LINGUIST List 22.4225 Wed Oct 26 2011 Calls: Text/Corpus Ling, Socioling, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis/UK Editor for this issue: Alison Zaharee <alisonlinguistlist.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.     Clare Burke Davies , Social Semiotics of Popular Journalism: A Long View Message 1: Social Semiotics of Popular Journalism: A Long View Date: 26-Oct-2011 From: Clare Burke Davies <clare.burkeshef.ac.uk> Subject: Social Semiotics of Popular Journalism: A Long View E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: Social Semiotics of Popular Journalism: A Long View Date: 28-Mar-2012 - 28-Mar-2012 Location: Cardiff, United Kingdom Contact Person: Clare Burke Davies Meeting Email: < click here to access email > Web Site: http://www.shef.ac.uk/journalismhistory Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Historical Linguistics; Pragmatics; Sociolinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics Call Deadline: 30-Nov-2011 Meeting Description: As part of the series of research seminars which will contribute to the Research Network we are inviting interested scholars to a seminar to be held at the University of Cardiff on 28 March 2012 entitled 'The Social Semiotics of Popular Journalism: A Long View'. It aims to bring together scholars from media and journalism studies, social sciences, linguistics and English to consider the important of semiotics as a tool for exploring the content and context of Anglo-American newspapers between 1833 and 1988. There is no charge for the event and there will be a number of keynote speakers to be announced at a later date. Call for Papers: As part of the series of research seminars which will contribute to the Research Network we are inviting interested scholars to submit proposals of 300 words for a seminar to be held at the University of Cardiff on 28 March 2012 entitled 'The Social Semiotics of Popular Journalism: A Long View'. It aims to bring together scholars from media and journalism studies, social sciences, linguistics and English to consider the important of semiotics as a tool for exploring the content and context of Anglo-American newspapers between 1833 and 1988. There is no charge for the event and there will be a number of keynote speakers to be announced at a later date. The proposals should be empirically-grounded and might draw upon textual analysis, discourse analysis, the political economy of newspapers, ethnography or combinations of these and/or other methods, to say something concrete about the nature of life in the societies represented by popular newspapers during this period. We plan to publish the best of the papers presented on the day in a special edition of the international, peer-reviewed journal Social Semiotics. Please send your proposals or any questions you may have by the 30 November 2011 to the Research Assistant for the project Clare Burke: Clare.Burkesheffield.ac.uk Seminar Organizers: Professor Martin Conboy, University of Sheffield and Dr David Machin, University of Cardiff For further details of the project please visit the website of the Centre for the Study of Journalism and History: http://www.shef.ac.uk/journalismhistory Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 26-Oct-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.