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uiuc.edu>*** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION *** The Ninth Annual Meeting of the International Association of World Englishes (IAWE) will be held at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 17-20 October, 2002. We invite abstracts of 20-minute papers and 3 hour colloquia on all aspects of World Englishes, including: Grammatical descriptions of world Englishes Discourse Strategies Genre Analysis Second/Foreign Language Acquisition/Pedagogy Evaluation, testing, and intelligibility Code-switching. mixing,and borrowing Power, ideology, and identity Planning and politics Attrition: Impact/influence of English on the structures of indigenous languages English in media and advertising Abstract Deadline: 1 April, 2002. Length of abstract of individual papers: 400 words Colloquium abstracts: 500 words + individual abstracts Send 7 copies of abstract on/before the deadline to: Rakesh M. Bhatt Department of Linguistics University of Illinois 4088 FLB, 707 S. Mathews Ave Urbana, IL 61801 USA For inquiries, email: rbhattMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
georgetown.edu>CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT and CALL FOR PAPERS Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (GURT) 2002: Discourse Analysis and Technology: Multimodal Discourse Analysis March 7 - 9, 2002 Georgetown University Washington, D.C. Conference Chairs: Ron Scollon and James E. Alatis NEW DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS: FRIDAY DECEMBER 14, 2001 GURT 2002 will open up a discussion among discourse analysts and others both in linguistics and in related fields about the two-fold impact of new communication technologies: The impact on how we collect, transcribe, and analyze discourse data and, possibly more importantly, the impact on social interactions and discourses themselves that these technologies are having. Discourse analysis as we know it is in many ways the product of technological change. Small, inexpensive cassette tape recorders made it possible to capture language in use in a way that was prohibitively difficult before the 60's. Now we are seeing the proliferation of communication technologies from palm-sized digital video recorders to cell phones and chat rooms on the internet. Journals are going online and theses are being submitted in multimedia formats. The term 'multimodality' is coming to be used across many fields within which linguists work to encompass these many new technological changes. GURT 2002 brings together scholars working in a variety of fields and subdisciplines of linguistics both to assess the state of the art in different areas of research as well as to facilitate cross-disciplinary and cross-subfield links in the development of research in discourse and technological change. PLENARY SPEAKERS: Lilie Chouliaraki, Institute of Film and Media, University of Copenhagen Colleen Cotter, Department of Linguistics, Georgetown University Frederick Erickson, Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, UCLA Carey Jewitt, Culture, Communication and Societies, Institute of Education, London Joel Kuipers, Department of Anthropology at George Washington University Theo van Leeuwen, Centre for Language and Communication Research, Cardiff University Marilyn Whalen, KIPA (Knowledge, Interaction, and Practice Area) Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), Xerox Corporation CALL FOR ABSTRACTS The Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (GURT) 2002 welcomes papers related to the conference theme, including but not limited to the topics of multimodal discourse analysis, the impact of technology on discursive practices, and the effect of new technologies on data collection, analysis and presentation. We invite proposals for individual papers as well as for 2-hour colloquia. Specifications for all proposal submissions follow. INDIVIDUAL PAPERS will be 20 minutes long followed by 10 minutes of discussion. To propose an individual paper, send four copies of a one-page abstract. In the upper left-hand corner of one copy, place the submitter's name, address, phone, e-mail address, and institutional affiliation. The other three copies should contain no identifying information. Organizers of COLLOQUIA may send proposals for 2-hour blocks of time. Colloquium organizers serve as the liaison between participants in their colloquium and the GURT 2002 organizers, and are responsible for communication among the participants. To propose a colloquium, send four copies of a single page statement from the organizer explaining the theme of the colloquium, how the individual presentations relate to each other, and how the time will be allocated. In the upper left-hand corner of one copy, place the organizer's name, address, phone, e-mail address, and institutional affiliation. The other three copies should contain no identifying information. In addition to the organizer's umbrella abstract, four copies of one-page abstracts should be sent for each individual presentation within the colloquium. In the upper left-hand corner of one copy, place the presenter's name, address, phone, e-mail address, and institutional affiliation. The other three copies should contain no identifying information. Abstracts for all presentations within one colloquium must be submitted together. ALL PROPOSALS MUST BE RECEIVED BY FRIDAY DECEMBER 14, 2001. Send proposals to: GURT 2002, Department of Linguistics, Georgetown University Washington, D.C. 20057-1051. E-mail inquiries should be directed to: gurtMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue