LINGUIST List 21.2879 Sun Jul 11 2010 Calls: Discourse Analysis, Linguistic Theories, Pragmatics/France Editor for this issue: Elyssa Winzeler <elyssalinguistlist.org> LINGUIST is pleased to announce the launch of an exciting new feature: Easy Abstracts! Easy Abs is a free abstract submission and review facility designed to help conference organizers and reviewers accept and process abstracts online. Just go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/confcustom, and begin your conference customization process today! With Easy Abstracts, submission and review will be as easy as 1-2-3! Directory         1.    Andre Wlodarczyk, MIC Sorbonne 2010 Message 1: MIC Sorbonne 2010 Date: 09-Jul-2010 From: Andre Wlodarczyk <Andre.Wlodarczykparis-sorbonne.fr> Subject: MIC Sorbonne 2010 E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: MIC Sorbonne 2010 Short Title: MIC2010 Date: 18-Nov-2010 - 19-Nov-2010 Location: Paris, France Contact Person: Renata KRUPA Meeting Email: < click here to access email > Web Site: http://www.celta.paris-sorbonne.fr/anasem/indexASMIC.html Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Linguistic Theories; Pragmatics Call Deadline: 30-Sep-2010 Meeting Description: We are pleased to announce an international symposium on information and meta-informative centering in natural languages to be held at Paris-Sorbonne University on Nov. 18-19, 2010. The Meta-Informative Centering Theory (MIC) is currently developed at CELTA (Centre de Linguistique Theorique et Appliquee). The symposium is intended to focus on preference and efficiency in discourse, and to continue discussion on crucial issues of the MIC theory in connection with research on pragmatics including the Socio-Cognitive Approach (SCA) to pragmatics developed at the State University of New York at Albany. For further information, please go the CELTA website pages: http://www.celta.paris-sorbonne.fr/anasem/indexASMIC.html Call for Papers Programme Committee: Chair: André Wlodarczyk (Universities Lille 3 & Paris Sorbonne - CELTA) Co-chair: Istvan Kecskes (New York State University, Albany) Members (Invited Speakers): Werner Abraham (Vienna University) Philippe Besnard (CNRS & University Paul Sabatier, Toulouse) Rachel Giora (University of Tel-Aviv) Katarzyna Jaszczolt (University of Cambridge) Radoslaw Katarzyniak (Wroclaw University of Technology) Elisabeth Leiss (Munich University) Jacques Moeschler (University of Geneva) Maciej Piasecki (Wroclaw University of Technology) François Recanati (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) Rafal Rzepka (University of Hokkaido) Franz Stachowiak (University Justus-Liebig) Yuriko Sunakawa (University of Tsukuba) Maite Taboada (Simon Fraser University) Organising Committee: Chair: Hélène Wlodarczyk (Paris Sorbonne – CELTA) Members: Natalia Bernitskaia (Paris Sorbonne – CELTA) Renata Krupa (Paris Sorbonne – CELTA) Michaël Alvarez-Pereyre (Paris Sorbonne – CELTA) Secretary: Monika Piechocka (Paris Sorbonne – CELTA)   Languages of the conferences: English and French Important dates: - Call deadline (Registration with the title of your communication and submission of abstracts up to 1400 characters, spaces included): September 30th, 2010 - Notification of acceptance: October 30th, 2010 Please Note:  If you need a quick notification, please send us your abstract at your earliest convenience. In such a case, we will do our best that  you receive our notification of acceptance as soon as possible. Participation Conditions: 40 minutes lecture by the invited speakers  20 minutes presentation for other participants Registration and contact: celtaparis-sorbonne.fr Registration fee: 60 € (students 20 €) before November ,10th 2010 and after that date 80 € (students 25€) Guidelines for Registration and Submission of Abstracts: Abstracts should: (a) Not exceed 1400 characters (b) Clearly indicate your presentation title (c) Be anonymous for purposes of blind peer-review (d) Formatted as .doc or .rtf documents (e) Electronically submitted to: celtaparis-sorbonne.fr  Please include the following information in the main body of your e-mail : (a) Title (b) Name of author(s) (c) Your affiliation institution (d) E-mail address for correspondence (e) 3-5 keywords Please include the following information in the subject header of your email:  MIC 2010 Abstract Submission – [author(s) name(s)] Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 11-Jul-2010       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.