LINGUIST List 16.460

Tue Feb 15 2005

Calls: Phonetics/UK; Discourse Analysis/Tunisia

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         1.    James Scobbie, 4th International Electropalatography (EPG) Symposium
        2.    Faysal MAALEJ, Constructing Worlds through Language

Message 1: 4th International Electropalatography (EPG) Symposium

 Date: 13-Feb-2005
From: James Scobbie <jscobbieqmuc.ac.uk>
Subject: 4th International Electropalatography (EPG) Symposium


Full Title: 4th International Electropalatography (EPG) Symposium

Date: 29-Sep-2005 - 30-Sep-2005
Location: Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Contact Person: Alice Lee
Meeting Email: aleeqmuc.ac.uk
Web Site: http://www.qmuc.ac.uk/ssrc/conf/epg4_2005/

Linguistic Field(s): Phonetics

Call Deadline: 18-Mar-2005

Meeting Description:

Symposium Theme 'New Developments in Electropalatography'

This symposium gathers researchers, clinicians in the areas of speech science,
phonetics, linguistics, speech and language therapy, who are involved in using
EPG and who plan to do so in the future. The theme of the symposium is 'New
Developments in EPG' since the previous symposium held in 1998. The 4th
Symposium will allow delegates from around the world to exchange new ideas,
advance new techniques and extend our understanding of the techniques in both
phonetic and clinical research.

Topics will include the following:

Non-clinical phonetic investigation of speech using EPG
Data reduction and extraction in EPG
Clinical investigation of disordered speech using EPG
Technical developments in EPG
Multi-channel approaches to speech
EPG as a therapy technique
EPG beginners' Tutorial/Workshop

Venue: Heriot Watt University conference centre.

Notification of acceptance: 1st April 2005

Message 2: Constructing Worlds through Language

 Date: 13-Feb-2005
From: Faysal MAALEJ <Maalejftunet.tn>
Subject: Constructing Worlds through Language



Full Title: Constructing Worlds through Language
Short Title: CWL

Date: 29-Apr-2005 - 30-Apr-2005
Location: Sfax, Tunisia
Contact Person: Faysal Maalej
Meeting Email: Maalejftunet.tn
Web Site: http://www.fahsgrad.0catch.com/call4proposals1.htm

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis

Call Deadline: 25-Feb-2005

Meeting Description:

Final Call for Papers
The CWL Conference 2005
April 29-30, 2005

CONSTRUCTING WORLDS THROUGH LANGUAGE (CWL)

The English Department at the University of Sfax, Tunisia, will hold a
conference on Friday-Saturday, 22-23 April 2005, dealing with the construction
of realities through language. Reality can be seen as multiple realities, and
language is the medium through which, and the space within which, a community
its givens, perceptions, symbols, aspirations, and discourses are developed,
transmitted, and projected.

Contributors to the conference are invited to explore the ways in which language
furnishes its users with visions, conceptualisations, cognitive routines, and a
set of perspectival strategies enabling them to constantly (re-)draft an
alternative or (re-constructed reality pertaining to a wide array of human
activities ranging from the very mundane to the highly sophisticated.

Proposals covering the following areas, without necessarily being restricted to
them, include:

- The elements of identity construction
- Role of style in engineering perspectival shifts
- Divergent and shared visions
- Language, multiple realities and normative reality
- The language of minority groups
- Linguistic others
- Language & characterization (e.g. labeling, narration, regulatory statements)
- Manipulation of language
- Literary expression as a tool for constructing alternative worlds rather than
implicitly rejecting anterior worlds
- Multilingual realities
- Real and imagined communities
- Paradigm wars
- Formal representations of language
- Role of language in constructing L2 learner's self and alternative world(s)
- Role of lexicographic work in redefining world phenomena
- Role of language used by electronic technology in operating radical semantic
shifts

Deadline for submitting proposals: 25 February 2005

Online submission
fderbel26yahoo.com or Maalejftunet.tn

Regular mailing address:
Département d'anglais, Faculté des Lettres & Sciences Humaines, Route de
l'aéroport, km 4.5. Sfax, 3000, Tunisia.

Submission by fax : English Department: +216-74 670540

Presentation Format: Paper presentation lasting for 30 minutes or poster
presentations for 10 mn, or other presentation types to be considered later

Abstract submission: An abstract not exceeding 200 words is needed for each
presentation.

Further information: Information on accommodation and other facilities will be
posted later.

For your queries, please contact:
Faysal MAALEJ, Maalejftunet.tn
Feiza DERBEL, fderbel26yahoo.com

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