LINGUIST List 21.4150 Tue Oct 19 2010 Calls: Historical Ling, Socioling, English/Italy 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.     Gabriella Mazzon , 15th Conference of Italian Studies in the History of English Message 1: 15th Conference of Italian Studies in the History of English Date: 18-Oct-2010 From: Gabriella Mazzon <gabrina9004alice.it> Subject: 15th Conference of Italian Studies in the History of English E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: 15th Conference of Italian Studies in the History of English Short Title: SLIN 15 Date: 26-May-2011 - 28-May-2011 Location: Cagliari, Italy Contact Person: Gabriella Mazzon Meeting Email: gabrina9004alice.it Web Site: http://www.slin15.it Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Sociolinguistics Subject Language(s): English (eng) Call Deadline: 30-Nov-2010 Meeting Description: A regular event since 1988, the Conference of the Italian group of historians of the English Language has this year the theme: Dialogic Forms in One Thousand Years of English Texts - From Old English to Late Modern English. It will be held in Cagliari, Sardinia, in late May 2011, and includes three invited speakers on issues of diachronic studies of dialogue and historical pragmatics. Call For Papers The conference welcomes diachronic studies or historical studies having to do with: Politeness, Speech Acts, Dynamics of Dialogue, Address forms, Social Networks, Conversational Roles, Interactivity in different Text Types, Dialogue Genre(s) as well as more specific studies on: Audience design, evaluative elements (e.g. commentary adverbs), the expression of phatic and conative functions, modality- and discourse- markers, persuasion and rhetoric, mimesis of dialogue (drama, fiction, instructive dialogues, scientific dialogues) Invited speakers and their titles: Jonathan Culpeper, University of Lancaster The dialogue of plays in a historical pragmatics perspective Andreas H. Jucker, University of Zurich Politeness in Early Modern English Dialogues Irma Taavitsainen, University of Helsinki Dialogue in Textbooks 1500-1800 Session papers: Papers should be 20 mins in length, with around 5 to 10 mins allotted for discussion. Abstracts of no more than 300 words in .doc or .pdf or .rtf format are to be sent to BOTH local representatives of the scientific committee, whose email addresses are provided below. The deadline for abstracts is the 30th of November 2010, acceptance will be notified by the 15th of January 2011. Scientific committee Gabriella Mazzon (Cagliari)(gabrina9004alice.it) Luisanna Fodde (Cagliari)(foddeunica.it) Gabriella Del Lungo (Firenze) Marina Dossena (Bergamo) Maurizio Gotti (Bergamo) Giovanni Iamartino (Milano) Nicola Pantaleo (Bari) Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 19-Oct-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.