LINGUIST List 19.2289
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Fri Jul 18 2008
Calls: General Ling/France; Discourse Analysis/Luxembourg
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1. Alice
Henderson,
English Pronunciation: Issues & Practices
2. Roberto
Gómez Fernández,
Revisiting the 'Urban' and the 'Rural'
Message 1: English Pronunciation: Issues & Practices
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Date: 18-Jul-2008
From: Alice Henderson <alice.henderson univ-savoie.fr>
Subject: English Pronunciation: Issues & Practices
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Full Title: English Pronunciation: Issues & Practices Short Title: EPIP Date: 03-Jun-2009 - 05-Jun-2009 Location: Chambéry, France Contact Person: Alice Henderson Meeting Email: colloque-epip univ-savoie.fr Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Phonetics; Phonology; Sociolinguistics Subject Language(s): English (eng) Call Deadline: 31-Dec-2008 Meeting Description: We are pleased to announce our international conference English Pronunciation: Issues & Practices. The conference will bring together researchers and teachers of English, phonetics, phonology and EFL/ESL/EAP interested in the issues surrounding English pronunciation, both native and non-native. Discussions will cover a wide variety of issues, including (but not limited to) the following: - norms & reference accents - variability in native & non-native accents of English - methodology of accent studies - pedagogical implications - implications of phonological change - sociolinguistic aspects and issues of identity - analyses of national or regional language policy We are privileged to have two plenary speakers: - Professor J.C. Wells, who will speak about the polling carried out for the new edition of the Longman Pronunciation Dictionary, - Dr. Helen Fraser from the University of New England, Armidale, Australia who will speak about Cognitive Phonology and how it can help with teaching pronunciation. Call for Papers Papers related to the above issues and other topics related to English pronunciation are invited. The deadline for abstract submission is December 31, 2008. Please send two copies of an abstract of about 400 words (excluding references) to colloque-epip univ-savoie.fr. One copy should bear your name and affiliation, written under the title; one copy must remain anonymous. Presentations should last 20 minutes with 10 minutes for questions. After the process of peer-revision, e-mail notifications will be sent out by March 15, 2009. The language of the conference is English. A selection of conference papers will be published by the LLS research group at the University of Savoie. Advisory board (in alphabetical order) Una Cunningham, University of Dalarna, Sweden Heather Hilton, University of Savoie, France David Levey, University of Cadiz, Spain Jan Majer, University of Łódź, Poland John Osborne, University of Savoie, France Linda Shockey, University of Reading, UK Rias van den Doel, Utrecht University, The Netherlands Ewa Waniek-Klimczak, University of Łódź, Poland Organizers: The conference is organized by a team of teachers and students coordinated by Alice Henderson of the University of Savoie (lecturer in English in the Department of Foreign Languages & Civilizations and coordinator of English for Academic Purposes in the Social Sciences faculty). More details will be available on the conference Web site by the end of September 2008.
Message 2: Revisiting the 'Urban' and the 'Rural'
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Date: 17-Jul-2008
From: Roberto Gómez Fernández <roberto.gomez uni.lu>
Subject: Revisiting the 'Urban' and the 'Rural'
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Full Title: Revisiting the 'Urban' and the 'Rural' Date: 04-Dec-2008 - 05-Dec-2008 Location: Walferdange, Luxembourg, Luxembourg Contact Person: Roberto Gómez Fernández Meeting Email: conference humanites-associees.lu Web Site: http://www.humanites-associees.lu/cgi-bin/olefa?com=0O0O0O3O2O0O0O0O0O00 Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; General Linguistics; Lexicography; Sociolinguistics Call Deadline: 01-Oct-2008 Meeting Description: To tackle this very complex trans- and interdisciplinary issue, the conference will focus on the discourses of - and the actual living in - these spaces. What are, for instance, the instruments that assess not only social relations but also relations to space and time and that allow us to analyse and differentiate 'being' and 'doing' in environments traditionally considered 'urban' and 'rural'? Call for Papers The ''urban'' and the ''rural'' have been of scientific interest to human and social studies at regular intervals. The global market, knowledge economy and sustainable development - influential agents and watchwords of our times - are reshaping public as well as private, urban and rural spaces. The conceptual opposition between the ''urban'' and the ''rural'' has been considerably blurred with the emergence of urban sprawl, which, in turn, gave rise to the recent phenomena of periurbanisation, rurbanisation and the creation of urban outskirts. However, while scientific discourses proceed to a levelling out of the city/country dialectic, the opposition appears to persist in the collective imagination (conveyed by politicians, artists or local associations for instance). This conference proposes to rethink the intricate urban-rural paradigm, regarding, on the one hand, diverse modes of appropriation (physical, visual, temporal) available to the resident, and, on the other hand, public and shared representations (as found in literature, the arts, political and scientific discourses). The objective of the colloquium is to offer a genuine exchange platform for current research projects, the main target audience being young researchers and doctoral students. Two grants of 200 each, offered by the Fonds National de la Recherche, will thus be awarded by the scientific committee to the most pertinent proposals. Futhermore, there will be an opportunity to present and discuss posters of those researchers not giving a paper. The author of the most relevant poster may be invited - following the advice of the scientific committee - to contribute an article to the publication of the conference papers. The conference Representation and Practices of Living Spaces is organized by the association Humanités Associées, an association of young researchers in social and human sciences (www.humanites-associées.lu). It will take place from 4-5 December 2008 at the University of Luxembourg. The working language is English. Conferences may also be held in French, if accompanied by a powerpoint presentation in English. Registration fees are 50 for speakers, 20 for professional participants and 10 for student participants. Abstracts of approx. 300 words, written in French or English, and a short CV should be sent before 1 October 2008 to the following e-mail address: conference humanites-associees.lu
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