across language, discourse, cognition, and multimodal communication.
24 April 2026
On behalf of the editorial board of LaMiCuS, we invite submissions for the upcoming issue, which is dedicated to research at the intersection of linguistics and other disciplines.
27 February 2026
On behalf of the organizers We warmly invite you to the “Cognitive Linguistics in the Year 2026” conference in Gdańsk, Poland.
Announcements
PCLA’s statement concerning the war in Ukraine
The Executive Committee and Advisory Board of the Polish Cognitive Linguistics Association express their full solidarity with Ukraine, which has become the target of unprovoked military aggression. Following the statement of the Polish Ministry of Education and Science, issued on March 1st, 2022, Poland is putting on hold all scientific cooperation with Russian and Belarusian scholars and scientific institutions. As a consequence, PCLA suspends all cooperation with scientists affiliated with Russian and Belarusian scientific institutions.
Membership fee
The membership fee is 25 euro per year. The payment can be made via a bank transfer. Click here for more information.