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uwe.ac.uk>Third International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB3) Local Organisers: Centre for European Studies (CES), Faculty of Languages and European Studies (LES) University of the West of England, Bristol Wednesday 18 April 2001 to Friday 20 April 2001 Venue: University of the West of England, Frenchay Campus, Coldharbour Lane, Bristol BS16 1QY, UK ACADEMIC ORGANISING COMMITTEE Professor Colin Baker (Wales/Bangor), Felix Bihlmeier (UWE), Dr Helmut Daller (UWE), Dr Margaret Deuchar (Wales/Bangor), Professor Ullrich Kockel (UWE), Dr Nicholas Miller (Newcastle), Professor Li Wei (Newcastle), Dr Stephen May (Bristol), Dr Susan Price (UWE), Professor Michael Scriven (UWE), Professor Gisela Shaw (UWE), Dr Jeanine Treffers-Daller (UWE) KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Professor Jim Cummins (Toronto) Dr Ton Dijkstra (Nijmegen) Professor Nancy Hornberger (Pennsylvania) Professor Juergen Meisel (Hambu Professor Suzanne Romaine (Oxford) CALL FOR PAPERS The conference organisers welcome papers from Theoretical, Sociolinguistic and Psycholinguistic approaches to Bilingualism, for example on issues such as the following: � Language Minorities and Minority Languages � Language Contact � Code-switching � Bilingual First Language Acquisition � Bilingual Cognitive Processing � Language Policy � Trilingualism � Language Maintenance, Language Shift � Intercultural Communication � Elite Bilingualism � Creole Linguistics � Endangered Languages Abstracts: The deadline for the submission of abstracts is 1 OCTOBER. Abstracts can be submitted as part of a colloquium (2-4 hour slot of papers around a topic), or individually for parallel sessions or posters. Due to the large number of contributions anticipated, the organisers may decide to accept a relatively high proportion of papers as posters. The criteria for selection will be: originality, significance to the development of the field, lucidity. Please see How to Submit Proposals section for further details. All submissions will be reviewed anonymously by members of the committee during September and October 2000. HOW TO SUBMIT PROPOSALS 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) on a PC formatted disk, of the abstract to the address given below. Please ensure that you save your work in a format readable by a Windows based PC. We are unable to read Apple Macintosh formatted disks or files. Please do NOT send abstracts by email or fax. Format of Abstracts Font: 12 pts Roman Title: centred and bold Author(s): under the title, with affiliation in parentheses Please provide full address details, email on a separate page. PLEASE NOTE: Papers need not be related to a colloquium. Papers can relate to any topic as specified under the call for papers. There is room for many individual papers in special paper sessions, unrelated to the colloquia. Notification of acceptance The Academic Committee will study the abstracts in October 2000 and authors will be notified at the beginning of November 2000. SCHOLARSHIPS A limited number of scholarships are available, on a competitive basis, for PhD students whose papers are accepted at ISB3. Scholarships will cover registration only. Travel and accommodation costs are not covered. Please see How to Submit Proposals. If you wish to apply for a scholarship please enclose a supporting letter indicating this and aletter from your institution confirming your student status. Applications must be received by 1 October 2000. All further information (about Colloquia, Registration and Accommodation) can be obtained from the website. http://www.uwe.ac.uk/facults/les/research/bilingual/frames.html email: ISBERGMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
m.cc.utah.edu>Call For Papers The Arabic Linguistics Society, The University of Utah and Brigham Young University announce the Fifteenth Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics to be held at The University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah March 2-3 2001 Papers are invited on topics that deal with the application of current linguistic theories and analyses to Arabic. Research in the following areas of Arabic linguistics is encouraged: grammatical analysis (phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics), sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, discourse analysis, historical linguistics, corpus linguistics, etc. Persons interested in presenting papers are requested to submit a one-page abstract giving the title of the paper, a brief statement of the topic, and a summary clearly stating how the topic will be developed (the reasoning, data, or experimental results to be presented). Authors are requested to be as specific as possible in describing their topics. Abstracts should be submitted by e-mail, where possible. The top lines of the message should contain the authors name, affiliation, address, phone number, e-mail address, and the title of the paper. The body of the abstract should then follow after 4 blank lines. The heading will be omitted before it is sent to the members of the paper selection committee. Please do not send attachments. If submitted by mail, both a disk copy and a hard copy are to be included. Names are not to appear on the abstract; instead, a 3x5 card with the above information should be enclosed. Twenty minutes will be allowed for each presentation. 2000 ALS membership dues ($20 faculty, $15 students) and conference fees ($25 preregistered) are to be submitted with all abstracts and must be received by the abstract deadline. Membership dues are non-refundable; conference fees are refundable, if requested, only to those whose papers are not accepted. Deadline for Receipt of Abstracts November 15 2000 Abstracts should be addressed to: Tessa Hauglid 1346 South 2950 East Spanish Fork UT 84660 Phone: 801-794-9387 E-Mail: tmh1Mail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue