LINGUIST List 15.633

Wed Feb 18 2004

Confs: General Ling/Japanese/San Francisco, CA USA

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1. mminami, 4th Biennial International Conference on Practical Linguistics of Japanese

4th Biennial International Conference on Practical Linguistics of
Japanese (ICPLJ)

April 3 & 4, 2004
San Francisco State University

Keynote Speakers: Timothy J. Vance, University of Arizona
Harumi Befu, Stanford University

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Aims and Scope
* ICPLJ is intended to bring together researchers on the cutting edge
of Japanese linguistics and to offer a forum in which their research
results can be presented in a form that is useful to those desiring
practical applications in the fields of teaching Japanese as a
second/foreign language and computer-assisted language learning (CALL)
technology.
* All topics in linguistics will be presented, including: phonology,
morphology, syntax, semantics, lexicon, pragmatics (discourse
analysis), second language acquisition (bilingualism).

Dear Colleague,

The Fourth Biennial International Conference on Practical Linguistics
of Japanese (ICPLJ) will be held on April 3-4, 2002 (Saturday and
Sunday) at San Francisco State University (Humanities Auditorium).
This conference is intended to bring together researchers on the
cutting edge of Japanese linguistics and to offer a forum in which
their research results can be presented in a form that is applicable
to those desiring practical applications in the fields of teaching
Japanese as a second/foreign language and computer-assisted language
learning (CALL) technology.

The invited keynote speaker is Prof. Timothy Vance (University of
Arizona) and Prof. Harumi Befu (Stanford University).

The Fourth ICPLJ program is shown below. For details, visit our web
sites: http://www.sfsu.edu/~japanese/conference/
http://www.sfsu.edu/~japanese/conference/ConfProgram.html

For further information, contact:

Dr. Masahiko Minami, Conference Chair
Fourth Biennial International Conference on Practical Linguistics of
Japanese (ICPLJ)
Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
San Francisco State University
1600 Holloway Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94132
Telephone: (415) 338-7451
e-mail: icpljsfsu.edu