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7th Congress of the International Society of Applied Psycholinguistics Short Title: 7th ISAPL Congress Location: Cieszyn, Poland Date: 06-Sep-2004 - 09-Sep-2004 Web Site: http://www.us.edu.pl/uniwersytet/konferencje/2004/isapl Contact Person: Janusz Arabski Meeting Email: enofficeMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issueares.fils.us.edu.pl Linguistic Subfield(s): Psycholinguistics Meeting Description: We would like to invite all our Colleagues working in the field of psycholinguistics and related areas to the 7th Congress of the International Society of Applied Psycholinguistics (ISAPL) to be held in Cieszyn, Poland on 6 - 9 September 2004. The event is being organized by ISAPL in cooperation with the University of Silesia, who have kindly offered to sponsor the event. Visit our website: http://www.us.edu.pl/uniwersytet/konferencje/2004/isapl The theme of the Congress is ''Challenging tasks for psycholinguistics in the new century'' and it is organized into the following thematic sections: 1. Language and cognition 2. Speech comprehension and production 3. First language acquisition 4. Second language acquisition/foreign language learning 5. Language, communication and education 6. Bilingualism and multilingualism 7. Oral versus written communication 8. Verbal and nonverbal ways of communicating 9. Psycholinguistic analysis of literary texts 10. Psycholinguistic aspects of translation 11. Semiotics from a psycholinguistic perspective 12. Psycholinguistics and the mass media 13. Language disorders and speech pathology 14. Human communication models and computers 15. Mass communication, the media and psycholinguistics There will be a roundtable session on second language acquisition and other roundtable sessions following suggestions to be received by the 30th of June 2003. There will also be plenaries by invited speakers and specialists in the field. Prospective participants are requested to submit a proposal (abstract) for either an oral presentation or a poster in one of the thematic sections.