LINGUIST List 21.3826 Thu Sep 30 2010 Calls: Socioling/Germany 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.    Sebastian Knospe, 3rd Conference on Language Contact in Times of Globalization Message 1: 3rd Conference on Language Contact in Times of Globalization Date: 30-Sep-2010 From: Sebastian Knospe <sebastian.knospeuni-greifswald.de> Subject: 3rd Conference on Language Contact in Times of Globalization E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: 3rd Conference on Language Contact in Times of Globalization Short Title: LCTG3 Date: 30-Jun-2011 - 02-Jul-2011 Location: Greifswald, Germany Contact Person: Amei Koll-Stobbe Meeting Email: lctg3uni-greifswald.de Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics Call Deadline: 15-Nov-2010 Meeting Description: From 30 June to 02 July 2011, the Chair of English Linguistics in the Institute of Foreign Languages of the University of Greifswald will host the 'Third Conference on Language Contact in Times of Globalization' (LCTG3). The symposium will take place in the 555th anniversary year of the university and will be organized in cooperation with the University of Groningen, continuing the tradition which was started there with the two forerunner conferences LCTG1 and LCTG2 in 2006 and 2009. With our Call for Papers (deadline: 15 November 2010), we would like to invite contributions - preferably oral presentations of 30 minutes in length (including discussion) - from different philologies. The conference will focus on language choice and contact scenarios in real-life settings, the media and multilingual institutions. Call for Papers The old German Hanseatic and University Town of Greifswald will be a suitable conference place for LCTG3, also in light of its history: In fact, Greifswald was Swedish between 1631 and 1815. The city itself makes part of a European contact zone, namely that of the Baltic Sea Area, which has regained importance after the fall of the iron curtain. With our Call for Papers, we would like to invite contributions - preferably oral presentations of 30 minutes in length (including discussion) - from different philologies. To facilitate interdisciplinary discussion, the conference language will be English. The conference will focus on language choice and contact scenarios in real-life settings, the media and multilingual institutions. We propose the following thematic fields: (1) Contact-induced change: from language mixing to mixed languages (2) Scientific and public discourse on issues of language contact (3) Language use, language politics and language conflicts in multilingual settings (4) The creative potential of language contact and multilingual speech We also welcome contributions which make use of new theoretical paradigms, e.g. 'Linguistic Landscapes' research or cognitive sociolinguistics. Depending on the variety of papers proposed, we are going to arrange different conference sections according to linguistic areas or language families to bring together contributions with similar thematic or theoretical orientations in the aforementioned fields. Please send in your abstract (max. 500 words) via mail to lctg3uni-greifswald.de by 15 November 2010, using the official abstract form. We will notify you about the acceptance of your paper by 15 March 2011. Additionally, we are going to set up a conference website with further, continuously updated information on important organizational matters by the end of this year. We are looking forward to meeting you in Greifswald! Amei Koll-Stobbe (conference chair) Sebastian Knospe (conference convenor) Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 30-Sep-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.