LINGUIST List 10.967

Mon Jun 21 1999

Calls: American Dialect Society, Sociolinguistics

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

Directory

1. Dennis R. Preston, American Dialect Society 2000
2. Treffers-Daller, Jeanine, Sociolinguistics Symposium 2000

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Annual Meeting of the American Dialect Society will be held with the
Linguistic Society of America January 6-9 at the Palmer House Hilton in
Chicago.

In one session, papers which focus on variation in the Midwest will be
featured; in addition, of course, we invite the usual wide range of papers
on language and dialect variety.

This year's Word of the Year selection expands to several competitions: the
Words of the Decade, Century, and Millennium. There will also be the usual
new books reception, our luncheon with a distinguished speaker, and a new
ADS T-shirt - the second in our "Pioneer" series, featuring Louise Pound
(on a bicycle).

If you would like to be a contributing part of all this, send your abstract
now for inclusion in a program fast filling up. Hard copy is acceptable,
but e-mail submissions are vastly preferred. Please include, with your
abstract, your name, snail-mail address, institutional affiliation, and
request for any equipment which you may need for your presentation. (You
need not request an overhead projector.)

Send your abstract and accompanying information to:

prestonpilot.msu.edu
or, if e-mail is not available to you, to
Dennis R. Preston
4409 Copperhill Drive
Okemos MI 48864 USA

Please be so kind as to send a duplicate to

Aallanaol.com
or, if e-mail is not available to you, to
Allan Metcalf
English Department
MacMurray College
Jacksonville, IL 62650 USA

August 16 is the absolute deadline for receipt of abstracts, but the
program is likely to be filled if you wait that long.







Dennis R. Preston
Department of Linguistics and Languages
Michigan State University
East Lansing MI 48824-1027 USA
prestonpilot.msu.edu
Office: (517)353-0740
Fax: (517)432-2736

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 will be available shortly 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