Theme sessions.

The following theme sessions have been developed during ICLC 17:

Advances in Conceptual Blending Theory: Past and future

Convenors: Jamin Pelkey, Ľudmila Lacková Bennett and Mark Turner

Extravagance and creativity through the empirical lens

Convenors: Stefan Hartmann and Tobías Ungerer

Stance-taking and gesture

Convenors: Maíra Avelar, Alan Cienki and Olga Iriskhanova

Cognitive insights, pedagogical shifts: Rethinking language teaching

Convenors: Helen Zhao and Kyoko Masuda

Intersubjectivity in grammar, discourse and cognition

Convenors: Augusto Soares da Silva and Diogo Pinheiro

Language as human behavior: The legacy of William Diver and Érica García

Convenors: Ludmila Novotny, Lucía Zanfardini, Ilia Afanasev and Daan van Soeren

Studies on the Río de la Plata Spanish from a cognitive linguistic approach

Convenors: Adriana Collado, Patricia C. Hernández and María Soledad Funes

Compositionality in Cognitive Constructional Perspective

Convenors: Corrine Occhino, Terry Janzen, Daz Saunders, Sally Rice, Jalon Begay and Cornelia Müller