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Bethan Davies (B.L.DaviesMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issueleeds.ac.uk) on behalf on the Linguistic Politeness Research Group One day conference at Loughborough University, UK. Saturday, 14th September 2002 Politeness and Power Keynote speaker: Richard Watts Proposals for papers are now invited on any aspect of politeness scholarship that relates to power: - Papers should be for sessions of 40 minutes, including at least 10 minutes for discussion. - Deadline: 31st May 2002 - Proposals shuld be of 300 words, and sent in by email / email attachment to c.christie
lboro.ac.uk. Registration, refreshment and lunch 40 / Postgraduates 15. Further information will be available via Chris Christie at the above address, or from the Group's website: http://www.linguisticpoliteness.eclipse.co.uk
Second call for papers - second call for papers - second call for papers We are pleased to announce the annual conference of the Gesellschaft fuer Semantik: Sinn und Bedeutung SuB 7 University of Konstanz (Germany), October 3 - 5, 2002 Guest speakers: Kai von Fintel Wolfgang Klein Anna Szabolcsi We invite papers for talks of 30 min + 15 min discussion on any topic in formal semantics or pragmatics, cognitive semantics, the syntax-semantics interface, typological and historical research in semantics, and related issues. Abstracts must be confined to 2 pages (A4). We will accept email submissions in Word (up to Word98), rtf or pdf, or plain paper abstracts (three copies). The deadline for submission is June 30, 2002, notification of acceptance can be expected around August 9, 2002. Program committee: Johannes Daelling, Ewald Lang, Claudia Maienborn, Renate Musan, Irene Rapp, Uli Sauerland, Wolfgang Sternefeld Abstracts should be sent to regine.eckardtMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issuesprachwiss.uni-konstanz.de or to: Regine Eckardt, Fachbereich Sprachwissenschaft, Universitaet Konstanz, Universitaet sstr 10, 78457 Konstanz, Germany. You can find more and updated information about SuB 7 at http://ling.uni-konstanz.de/pages/conferences/sub7/ The organizers Regine Eckardt Wilhelm Geuder Klaus von Heusinger Mathias Weisgerber