LINGUIST List 22.393 Sat Jan 22 2011 Calls: English, Mandarin, Applied Ling, Discourse Analysis/Macao Editor for this issue: Amy Brunett <brunettlinguistlist.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.     Joanna Radwanska-Williams , 3rd English, Discourse and Intercultural Communication Message 1: 3rd English, Discourse and Intercultural Communication Date: 21-Jan-2011 From: Joanna Radwanska-Williams <onhajrwipm.edu.mo> Subject: 3rd English, Discourse and Intercultural Communication E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: 3rd English, Discourse and Intercultural Communication Short Title: EDIC 2011 Date: 21-Jun-2011 - 27-Jun-2011 Location: Macao (21-24 June) and Urumqi (24-27 June), China Contact Person: Karen Lai Meeting Email: < click here to access email > Web Site: http://www.ipm.edu.mo/edic/2011/index.html Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Sociolinguistics; Translation Subject Language(s): Chinese, Mandarin; English Call Deadline: 07-Mar-2011 Meeting Description: Call for Papers: Under the conference theme of English, Discourse and Intercultural Communication, the conference topics include, but are not restricted to, the following overlapping interdisciplinary categories: A. English: 1. ELT (English Language Teaching) in the global/local context; 2. Defining and redefining International English; 3. Communicative language teaching (CLT) and cross-cultural pragmatic competence; 4. Second language acquisition, bilingual and multilingual acquisition; 5. English and language universals/typology; 6. Revisiting humanistic and other 'traditional' approaches in the ELT/ESP classroom; 7. Creative writing in English in the global/ local context; 8. Language and gender studies. B. Discourse: 1. Film and media Studies in the global/ local context; 2. New social, cultural and critical discourses in English language education; 3. New approaches to reading and teaching literatures in English; 4. Pragmatics and discourse analysis. C. Intercultural Communication: 1. Linguistic and cultural diversity in Greater China; 2. Translation/interpretation studies and comparative cultural studies; 3. Intercultural dialogues and critiques in language and communication studies; 4. English as a global lingua franca and the future of Chinese and other non-western languages and traditions, including endangered and minority languages; 5. The impact of new media technologies on intercultural communication. 6. Gender and cross-cultural communication studies. Call for Papers: Abstracts of papers and abstracts of proposals for panel, poster and workshop sessions (between 250 - 300 words in English, together with a brief narrative bio-note in English (about 80 words), and contact information) are hereby warmly invited. Please indicate whether you would like to attend Part I or Part II, or both. The deadline for submitting abstracts/ proposals to Part I (Macao) is March 7th, 2011 (Monday). All submissions will be carefully reviewed before final invitation letters are sent to participants whose abstracts have been accepted by the Conference Academic Review Panel. For Part I of the conference in Macao (June 21st-24th), the conference registration fee, food and accommodation will be covered for those participants whose paper texts have been accepted. In case of co-authorship, this applies to the first author. For arrangements concerning the registration fee and accommodation for Part II of the conference in Urumqi (June 24th-27th), please contact the organisers of Part II directly. Participants who wish to present both in Macao and in Urumqi should mail their abstract twice, both to Part I and to Part II. Please email your submission to: ELT & Research Committee: eltrcipm.edu.mo (Part I in Macao) Organising Committee at XJNU: icedic2011163.com (Part II in Urumqi) Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 22-Jan-2011       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.