LINGUIST List 14.1411

Sat May 17 2003

Calls: General Ling; Pragmatics/Phonology/Phonetics

Editor for this issue: Marie Klopfenstein <marielinguistlist.org>

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1. elctengj, 1st Centre for English Language Communication Symposium
2. watsonk, 6th North West Centre for Linguistics Conference

1st Centre for English Language Communication Symposium: Paradigm
Shifts in English Language Teaching and Learning
Short Title: 1st CELC Symposium

Date: 03-Jun-2004 - 04-Jun-2004
Location: Hilton Hotel, Singapore
Contact: Regina So
Contact Email: elcsornus.edu.sg 

Linguistic Sub-field: General Linguistics 
Call Deadline: 10-Oct-2003

Meeting Description:

The Centre for English Language Communication, National University of
Singapore invites colleagues from all over the world to participate in
an international symposium for English language teachers. This
symposium will provide a forum for classroom-based research paper
presentations and small group discussions to give presenters and
participants an enriching professional development experience.

Aims:
- To encourage professional growth and development among language
teachers from schools, junior colleges and tertiary institutions.
- To provide a platform for language teachers to air and share their
views and experiences as practitioners in the classroom.
- To offer an opportunity for dialogue between language researchers
and language teachers from secondary schools, junior colleges and
tertiary institutions.

Featured Speakers:
* Professor S. Gopinathan, National Institute of Education, Singapore
* Professor Diane Larsen-Freeman, University of Michigan, USA
* Professor Theodore S. Rodgers, University of Hawaii, USA

Topic Areas:
* Language learning and teaching in the age of information technology
* Cooperative learning methods and materials
* Integrating critical and creative thinking and language teaching
* Language planning and policy at the school, national, regional, and
international levels
* Teaching methodology for the future
* Local vs. global materials for language teaching
* Learner autonomy and language learning
* Classroom management
* Academic and workplace litera Presentations:
1.Parallel Papers
These are lecture presentations to a formal audience lasting thirty
minutes plus ten minutes for questions.

2.Workshops
These are 90-minute hands-on sessions during which the participants
are engaged in a series of carefully structured activities.

Procedure for Submission of Proposals:
- A 150-250 word abstract with a title not exceeding 12 words and a
50-word biodata should be sent to the Secretariat no later than 10
October 2003.
- All abstracts will be evaluated for possible acceptance. Relevance
to the theme of the Symposium and originality of approach are among
the major criteria for the acceptance of papers and workshops.
- The Secretariat will inform proposers by 31 January 2004 whether
their proposals have been accepted. The Secretariat reserves the right
to decline proposals without assigning reasons.


Contact:
	Symposium Secretariat
	Centre for English Language Communication
	National University of Singapore
	10 Kent Ridge Crescent
	Singapore 119260
	
	Phone:	(65) 6874-7447
	Fax:	(65) 6777-9152
	Email:	elcsornus.edu.sg

6th North West Centre for Linguistics Conference 
Short Title: 6th NWCL Conference

Date: 14-NOV-03 - 16-NOV-03
Location: Preston, Lancashire, United Kingdom
Contact: Anne Wichmann
Contact Email: awichmannuclan.ac.uk 
Meeting URL: http://www.nwcl.salford.ac.uk

Linguistic Sub-field: Pragmatics, Phonology, Phonetics 
Call Deadline: 20-Jun-2003

Meeting Description:

Organised by Anne WIchmann (University of Central Lancashire) and
Diane Blakemore (University of Salford)

Invited speakers: Carlos Gussenhoven, Jill House, John Local, Deirdre
Wilson

The focus in research in prosody has recently moved from intonational
phonology to areas which interface with other domains, most notably
discourse and pragmatics. At the same time, research in pragmatics and
discourse has recognized a need to take account of prosodic
phenomena. In this way, it has become possible to identify a set of
phenomena where research in pragmatics feeds into research in prosody
and vice versa _ for example, focus and information structure,
questions about processing units and the identification of an
utterance, the communication of attitudes and emotions, constraints on
implicatures.

The aim of this conference is to provide a forum in which researchers
from prosody and pragmatics can pool their research, and in this way
contribute to a fuller understanding of the role prosody plays in
pragmatic interpretation. 

Guest speakers:
Wallace Chafe, University of California, Santa Barbara
Carlos Gussenhoven, University of Nijmegen
Jill House, University College London
John Local, University of York
Deirdre Wilson, University College London

SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS

An important focus for research in prosody is currently its interface
with other domains, including discourse and pragmatics. At the same
time, research in pragmatics and discourse recognises a need to take
account of prosodic phenomena. In this way it has become possible to
identify a set of phenomena where research in pragmatics feeds into
research in prosody and vice versa - for example, focus and
information structure, questions about processing units and the
identification of an utterance, the communication of attitudes and
emotions, constraints on implicatures. The aim of this conference is
to provide a forum in which researchers from prosody and pragmatics
can pool their research, and in this way contribute to a fuller
understanding of the role prosody plays in pragmatic interpretation.

We invite abstracts for papers (30 minutes + 10 minutes
discussion). Papers need not specifically address the interface
between prosody and pragmatics, but will be chosen for the inherent
quality of the prosodic or pragmatic analysis they offer and their
potential to contribute to an understanding of the relationship
between the two.

A selection of papers from the conference will be published in a
Special Issue of The Journal of Pragmatics (eds. Anne Wichmann & Diane
Blakemore)

Submission of abstracts:
Abstracts must conform to the following guidelines:
- abstracts must be sent in electronic form (Word, WP, RTF)
- abstracts must be no longer than 1 page (A4) and typed in a Times
New Roman (12pt) font
- abstracts must have the title of the paper centred at the top of the
page
- the author's name, affiliation and title of the paper must be given
on a separate page (abstracts will be refereed anonymously)


EXTENDED DEADLINE

Abstracts must be sent to Anne Wichmann or Diane Blakemore (addresses
below) by Friday 20th June 2003. Acceptance will be notified by 11th
July 2003.

Anne Wichmann: awichmannuclan.ac.uk 
Diane Blakemore: d.blakemoresalford.ac.uk