LINGUIST List 21.3079 Tue Jul 27 2010 Calls: Socioling/Canada Editor for this issue: Di Wdzenczny <dilinguistlist.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.    David Heap, Methods in Dialectology Message 1: Methods in Dialectology Date: 26-Jul-2010 From: David Heap <djheapuwo.ca> Subject: Methods in Dialectology E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: Methods in Dialectology Date: 02-Aug-2011 - 06-Aug-2011 Location: London, Ontario, Canada Contact Person: David Heap Meeting Email: methods14uwo.ca Web Site: http://westernlinguistics.ca/methods14/ Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics Call Deadline: 31-Oct-2010 Meeting Description: The fourteenth Methods in Dialectology will be held at the University of Western Ontario (London, Ontario, Canada) from 2 to 6 August 2011. Themes and keynote speakers will be announced at a later date. There are already a number of workshop sessions proposed, and further suggestions for special sessions or workshops are welcome. Potential organisers are asked to provide details of their plans, including their names, scope of session, estimated number of papers, and arrangements for abstract review. Please send these to the Organising Committee (methods14uwo.ca) by September 30, 2010, in order to facilitate integrating with the wider conference. The main language of the conference is English but specific sessions or workshops may be conducted in French. Proposals for sessions in other languages should be addressed to the organizing committee. Call For Papers Papers are invited on all subjects in the field of dialectology, from scholars working on any language or language group, on any topic in regional, social, and historical language variation. Presentations will be 20 minutes in length, followed by a 10-minute discussion period. There will also be sessions for poster presentations. Abstracts, of up to 300 words excluding bibliography, should be submitted by e-mail attachment (as Word, RTF or PDF files - please include specialized fonts where appropriate) to: methods14uwo.ca. Please make the abstract as anonymous as possible, and include the title, contact details of author(s) and a statement as to whether the paper is intended for oral presentation, a poster session or either in the body of your e-mail message. The deadline for submission of abstracts is 31 October 2010. They will be refereed anonymously by the Methods Steering Committee, and authors will be notified of acceptance before the end of January 2011. Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 27-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.