LINGUIST List 15.2683

Tue Sep 28 2004

Calls: Applied Ling/Poland; Linguistic Theories/Canada

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        1.    URSZULA OKULSKA, Communicating Across Age Groups: Age, Language and Society
        2.    Alexei Kochetov, 24th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics


Message 1: Communicating Across Age Groups: Age, Language and Society

 Date: 27-Sep-2004
From: URSZULA OKULSKA <U.OKULSKAUW.EDU.PL>
Subject: Communicating Across Age Groups: Age, Language and Society


Full Title: Communicating Across Age Groups: Age, Language and Society 
 Short Title: GlobE 2006 
 
 Date: 21-Sep-2006 - 23-Sep-2006
 Location: Warsaw, Poland 
 Contact Person: Urszula Okulska
 Meeting Email: globeils.uw.edu.pl
 Web Site: http://globe.ils.uw.edu.pl
 
 Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Cognitive Science; Computational 
 Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Historical Linguistics; Language Acquisition; 
 Language Description; Pragmatics; Psycholinguistics; Sociolinguistics; 
 Text/Corpus Linguistics; Translation 
 
 Call Deadline: 31-Mar-2006 
 
 Meeting Description:
 
 What is the power of age? How is age linguistically constructed, maintained 
 and challenged across discourses, institutions, cultures and times?
  
 We elicit papers to the following topics:
 
 - age as a sociolinguistic parameter;
 - age as a cultural parameter; age rights;
 - discursive construction of age;
 - age in a discourse-diachronic perspective;
 - age in intra-group communication;
 - age in inter-group communication; 
 - age-targeted discourses;
 - age and 'computer literacy';
 - foreign (second) language teaching across ages;
 - foreign (second) language learning across ages;
 - language therapy of age related problems;
 - semiotics of age-related behaviors;
 - generational conflict; 
 - power of age;
 - translating for age groups.

Message 2: 24th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics

 Date: 27-Sep-2004
From: Alexei Kochetov <alexei_kochetovsfu.ca>
Subject: 24th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics


Full Title: 24th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics 
Short Title: WCCFL 24 

Date: 18-Mar-2005 - 20-Mar-2005
Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 
Contact Person: Chung-hye Han
Meeting Email: wccfl24sfu.ca
Web Site: http://www.sfu.ca/~wccfl24

Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories 

Call Deadline: 30-Nov-2004 

Meeting Description:

The 24th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 24) will be held on
March 18-20, 2005, at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada.
 
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SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS

The 24th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics
(WCCFL24)
March 18-20, 2005

Simon Fraser University (SFU)

Invited Speakers: Rose-Marie Dechaine (UBC), Bruce Hayes (UCLA), 
Mark Steedman (Edingurgh)
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We invite abstracts for twenty-minute talks with a ten-minute discussion on
any aspect of theoretical linguistics.  This year, there will be a Special
Session on 'Interfaces in the Grammar'.  Abstracts on the interface between
any modules of the grammar and its implications for the architecture of the
grammar are invited.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR ABSTRACT SUBMISSION:

Abstracts must be at most one page long on a letter-size sheet (8''1/2 by
11'') with one-inch margins and typed in at least 11-point font.  An
optional second page is permitted for data and references.  Abstracts must
be anonymous.

Submissions are limited to 1 individual and 1 joint abstract per author.

Abstracts must be submitted in one of the following formats:

plain-text attachment
PDF attachment
hardcopy

We strongly encourage electronic submissions, which should be sent to the
WCCFL 24 e-mail address:

wccfl24sfu.ca

Please use 'Abstract' as the Subject header and include the information in
(1) - (6), which should constitute the body of the message. For PDF
attachment, please make sure that all fonts are embedded.

Author Information
1. Name(s) of author(s)
2. Title of talk
3. Area of specialization
4. Affiliation(s)
5. E-mail address(es)
6. Postal address(es)

Hardcopy submissions should include the information in (1) - (6) on a 
separate sheet, along with ten copies of the abstract. These should be 
sent to the WCCFL 24 postal address:

WCCFL 24 Abstracts Committee
Department of Linguistics
Simon Fraser University
8888 University Drive
Burnaby, BC V5A1S6
Canada

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION:

     Nov. 30, 2004, 5:00 pm Pacific Standard Time
     (Abstracts must be received by this time.)

NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE:

     Last week of January, 2005

Electronic submissions will receive an email confirmation of the receipt of
the abstract. For those submitting their abstracts through regular mail,
please include a self-addressed, stamped postcard if you wish to receive
confirmation.

Please visit our web-site for more information:

     http://www.sfu.ca/~wccfl24
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