LINGUIST List 21.4653 Fri Nov 19 2010 Calls: Applied Ling, General Ling/New Zealand Editor for this issue: Amy Brunett <brunettlinguistlist.org> New! Visit LL's Multitree project for over 1000 trees dynamically generated from scholarly hypotheses about language relationships:             http://multitree.linguistlist.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.     Vaclav Brezina , 1st Auckland Postgraduate Conference on Linguistics and Applied Linguistics Message 1: 1st Auckland Postgraduate Conference on Linguistics and Applied Linguistics Date: 18-Nov-2010 From: Vaclav Brezina <v.brezinaauckland.ac.nz> Subject: 1st Auckland Postgraduate Conference on Linguistics and Applied Linguistics E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: 1st Auckland Postgraduate Conference on Linguistics and Applied Linguistics Date: 19-Mar-2011 - 19-Mar-2011 Location: Auckland, New Zealand Contact Person: Vaclav Brezina Meeting Email: < click here to access email > Web Site: http://www.lknol.com/conference Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; General Linguistics Call Deadline: 21-Jan-2011 Meeting Description: The conference is organized by the postgraduate students from the Department of Applied Language Studies and Linguistics, The University of Auckland. The conference aims to bring together postgraduate students interested in the study of language and offer an intellectually stimulating and friendly platform for the exchange of ideas. We would especially like to encourage postgraduate students working on language-related topics in other fields to come and share their research with us and help us build a network of postgraduate students who all share an interest in language. We are delighted to announce that the following guest speakers have agreed to join us on the day: Associate Professor Gary Barkhuizen (DALSL, The University of Auckland) Professor Rod Ellis (DALSL, The University of Auckland) Professor Yan Huang (DALSL, The University of Auckland) Professor Miriam Meyerhoff (DALSL, The University of Auckland) This conference is free of fees, but pre-registration is required for both presenters and attendees. Registration will open in early February 2011. Call for Papers: We are pleased to announce that the 1st Auckland Postgraduate Conference on Linguistics and Applied Linguistics will be held on 19 March 2011 at The University of Auckland. We invite postgraduate students (both MA and PhD) to submit abstracts for oral and poster presentations in any area of linguistics, theoretical or applied. The research may come from the following categories but is not limited to them: Cognitive linguistics Corpus/Text linguistics Critical discourse analysis Education and Literacy: language and education, bilingual & multilingual education First and second language acquisition Historical linguistics Narrative inquiry and oral history Pragmatics/Semantics Phonetics/Phonology Psycholinguistics Second language teaching/learning/assessment Sociolinguistics: language and society, gender, etc. Speech therapy & language disorders Syntax/Morphology Stylistics Translation studies Any other area concerned with language study Submissions are called for individual papers and posters presenting either completed research or work-in-progress. Individual papers will be allotted 20 minutes for presentation and 10 minutes for discussion. Poster presentations are especially encouraged from researchers who want to present work-in-progress or receive more individual feedback than allowed for by the 10 minute discussion in the paper presentations. There will be a dedicated poster session during the conference. Proposals for both papers and posters should include an abstract of no more than 250 words. The abstracts should be submitted via the online submission system at www.lknol.com/conference/abstract.html by Friday 21 January 2011. Selected presenters will be informed by early February 2011. For further details please visit the conference website www.lknol.com/conference or email the organisers at aucklandconferencegmail.com. New! Visit LL's Multitree project for over 1000 trees dynamically generated from scholarly hypotheses about language relationships:             http://multitree.linguistlist.org/ Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 19-Nov-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.