LINGUIST List 10.1037

Tue Jul 6 1999

Calls: Sociolinguistics, Cognitive Science/Japan

Editor for this issue: Karen Milligan <karenlinguistlist.org>

Directory

1. Treffers-Daller, Jeanine, Sociolinguistics Symposium 2000
2. Koiti Hasida, ICCS/JCSS99

UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND, BRISTOL (UWE, Bristol)
CENTRE FOR EUROPEAN STUDIES (CES), FACULTY OF LANGUAGES AND EUROPEAN STUDIES (LES)
& SCHOOL OF SOCIOLOGY, FACULTY OF ECONOMICS AND SOCIAL 
SCIENCES (ESS) 

Sociolinguistics Symposium 2000
The Interface between Linguistics and Social Theory

27-29 April 2000
CALL FOR PAPERS
 
The Sociolinguistics Symposium 2000 is the thirteenth meeting of the Sociolinguistics
Symposium which meets once every two years. This conference 
will focus primarily on the Interface between Linguistics 
and Social Theory, and it is hoped the meeting will 
contribute to further cooperation between the two 
disciplines. The conference welcomes papers from a range of 
different subject areas such as: language variation and 
change, language and gender, language and the media, 
discourse analysis, languages in contact, creole 
linguistics, intercultural communication, language and 
migration, language and education, language development, 
critical linguistics, and other related topics.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS 
Professor Allan Bell (Auckland) : Bakhtin and a Dialogical 
Theory of Language.
Professor Jack Chambers (Toronto): Leaders and laggers in the diffusion of changes 
Professor David Corson (Toronto) Critical Realism: An Emancipatory Social 
Philosophy for Sociolinguistics 
Professor Pieter Muysken (Leiden): Radical Modularity and the Possibility of 
SocioLinguistics
Professor Shana Poplack (Ottawa): The Social Context of Linguistic Variation 
(working title) 
Professor Ruth Wodak (Vienna): Does Sociolinguistics need Social Theory? 
New Perspectives in Critical Discourse Analysis

TITLES OF COLLOQUIA: the titles of 17 colloquia, as well as 
a description and provisional lists of contributors are on 
the website (see below).

Academic Committee
Professor Michael Scriven,UWE, Bristol; Professor Alison Assiter,UWE, Bristol; 
Mr Felix Bihlmeier,UWE, Bristol; Dr Susan Price, UWE, Bristol; Dr Carmen Arnaiz, UWE, Bristol; 
Mrs Kate Beeching, UWE, Bristol; Mr John Bird, UWE, Bristol; 
Professor Jim Coleman, Portsmouth; Professor Nikolas 
Coupland, Cardiff; Dr Aidan Coveney, Exeter; Dr Helmut 
Daller, UWE, Bristol; Professor Roy Harris, Oxford; Dr 
Stephen May, Bristol; Dr Tom Osbourne, Bristol; Dr Mark 
Sebba, Lancaster; Dr Sali Tagliamonte,York; Dr Jeanine 
Treffers-Daller,UWE, Bristol; Mr Jem Thomas,UWE, Bristol; Dr
Glyn Williams, Wales at Bangor.

DEADLINE

The deadline for submission of abstracts is: 1 September 
1999.

Abstracts are welcomed for oral presentation (20 mins + 10 mins
discussion) or poster presentation. Please send 4 hard copies, one of
which contains your name and address, as well as an electronic version
(Rich Text Format) of the abstract to the address given below. Please
send 4 hard copies, one of which contains your name and address, as
well as an electronic version (Rich Text Format) of the abstract to
the address given below.

REGISTRATION
Registration details are available from the 
website. Registration forms can also be sent to you 
directly if you send an email to SS2000uwe.ac.uk.

FOR MORE INFORMATION

More information about the conference programme, the venue and the
general organisation of the event can be found either on our website:
http://www.uwe.ac.uk/facults/les/research/sociling2000.html

or at our address/numbers below:

Jeanine Treffers-Daller
Centre for European Studies (CES)
Faculty of Languages and European Studies
University of the West of England, Bristol
Frenchay Campus, Coldharbour Lane
Bristol, BS16 1QY, UK
E-mail: ss2000uwe.ac.uk
Fax: ++44 117 976 2626

********************** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ************************

 The Second International Conference on Cognitive Science
 and
 The 16th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Cognitive Science Society
 Joint Conference (ICCS/JCSS99)

 July 27-30, 1999.
 
 International Conference Center, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan.

 http://www.sccs.chukyo-u.ac.jp/ICCS99/ 

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