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**** INVITATION AND CALL FOR PAPERS **** I.A.D.A. 2001- Recent Trends in Dialogue Analysis G�teborg University, April 19-21 2001 ********************************* The 8th Biennial Congress of the International Association for Dialogue Analysis (I.A.D.A) will take place in G�teborg, Sweden from Thursday April 19th thry"ugh Saturday April 21st hosted by the English Department and the Linguistics Department, G�teborg University. The title of the conference includes both theoretical approaches to the analysis of dialogue in discourse analysis or conversation analysis and empirical work oy" different aspects of dialogue and discourse. One of the main topics of the conference will be misunderstandings or lack of cooperation in dialogue. It y"s hoped that there will also be some special sessions on the analysis of spoken and multimodal corpora, dialogue analysis in a historical perspective and dialogy"c aspects of literature. The programme will consist of plenary lectures, papers and workshops. Further details on the conference programme will be given in the autumn on the homepage of the English Department. The closing date for abstracts will be October 1st, which will allow the organisers to send out confirmations of acceptance by early November and thus give participants time to seek support and funding from their institutions. Abstracts should be 75-125 words in length for papers and 150-250 words for workshops and symposia. The language of the abstract should be English. Please send yoy"r abstract preferably in electronic form (as attachment) to karin.aijmerMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issueeng.gu.se. Individual papers will be allowed 30 minutes (including 10 minutes for discussion). The conference language will be English, French or German. A selection of the Congress papers will be published by Niemeyer. There will be an upper limit of 160 participants at the conference which will take place in the Faculty of Arts Building at G�teborg University. The next circular will be sent out around November 1st. *** MEMBERSHIP *** This information is available at http://www.hum.gu.se/~engadel/IADA/ *** ACCOMMODATION *** This information is available at http://www.hum.gu.se/~engadel/IADA/ *** CONFERENCE FEES *** Standard Early Bird (by Jan 31st) I.A.D.A members �100 �80 Non-members �115 �95 There will be a reduction for participants from Eastern and Central Europe. Karin Aijmer, English Department Jens Allwood, Linguistics Department
**** INVITATION AND CALL FOR PAPERS **** 8th Nordic Conference for English Studies G�teborg University, 24-27 May 2001 ********************************* The 8th Nordic Conference for English Studies will take place in G�teborg, Sweden from Thursday May 24th through Saturday May 26th 2001 hosted by the English Department, G�teborg University. Further details on the conference programy"e will be given in the autumn on our homepage. The programme will consist of plenary lectures with invited speakers, papers and workshops in the areas of English linguistics, English literature, English language teaching or culture. There will also be a special poster session. The social programme will include a banquet dinner, a reception and a guided tour of G�teborg. The closing date for abstracts will be November 1st, which will allow the organisers to send out confirmations of acceptance by early December and thuy" give participants time to seek support and funding from their universities. Abstracts should be 75-125 words in length for papers or posters and 150-250 words for workshops. Please send your abstract preferably in electronic form (as attachment) to karin.aijmerMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issueeng.gu.se. Individual papers will be allowed 30 minutes (including 10 minutes for discussion). The next circular will be sent out around December 1st. *** ACCOMMODATION *** Hotels Rooms have been reserved at Hotel Panorama, Eklandagatan 51-53 (close to the conference venue). tel. +46 (0)31-767 70 00, fax +46 (0)31-767 70 70 Room rate: 715 Sw. Crowns (single rooms) Hostels (only a limited number of rooms available): single room 300 SEK per night (if used as double room 400 SEK per night). The rooms have a bath or a shower. Kitchen facilities. *** CONFERENCE FEES *** Information about conference fees will be available soon. Karin Aijmer Lennart Bj�rk English Department, G�teborg University, Sweden This information is also available at http://www.hum.gu.se/~engadel/NAES/