LINGUIST List 12.136

Sat Jan 20 2001

Calls: Applied Linguistics, Lang/Special Purposes

Editor for this issue: Jody Huellmantel <jodylinguistlist.org>

Directory

1. Joyce.Milambiling, Applied Linguistics Section, Midwest Modern Languages
2. Anne Wagner, Language for Special Purposes

Call for Papers
Applied Linguistics Section, Midwest Modern Languages
Conference, November 1-3, 2001, Cleveland, Ohio

Sociolinguistics and Language Teaching Papers on the following as well
as other topics related to sociolinguistics and the teaching and
learning of languages are welcome. Possible topic areas:

Teaching about language variation

Helping students become aware of register in the second language

Including culture in language learning

Teaching about gender differences in language

Bringing research on language attitudes in the classroom

Send a one page abstract of your paper and a brief biographical
statement by regular mail, fax or e-mail to:

Dr. Joyce Milambiling
University of Northern Iowa
Department of English Language and Literature
Cedar Falls, Iowa 50614-0502

E-mail: joyce.milambilinguni.edu
Fax: (319) 273-5807

Abstract deadline: March 15, 2001
(Full papers will be due at the end of August, 2001 for advance distribution)

For more information on the conference see:
http://www.uiowa.edu/~mmla

20-24 August 2001: Vaasa University, Finland: 13th European Symposium on
LANGUAGE FOR SPECIAL PURPOSES, PORTA SCIENTIAE

http://www.uwasa.fi/lsp2001

FIRST CALL: PAPERS FOR THE FOLLOWING WORKSHOP:

"LEGAL DISCOURSE AND SOCIAL INQUIRY: its interpretation and 
innovative directions"

Convener: Dr ANNE WAGNER

Abstracts or full papers should be sent before May (at the latest)

e-mail: wagneruniv-littoral.fr

Content: It will give contributors an opportunity not only to re-assess the
linguistic descriptions of legal discourse, but also consider the utility of
the latter in relation to former and/or oncoming social, political,
legislative or jurisprudential developments. The topics and aspects to be
discussed could be speech acts, conversational structures, linguistic
(grammatical and lexical) phenomena in spoken and written sub-genres.