LINGUIST List 15.1616

Fri May 21 2004

Calls: Applied Ling/Journal; Semantics/Spain

Editor for this issue: Andrea Berez <andrealinguistlist.org>

Directory

1. Norbert Francis, International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism
2. ginzburg, 8th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue

Call for Papers

International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism
(General Editor: Colin Baker, University of Wales at Bangor)

SPECIAL ISSUE ON INDIGENOUS LANGUAGE BILINGUALISM

Guest Editor: Norbert Francis, Northern Arizona University

FOCUS

Manuscripts are being requested for the upcoming special issue of the
International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism on
Indigenous Language Bilingualism. The focus of the special issue will
be on research reports from field studies of bilingualism and language
learning, aspects of language use and language competence, and
research applied to both educational contexts and language development
in general involving indigenous language communities and indigenous
cultures. Papers should be reports on an actual empirical study, or a
theoretical discussion or review of literature that references
empirical work in the field. A broad range of theoretical and
methodological approaches is to be included, from: educational
linguistics, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, anthropological
studies of language and education, and work from experimental,
controlled-descriptive, and ethnographic approaches. Aspects of
language development and language use focused on either the indigenous
language or the national language or both, children and/or adults, in
school and/or extracurricular-community settings are being solicited.

SUGGESTED TOPICS
Reports, reviews, and discussions related to the study of indigenous
languages from the following areas of research are especially welcome:

-Literacy learning (indigenous language and/or national language)
-Written language, writing systems
-Oral tradition
-Narrative development
-Analysis of narrative, ceremonial, poetic, pedagogic, oral history
genres
-Second language learning of indigenous and/or national languages
-Language preservation/revitalization
-First or second language attrition, language shift
-Bilingual instructional models, indigenous languages in content area
teaching
-Classroom interaction, academic achievement
-Cross-cultural communication, discourse analysis
-Development of pragmatic knowledge
-Grammatical aspects of bilingual development (phonology, morphology,
syntax, semantics)
-Bilingualism and cognition, metalinguistic awareness<br>
-Early childhood bilingualism, L1 acquisition of indigenous
languages
-Intergenerational transmission
-Late L2 learning of indigenous languages
-Research methodology, language assessment
-Codeswitching, borrowing, mixing
-Crosslinguistic influence, transfer, language processing
-Language variation, language change

Authors may, if they wish, send an abstract and introductory section
of a proposed paper to the guest editor to receive initial
observations regarding suitability for the special issue theme, final
acceptance subject to a full review of the completed paper.

SUBMISSION FORMAT

Papers should be original, previously unpublished research,
approximately 6,000 - 7,000 words, in English. Guidelines for authors
can be found at http://www.multilingual-matters.com/

Then click: Journals info International Journal of Bilingual Education
and Bilingualism � General Guidelines for Authors of Journal
Papers.

Interested persons should feel free to send any inquiry related to
this project to the guest editor.

Send your submission (preferably as a Word file attached to an email
message), prepared for anonymous review, to:
norbert.francisnau.edu
or by post to:
Norbert Francis
College of Education, P.O. Box 5774
Northern Arizona University
Flagstaff, Arizona 86001, USA

Please indicate a return address and/or email, including institutional
affiliation, of the primary author. An electronic version of your
paper, if accepted, will be required.

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submissions: May 1, 2005
Notification of acceptance: August 30, 2005
Final versions due: November 30, 2005

8th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue 
Short Title: CATALOG '04 

Date: 19-Jul-2004 - 21-Jul-2004
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Contact: Enric Vallduv�
Contact Email: catalog04upf.edu 
Meeting URL: http://www.upf.edu/catalog04 

Linguistic Sub-field: Semantics 
Call Deadline: 15-Jun-2004 

Meeting Description:

Catalog'04 will be the eighth in a series of workshops that aims to
bring together researchers working on the semantics and pragmatics of
dialogues in fields such as artificial intelligence, formal semantics
and pragmatics, computational linguistics, philosophy, and psychology.
The Dial/Log conferences are always stimulating and fun and Barcelona,
which will host ACL 2004 immediately following Catalog'04, is a great
place to visit. Barcelona will also host, during the summer of 2004,
its 'Forum 2004', a huge cultural fair full of events, exhibits, and
performances (http://www.barcelona2004.org/eng/). So mark your
calendar now.



 Call for Demos and Project Descriptions

 Catalog '04

 EIGHTH WORKSHOP ON THE SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS OF DIALOGUE (SEMDIAL)

 Universitat Pompeu Fabra
 July 19-21 2004

 http://www.upf.edu/catalog04

Catalog 2004 will be the eighth in a series of workshops that aims to
bring together researchers working on the semantics and pragmatics of
dialogues in fields such as artificial intelligence, formal semantics
and pragmatics, computational linguistics, philosophy, and psychology.

The following keynote speakers have accepted our invitation:
*Robin Cooper (G�teborgs Universitet)
*Massimo Poesio (University of Essex)
*Alex Rudnicky (Carnegie Mellon University)
*Michael Tannenhaus (University of Rochester)

For the program, see the Catalog '04 website.

REGISTRATION

The registration process has started, see the Catalog 04 website. Note
that the early registration deadline with a reduced fee is June 30
2004.

DEMOS AND PROJECT NOTES

We invite abstracts describing software demonstrations and/or actual
projects relevant to the semantics and pragmatics of dialogues.

SUBMISSION PROCEDURE:

Authors should submit a two page abstract including names,
affiliation, address, and e-mail. The abstracts should be submitted
electronically (in postscript, pdf, html or ascii) to:
catalog04upf.edu. Submissions have to be in English, which is the
workshop language.

Selection will be made on the basis of relevance to the workshop. The
accepted abstracts will be made available on the workshop website and
will get time/space for presentation during the workshop.

IMPORTANT DATES:

Demo and project abstracts due: June 15 2004
Acceptance notice: June 21 2004
Early registration deadline: June 30 2004
*********Final version due: June 30 2004*************
Workshop dates: July 19-21 2004

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

Jonathan Ginzburg (King's College, London, Chair), Anton Benz
(Syddansk Universitet), Johan Bos (University of Edinburgh), Justine
Cassell (Northwestern University), Lawrence Cavedon (CSLI, Stanford),
Robin Cooper (G�teborgs Universitet), Paul Dekker(University of
Amsterdam),Claire Gardent (CNRS, Loria), Simon Garrod (University of
Glasgow), Pat Healey (Queen Mary, University of London), Ivana
Kruijff-Korbayova, (Universit�t des Saarlandes), Staffan Larsson
(G�teborgs Universitet), Colin Matheson (University of Edinburgh),
David Milward (Linguamatics, Cambridge), Massimo Poesio (University of
Essex), Hannes Rieser (Universit�t Bielefeld), David Traum
(University of Southern California)

ORGANIZATION:

The workshop will take place at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Rambla
building) in the center of Barcelona.

ENDORSEMENT:

The workshop is endorsed by SIGDIAL http://www.sigsem.org

FOR MORE INFORMATION:

More information on the conference is being posted on the workshop's
Webpage at http://www.upf-edu/catalog04. For further information you
can also mail to catalog04upf.edu